Fender American Std String Guides

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Fender American Std String Guides
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Nice guides if you need tuning stability.
Anonymous 19.09.2016
I was not much of a believer in the round pin is better than the pressed steel butterfly type debate, but after some drama trying to get a Squier deluxe to settle back in tune after swinging on the bar I gave these a go.

To mark the position of the pin hole I just fitted the guides where they needed to be and added a few turns to the screw. This marked the head stock with a small dent to show where to drill. Simple..... Or not so in my case.

Guide number one went in true, aligned perfectly and screwed down flush. On to guide #2. With a 1.5mm Ø bit in the worlds biggest drill at around 3mm deep, the guitar slipped and the drill bit snapped, flush with the surface. Not a problem, it felt pretty loose, Ill ease it out with a round needle file. Five minutes later with the drill bit firmly wedged in place with a broken hardened file point stuck beside it I went to plan B. The beauty of these things is the casting on the main body is pretty soft, two minutes with a flat file and the pin was gone. The guide minus the pin does not rotate at all and the strings keep it in place anyway.

These guides work. Are they better than pressed steel? I dont know, it depends on the guitar. I have a HB ST-62 which is fine with the butterflies so I wouldnt change them. The Squier had a problem returning to tune, these have improved that. Would I buy again? Yes, if the guitar needed them.

Pros:
Look pretty good.
Does improve tuning stability on certain guitars.
Pin is easy to remove if you dont want to drill the head stock.
Cheap enough for what they are.

Cons:
id say normally if all goes well none. If you mess up like I did, the con is its the fact you need to drill to fit. Maybe they could rectify this by making the pin a short spike? The screw would then drive that into the wood. In hindsight, finding out how soft the metal is, I would have filed the pin into a point and done it that way.

Overall a good guide that in normal circumstances is easy enough to fit and frees off the strings. They do what they say they do and do it pretty well.
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Not exactly what I expected
Ben U 24.03.2021
The plan was to replace the standard butterfly string guides on my Fender Tele but using the same mountinghole the string guide was over the "F" of the Fender logo on the headstock. I did not want to drill another hole so I stayed with the original string guids. Now I've installed them on my Harley B Tele DIY kit. Nice solution. :)
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I wish I could give it 5 stars...
Bob @ Piedmont Guitars 09.06.2018
The design and width is a perfect fit, and a great replacement for the old T style trees. We should always strive towards eliminating friction any where along the string path. Old style string T's put sharp edges on two points close together, causing possible tuning instability. The tiny little rollers on the end of the shafts, fit the string perfectly. They work really great. My only complaint comes from the finish. They look like they've been "silver washed". In other words, an extremely thin layer of silver plating. That makes it very bright and shiny, but not a clean deep finish, and being that close to the deep finish of quality tuners, they look almost "cheap".
Be careful installing them, drill pilot holes for the little stud on the bottom or they may end up crooked on your headstock.
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not necessary but lovely
sibilar 25.09.2020
I bought these to replacy the stock one on my MIM Tele. It looks much better now. That's about it.
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Works good but it might look better
Michele S 08.11.2017
I expected a bit better quality for this replacement part, but I still consider it a valid piece. It's solid and reliable. The chrome surface isn't excellent but you won't mind overall.
4 stars out of 5 just for few flaws on the finishing. The rest is more than accptable.
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std quality product
pomne 18.01.2019
I used it as replacement on my squier stratocaster. They rool out strings better than stock guides.
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Better than the original butterfly
Fran The Man 21.11.2019
I have a mexican Fender and I wanted to make a few changes. A no brainer was replacing the butterfly string guide with this string retainer. The only problem is that you have to make a little hole in the headstock for the pin.
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