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From the pictures, it looks like it is floating in a carved out well (like a lot of Floyd Roses). Unfortunately, with my limited experience with FRs, this rules out flat loading it with lots of springs, like a Strat. Therefore, I imagine that you’d have to insert a couple of blocks of wood, either side of the string block to stop it moving back or forward. Once happy with their positioning, you could glue them in place. Hopefully, some wiser folk will chime in with a different solution.

Same. To be fair, the 5 series are really, really good and the price difference between a 5420 and 6120 is huge and the law of diminishing returns says you’ll not be getting an awful lot more. 5420, plus some TV Jones pickups and you’ll be pretty much 95% of the way there, for a fraction of the cost.

I’ve learnt pretty all I know about Fender offset guitars from Mike Adam’s, AKA puisheen, on YouTube and Instagram.

Nice. I see it has a Mustang bridge, a sensible upgrade from the standard, threaded affair.

Pics when it’s returned please.

I’ve not known posts to delete automatically on GC.

I don’t have any experience with the Jag/JM trem I'm afraid, although I am intrigued by them. I think that I'm probably not alone here and perhaps why there has been a dearth or replies, that and it being a week with Christmas right in the middle (what day is it?).

Filter-trons are an interesting ‘bucker option. Unlike PAF types, they don’t have that muddy honk.

Good to know .

I could be remembering wrong, it's been a long while since I've had one.

On my last 2 Strats I replaced the bridge pickups. The 1st one was with a Seymour Duncan mini humbucker of some description (it was a long while ago, but I think it was a JB Jnr) and it wasn’t bad. On The 2nd one I used a DiMarzio SDS-1, which is voiced like a P90 and I liked that better. I still had to wire both to an independent tone control to tame the highs, something I do with Teles too.

That’s a very fine guitar, good choice.

Conversely, an Epiphone Uptown Kat, with replacement pickups is a potential route.