Thanks - I added it yesterday.
Not sure what this means - but its on the back of the neck... maybe one of you folks can decipher a date code?
I was having a heck of a time setting it up to factory specs.. the saddles were bottomed out and I still couldnt get the action set low enough - and it was buzzing like crazy...
So - I pulled the neck and found a sandpaper shim at the back - makes sense... but obviously wasnt enough. I got some precision files out and cleaned up some thick paint ridges at the edge of the pocket and then put several layers of foil tape in...
Pic was taken when I still had a few layers to go and I hadn't cleaned up the edges and smoothed it down... in the end, I probably went a touch too thick, but its still better than it was - and its nice and solid.
Now the saddles are approximately where they should be (#1 and #6 are about 1/8" from bridgeplate). I raised the bridge about 1/2 a turn from factory specs to limit buzz (I'm hyper sensitive to buzz...OCD).. and my strign heights are just a bit more than spec at the 22nd fret (spec = 0.062" = 1.57mm).. I'm at a hair over 2mm. Neck relief is pretty good as well, didn't measure it directly but its somewhere near spec (spec = 0.3mm) and eyeballing it I'd say I'm .3-.5mm...
Regardless - it took a few days and a few sacrificial sets of strings - but now its playing very well and is quite comfotable. My first real strat-type guitar and its been a learning process. Thanks for the resource here at the forum - I'd have been lost without it!