Yes Richard that is right I had issues getting a scratchplate for, but mainly because A) I wanted a mirror one and B) because it had to have Floyd Rose width where the trem cutaway is.
I have since found out the the MIM and American standards must be the same because so many Scratchplates state on them fits American standard and MIM. So I probably could have found a mirror one for an American standard and floyd rose and got that fitted. However a lot of the times I might have found one suitable but the shipping to UK was insane and I just wasn't willing to pay for it.
There is a flaw with this (the trouble I had getting the guy to make this for me was untold!) and I'm kinda mad about it as this was the second go from the guy making it and he had my original scratchplate to copy and still managed to f*ck it up.
My original had two screw holes at the low E side. Fenders have this so two screw hole humbuckers (which fender makes) can adjust angle of the pickup in relation to the strings. Pretty genius actually. Anyways the guy said did I want the two hole copied and I said no and what has happened is he has drilled the bottom hole as normal and the top hole of centre as he must have copied the hole closer to the neck so what has happened is now is the humbucker is not exactly straight in that hole! It will do for now but seriously talk about incompetence?
It will do for now but in the future I'm going to change it.