I bit on a lefty SX, the one with 'comfort contours', at the selling price it made more sense than hogging out the belly and arm cuts on a regular body, just to see if it would work for me..
I had previously bought a lefty SX body on eBay and found that I couldn't do much with it as the Fender parts don't work and like the guys have been saying, they just cannot be intonated with the SX bridge because the string holes are in the wrong place.
Jeez I really liked the look of that little guitar with the plain wood finish but like the guys have been saying it can't be set up as delivered.
I measured Fenders vs SX searching for a way to 'save' it as it turns out the 'comfort contours really work for me.
I had reached the stage where I had tossed everything but the body with a view of filling all the holes and using the body as though it was a blank when I came across some import bridges I had bought in hopes they would work with Fender, they didn't and they didn't work with the Sx but saddles looked like they might sit farther away from the nut so I started swapping parts.
This is where I ended up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...arlane/sx1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...arlane/sx2.jpg
That's the SX body and bridge plate, the saddles are from an offshore bridge. The saddle for the big E is actually back of the string hole. I thought I might have to chisel some wood out of there but it seems to be working.
The pups are SX, the neck is WD, the control plate is a tool I use for testing for best cap for a set up. Inbetween the 2 Gibson knobs is a 5 way switch with 4 different caps. The switch is a Gibson toggle.
I bought this thing thinking that at best I may be able to use it as a body blank and that's what I got as it turned out the holes for the neck are so far out of spec they would have to be filled and drilled and then the nut would still be too close to the saddles. The neck screws are larger than Fender