To The Bryster:

Excellent help! Thanks!

I'll be re-working the bridge a bit. So far it is in the brush pewter mat, but i'll try it with chrome. I suppose the light gleaming off of it makes it look like a flat tin.

If I am not mistaking the terminology of the guitar parts, the "pick guard" on mine doesn't have any screws connecting it to the body. In the image you've supplied, and in many I find in google, there are many screws around the pick guard. I haven't found a good photo of those. Are they actually screws or something else? If they are screws, are they flat heads? philips?

I think I need to also slope the point where the neck meets the headstock. In some early strats I saw it was an abrupt change from the neck to the headstock. I see others with a nice slope to it, making it look naturally fused.

About where the top part of the body sloping backwards a bit, looking at other google images I think I have that, but don't think it came out good in the render. I'll generate another. I can always post here an angle you need to see better if you want.