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Post subject: Squier Strat Project
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 9:26 pm
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Hi all, figured I'd make a thread in this section detailing and documenting my journey with my new workhorse.
Purchased a "good" condition Squier Strat from GC (I know, I know...) for pretty cheap.
My goal was to get a cheap, light guitar that I can mod and mess with and not feel guilty tinkering with a $175+ axe. So lo and behold, I found this nice black Strat that fit the bill for every prerequisite I had.
I wanted a strat in black, with at least a Humbucker in the bridge (for routing sake I wanted it to already have a Hum in the bridge position. Would hate to have it only be a S-S-S for this project). Those were the biggest targets for this.
Got to be able to work on the guitar on 7/17 and stayed up till 5am working on it. I could see why it was a "good" condition. Needed new strings and DESPERATELY needed a good cleaning/polishing. Lucky for me I enjoy doing both and used my Fender Polish (knew I bought that stuff a while back for a reason!). Now it's shiny. Nice and shiny.
I ordered a replacement pickguard that was just a humbucker for the bridge, an A500k pot, a set of Ernie Ball Skinny Top/Heavy Bottoms, and a bit of time to work. For money's sake, I used an old Calig Mega Drive pickup (around 15kohm) bridge pup I had laying around.
Before I installed the new stuff (after polishing btw)
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The current look:
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There's still some adjustments/replacements/mods I'm going to do, but I figured start documenting it all now so I can look back at all the steps I've done.

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