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Post subject: My 1989 Indian Squire II
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:50 pm
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Thought I would post a few pix of this Squire II I snagged a month or two ago... It's either an '89 or '90, most likely made in India. It has square pickup routings, and the pick guard is non-original. When I got it, it had been in someone's closet for a couple decades.

Someone swapped out the neck & bridge pickups, and the whole thing was wired incorrectly. This is an extremely heavy guitar. It appears to be solid wood, not ply.

The stand-out feature of this guitar is the neck. It's amazingly nice! Fret ends finished very smoothly, nice roll to them, neck is 9.5" radius with rosewood fingerboard, huge jumbo frets, two string trees, but cheap tuning machines. The fretboard was quite dry, but no shrinkage. Cleaned and oiled it. Frets were basically green, but they polished out nicely and seem level enough that it doesn't need to be messed with. Truss rod is basically slack but I couldn't get any relief into the neck, so it needed a shim to make the action usable. The guitar intonated nicely, and sounds very warm.

I have a couple other Squires (sometimes they just follow you home...) but this is my favorite.

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Post subject: Re: My 1989 Indian Squire II
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:41 am
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7chord wrote:
Truss rod is basically slack but I couldn't get any relief into the neck, so it needed a shim to make the action usable. The guitar intonated nicely, and sounds very warm.



Truss rod function is not the same as a shim.

Truss rod is to have a good neck bow with no fret buzz at action you like.

Shim change neck angle = change only action, high or low.


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Post subject: Re: My 1989 Indian Squire II
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 7:38 pm
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stratele52 wrote:
7chord wrote:
Truss rod is basically slack but I couldn't get any relief into the neck, so it needed a shim to make the action usable. The guitar intonated nicely, and sounds very warm.



Truss rod function is not the same as a shim.

Truss rod is to have a good neck bow with no fret buzz at action you like.

Shim change neck angle = change only action, high or low.


Yep, I know that. Should have read my own post before I hit the button. I shimmed the neck because the action was too low to be playable - everything buzzed. Someone had even raised the bridge to max height in an attempt to fix that I guess. Reset that and adjusted saddles for proper height / arc. I still would like a little relief in the neck, but seems like that's not going to happen. Enough shim to eliminate buzz... Neck is straight as an arrow...


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