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Post subject: Squire Mini Stratocaster
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:43 pm
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Thinking about getting this for my son.
Anybody own one?
What's your take on it? :?: :?: :?: :?:


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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:57 pm
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I bought one for a travel guitar and it's a lot of fun, sounds great too. Doesn't stay in tune very long so the turners will need to be upgraded.

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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:49 pm
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I saw a red one at the local guitar store. It was just too cute to pass up (especially for the price). Never been out of the box. Hooked it up to an amp, tuned it up, and my wife had to leave the room (because it sounded so bad). The set up out of the box was REALLY bad. I mean, it sounded like a tin dime-store guitar from the late 50s'.

Being an optimist (on my better days), I surfed the web for a bit of advice and started out to make things right.

1) adjusted the neck profile with the supplied allen wrench, a good carpenter's square, and a set of feeler guages. This did a lot to make the action work, but it still souned pretty cheap. Even worse, I couldn't get the intonation anywhere near to what it needed to be - not enough travel in the bridge to get close.

2) Put on a set of 11 guage strings. The tone realy started to clean up (seems like much of my tone problem was from bending the strings without noticing it). The 11s not only got if to sound better, but they got it much closer in the intonation.

3) Disassembled the bridge and ground down slits in the back of the bridge for string clearance and shortened a couple of the bridge screws to allow the strings to lay straight when getting the intonation length right. At this point the mini is actually starting to sound like a guitar (my main axe is a Gibson SG).

4) adjusted the pickup height (why didn't I think of that earlier).....

5) started to realize that the Mini has some real playing potential. Replaced all of the pickups with standard Strat pickups.

This little guitar is fun to play. The short scale makes bends easy for a sloppy old guy. Now I just need to figure out how to get my stumpy fingers to play it clean.

I learned a lot about setting up and intoning a guitar through this effort. At the price, I wasn't afraid of making mistakes that could have ended up with it in the dumpster. Instead, I'm just a little smarter and I have a cool little guitar that I'm not at all ashamed of the way it sounds.


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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:21 pm
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This is one of the coolest guitars ever.
I want FENDER to make a high quality MINI.
I mean it. :P


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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:07 am
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I have one, or I should say my son does, that was given to him at Christmas by my friends son. It was his first guitar, and he loved it, and wanted it to be my son's first electric. I had to do some work on the electrics, adjust the truss, and throw some new strings on it. I'll let y'all know more as my boy learns to play :^)


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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:30 pm
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I've owned Fenders, specifically Strats, since the late 60's. Recently my wife asked if I wanted to go to the thrift store with her. I was browsing through the book section when she walked up with a black Squier mini-Strat. It was only $50.00 so we bought it with the intention of giving it to our grandson once he's old enough . After cleaning it up and making some adjustments, I've decide that it'll be a very long time before he's "old enough" because now I don't want to part with it.
The electronics aren't that great, but for messing around at home it's an absolute BLAST to play.


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