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Post subject: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:24 am
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This is my Vibe Custom Tele. It's shown on the Bigsby page, and if you hover over the picture, you'll see my name. I've done a lot to this guitar.
New bone nut
Larger pearl side dots
Bigsby B5 Tele Kit
Black pickguard
Barden Danny Gatton hot pickups
New CTS pots and Fender switch
Shielding, etc.
Hardshell case
I have over $1300.00 in this guitar. Would you have done this, and what would you sell this guitar for?



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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 3:26 pm
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First of all, advertising an item for sale is not permitted in this forum.

Secondly, with all the money you have put into the guitar, it is still a used Squire guitar. You will not get back what you put into it. You will get whatever a used Squire goes for. Maybe if you find a private buyer who just HAS to have this guitar you'll get a little more. Bottom line is modifications do not result in higher sales value. Sorry.

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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:17 pm
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First of all, I am not advertising it. Maybe I could have phrased my question better. I am merely asking if I was to CONSIDER selling it, what price would most people pay for a guitar like this? Also, would very many people actually spend over $1300.00 on a Squier in order to make a cool guitar and one that sounds and plays fantastic? Or would most people here only put the money into an american or mexican tele? That's what I was after, some dialogue and conversations about how we all make those decisions about how many mods to do before we spent too much???
Geez, relax a little bit... :roll:


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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:30 pm
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Interesting question.

My first guitar, a birthday present age 13 (I'm now 30) was a 'brunswick' telecaster, sunburst, rosewood fingerboard, with a black scratchplate, like yours. I tried a lot of guitars out that day in my local guitar shop, my dad is a professional guitarist and a friend of the owner, so they were happy to let me play as many as I wanted, but that was the one that just 'sang' the most when I picked it up and played it. It had/has an amazing ring to it.. I hadn't really wanted a telecaster, dad played strats, but the sunburst finish just captivated me. I dont think I can remember ever seeing a sunburst guitar before that. Anyway, fast forward 17 years, and it's still mine, sitting downstairs as I type. It still has a lovely guitar, but she was never really a top of the range guitar, so I've always thought about doing her up. New tuners, new frets, new bridge, texas specials.. I have always thought it would look beautiful with all gold hardware, next to that sunburst finish..

So in answer to your question, would anyone do up a guitar like that, yes - I would. And one day, I will..


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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:35 pm
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Neil_R_82 wrote:
Interesting question.

My first guitar, a birthday present age 13 (I'm now 30) was a 'brunswick' telecaster, sunburst, rosewood fingerboard, with a black scratchplate, like yours. I tried a lot of guitars out that day in my local guitar shop, my dad is a professional guitarist and a friend of the owner, so they were happy to let me play as many as I wanted, but that was the one that just 'sang' the most when I picked it up and played it. It had/has an amazing ring to it.. I hadn't really wanted a telecaster, dad played strats, but the sunburst finish just captivated me. I dont think I can remember ever seeing a sunburst guitar before that. Anyway, fast forward 17 years, and it's still mine, sitting downstairs as I type. It still has a lovely guitar, but she was never really a top of the range guitar, so I've always thought about doing her up. New tuners, new frets, new bridge, texas specials.. I have always thought it would look beautiful with all gold hardware, next to that sunburst finish..

So in answer to your question, would anyone do up a guitar like that, yes - I would. And one day, I will..



There, that's the kind of stuff I wanted to hear! :D I would like to see pictures of your guitar before and after you spruce it up and make it beautiful in your eyes. I've been slammed for spending that much on "a cheap squier." But, obviously Bigsby loved the picture of it enough to put it on their web page. That makes me feel good. 8)


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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:11 pm
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Lots of people say this model is a good guitar. If so many people are correct, then it makes sense to spend money on customization to build in a guitar that you like. But you can only do that for yourself, not to please anyone else. Unfortunately, it is not a good investment if you look at resale. The price of individual parts are going to be more than the total sum of the parts put together into one guitar.

I think the situation is like automobiles. For example: consider buying a new pickup truck for $40,000, then taking it home, spending $20,000 on parts, sound system, wheels, etc. and building up a one-of-a-kind custom truck in your garage. You could not resell that truck for $60,000. But you might love driving it yourself.

(I hope that analogy makes sense. I know nothing of custom cars/trucks. I drive lesser cars and save that money for musical gear.)

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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:59 am
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SynMike wrote:
Lots of people say this model is a good guitar. If so many people are correct, then it makes sense to spend money on customization to build in a guitar that you like. But you can only do that for yourself, not to please anyone else. Unfortunately, it is not a good investment if you look at resale. The price of individual parts are going to be more than the total sum of the parts put together into one guitar.

I think the situation is like automobiles. For example: consider buying a new pickup truck for $40,000, then taking it home, spending $20,000 on parts, sound system, wheels, etc. and building up a one-of-a-kind custom truck in your garage. You could not resell that truck for $60,000. But you might love driving it yourself.

(I hope that analogy makes sense. I know nothing of custom cars/trucks. I drive lesser cars and save that money for musical gear.)



LOL... Right. I drive lesser cars too so I can feed my G.A.S. :D They are very nice guitars! In a lot of ways they feel better than the American ones to me.


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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 8:05 am
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I would chime in here to agree with most of what's been said. It's your guitar and if the cost of your upgrades makes it exactly what you want then you're golden. I am a firm believer that each guitar should be as individual as the owner. How many black strats with white pickguard are there in the world? A million?

Do what you want, make it look like you want, make it sound like you want, whether it's paint, pickguard, strings, strap, tuners.......it's yours so as long as the money spent makes sense to you, then you win. Just realize that when/if you would try to sell that item that those customizations might make no sense to anyone else.

Look at photos of my guitars in the Squier and Fender Bass sections and you'll see what I mean. And I have been slammed in the past for liking my Musicmaster basses, why don't I have a Mustang? Whatever, it's mine and I love 'em.


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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:04 am
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WI KISSfan wrote:
I would chime in here to agree with most of what's been said. It's your guitar and if the cost of your upgrades makes it exactly what you want then you're golden. I am a firm believer that each guitar should be as individual as the owner. How many black strats with white pickguard are there in the world? A million?

Do what you want, make it look like you want, make it sound like you want, whether it's paint, pickguard, strings, strap, tuners.......it's yours so as long as the money spent makes sense to you, then you win. Just realize that when/if you would try to sell that item that those customizations might make no sense to anyone else.

Look at photos of my guitars in the Squier and Fender Bass sections and you'll see what I mean. And I have been slammed in the past for liking my Musicmaster basses, why don't I have a Mustang? Whatever, it's mine and I love 'em.



Good comments. And, I like Musicmasters too. :-)


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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:52 am
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That is indeed a beautiful guitar. I would keep that guitar and never sell it. It would have a lot of value added - to me.

I spent about three hundred or so upgrading a Squier strat and it is a very awesome guitar. It was a decent but old and moderately worn guitar. It is black with a rosewood board and has one of the most beautiful ringed flamed maple neck I've ever seen.

When I bought it for $25 dollars nothing worked on it but the volume knob and the pickups. It was wired wide open by someone that didn't know anything about wiring guitars. It had been around the World with missionaries. The white pickguard was cracked up and not pleasantly yellowed around the edges. But I "knew" when I saw that flamed maple neck that I had to have that guitar.

I originally went to the dude's house because he was going to sell me, for a very excellent price, one of those black and chrome Squier strats, but when I got there to pick it up his sister had said that she wanted it and wanted to learn to play. So that was out. But he said he had an old Squier strat that I might want to use as a mod platform and he brought it out and showed it to me, thinking that I would totally not be interested in it. However when I immediately saw that flamed maple neck, I offered him twenty five dollars and sighed in relief when I had the guitar out in the car and was driving away.

I put on a black pearl pickguard and loaded it with black Seymour Duncan pickups - a JB Jr. bridge, Little '59 middle, and Hot Rail neck, all noiseless pickups. Then I took it to a good guitar tech and had him put in all new pots and wiring and a new Fender American selector switch. I put on new knobs too. The guitar sounds and plays so well it is ridiculous.

Since that project, however, I have decided to only buy real decent, brand name, guitars to mod. Guitars that are already real nice guitars to begin with. This has led to having a lot nicer guitars as a final product of the projects.

Even though, however, your tele isn't a Fender, it is undisputedly a very beautiful and awesome guitar. Also Classic Vibe's are very decent guitars to begin with, in many instances way nicer, in my opinion, than their MIM counterparts, especially in stock form. I won't even go into my experience with that, except to say that my Butterscotch Blonde Classic Vibe tele was a way nicer guitar, stock, than my relatively new MIM tele with the sh!tt!&$t hot ceramic pickups I think I have ever played - and the MIM didn't even noise cancel in the middle switch position and was fundamentally very"noisy" to begin with. It got to the point where I put the MIM tele down and wouldn't even play it even though it is a beautiful looking guitar. Finally I replaced the pickups with Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro tele pickups and it is now one of my favorite guitars, and very quiet too, for single coils, and it noise cancels in the middle switch position.

With everything about your guitar in mind, I personally wouldn't sell it. It is cool for what it is and if you get another super awesome Fender tele someday you could consider switching out the parts somewhat, to your liking.

The bottom line is that it is your money and your choice to spend spend as much as you want on anything. If it makes sense to you then it's cool. If you decide later to transfer the parts to something else, that's your choice as well.

I think it is a very unique guitar as it is and I'm sure it is one of a kind. I don't think I'd ever be able to sell that guitar, regardless of what any, irrelevant, other people think about it.

Sanding off the "Squier" logo from the headstock and leaving it just unpainted wood and then tinting and varnishing it would probably leave any potential detractors speechless. Just tell them it's a project guitar if they ask what it is. I imagine that would change the atmosphere a lot and that the cork sniffing heads would be confused as to what to think or say. Ha, ha. Who needs them anyway?

I would say that almost all of the great guitar players would have loved to have a guitar like yours when they first started out on often completely junk guitars. But, you know, they had fun on those junk guitars and became, eventually, great, and can now buy any guitar they want, and then some.

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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 4:20 pm
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Thanks Duffy!!!!!! :D


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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:33 pm
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debraehart wrote:
Thanks Duffy!!!!!! :D


A guitar that beautiful stands for itself. You did a really beautiful job on that one. It really is stunningly beautiful.

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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
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1Duffy1 wrote:
debraehart wrote:
Thanks Duffy!!!!!! :D


A guitar that beautiful stands for itself. You did a really beautiful job on that one. It really is stunningly beautiful.


Thanks again Duffy.


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Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 5:07 am
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Gorgeeousss :D Looks like you did a Fantastic job and I love the Bridge on it.

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Post subject: Re: This is my Squier Vibe Custom 60's Tele
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:36 pm
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Why do we stop talking about this super beautiful guitar?

I want to see some more pictures of the whole guitar and the amp you use. This is really too beautiful to be hiding out somewhere in cyber space.

Please shed some light onto this awesome guitar. Maybe I'll dig out my Affinity Squier project guitar and take some pictures.

I'm thinking of getting a Squier like this with the binding on the body and doing something to it. This guitar is inspiration;.

I have a '72 Classic Player Deluxe telecaster that I have been beefing up a little. I installed four diamond cut knurled barrel, flat top control knobs and Fender American Strat string trees onto it. These little improvements really pay off in the coefficient of cool area and give this awesome Classic Player reissue tele a really nice touch. Plus they function well. The knobs have that diamond cut grit to them that feels so cool under your finger tips when adjusting the volume or tone and the string trees allow for the strings to pass under them a lot more smoothly than the stock stamped metal butterfly type ones.

Although some heavy cork sniffing connoisseurs and others suffering from a moderately intense case of obsessive compulsive disorder may find the stock Fender Wide Ranging Humbuckers (WRHB's) to be a source of continuous down turning of their thumbs, I find that I really like them in this new reissue.

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