Im thinking of buying a very cheap fender or squire guitar to try and refinished it.Dis asembling it and giving it a overhall.Sanding the neck and makeing everything very smooth.Basicaly trying to make it feel like a more expensive guitar.Anyone ever try this.Post some pics of the project.
Anyways as long as the cheap guitar has the same wood and the neck is one peace maple you should beable to make it similiar.

Sounds pretty cool. I'm doing that same thing with my starcaster. Post pics when you're done.

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"You won't part with your's either"

Fender American Standard Stratocaster 2006

Fender Standard Telecaster 2007

Its a favourite hobby of mine.
Make some junk play great, it can be done. All it takes is time patience and thought. No one can tell you how to do it, guitars are far too individual to say its one ting or the other.
Get the guitar, play it awhile and find out what needs improving. Then ask for opinions.
After all that the choice remains yours.

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i've done this before, and i have to tell you, it's not what it's cracked up to be. i bought a newer indonesian bullet strat with the hopes of making a relic'd player strat.

first thing i noticed was the neck was crap, along with the tuners. in the end, i spent more on the damn thing then i would've if i'd have bought a mexi-strat and started from there.

before i could get the thing to stay in tune, and sound halfway decent, i'd replaced:

the tuners (because i thought i could live with the neck) ($55)
the neck (with a mexi-std strat neck) ($175)
the pickups (with noiseless vintages) ($150)
the pots, and wiring ($50)
the tremolo ($30)

and then it would play decent, but my stock mexican strat still sounds better.

buy a mexican strat or tele or whatever, and then mod it. it's not worth it, IMHO, to start with a turd.

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I've done 3 guitars in total with mixed results...bottom line...this method allows you to make what YOU want rather than what Fender tells you to want. But this comes at a cost. It can get expensive, time consuming, and chances are, unless you are used to fine woodworking projects you are not going to improve the neck or body. Plus, if you are like me you never achieve the ultimate guitar you are looking for and keep putting money into it.

Also if you do this and you do not want to keep it forever you will never sell it for anything anywhere close to what you've put into it...people will only look at the name on the headstock.

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A common malaise but non the less the results do equal the pleasure of the journey. Or else why repeat it.

Granted my bits n pieces o guitars will never fetch what their worth to me but gave and still give great pleasure.

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I'm in the middle of modifying my Squier Strat (which was my first guitar). Short of refinishing it, I'm basically replacing everything.
I lucked out with the neck, it feels great and I like it even better than some very expensive guitars. That said, not all Squier necks are that great and I'd suggest trying every single Squier in Guitar Center out before you buy one.
So far I've replaced quite a few purely cosmetic things (knobs, pickguard) and the most drastic change I've made is adding Texas Specials instead of the stock pickups. The difference was huge, and I think that changing the pickups is one of the most important modifications you can make for a Squier. Next I'm going to change the tremolo (which feels like a piece of crap, because it is) and I'm also going to change the tuning machines. After that I'll have a really nice guitar. I'm mainly going through the trouble of modifying it because of it's value goes beyond the $100 it's really worth as it was my first guitar. I don't know if it would be worth the trouble otherwise.

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do anything with those pots and wiring? i put texas specials in an old squier i had, and the sounded great! but a nice set of fender pots will round the sound out a little better. they'll take a little hum out of the chain too!

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Yeah, I put in new pots too. And the bridge pickup is wired to the middle pickup's tone knob. That way I can roll off the tone a bit and it doesn't sound so harsh.

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I am doing this with a TELECASTER, so far I have added a BIGSBY F -SERIES TREMELO, am refinishing the neck, changed the pick guard, next is the pickups and tuning machines.
I am doing the rebuilding to get the TELE look that I really want and for the fun.

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2004 FENDER SQUIRE CYCLONE
2009 OVATION CELEBRITY DELUXE BLUE BURST QUILTED MAPLE
2008 PEAVEY VALVEKING VK112
"IT'S NOT ABOUT LOVING WHAT YOU WANT, IT'S ABOUT LOVING WHAT YOU'VE GOT."= SHERYL CROW

Im most conserned with getting the neck to feel more expensive by sanding it better and refinishing it with a satin feel.

don't sand exactly, try rubbing it down with #0000 steel wool. but then blow it off with some compressed air, the wool leaves a ton of little tailings.

The last time i looked at guitars at a pawn shop they were more expensive than guitar center it was ridiculas.There was this entry level bcrich with bolt on neck for $500.YA RIGHT.Pawn shops try and take advantage of people that dont know any better.