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Post subject: How to Squier to Fender
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:18 pm
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I have a just moved from a squire strat to a fender tele. I love the tele it rocks. But i wanted to keep the squire, and maybe upgrade it a little. i was wondering if you could attach a fender strat neck to the squire strat body? Thanks for the help. :D


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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:01 pm
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I've been thinking about doing the same thing. I played my old Squier for years and years, but the neck is just not so good. The frets are puny and the things caving forward, with the truss rod way down inside the wood. Warmouth or somebody sells necks with like a compound radius and whatnot. And then since the bodies heavily lacquered and dead, I might drop a set of the slightly deadish SCNs in their to have a smooth modern sounding guitar that's good with lots of gain, but maybe a tone zone in the bridge like my own private hotrod '57. It's the bridge SCN that I really don't like much, and the neck SCN can get kind of a nice breakup going with the EQ cranked and the gain cranked. It's like $350 plus paying the guitar wiz at Wild West Guitars to do all this, and probably the old Squier'll still have that crazy electric crackle like it's about to catch on fire. So, I'm putting that off. Maybe I'll just drop my old Highway One oem pickups in there, since they have their moments, and get the truss rod adjusted.


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Post subject: my squier
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:24 pm
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i had a squier japanese strat from 1995...nad after having it to warm up or something, i put on it a pair of american strat PU on middle and neck, and a tom anderson sn1 on bridge and it sings...i need to fix some tuning stability but it SINGS>>.worth!!...and becuase is a cheap guitar, i decided to learn how to relic guitar, so it now has more value to me now...


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Post subject: Squier to Fender
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:50 am
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Ah, the age old dilemma: what to do with that dusty beginner's Squier on top of the wardrobe, now you've got a row a US Strats and Teles sitting proudly on their stands. Bin it, give it away or mod it?

The latter gives the option to try out stuff we'd never dream of inflicting on our pristine American Series. I've been modding my first Squier for years: by now the wood of the body is the only original part left.

I got a new neck from WD Music, re-did the frets, scalloped out the edges of the fingerboard like they do at Tyler, re-finned and fitted it with locking Sperzels with staggered poles, so no need for a string tree.

All new plastic parts, several times. Many different p-ups: at the moment I have red, blue and silver Lace Sensors with cream closed covers to match the rest of the plastic. Not so fashionable these days, but they sound totally great - even my wife noticed the difference the minute I fitted them.

I had to route out the bridge cavity and do a lot of screw hole filling, re-drilling and finishing to fit a Wilkinson VS100 two-point trem. It's great, my fave ever bridge.

My only problem now is that the tuners and bridge have a brushed chrome finish but I can't find a jack socket in brushed metal to match.

Over the years I learnt how to do wiring, set-ups and making nuts on my Squier: all useful experience.

It's a lot of work and it's probably not finished, but my Squierocaster now plays every bit as well as US models and does different stuff you can't get over the counter. Highly recommended route: what's the worst that can happen, after all?


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