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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:41 pm
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has a traditional mexican serial no' mn****** but has squire series written where am fenders have custom body. Ive noticed modern mex's dont have anything. whats the story with it?


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I have picked up a few of those Mex made Squiers, they are decent guitars.

I believe it was in Mexico that the Squier strats started out or it was a temp. thing while the over seas manufacture got set up or some crazy thing like that.

anyway I have had a red one a black on and a white one.

the necks were great on all of them.

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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:17 am
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its got the traditional fender logo then serial no'underneath same as all the modern mex's but where custom body is written at the end on american guitars this says squire series so its a squire. the neck on its every bit as good as my vintage hotrod if not better, the guitar only cost me £200/$400 new as opposed to the hotrod which cost £1200/$2400. exceptional luck eh. all this means to me now is that my mex is long due an upgrade.


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the guy i used to use for repairs/mods in the 90's put a squire scratch plate over my one and it was way too small. He served his apprenticeship at john diggins guitars who at the time had the contract to repair all fenders uk exports. he told me the bodies for squires were 10% smaller than fenders. That's all the reply i got out of him when i broached the subject to him


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the guy i used to use for repairs/mods in the 90's put a squire scratch plate over my one and it was way too small. He served his apprenticeship at john diggins guitars who at the time had the contract to repair all fenders uk exports. he told me the bodies for squires were 10% smaller than fenders. That's all the reply i got out of him when i broached the subject to him


Squiers are subtly different from Fenders in various ways, to make it a little harder to upgrade with Fender parts. So's when you're ready to move up you go buy a real Fender instead, obviously.

But ten percent smaller? That's just plain incorrect. I speak as one who's original beginner's Squier, modded out of all recognition, still sits amongst a family of proper Strats.

Point of interest [from above]: in 1982 Fender Japan produced some versions of their Vintage Reissues for the European market. These initially carried a small “Squier Series” logo on the tip of the headstock, where “original contour body” normally goes. Soon, this was changed and the Squier name replaced Fender on the main part of the headstock. This was the beginning of the Squier brand. The name came from a string-making company in Michigan that Fender had bought up in the mid-60s.


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