can't have just one!!

[Fenix]

Right now thanks to GC i have a grand total of...

...NONE! 

RANT

I mean c'mon!!! I ordered this thing since November last year and was told it would be shipped Jan 22. As of now i am told that it hasn't come and the salesperson who helped me is no longer working there.

This is TWO WEEKS after the promised ship date and no one has any idea if it has been shipped or not! 

[lilBB]

anybody ever take their first guitar, if it was a strat copy, and hot rod it sorta?

kinda of a common phenomenon here. guys take the no name, throw some quality pickups and make sure the electronics are tip top and rock out.

only thing is the wood is still cheap 

guess its more nostalgia than anything.

[JayP5150]

anybody ever take their first guitar, if it was a strat copy, and hot rod it sorta?

kinda of a common phenomenon here. guys take the no name, throw some quality pickups and make sure the electronics are tip top and rock out.

only thing is the wood is still cheap 

guess its more nostalgia than anything.

For a while that was my slide guitar. It was the plywood bodied Series 10 LP copy. It had a Carvin makeover. When I bought that Dean Evo (cheap, but solid wood), I transferred all the Carvin stuff to it, and reverted the Series 10 to my knock-around guitar.

It actually has a KILLER neck, so I won't get rid of it. I think I'm going to get her some better tuners and some guitarfetish pickups eventually. I'm debating on the powertron knock-offs...

I like the neck so much that I've toyed with the idea of finding a bolt-on LP body that is solid wood (swamp ash... mmmmm...) and making a "real" guitar out of it.

I have a sickness...

[funkStrat_97]

anybody ever take their first guitar, if it was a strat copy, and hot rod it sorta?

kinda of a common phenomenon here. guys take the no name, throw some quality pickups and make sure the electronics are tip top and rock out.

only thing is the wood is still cheap 

guess its more nostalgia than anything.

I inadvertantly destroyed two of the three pickups in my Memphis Strat.  I eventually replaced the dead pups with two Seymour Duncans and finaly the original ceramic pick up (which was in the middle position) was replaced wtih a used MIM Strat pup.  I also replaced the tuners and pickguard with those from my American Standard (it receieved locking tuners and a pearloid pickguard).  The bridge was also replaced with a cheap vintage-style Strat bridge with a solid block(the trem was blocked too).  The original bridge was total, pure, absolute, 110% junk.  It had a very narrow string spacing and used die-cast sadles.  But here's the thing; it didn't have an actual block like you'd find on most trems.  The trem arm screwed into a tube and the "block" was actually a U-shaped piece of steel with holes in the bottom that would thread the strings through and where the springs attached.  You could actally see the stings through the open end of the "U" if you used the trem.  That thing just HAD to go.

[Sonar]

anybody ever take their first guitar, if it was a strat copy, and hot rod it sorta?

kinda of a common phenomenon here. guys take the no name, throw some quality pickups and make sure the electronics are tip top and rock out.

only thing is the wood is still cheap 

guess its more nostalgia than anything.

I often play a Squire Strat-style (Made in Japan circa 1984).

It a great guitar that has been refretted with Dunlop 6105 frets and Pleked...actually, it was the first guitar done when the PLEK machine was installed in Baltimore. It was the test guitar...and I'll tell you that machine was HEAVY to install in return for the honor! 

Gotoh bridge installed for correct string spacing with some virtual vintage pickups to stay quiet in a problem church. It plays great and sounds pretty darned good.


I get MORE comments and questions about this "cheap" guitar than any other more expensive guitar I use. Kids and adults come up to ask if it's REALLY a Squire guitar I'm playing. Then they announce they're going home and get their Squire out of the closet and start practicing again.