Squier 2020 line

[s_mcsleazy]

ok. so ive been having a few wee wiring issues with my supersonic and while i love the sound of it, i miss having a master volume and tone. so i'm just going to fix that tonight.

[Singlebladepickup]

Better late than never- this arrived yesterday, great first impressions



Saw an orange one (pretty sure it was orange?) in a shop in sheffield around 2000 ish, fancied one ever since- 20 years later

Love these! Hope it plays as nice as it looks, and that squier/fender keep them in production

[redchapterjubilee]

I got my shipping notice from Guitar Center earlier this week for my pink CVJM and it is apparently walking from Salt Lake City out to North Carolina. It has a Fed Ex jacket or cap or something on it so I suppose it's cool. Expected two weeks delivery I suppose not only USPS has been affected by the stranglehold placed on USPS.

[Pacafeliz]

Went to MusicStore again yesterday.
The SuperSonic is a cool guitars but those boring colors are just not doing it for me.
The neck feels delicious but overall they feel a bit like a toy, dunno why. My blue sparkle one felt different.
Good for me cuz I don't need another guitar but also sad cuz I'd loved to get one anyway...

[Pacafeliz]

ok. so ive been having a few wee wiring issues with my supersonic and while i love the sound of it, i miss having a master volume and tone. so i'm just going to fix that tonight.

Yep that would have been my first thing, too.

[redchapterjubilee]

And finally...



I bought a sonic blue Vintage Modified from the first shipment back in 2012. i didn't have it very long, as I wound up moving it along to a friend who REALLY wanted it and I then could use the money for other things. So I don't remember much about it other than the bridge pickup was hot, the finish had weird black flecks in it, the roller pots were closer together, and I bought a modified Mustang bridge to put on it and I absolutely despised that bridge. Now, 8 years later, I have the Classic Vibe version, dubbed the Peptomaster. For starters, it's a lot prettier to look at in my opinion than the first Squier JM. Second, it was almost like it was made for me. They now come with Mustang bridges (hurray!) and the pickguard is actually pretty well matched to the finish.

Now onto the challenges. Right after unboxing I had placed it on a typical sort of guitar stand for about 90 minutes while I was cooking and such, and when I came back down to it to begin setting it up I noticed the body's finish had already started to turn. Big black marks where the body rested against the stand. Huh. I have a bunch of other guitars that sit on stands like this all the time without any issue (and we're talking US made Fender and Gibson nitro and poly) so it's weird this guitar, which I'm assuming is poly, reacted so quickly to a guitar stand. That usually happens over a much longer period of time. I was able to polish out 95% of the mark but there's still a very faint discoloration now on the bottom edge of the guitar. I have never had this happen before so quickly with any guitar I've ever owned, and I've owned dozens. I didn't think poly would do this.
So no guitar stands for this guitar from now on. It will have to sleep in a case or on the futon here.

Right out of the box it was problematic. Fender ships these with 9's, set absolutely flat, and not intonated at all. The bridge posts are particular narrow in comparison to the thimbles. So if the average shop pulled this out of a box and popped it on the wall I think the average customer would pick one up, absolutely hate it, then put it right back down. Next, I pulled the strings, pulled the neck, and pulled the tremolo (the factory one is serviceable but I had an American trem sitting around). Shimmed the neck (one shim was enough), wrapped the bridge posts, loctited the grub screws, switched out the stock trem for the US trem, and strung it back up with 10's. A bit of intonation and truss rod wrangling and the guitar was in business. Plays fine, feels fine in the hand, the pickups sound better than I remember the Vintage Modifieds sounding (though I'm thinking they are likely the same or quite similar...the bridge pup is definitely on the hotter side) and I think I can live with them for awhile but will likely switch them out for something else. None of my JM's have stock bridges or pickups. Would be weird if this "lowly" Squier wound up the exception to that rule.

It's a keeper, or at least the body is. I've wanted a pink Jazzmaster for a long time and didn't have the money to pull the trigger on a thinskin when they popped and the CME thing that came out earlier this year is ugly (who puts a white headstock on a pink guitar...ACK!) so the Squier version is much appreciated. I might refinish the headstock to match. I would still love to rout out for full size WRHB's but to do it right would wind up costing me as much as I paid for the guitar. But right now I'm likely to leave it as it is and enjoy its lovely pink-ness.

[manwithtitties]

^looks great, congrats! I ended up doing the same stuff with my jaguar set up wise. I also figured out how they made the guitar playable with 9s: very high nut action. Ive been trying to shave the slots down with my minimal equipment the last few weeks in between uni work, and its getting closer to ideal.

[robroe]

3rd paranormal is almost here!!!

[Gordon]

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3rd paranormal is almost here!!!


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Ah, good one! And if I may ask, could you check the routing from the f-hole for me, please? I'm kind of interested in the possibility to add a switch on the upper horn, à la John 5. Thanks a bunch!

[robroe]

you want to go in the hard way if its hollow all the way up the horn? like without adding a plastic plate on the back ?

[Gordon]

you want to go in the hard way if its hollow all the way up the horn? like without adding a plastic plate on the back ?

I'd probably add a plate in the back, I hate mounting through f-holes. Drilling a channel for the wire, and a cut in the back, that's fine, but if I have to route the body further, I'd probably give up.

[robroe]

it might be routed like the Jimmy Eat World JA-90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYxMRXlSfr4

[mediocreplayer]

3rd paranormal is almost here!!!

Can you tell me where you bought this from? I plan to get this exact one but the usual places are still at the pre-order stage.

[robroe]

3rd paranormal is almost here!!!

Can you tell me where you bought this from? I plan to get this exact one but the usual places are still at the pre-order stage.

I ordered it direct from my fender rep.

He said they got 10 in at the wharehouse and he knew I wanted one so he called me.

I emailed him just now (1140 est Sunday night) to see if I can give you his number.

[mediocreplayer]

3rd paranormal is almost here!!!

Can you tell me where you bought this from? I plan to get this exact one but the usual places are still at the pre-order stage.

I ordered it direct from my fender rep.

He said they got 10 in at the wharehouse and he knew I wanted one so he called me.

I emailed him just now (1140 est Sunday night) to see if I can give you his number.

Thank you! I actually just saw that these are in stock in Musiciansfriend, so I might just go ahead and order one. I am slightly torn because my current focus is not guitars at all -- but the combo of Tele and JM pickups (which early reports say sound lacking) is a cool one.