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paul_c2paul_c2 Frets: 410
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Well, technically it was yesterday evening I picked it up. Its a Made in Mexico Standard, with rosewood fingerboard and finished in a beautiful metallic blue colour (I'll get some pics later). I found it secondhand on Gumtree, was about 1 1/2 hours drive away, and the price was good. After a frustrating couple of trips to guitar shops to look at reasonable Squier strats (and their being out of stock) I tried a Fender in the shop and really liked it, but not the price! So secondhand makes sense. The guy had 6 guitars, including another almost identical strat (in white/maple) and it appears the one I bought has hardly ever been played. Its almost perfect paint and body condition with a few tiny marks if you look really closely but that's it.

My previous guitar has humbuckers (and is a Les Paul copy) so its a big difference in sound and to play, so still very much getting used to it. But it seems to play nicely and sound good so far!!

Pics to follow....
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  • paul_c2paul_c2 Frets: 410
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  • usedtobeusedtobe Frets: 3842
    Nice one!
     so if you fancy a reissue of a guitar they never made in a colour they never used then it probably isn't too overpriced.

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  • fretmeisterfretmeister Frets: 24780
    Nice colour!
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  • AndyRAndyR Frets: 158
    Oh yeah. Nice.
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  • paul_c2paul_c2 Frets: 410
    I know, its mainly the colour that I like the most! I prefer solid colours, and I think I'd have been happy with most colours. Someone once said to me pick something other than black or white because they look a bit anonymous (not sure I agree with that though - debatable!) so I'd have been happy with red too. But there's something about the metallic blue which looks a bit different and makes it stand out. I found out its official name is "Lake Placid Blue" too.
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  • paul_c2paul_c2 Frets: 410
    (I think) it has 10s on it at the moment, I prefer 9s and I swapped my other guitar's strings, due to a couple of issues which led me to suspect they were dead. So the other one has 9-42s but I noticed the low E string a bit "flappy" or "twangy" so I've just ordered some hybrid 9s (9-46) and I'll try those out. I guess there's a bit of a process to find what string gauge one is personally happiest with.

    Also I'll lower the action a bit, I prefer it lower and I think there's some room for it to come down.
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  • BlaendulaisBlaendulais Frets: 3325
    Nice guitar
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  • timmysofttimmysoft Frets: 1962
    Lovely looking strat there! The current mexican range are great players too, i'd happily gig or record with a stock model!
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