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The Silver Series Strats are wonderful - my main Strat is a 92 Silver Series in Seafoam Green. The original pickups were shocking, however, and are confined to the landfill of history. It now has a set of Mojo pickups and the only other replacement is the bridge block - because the thread on the arm went really 'baggy' after years of use and abuse. I took it with me when I visited Coda to buy a Custom Shop Strat as a 'datum'... I didn't buy a CS. That wasn't because the CS guitars were in any way 'bad', its just they weren't significantly better sounding or playing than my old Jap Squier (to my ears and hands).
YMMV
+ve Precise woodworking. Nicely finished frets. Nice neck profiles. (Horrid bridge saddles on Tele.)
-ve Dogbreath selector switches. Weak pickups. (P Bass unit is okay.)
If you can live with "Salmon Pink" poly and Fifties cosmetics, the Hank Marvin signature model has a fantastic soft vee neck profile.
You may have already come across this: https://planetbotch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/original-1992-squier-silver-series-stratocaster.html
I loved that guitar, and often think about getting another one and upgrading the bits - like the aforementioned pickups.
At the moment I'm looking for:
* Hamer Watson, SS2, Vintage S, T62.
* Music Man Luke 1, Luke II
Please drop me a message.
Mental note: must get rid of some Strats.
FWIW mine is Rosewood - and it's like an old pair of shoes to me.
By the time I get it's worn tiny vintage frets replaced, upgraded the pickups, electrics and trem block, I could have just bought a s/h classic player strat. The trouble is I tried a few modern MIM strats but still prefer the neck on the Squier.
Seems a bit weird to spend so much cash on a guitar that was pretty cheap.
If your Squier instrument does not have the Silver Series decal on the headstock, it is either left-handed, the Hank Marvin signature model or it is not a Silver Series example.
If you read Tony Bacon's Squier book and read around on the internet, the evidence suggests that production restarted in Japan with the Hank Marvin model, then for a few months between late 1991 and mid 1992, the Japanese Squiers shipped without the Silver Series logo. The serial number on my guitar puts it slap bang in that early 1992 period when the first shipment sets were sent to the UK distributor.
I still have the Guitarist edition with the Silver Series review in it. I don't recall too much info in it, but when I get home, I'll search it out.
Adam
The first Silver Series Strats and Teles (from 1991/92) were marketed as being "Silver Series" (due to the Silver logo on the headstock) - I still have the issue of Making Music in the loft somewhere with the review of the guitars from the tail end of 1991, where the name is used not only in the text but in the captions as well and yet none of the guitars pictured had the 'Silver Series' logo on the headstock.
I bought my Silver Series Strat (on behalf of my mother - it was my 21st birthday present) on February 6th 1992 from a small music shop on Darkes Lane, Potters Bar for £199. I had become obsessed with them after reading that review and researched every last nuance about them at the time. It did not have any "Silver Series" logo on the headstock - nor did the Tele I bought three years ago, with a very similar serial number. I can up pictures if it helps.
In about 1993/4 there was a Japanese made Squier that wasn't a Silver Series - this had cheap machine heads (not the Gotohs of the Silver Series) and most I've seen were a mid blue colour. These are often passed off as being SS but were not.
For info: the later models (with "silver series" on the headstock) didn't feature the fabulous Seafoam Green colour on the Strats. This colour was deleted fairly early on, sadly.
I think that was the clincher for me - it had to be Seafoam Green. :-)
No need to shout.
Its a pet peeve of mine and a specialist anorak subject!! :-)
I remember it clearly, two lefties appeared in Rokas Denmark St, a black one and a white one, 1989, I bought the black one immediately.