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Made in Japan
top notch neck
Stupid bridge pickup and switching, had to fix that
Plus, LOOK AT IT.
I do wish it wasn't a ToM bridge, but not sure what I'd put in its place...
Maybe cheating a bit now, as they are not that cheap, but they were an early entry level Squier of the day - Made in Japan H2 circa 1982/83 - Some actually have a made in the USA tag, although I'm not sure any where actually built in the USA - Mine says MIJ but I'm pretty certain the neck is a USA built Tele neck - It was believed that the H2 and its related cousins did use up many old USA parts, shipped to Japan and assembled accordingly - Bottom line is my is a very credible guitar, but the days are gone when you could pick them up for £300, let alone £200
Mine was a Squier Strat which started off looking like the one below - red, black headstock, 24.75" scale, single humbucker, volume control. I think it cost £149 new in 1986.
It became the test-bed for a lot of DIY experiments.
First thing I did was change the tuners. I knocked a big chip out of the face of the headstock removing the ferrules, so I filled it and resprayed the headstock red to match the body before fitting black Schaller tuners.
I replaced the bridge with a black Kahler fulcrum unit, then a black Kahler Flyer. I routed the body for a neck humbucker and middle single-coil, resprayed it black, fitted a 25.5" ESP maple neck which meant relocating the bridge for the longer scale length - it ended up with a Kahler fixed bridge, recessed into the body. I moved the jack to the side. I filed away the neck heel and replaced the neck plate with recessed washers, in an early attempt at an Ibanez-style contoured heel...
The original bridge got transferred to another partscaster - in another experiment, I filed away the back of the trem block to allow more movement.
I still have both the neck and body, maybe even the original pickup and tuners. It now has a WD neck with a Wilkinson roller nut and although it's been many years since I did any guitar DIY it ended up as my pickup-testing guitar.
If I wasn't happy to fix that myself I'd have likely held out for a Vintage Modified/Classic Vibe or similar instead, but it really didn't take a lot of effort to fix it up into a very playable and fun guitar.
I'm going to start using corporate ownership hierarchies to pretend I have a Microsoft Tamagotchi and Dior custard creams.
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