Pickups for Squier Super-Sonic

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:40 pm

In the wake of Fender resurrecting the Squier 51 as a Fender Pawn Shop model, I wonder if they will ever bring back any of the Vista originals (Super Sonic / Venus)?

wadeaminute · Post by **wadeaminute** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:54 pm

BearBoy wrote:In the wake of Fender resurrecting the Squier 51 as a Fender Pawn Shop model, I wonder if they will ever bring back any of the Vista originals (Super Sonic / Venus)?

I hope not.

Although I'd be tempted if they made them better rather than more economical. A Fender version that was a hard tail and a fun colour might get me.

wadeaminute · Post by **wadeaminute** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:54 pm

Noirie. wrote:
wadeaminute wrote:Does anyone get the hero reference?

FTW!

willc · Post by **willc** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:55 pm

wadeaminute wrote:I have five of these:

The only one I still have humbuckers in is the white one, which has a Dimarzio Tone Zone in the bridge and a Dimarzio PAF in the neck. These are perfect for me. The bridge is super-hot. The neck is classic smooth PAF I have coil splits on both, and the bridge split combined with the neck on full is just lovely.

My black one has a single Dimarzio YJM stacked humbucker that looks like a strat pickup. I like this one very much. The silver one has Seymour Duncan P-Rails pickups , which are fun. 12 sounds from two pickups. The blue one has Custom Shop Fat 50s strat pickups. The coral one has a single Seymour Duncan stacked tele pickup, the BG1400. Super hot, and splitable. That guitar has 8 tones from one pickup.

I've always wanted to get another white one and set it up with a black pickguard, a strat pickup for the bridge and a mini-humbucker for the neck, and two missmatched knobs. Does anyone get the hero reference?

Nice collection there.

I was lucky enough to pick up up blue sparkle one about ten years ago pretty cheap.

They are great feeling guitars but I too am not in love with the pickups, maybe I will switch them out someday.

Where did you get the custom pickguards made if I may?

Have fun with all them sweet things!!

wadeaminute · Post by **wadeaminute** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:23 am

I've made my own pickguards, and I've had some made for me by local professionals. The only hard part, really, is the beveling. The one on the coral SUper-Sonic was made over the sink with a Dremel tool.
I'm really happy with the blue one right now. My black one may get reconfigured somehow. Maybe a filtertron?

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:00 am

The bevelling is indeed a complete bitch. I've only made one pickguard and it turned out perfectly servicable, but up close it's a fucking mess. I used a dremel for pretty much all of it apart from the bevelling which I did by hand by scraping the plastic with metal tool (the blunt side of a good knife works). It's only really the edges that are particularly bad, they're a bit lumpy and bumpy.

bubbastain · Post by **bubbastain** » Wed May 02, 2012 4:21 am

Noisy Cat wrote:Gah, I now realise the illogical-ness of my original post.

What I mean is I like the sound of the pickups, they just sound a bit cheap and are prone to feedback. I want the same overall sound/feel, just better quality. I still want the Super-Sonic to sound as was intended.

I don't know what that means.

I also have a JB in the bridge and Jazz in the neck. Really great combo. Had a BKP Painkiller in there for a while and that was cool too. Believe it or not, my favorite pickup is from a Walmart level First Act guitar.