NGD - My valentine's day gift (Squier Vista Goodness)

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:06 pm

Did you get it already?

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:31 pm

I swung by GC during my lunch break, and was greeted by a friendly tech who's an offset/shortscale geek... and offered to buy it from me.

He confessed to me that he took it apart, took pictures, and either plans on building a similar guitar or modding the next used Jagmaster that shows up at the store. He says that the work was well done when it was first done, and that whoever did it likely spent more money on the mods than on the guitar.

Anyway, he injected glue and resoldered it. It sounded very nice (in fact, nicer than before), but the pots were still scratchy, so he told me he'll swap them out and have them ready go to before he leaves for the day.

So after work, back to GC to pick it up.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:46 am

And it's back, and it's sounding and feeling a lot better.

The first thing I did when I got it home - put a mustang bridge on it, so now the strings stay where they need to be.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:06 am

Horay! Thats such a great story!!! Really love the guitar. It's one of the things, i'm after since years.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:29 pm

noiiiceee

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:36 pm

Nice end to the story

Post by **Mike** » Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:01 am

What type of mustang bridge is that? Saddle grooves look DEEEP

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Feb 28, 2018 3:16 pm

Mike wrote:What type of mustang bridge is that? Saddle grooves look DEEEP

I think it's the one used on the Squier VM Mustangs

Got it from Guitar Parts Resource, and the description reads:

Made for Fender instruments in a variety of vintage and contemporary models. Chrome-plated bridge assembly includes six fully adjustable saddles, six intonation screws and springs, and two mounting posts with adjustable allen screws. Used on the Kurt Cobain Mustang and Squier Vintage Modified Mustang. Has smaller barrel saddles than the standard Mustang bridge.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:14 pm

Which guitar center location was this?

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:45 pm

jcyphe wrote:Which guitar center location was this?

It was bought originally from the GC in Evansville, IN. The work was done locally at the GC in South Miami, FL.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:07 pm

Was it the one in Kendall? That used to be my go to store.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:29 pm

jcyphe wrote:Was it the one Kendall? That used to be my go to store.

Yep - that's the one. I live next to downtown, so it's the closest one when traffic's not horrible. When traffic's bad, getting to Hallandale can be faster, since I can take the 95 express lanes and be there in 20 minutes.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:44 pm

Mike wrote:What type of mustang bridge is that? Saddle grooves look DEEEP

Yun modified it.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:21 am

i need those saddles on all my shit

Post by **Mike** » Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:04 pm

Fran wrote:
Mike wrote:What type of mustang bridge is that? Saddle grooves look DEEEP
Yun modified it.

LOL

it looks decent, definitely an improvement on the ones used previously on Mustangs.

I have original 70s Mustang 7.25" ones on my '72 Mustang and '66 Jaguar and they're decent, but the more modern one I had one my '65 RI Mustang wasn't great. Buzzy and strings slipped.

My Squier Jaguar has a straytrem one on it with matched 9.5" radius and that's also very nice but expensive.