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I think these are Guitar Center exclusives: Silverburst Standard and Bigsby Squier

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Wow there was a time when I would have been all over that. When I was really into Go!go!7188

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holy shit... hot for that silver burst... whats wrong with me?!?!

EDIT: is it just me or is that squire a serious bargain?
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Eh, it's a good deal for sure but I wouldn't call it a bargain because it's still a standard (or maybe even affinity, can't tell from the picture), and the bigsby is most likely a $100 upgrade on its own. For a new guitar with the work already done that's pretty cool, but usually the kind of player who wants a bigsby over a normal strat trem or whatever would probably set their sights a little higher than a squier standard series. In other words, if it were a CV series for $100 more I would be a little more interested.
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mustang bridge?
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do want the bigsby squier.
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hotrodperlmutter wrote:mustang bridge?
Good eye....considering Squier hasn't used a mustang bridge on any guitars before that I can think of right now, it's an interesting move and might indicate things to come next year. Then again, it could just be part of a cheap bigsby licensed trem set.
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hotrodperlmutter wrote:mustang bridge?
far too blurry to say decisively.
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endsjustifymeans wrote:holy shit... hot for that silver burst... whats wrong with me?!?!

EDIT: is it just me or is that squire a serious bargain?
A bargain, but don't fret the silverburst crush...I too have a fever for those damn silverbursts...ugh

Overall, I'd probably go Bigsby though.
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That silverburst looks terrible on a tele, and I even love silverburst! The squier will have a jag style bridge as comes on the bigsby tele setup, worst bridge for the job, id actually consider a mastery bridge if I had the tele style bigsby
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i'm not as much of a bigsby fan as most, but on that tele it looks sweet!
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Isn't 299 how much the "pank sprakle" tele was? This is alot more guitar for the buckage. Is fender getting... Reasonable?
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hotrodperlmutter wrote:mustang bridge?

In deed . I'm sold . :D
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how is the old girlcaster holding up anyways?

is it still making tele sonds ? that thing would look so much more awesome without that black pickguard
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I want to say the Pank was $250
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Haze wrote:silverburst looks terrible...


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robroe wrote:how is the old girlcaster holding up anyways?

is it still making tele sonds ? that thing would look so much more awesome without that black pickguard
holding up well. It's officially Nicole's guitar, so it doesn't see as much playtime as the rest. Plus I put girl strings on it for her, so when I try to play it I end up bending every note.
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