My first guitar.

[Josh]

I've had this old Indonesian-made squier stratocaster since i started playing. When i got it it was blue/white with a rosewood neck. after painting it with red acrylic paint, and tinkering with it, it eventually got taken apart and resided in my closet in pieces. So yesterday i was bored, and decided to put it back together with stuff i had laying around in my room. one of the saddles was missing a spring so i took apart a clicky pen and cut the spring in half and used that. after a few hours fucking with it, i got it to work again, and it sounds way better then i remember. has a baby thin neck that's kind've refreshing from my jaguar's clubby neck. gonna be fun to try out on stage in a couple weeks. so here's a picture.

[moore65]

People don't give Squier Strats enough credit. I dropped a Hot Rails in the bridge and it sounds better than MIM Strats I've played (at least in the bridge position). That's a cool color scheme you did. I would have painted mine something crazy had I not fallen in love with the cream color it came in.

[gaybear]

It Lives!
Risen from the Day!

[superfuzz]

Enfuego 2.0!!!

[weeping_moon]

I've had this old Indonesian-made squier stratocaster since i started playing. When i got it it was blue/white with a rosewood neck. after painting it with red acrylic paint, and tinkering with it, it eventually got taken apart and resided in my closet in pieces. So yesterday i was bored, and decided to put it back together with stuff i had laying around in my room. one of the saddles was missing a spring so i took apart a clicky pen and cut the spring in half and used that. after a few hours fucking with it, i got it to work again, and it sounds way better then i remember. has a baby thin neck that's kind've refreshing from my jaguar's clubby neck. gonna be fun to try out on stage in a couple weeks. so here's a picture.

maybe a better picture?
i dig strats!

[honeyiscool]

I've had several Indonesian Squiers and they've all been great instruments once set up. Sometimes the frets are a little sloppy, sometimes the pickups need improvement, but they're solid players.

[gaybear]

how many guitars have you had, honey? not doubting your reviews by any means, but i'm almost twice your age and i think i've owned 10% as many guitars.

[honeyiscool]

I've probably had like two dozen guitars and half a dozen basses, most of them Fenders or Squiers. Most of them were to satisfy a curiosity or because it was a good deal or whatever, I freely admit that I'm not particularly responsible with my money and have taken losses just to figure out something about myself that I probably knew already.

But I'm trying to be better about it! I currently "only" have six electrics, one acoustic, and three basses, which I don't think is excessive, considering all of them get fair play time. Plus, everything I have right now either (A) lacks fair resale value or (B) is a dream instrument, either way they're way more valuable to me than to other people. Well, there's that Aerodyne Strat, but that's just a Strat and I feel like I kind of need one and it is sort of my favorite Strat, even though I don't love it and it would probably fetch a good price if I ever sell it.

I think I went through a phase in which I kept a lot of good instruments around that I liked but didn't love and would fetch good resale value relative to what I paid, which is a bad combination to have if you don't want to be flipping guitars left and right. I always knew I craved a Compstang, so I should have just bought one. I shouldn't have messed around with a non-competition '69, then a '65, then another '65, then a Blacktop Jag, then a CIJ Jag, then an SX shorty, then trying to fit a CV Duo neck on another guitar, then a Jag HH, etc., just to ultimately end up with a pair of Competition Mustangs. Then again, had the Cobain Mustang been around four years ago, none of this would have happened, so I have that excuse.