Squier Affinity Duo Sonic: BRING THE SCIENCE

Mooseboy · Post by **Mooseboy** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:11 pm

The pickguard from a MiM won't fit a squier duo or vice versa.
Well mine wouldn't anyway unless I just brought a crap one

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:48 pm

Mooseboy wrote:The pickguard from a MiM won't fit a squier duo or vice versa.
Well mine wouldn't anyway unless I just brought a crap one

did you get it from Jeannie's PickLOLguards by any chance?

Mooseboy · Post by **Mooseboy** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:08 pm

No lol
Got it from a place called "papa d's music" on eBay

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:32 pm

Well i best not order one from them either then

In other news I just tore the whole thing apart. The neck pocket has odd bulges routed in the corners exactly the same as a MIM tele I saw and as seen on internet pics of some MIMs. I might be wrong but I think that is unique to (some) MIM guitars and could lend credibility that this basswood body that has been cheaply built and finished is of marginally more value for having been cheaply built and painted not in china!

I've got a superb idea for this project [/cocktease]

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:05 pm

I think this duo has been tinkered with previously - it's got full size 500k pots for a start. Surely a chinese single cold will have small alpha style 250k? Also the soldering on the 3 way switch is literally a boulder and is actually loose. The cap says 473k 100v.

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:14 pm

endsjustifymeans wrote:They are essentially the same as the MIM, only real difference is the electronics and the swimming pool rout on the squier.
Basswood.

My franken-sonic was one of those duo's with a jagmaster conversion neck on it, intonated like a champ. You could also throw a standard strat neck on there with no intonation issues.

I also used a toranado string through bridge.

looks good. really like the green on black. is it a seymour duncan or dimarzio rail in bridge?

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:31 pm

Was a SD hot rail. Wonder what ever became of it after JimJam sold it on...

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:32 pm

Dave wrote:I think this duo has been tinkered with previously - it's got full size 500k pots for a start. Surely a chinese single cold will have small alpha style 250k? Also the soldering on the 3 way switch is literally a boulder and is actually loose. The cap says 473k 100v.

My mim had full size 250k's in it.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:18 pm

oddness abounds!

I have to say the only thing I don't like about it is the neck is way too wide. Its crying out o be A-width. I'm think of sanding the sides, fret and all, down.

Oh and needs 7.25" radius

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:21 pm

I'm also toying with just stringing the middle four strings as a Tenor guitar. Or seeing if I can tune all six strings up an octave

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:43 pm

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Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:51 pm

Considered surf green Van Halen....but I'll be putting rosewood on at some point.

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hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:06 pm

i approve, whole-heartedly.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:09 pm

Dave wrote:Considered surf green STANG Halen....but I'll be putting rosewood on at some point.
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Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:15 pm

STANG HALEN. genius!

Fuck yes. Except it will be a duo but the stang is a definite future project

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:44 pm

Dave wrote:BWAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHa H Ah Ah HA h AHHAHah hHHAHhAhahahhahhahahha

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I'M GOING TO DO IT. I DO WHAT I WANT.

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robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:35 pm

i had a 1997 squier one.

i loved the neck on mine. wore the finish off WITH MY FUCKING HAND DUDE.

stock tuners were shit. i put compstang tuners on it as soon as bought a set of white plastic ones for my compstang.

from what i remember the stock pickups were shit. they were only in it about a week while i waited for a set of SD SJAG-3's to come in.

used .13 flatwounds on it. wouldn't stay in tune in E worth a shit. so one day i got pissed at it and tuned it up to F. it would hold tune in F better than any of my other guitars would ever stay in E or D#. SOLID. plus i wrote a lot of new songs in F and F# with that thing that never would have been written that way before.

covered the SJAG3's with black mustang covers. at some point i took the SJAG3's out and put them in my comp stang.

i cant remember what the fuck pickups were in it now that its gone and sold.

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robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:39 pm

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moar photos by the canal. i think mezz bought this thing right ?

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:56 pm

robroe: the original taylornutt

BillClay · Post by **BillClay** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:16 am

Dave wrote:
SKC Willie wrote:mine was the fender, but I didn't have to move the bridge at all . . . the saddles were about as far back as they go, but it work without redrilling anything.
Neck on the squier is definitley cheeeaaap-as, maple cap, super low machine ground frets, plain truss hole....its got the same feel as other chinese cheap necks I've tried so I'd be surprised if the MIM neck was the same. Does that sound like the neck on the MIM?

mim is maple cap too.