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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:59 pm
by Mages
also, have people seen this?
http://www.squierguitars.com/classicvibe/
how they describe it, it seems like they were aiming at making new versions of the squier JVs.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:39 pm
by astro
The Desert Tan colour is pretty cool... but it would look HAWTZ in Fiesta Red with the gold guard!
Too bad it's only a 3 saddle bridge. That won't be enough to stop me from getting one of these babies, though.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:41 pm
by dodgedartdave
astro wrote:The Desert Tan colour is pretty cool... but it would look HAWTZ in Fiesta Red with the gold guard!
Too bad it's only a 3 saddle bridge. That won't be enough to stop me from getting one of these babies, though.
I think Fiesta only looks good when it get old and turns into tomato soup red.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:43 pm
by astro
dodgedartdave wrote:astro wrote:The Desert Tan colour is pretty cool... but it would look HAWTZ in Fiesta Red with the gold guard!
Too bad it's only a 3 saddle bridge. That won't be enough to stop me from getting one of these babies, though.
I think Fiesta only looks good when it get old and turns into tomato soup red.
Not me. That weird mix of pink and orange is tops in my books!
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:12 am
by Captain Lockheed
Brilliant, I'd missed this completely.
Are these new ones compatible parts wise with other 24 inch scale Fender's ?
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:26 pm
by TheBurbz
They should reissue the Squier 51, those are hard to find now and it would look good with the vintage tint neck and whatnot.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:31 pm
by robroe
real life shot stolen from offsetguitars.com
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:40 pm
by Mike
Looks very nice, although that bridge pickup is a bit of an eyesore for me now. The white plastic tuning pegs are bonertown though.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:41 pm
by theshadowofseattle
I'd be willing to bet it sounds better there. The middle pickup only position on a strat is always my favorite.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:54 pm
by Mike
I'm not a fan of that sound, too much quack and not enough edge and spank.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:12 pm
by Justin J
that bridge pickup is way higher than it is on the originals. i wonder why they did that?
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:37 pm
by aen
i don't have a favorite position on a strat. Oh wait, yeah, there's the "flying out ofmy hands" position, I like that one.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:15 pm
by Mages
bubbles_horwitz wrote:that bridge pickup is way higher than it is on the originals. i wonder why they did that?
yea, it really is...
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:37 pm
by Richard
bubbles_horwitz wrote:this picture make me want one even more.
dammit.
This picture makes me want to pull my cock out. I'll probably be buying one of these.
I really wish they'd do a Duo-Sonic II reissue, though. Those were the shit.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:43 am
by DGNR8
The parts alone make me happy. Where's the bridge cover tho?
Does this mean they are RI the plastic tuners?
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:06 am
by Richard
I wonder if they're the same tuners they put on the 65 reissue Mustangs?
And I just now realized how awesome they are for making a 24" scale neck with a maple fretboard. That would be sweet if they fit on the Japanese Jags and Mustangs.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:51 am
by robroe
they are not the same as the tuning pegs on a 65 RI mustang. the are the same tuning pegs that are on a pizzastangmaster II and a comptort stangRI
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:54 am
by Mr.Ripley
mage wrote:bubbles_horwitz wrote:that bridge pickup is way higher than it is on the originals. i wonder why they did that?
yea, it really is...
Actually if you look at the picture of the old one you see the bridge is slightly past the screw to its left while the new one is farther behind because squier being the stupid twats they are didn't think about pushing the saddles back just a bit to get the right intonation with the 24" scale. So if they had left it where it og. was it wouldn’t look weird.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:02 am
by Mr.Ripley
Ok I'm actualy 70% sure that im wrong and that it is higher then the old ones which seems a strange thing for them to do.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:12 am
by Mages
ok. man, it took me a long time to understand what you were saying, heh. you're saying they moved the bridge to compensate for the 24" scale but didn't change the pickup location. it's really hard to tell but you may be right. you can't judge by the pickguard though as they are both different. this new one has the pickguard like a 90s duo sonic.
EDIT: hmm well, looking at them side by side they appear to be completely different in almost every way. still a cool guitar but I would consider less like a reissue and more like a 90s duo sonic... II.