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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:11 pm
by Mooseboy
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
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:48 pm
by Dave
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?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:08 pm
by Mooseboy
No lol
Got it from a place called "papa d's music" on eBay
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:32 pm
by Dave
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]
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:05 pm
by Dave
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:14 pm
by weeping_moon
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?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:31 pm
by endsjustifymeans
Was a SD hot rail. Wonder what ever became of it after JimJam sold it on...
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:32 pm
by endsjustifymeans
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:18 pm
by Dave
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
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:21 pm
by Dave
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
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:43 pm
by Dave
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I'M GOING TO DO IT. I DO WHAT I WANT.
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:51 pm
by Dave
Considered surf green Van Halen....but I'll be putting rosewood on at some point.
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:06 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
i approve, whole-heartedly.
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:09 pm
by mkt3000
Dave wrote:Considered surf green
STANG Halen....but I'll be putting rosewood on at some point.
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Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:15 pm
by Dave
STANG HALEN. genius!
Fuck yes. Except it will be a duo but the stang is a definite future project
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:44 pm
by Fran
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.
DO IT!!1 YOU MUST
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:35 pm
by robroe
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.
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:39 pm
by robroe
moar photos by the canal. i think mezz bought this thing right ?
Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:56 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
robroe: the original taylornutt
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:16 am
by BillClay
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.
