Holy Fucking Shit (Squier VM VI)

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:21 pm

jculpjr wrote:Are these Vista?

Nothing's been vista for quite some time. These are likely VM.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:27 pm

jculpjr wrote:Are these Vista?

The chap who posted them at Offset said they are Vintage Modified.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:24 pm

I want white with white pickguard if any one buys the black one and wants my tort one

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:50 pm

I'm skeptical, the pictures are small and something about them looks 'shooped. But if they are real I'll be buying one as soon as they're available. And as much as I love BB necks, if the blocks are just cheesy looking plastic (like the VM jag bass) then I honestly wish they would have dots instead.

Edit: Actually I was just browsing the Fender website and their pictures look almost exactly like these, in terms of lighting. That gives me some hope.

Noisy Cat · Post by **Noisy Cat** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:25 pm

I think I like the idea of owning one of these more than the actual practical uses it'd give me.

I'll probs just get a Micro Pog instead.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:34 pm

Dillon wrote:I'm skeptical, the pictures are small and something about them looks 'shooped.

Aye, its a mish mash of a Jag body but with a Strat top horn, half Jag half Strat scratchplate, an extra slider switch on a Jag plate...

Nothing new about it, could easily be fake and yet wouldn't surprise me if it was real.

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:39 pm

Dave wrote:I'd much rather have a Squier version of the Jaguar Baritone special

FUCK YES

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:03 pm

jculpjr wrote:Are these Vista?

Hahaha, WHAT

astro · Post by **astro** » Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:59 pm

So cool! I might just buy one of these to harvest the neck for my bass VI build, and part out the rest.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:06 am

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Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:15 am

Holy god damn fuck!!!

spirograph · Post by **spirograph** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:16 am

robroe wins then!

mite be a daft idea, but could you take the top E off one of these, move all the remaining strings across, n put a bottom B on there? would it still intonate? is there enough room on the bridge to compensate for a low B?
the reason i ask, is cos the 5string-bass-playing Ms Spirograph really likes the look of these, but wants a low B string.

anyone tried this on an original or the MIM version?

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:23 am

I wonder if our petition on osg triggered this. If so... Electric xii petition!!

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:31 am

By the way, this is how we know we're old.... when we're stoked on a company reissuing guitars we remember as legendary from our youths.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 1:35 am

I hope a bass 5, a marauder, an electric xii, a maverick, a Coronado, a bronco, a starcaster, and a swinger are coming next haha.

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:26 am

I might buy a Squier VI. I would buy a Squier XII.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:23 am

spirograph wrote:Fredo wins then!

Fix'd.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:53 am

Punkacc9 wrote:I wonder if our petition on osg triggered this. If so... Electric xii petition!!

Partly, i'm sure, but you can also bank on the fact fender marketing regularly review Offset and maybe shortscale for market trends (The Pawn SHop series is ARGUABLY derived from all the frankenstein projects seen over the last 6/7 years whilst simultaneously missing the point).

I also suspect that this has been along term strategy including releasing the Pawn Shop VI for greater money and possibly even with the deliberate use of a jazy pup so that the folks who shelled out for it might also want to shell out for a 'standard' squier version too. you also capture the proportion of their demographic who A) have some money, and B) like the PS VI. THEN you release the cheaper version to capture the remainder of the market demographic. Just look at how many folks are saying they'll buy one of these now.

speedfish · Post by **speedfish** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:56 am

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:06 am

Dave wrote:
Punkacc9 wrote:I wonder if our petition on osg triggered this. If so... Electric xii petition!!
Partly, i'm sure, but you can also bank on the fact fender marketing regularly review Offset and maybe shortscale for market trends (The Pawn SHop series is ARGUABLY derived from all the frankenstein projects seen over the last 6/7 years whilst simultaneously making them at least commercially appealing to regular guitarists rather than just internet neeerrrrds).