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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.

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.

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Josh wrote: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!

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.

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.

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.