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Nice video Mr Morris! Thank you

need? of course not, but i plan on getting one. probably this exact model

MIM Have gotten much better, it’s probably just because the process as a whole has gotten better

Do you like the Texas Toast Icons ? .. shame you can't hear them. I'd like to have heard the Godin acoustically. Cheers!

Spoiler: the answer to the title is "yes. Very yes." This reminds me a lot of my Epiphone Zephyr Regent, but that is all-mahogany and has a terrifically voiced humbucker in the neck and an ebony bridge which I'm convinced impacts the tone quite a bit. Jazz boxes just make sense on a pragmatic level as they're both beautifully-voiced and immune to acoustic bridge-lift. Honestly you've got me excited to play that guitar more.

I have collected fenders for 45 years- have had or have from all countries of origin. By build quality-not quality of appointments- I would put Japanese and american tied for first and would put china and mexico followed by Indonesia in that order. A squire jaguar is pretty much equal to the vintera in build quality-and the added expense of the mexican is not reflected in electronics or other appointments.

I have 2 MIM a 2000 HSS and a 2007 all single coils, had them set-up for my string gauge i use and lemme tell you they stay in tune and play great and sound fantastic. I also had 3 way switches put in, I'll put them against any strat including the original 59 I have gifted to me after my father in law passed, tho the neck on that one is like butter in your hands.

I’ve had mine for a month, I love it, it is very well made.

I'm really really liking the arm carve and belly cut. I wish my Fender Tele had those. There were some of the Japanese Fenders that had both but discontinued and way out of my price range anyway. Cool vid with lots of very useful info. Thanks and keep them coming!

mmm no,though the mim fenders have been drastically improved 2000 onwards, best mim fenders were the classic player series,i own a 2007 mim classic player 60s strat,custom shop designed,good hardware etc which is the only mim fender ive owned that comes clost to my made in japan/crafted in japan reissues,though its better than my old mij squier and old mij standard,but the mij standard and mij squier were leaps and bounds above the mim 90s models,but then at the time the cp was the top tier mim,i also owned/own 2 more recent player series teles,sold one,solid workhorse/gig worthy guitars,but they dont play as well as my fender japan 62 or tokai mij tele,or have as much mojo,plus fenders are still made in japan,the current mij heritage series can compete easily with anything fender usa.the player series werent introduced until 2018,way off.mim fender are confusing,you had the classic player series 96 to 2018 replaced by the not as good vintera series,the classic series,which sat just below the classic player and were more trad spec,then the player series which replaced the old mim standard 2018 to present

Why is the cable jack in backwards?

Hi there, Thank you for your video. I'm joining a band that plays Stax music and mowtown music with rhythmic chops. Do you think this guitar could work? Thank you

its funny because i was thinking that about the new vintera 2 line.

Cool video, it's hard to find archtop reviews so thank you. Pretty sure we're kindred spirits, I just like to noodle around on a guitar &:just generally enjoy them.

Cool!

Dave - I just stumbled across your video as I am in the market for an arch top. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to create this video. It’s excellent. I also wanted to share that I think you’re an excellent player. We will all run into the worst of the worst on the internet, but I appreciate that you love playing for yourself purely for the love of music. Embrace it and keep on playing!

Squiers have thinner bodies as well, so it's hard to put regular Fender parts on it, like a bridge or pickups etc.

I was off on the price in the video. Apparently they’re $799 on Sweetwater but they have a demo available for $599. You can also find a variety of prices in that range on Reverb.

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Did you consider the Tom Bukovac bridge

Jack Pearson plays squier almost exclusively. I am teaching my son about this. You can mod a squier with great frets and a straight neck to be a phenomenal guitar. Great discussion here. I have had a squier classic vibe and I tend to be a PRS core and Private stock guy. It was an excellent guitar. We Just got him a Players Strat and we are modding to the Vega Trem and adding pickups. I think that guitar is great. He has a good "picker". Like Father like son fortunately.

I took a fender Starcaster strat and did the David Gilmour thing to it. It sounded and played incredibly good.

Lots of good technical guitar info. Thanks so much

"REW" (Room EQ Wizard) is a free and extremely versatile loudspeaker measurement program - I think you could use its sine sweep to get good graphs with your pickup in place of a mic. REW can also measure impedance if you build an impedance jig which only has one resistor for parts.. Its cool you "do" pickups. IJ only wound one about 52 years ago - perhaps #26 wire on an alnico bar magnet - DC was close to600 ohms IIRC -Ii used a tiny mic matching transformer to steup up voltage and it sounded very good - very hi-fi with extended treble- more so than a stock Fender P-bass pickup - probably too sterile for guitar use. The bobbin was in bad shape with soldering iron melted areas so did not mount it..

I have the same guitar. I love mine. I noticed you said it probably has a plastic nut. It's actually a synthetic bone nut. Nice review

somethings wrong when you don't have a dog hair in your supper

Is that an aftermarket bridge on the green guitar?

sweet!

That’s a sweet Squire. I own a 1984 black Japanese Squire that I bought by mistake thinking it was a Fender version when I was starting out in the early 2000’s for $200 bucks off EBay. Had EMG Steve Lukather box set added as a mod. Freaking love this guitar over my other Fender Strats. Plays and feels incredible. Keep the vids coming🤘

I forgot to say I have the 60s vibe strat and it’s great, well worth the £399. I paid for it to start my collection off just under 3 years ago and I suck too but it’s fun.

Just to answer your question on where they make these now, they did go back to Indonesia. That’s where my strat and Tele Deluxe were made both made around 2021. Love the videos and your strat.

Thanks for the demo, was that Beatles? Blackbird? Good song BTW.

I've been thinking about getting one of these. Kind of kicking myself for not getting one when they had the $30 off coupon. I agree with you on the bridge, I would probably swap it out as well.

go to reverb and like a few, dealer might shoot you a good offer. That's how I recently got my B7 for a my LP.

Never heard about this. Nice video and very interesting.

Thats so cool!!! Do you have a wiring diagram or anything to construct it please? Thank you, very impressed!!

I've got the exact same guitar in the same Claret Burst livery Dan. Yours appears a brighter/lighter red top than mine in this vid, guessing possibly because of lighting? MIK pickups are medium output, 7.2k/8.3kOhm respectively.

honestly love that bright tight sound

I imagined this song as being played on a strat

Turn of you fluorescent lighting or overhead lighting., and make sure your running into a grounded plug.

The Trembucket is an F spaced pickup. Too wide for a Gibson guitar.

the strap buttons are too shiny....

Clarification it was a Blues Deluxe Reverb 40 watt 112 converted to a 40 watt 112 basement all the boards were ripped out it's all tubes fantastic

Dan great video I always wanted a blues Junior so I'll do it the way you did yours but I got to tell you about my amp I got a deluxe Reverb that was converted to a basement 11240 watt it's got a half power switch and maybe a switch it's fantastic I want to do what you did to the blues Junior so I'm going to buy one and do it and make sure I remember the clip the resistor Take Care thank

My favorite pickups. Bring the noise.

I get mad when people throw these away give them to people who can fix them

I love these old record players

Dan-you uploaded unreal upload.

You made a fine piece of equipment.

When you did the sound comparison i found your strat the most pleasing to my ears, whstever that means.