Re: A decent guitar for $99 from MF


"oasysco" <wilderkommen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here's my write-up from another group I posted a review to...

I'm not starting back buying gear, but I had a credit on my MF card for
months, maybe longer. Had forgotten about it until my bill arrived this
month to remind me that they owed *me* money. Poked around MF for a
couple of weeks as I didn't want to spend more than my credit. Last
week ran across this:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Squier-51-Electric-Guitar?sku=519636

It's a Squier '51 - basswood Strat body with maple Tele neck; single
coil in the neck; humbucker with coil tap in the bridge.

It doesn't yield Strat sounds such as the quack you get in positions 2
& 4, but it does yield typical Tele tones except with the bridge
humbuck fully engaged, a heavier tone that's nice for OD tone.

There's no tone control per se as it's a rotary control to engage one
or both pups, but the tone changes pretty dramatically in each of the 3
positions. The volume control also functions as the push-pull coil tap.


I wouldn't use this as a jazz guitar unless I was realy into Teles, but
as a rock/blues guitar, it's pretty nice. Really easy to play; neck
feels good; good fit & finish; plays in tune up and down the neck;
tuners seem decent. I got the TV yellow finish, btw.

$99 delivered is a good deal for this guitar.
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Update: restrung with D'Add 11 rounds with a wound 3rd. Tightened down
the tuner nuts, stretched the strings real good and reintonated... very

nice - plays in tune near perfectly most everywhere. I could have
easily used this guitar to gig in my ex-band had I not been so
anti-solid body at the time.

I recorded 4 sample tracks off my Princeton chorus amp

1. http://members.cox.net/digiorgiogr/ebay/511.mp3 - clean, no effects;

guitar neck/bridge pup

2. http://members.cox.net/digiorgiogr/ebay/512.mp3 - clean, no effects.

guitar neck pup

3. http://members.cox.net/digiorgiogr/ebay/513.mp3 - bridge pup for
rhythm; bridge pup with a little OD for the lead

4. http://members.cox.net/digiorgiogr/ebay/514.mp3 - all OD for bridge
pup off the amp

Greg

Squires are great guitars for the money, and the necks are awesome. I
recently got that butterscotch blonde Tele and mixed and matched the parts
with an MIM Tele. Still, the stock squire guitar was pretty damn nice.


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