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At the moment I'm looking for:
* Hamer Watson, SS2, Vintage S, T62.
* Music Man Luke 1, Luke II
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For example, the little walnuty plug around the truss rod hole was misaligned and it was a bugger to get an allen key in. The tremolo block looked like it was made of the cheapest pot-metal available and was very thin. The pickups weren't as good as the old ones (which rumour has it were Toneriders). These were very generic.
Nothing major at the price to be fair, just not as good.
The Nato body seemed pretty heavy - I didn't weigh it but it felt well over 8lbs.
At the price, there's not much risk really but just be aware they are effectively Vintage Modified rebadged as Classic Vibe
The choice of a mahogany-like timber might make the Squier Custom Esquire a good host for DiMarzio rail and Seymour Duncan Li'l humbucker format pickups.
The Fifties style model from a few years ago was hamstrung by the lack of a neck/Rhythm pickup cavity.
I understand all the flim-flam about the tone control to find those other sounds - but you can do that on a Tele *anyway* plus you can use the tone control on the other pickup settings. And no, the other sounds aren't in the tone control - you can approximate them, but rolling the tone off to near zero doesn't sound like the neck pickup and the two pickup on together chime just isn't in there. I've looked...
There's a school of thought that the neck pickup somehow affects the tone... hmmm, well, I did try an experiment once on my black 72 Tele whereby I ran it without the neck pickup for a gig to see if it made any difference. Nope. Other than I was frustrated by the lack of neck pickup for bluesier numbers and I missed the two pickup sound. A lot.
This constant clamour about single pickup guitars feels like folks making life awkward for the sake of it - and trying to make out its somehow "cooler" to have less of a tonal pallet available. If I'm honest, the first thing I'd do would to an Esquire would be to fit a neck pickup... and looking at the comments above, there was one about being hamstrung by a lack of neck pickup routing, so I'm not alone.
It maybe a fashion thing for some to want to strip things back - or maybe they only ever use the bridge pickup. Good luck to you on both counts if that applies to you. But this old fart genuinely doesn't get it - and never has done and never will.
That Esquier (see what I did there) looks very nice, but I’d want a neck pickup.
I'm fairly sure that with the FSR stuff they announce the guitar a good few months early, get all the pre-orders in, then build and ship them. Certainly every one I've seen has followed a pattern of announcing it but with the due date being somewhere between three and six months down the line; that was the case for an FSR Squier Tele I got last year, and seems to fit a pattern.
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
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If they want to use alternative tone woods though, why not use Pine for example for the body? Having a mahogany style body is going to significantly change the typical snap you get from an esquire. I've got a mahogany bodied tele and an okoume body. They're great, but they're different from a typical tele sound. Smoother