I have a squier bullet which I purchased 2 ago as a GAS stop-gap, after having to sell an american strat when a life crisis happened. It was fine with the stock pickups and a 1x8 modeling amp but now that I have a Supersonic 22, the bullet sounds really blah and also very metallic, i know it very well as the sound of those ceramic magnets glued to steel poles. But even getting used SSL-1s would be double the price I paid for the bullet. plus the tuners are garbage and it's not a full thickness body, wimpiest trem block but a real one would stick out the back lol...
I figured I'll keep the bullet for...something... but get a legit strat to be my every day guitar, one that comes stock with the things I want.
After owning and playing a lot of stuff with mixes of modern and vintage strat specs and looking at what the guys I listen to played, I knew I wanted to finally own a pretty straight up 50's strat, maybe classic vibe squier, but most likely MIM fender classic 50s or classic player 50s. The CP50's had the best pickups (57/62s, although they use a rw/rp middle which isn't very 50s) but wasn't wild about the two colors.
The MIM classic 50s, well to be honest I've kinda wanted one since I played a surf green one in a shop 15 years ago when i was first starting to play, always kinda wanted one, chased different tones and features and flipped 7 or 8 strats, but now that I'm older, I know more about what I like, and I can afford it, and a deal came up on what I wanted, Im pleased to report that next week in my hands will be a surf green classic 50s strat!
The pickups here are a compromise but a very minor one. They are basically like 57/62s but built like import pickups so not the right wire or bobbin but they get seriously in the ballpark tonally. I'm sure I will be pleased I've actually used them before in a different squier strat a long time ago.
Anyways I'm excited I can't wait to get my hands on that soft V. I should have just stuck with that I wanted 15 years ago. Side note, around that same time 15 years ago another guitar blew me away in a different local shop, it was a blue epi LP plus top. I traded a few les pauls not really bonding with them, but 2 years ago I bought a blue burst epi plus top like I wanted back in the day and it's all the LP I need now and I don't have LP gas. I hope this NGD will be the same type of satisfying, I really think it will be.
I figured I'll keep the bullet for...something... but get a legit strat to be my every day guitar, one that comes stock with the things I want.
After owning and playing a lot of stuff with mixes of modern and vintage strat specs and looking at what the guys I listen to played, I knew I wanted to finally own a pretty straight up 50's strat, maybe classic vibe squier, but most likely MIM fender classic 50s or classic player 50s. The CP50's had the best pickups (57/62s, although they use a rw/rp middle which isn't very 50s) but wasn't wild about the two colors.
The MIM classic 50s, well to be honest I've kinda wanted one since I played a surf green one in a shop 15 years ago when i was first starting to play, always kinda wanted one, chased different tones and features and flipped 7 or 8 strats, but now that I'm older, I know more about what I like, and I can afford it, and a deal came up on what I wanted, Im pleased to report that next week in my hands will be a surf green classic 50s strat!
The pickups here are a compromise but a very minor one. They are basically like 57/62s but built like import pickups so not the right wire or bobbin but they get seriously in the ballpark tonally. I'm sure I will be pleased I've actually used them before in a different squier strat a long time ago.
Anyways I'm excited I can't wait to get my hands on that soft V. I should have just stuck with that I wanted 15 years ago. Side note, around that same time 15 years ago another guitar blew me away in a different local shop, it was a blue epi LP plus top. I traded a few les pauls not really bonding with them, but 2 years ago I bought a blue burst epi plus top like I wanted back in the day and it's all the LP I need now and I don't have LP gas. I hope this NGD will be the same type of satisfying, I really think it will be.
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