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so back in my not-so-smart guitar playing days (about 8 years ago) i decided i wanted a "vintage" strat because i thought it would be cool. so i started looking and decided i was too poor. then i found this classified ad for a squier strat, 89 model i think, that had all it's hardware replaced with vintage stuff. anyway, fast forward a few years, i still got the thing, it's been taken apart countless times... pickups swapped, all that good stuff. i even gave it to a friend for a few months, it fell out of her closet and a big chunk of wood is missing, etc etc. in other words, it's been through hell.
a little while after i bought it, i noticed that the saddles (i didn't even know what saddles were at the time) were crooked... like... they were too fat and didn't all fit side by side nicely. do you think the original owner replaced the saddles with "vintage" style saddles that weren't the right size (considering the spacing)? i'm looking at an 89 strat on ebay and it looks like it has the flat style fender saddles. the problem is, beside the saddles being jammed together, the B and high E strings have some sort of weird buzzing going on. Would a new bridge fix this? it sounds like the buzzing is coming from the bridge/saddle area. notes won't even intonate correctly. do any of you squier/fender experts know what kind of bridges came on these things? or if that is indeed the problem?
brian
so back in my not-so-smart guitar playing days (about 8 years ago) i decided i wanted a "vintage" strat because i thought it would be cool. so i started looking and decided i was too poor. then i found this classified ad for a squier strat, 89 model i think, that had all it's hardware replaced with vintage stuff. anyway, fast forward a few years, i still got the thing, it's been taken apart countless times... pickups swapped, all that good stuff. i even gave it to a friend for a few months, it fell out of her closet and a big chunk of wood is missing, etc etc. in other words, it's been through hell.
a little while after i bought it, i noticed that the saddles (i didn't even know what saddles were at the time) were crooked... like... they were too fat and didn't all fit side by side nicely. do you think the original owner replaced the saddles with "vintage" style saddles that weren't the right size (considering the spacing)? i'm looking at an 89 strat on ebay and it looks like it has the flat style fender saddles. the problem is, beside the saddles being jammed together, the B and high E strings have some sort of weird buzzing going on. Would a new bridge fix this? it sounds like the buzzing is coming from the bridge/saddle area. notes won't even intonate correctly. do any of you squier/fender experts know what kind of bridges came on these things? or if that is indeed the problem?
brian
