MIJ Squier £700 I Know They're Good But Really?

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Lu_B

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MIJ Squier £700 I Know They're Good But Really?

Now I'm a big fan of 80's MIJ Squiers, mines not a JV though and only cost me £120 inc case

I am on the look out for another one white with rosewood but I won't be getting one in the near future if I have to pay this sort of money :eyecrazy:
Thought we were supposed to be in a recession!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-JV-Squier-Fender-62-style-Japanese-Stratocaster_W0QQitemZ120474529145QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item1c0cd76d79&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

For half the money I could get a Tokai of the same period.
 
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yeah that's totally absurd
 
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For an immaculate and totally original model, 300-400GBP would be fair.

I shall not tell you how little I paid for my white JV 60's Strat. I shall, however, mention that it was in a complete mess when I acquired it.

The case for the prosecution:
Unevenly worn frets
Badly fitted US Grovers - the ones with big kidney buttons
Badly enlarged machinehead holes
DiMarzio SDS-1s - fine pickup but not on THIS guitar
Two bloody great holes where some eejit had fitted a Washburn Wonderbar. (These go right through the guitar!)
Various filled and redrilled screw holes for mounting vibrato bridges of various origins.

Case for the defence:
Fret dress
Mid Eighties non-locking Sperzels
Duncan Twangbanger, APS-1, APS-1L pickups
DiMarzio special taper volume pot
Push-pull neck pickup tone pot (brings neck PU into circuit regardless of selector switch position)
No Load centre/bridge pickup tone control
Wilkinson vintage style vibrato
I left the Wonderbar holes. They make a great conversation starter. :o)

I dig this instrument very much. It has the combined advantages of being a pleasure to play and looking like a heap of s**t. At an open mic night, my guitar is the last one that anyone would choose to steal.

As for the ambitiously priced guitar on e-Bay, try making an opening offer and haggle from there.
 
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Re: MIJ Squier £700 I Know They're Good But Really?

Too rich for me I'm affraid!

I want a TV Yellow Burny with P90's more :)
 
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That's a little high.
 
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That depends....had few real bad dawgs of Tokais.....like everything else...try them and decide!
 
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I love them too. But now that Fender is making such great guitars in Mexico the used Japanese Fender Squiers have dropped in price. Some guys are still trying to get top dollar but they're not selling. Personally, I'd look for a used Fender Jimmie Vaughn Strat. Lew
 
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Rid said:
That depends....had few real bad dawgs of Tokais.....like everything else...try them and decide!
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The Tokai replica guitars of the early Eighties came in various ranges, denoted by the numbers at the end of their model numbers. The top models earned a deservedly good reputation. The "lesser" ranges were okay but, sometimes, okay is not enough. This is where replacement pickups enter the equation.

Aside for older members. Whatever became of the model who appeared in the infamous Tokai Is Coming advertisement?
 
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Yeah model 40 50 80 I think it was in the more vintage vein.
They grey bottom pickups where made by DiMarzio I seem to remember??
Anyways had quite a few 80's ones....I eventually sold them all in the end.
Had a very early creme maple neck last, it never really meant much to me, it was a model 80, but it was always abit dead no matter the setup.
So look around, something might turn up:)
Also had a few of them old Squiers...still has a Hotrod model with one humbucker, somebody butchered it, I am still arguing with myself over restoring it...haha
 
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Rid said:
That depends....had few real bad dawgs of Tokais.....like everything else...try them and decide!
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True but I am rather partial to a Japanese Tokai - have a LP and an SG in the collection at the mo.

Always regretted selling my 80's Gold Strat but at the time I needed the dosh. I'll get another would like CAR with a rosewood board.
 
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I have an 83 JV Strat that I paid £150 for about 12 years ago. I didn't know what it was until about a year after I bought it - it was a guitar I bought cheap to take to gigs in case I broke a string on my main guitar. It's a nice guitar but I don't like the skinny neck. It makes my hand ache really badly if I play it for any length of time.

My local guitar shop has one for sale for £775.

I know I could trade it for something that would suit me better but the JV's have become collectors pieces and keep going up in value. Anything else I could trade it for is likely to decrease in value. It's the only thing I own that is worth more than I paid for it. Who knows what it'll be worth 20 years from now ? I could really do with another guitar but I'm broke.

What would you do ?
 
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richard parker said:
I have an 83 JV Strat that I paid £150 for about 12 years ago. It's a nice guitar but I don't like the skinny neck. It makes my hand ache really badly if I play it for any length of time. I know I could trade it for something that would suit me better.

What would you do ?
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In your situation, assuming that the guitar is clean and (mostly) original, I would attempt to sell it privately. If the Squier JV Strat in your local music store at over 700GBP is attracting attention but no sales, try asking 500GBP for your example. Compared to the shop, yours will seem a bargain.

Invest the proceeds of the Squier sale and any other disposable income you happen to have in an instrument that is more to your liking.
 
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