In Jan of 2010 I 'rescued' a pink Squier strat body off of eBay for $40 loaded. Every thing was there except the neck & neck plate/screws.
Didin't do much with it until Jan this year. I bought a Squire Strat Standard neck for it ($90). The standard 3 pickup strat configuration was not someting I need or wanted (I have numourus Strats already). I was looking for a P-90 sound and decided on a set of Seymour Duncan P-Rails SHPR-2 pickups.
Got a set of these pups off of eBay for $180 along with a dual hubucker pickguard and put her together. I had some minor routing to do but it was quite easy. My set-up tech had to shim the neck but it is set up great. I've found that when adding Squier necks to Squire bodies the screw holes never line up so I always plug the screw holes in the neck and redrill based on the neck pocket holes.
I had to plug the pickguard screw holes as the pickguard was for a regular strat. No big deal at all.
She ROCKS! One of my best playing & sounding guitars!
I added Schaller strap locks and a DPDT center off switch (black toggel in the photo) so I can have all three sounds - humbucker, P-90, Strat single coil.
Here are the controls up close:
Headstock:
Best I can tell the body is 2003-2006 or so. The neck is a 2005. The P-Rails sure look good in Pink! This is one great sounding guitar!
Didin't do much with it until Jan this year. I bought a Squire Strat Standard neck for it ($90). The standard 3 pickup strat configuration was not someting I need or wanted (I have numourus Strats already). I was looking for a P-90 sound and decided on a set of Seymour Duncan P-Rails SHPR-2 pickups.
Got a set of these pups off of eBay for $180 along with a dual hubucker pickguard and put her together. I had some minor routing to do but it was quite easy. My set-up tech had to shim the neck but it is set up great. I've found that when adding Squier necks to Squire bodies the screw holes never line up so I always plug the screw holes in the neck and redrill based on the neck pocket holes.
I had to plug the pickguard screw holes as the pickguard was for a regular strat. No big deal at all.
She ROCKS! One of my best playing & sounding guitars!
I added Schaller strap locks and a DPDT center off switch (black toggel in the photo) so I can have all three sounds - humbucker, P-90, Strat single coil.
Here are the controls up close:
Headstock:
Best I can tell the body is 2003-2006 or so. The neck is a 2005. The P-Rails sure look good in Pink! This is one great sounding guitar!
