Somebody flung a Squier Showmaster HSS at me...

CloneRanger

CloneRanger

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...expecting me to make it all wonderful... :smack: The neck S is 5.5K, middle is 3.8K(!), bridge H is 10.1K; is this really what they intended as a clever idea for an entry level axe? I'll probably let the neck & middle change places, that should make it a little more interesting...

Anybody have any case stories about their Showmaster HSS? P'up changes?
 
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I'd junk all the pickups and electronics and replace the whole lot.
 
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One good pickup would be better than three crappy ones.
 
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My friend's kid dropped off this Chinese kit guitar he built. Everything inside was absolute garbage, cheesiest pots I have ever seen. I threw a ton of leftover parts I had from other mods at it and it sounds great, still plays like a Chinese strat copy.

You can only do so much.

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Securb said:
My friend's kid dropped off this Chinese kit guitar he built. Everything inside was absolute garbage, cheesiest pots I have ever seen. I threw a ton of leftover parts I had from other mods at it and it sounds great, still plays like a Chinese strat copy.

You can only do so much.
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The Showmaster is "Crafted in Indonesia", and doesn't sound and feel as cheap as I'd feared. I'm changing the tone control to a mud control, then I'll be looking around for a 'bucker that might complement the basswood body...
 
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3.8k is low, even for Squier - sounds like it may have a short. The 20th Anniversary Squier I have, all it's pickups test solidly in the 5s... I did have to rearrange them to put 'em in order, though.

You might try feeding it a set of GFS's... appropriate quality for a Squier...
 
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GFS or Toneriders should be good in that. Cheap and far from nasty.
 
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Showmasters are actually pretty sweet guitars in general. But yeah - pickups? Whatever...

Slap a lil 59 in the neck, cool rails middle, and a Custom in the bridge :headbang:
 
Re: Somebody flung a Squier Showmaster HSS at me...

If you still have it, that thing deserves a DiMarzio Super 3 in the bridge, just like the HM Strats it's modeled after! And by the way, that's a pretty nice Ping manufactured Floyd Rose on there, I believe with a stock brass block.
 
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