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My friend recently replaced his RR Jackson with a Squier Showmaster and brought it in to have it evaluated and set up. Besides the 5-way switch being a bit stiff and a HSS combo not coupling good with 1T/1V@500kOhm for my taste, this guitar smokes. Plays and feels as well as any other standard Strat. I immediately noticed the C-profile neck, in my experience it's not that popular with Squier, I'd expect a chunky fat neck. I'd guess these guitars are somewhere 10-12 years old? I remember back in 2000s going through their catalogs and saw it there.
Not a single stripped hole anywhere on the guitar, everything is rock solid, and you can clearly tell by the screwheads it was more than once that someone used a PZ2 driver on a PH1 screw.
Last week I had a Squier Tele Custom II or whatever it is called, the P-90 version and while I was only replacing a pot and cleaned it, every single hole in the pickguard stripped, the neck moved in the pocket altough it was tight as it could be, I had to glue in dowels and redrill the bridge holes as it was lifting etc.
Well I'd guess Showmaster were much more expensive as modern "high-end" Squier that go for 290 if I'm not mistaken? They are usually 249 in euros.
You got any? Show them please, I'll post pictures soon.
PS: I was shocked of how a reverse Strat headstock looks in playing position. It's monstrous and weird. Altough I played a rev. Jackson Dinky for years, this one is a whole new experience.
But it does look badass on a guitar itself.
And for the best part - he traded his "toy" Yamaha keyboards not worth even a $100 for that Showmaster
Not a single stripped hole anywhere on the guitar, everything is rock solid, and you can clearly tell by the screwheads it was more than once that someone used a PZ2 driver on a PH1 screw.
Last week I had a Squier Tele Custom II or whatever it is called, the P-90 version and while I was only replacing a pot and cleaned it, every single hole in the pickguard stripped, the neck moved in the pocket altough it was tight as it could be, I had to glue in dowels and redrill the bridge holes as it was lifting etc.
Well I'd guess Showmaster were much more expensive as modern "high-end" Squier that go for 290 if I'm not mistaken? They are usually 249 in euros.
You got any? Show them please, I'll post pictures soon.
PS: I was shocked of how a reverse Strat headstock looks in playing position. It's monstrous and weird. Altough I played a rev. Jackson Dinky for years, this one is a whole new experience.
But it does look badass on a guitar itself.
And for the best part - he traded his "toy" Yamaha keyboards not worth even a $100 for that Showmaster
