Please help. I'm starting to like a Squier.

[PowerTube]

Okay, I'm worried now. The last few times I've been to Guitar Center to screw around, I've kept coming back to a Squier Double Fat Strat. No matter what else I hook up through a Line 6 Flextone HD stack, I eventually put it back and grab the Squier again. I don't know if it's the fat "vintage" headstock, or the feel, or the sound, but I'm starting to get worried.

Should I just go lie down until the feeling goes away? Do I need psychiatric help?

Anybody else ever have this problem?
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[jgcable]

Re: Please help. I\'m starting to like a Squier.

This could require serious attention. I would suggest taking a little break. But on a serious note, a Flextone HD stack could make any guitar sound pretty darn good. For the money, a Fender double fat Squire ain't half bad. They certainly sound like they are badged... fat. Nowadays alot of the entry level guitars are pretty good. Back in the 70's when I started playing, an entry level guitar was department store catalog guitar or something made in Tawain that was so inferior to a "real" guitar that it was laughable (and virtually unplayable).

[Black Mariah]

Re: Please help. I\'m starting to like a Squier.

If it feels right, and it sounds right, PLAY IT! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[PowerTube]

Re: Please help. I\'m starting to like a Squier.

Originally posted by Black Mariah:
If it feels right, and it sounds right, PLAY IT! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Agreed. No kidding, I played several guitars through this same amp with the exact same settings, some of them costing several hundreds more, and the Squier sounded and felt better than all of them. I honestly expected the pickups to sound thin and trebly, but not so.

I didn't really have an opinion on this before, but I'm starting to believe that there really is something to the concept of a fatter headstock giving more sustain.

[LesPaulCustom]

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Hey, here is my 2 cents worth in this thread.

Although I don't traditionally favor Fender products, that is just a personal opinion and as such is purely subjective, just as tone is.

I think all guitar companies are capable of making a quality, good sounding instrument if they choose to. In todays market, volume is the name of the game unfortunately...so tradeoffs must happen.

If it feels good to you, and you are happy with the resulting tone and sound, it doesn't really matter what name is on the headstock or on the case....go for it dude.....phuck everybody elses opinion.

As far as the headstock theory, I believe it is true....more mass = greater vibration = theoretically better sustain and tone....I heard that a lot of 70's guitarists and bassists added weights to the headstocks or when in the studio played with the headstock resting on a hard surface (i.e. wall etc.) to use that as a mass enhancer (dunno the truth in that though [img]graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] ).

Enjoy your Fender dude...yeah, we may ride ya, but it is all in fun.
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Sam

[Budman68]

Re: Please help. I\'m starting to like a Squier.

Originally posted by PowerTube:
I didn't really have an opinion on this before, but I'm starting to believe that there really is something to the concept of a fatter headstock giving more sustain.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">There used to be a company that made solid brass plates that attached to the back of your headstock between the keys and the wood of the headstock that "promoted" sustain. Does anyone remember these?

Dave->

[Ozzman]

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The resting the headstock on the wall thing works, crazy good. At least on plugged.
When I sit at the computer and play my guitar unplugged (amp's upstairs) I rest the tip of the headstock on the wooden wall, and it like triples the unplugged volume, you can actually hear it ringing through the wall lol.

[toejam]

Re: Please help. I\'m starting to like a Squier.

Originally posted by budman68:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by PowerTube:
I didn't really have an opinion on this before, but I'm starting to believe that there really is something to the concept of a fatter headstock giving more sustain.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">There used to be a company that made solid brass plates that attached to the back of your headstock between the keys and the wood of the headstock that "promoted" sustain. Does anyone remember
these?

Dave-> </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Groove Tubes makes them... the Fathead and Fatfinger.

[ChickenScratch]

Re: Please help. I\'m starting to like a Squier.

You know what, I love all neck thru guitars and Squire had a couple Stagematster that had some good build quality for an import. I don't look down on Squire plays because I came close to buying them a bunch of times (but got side-tracked by Jackson and Carvin).

[SARJ]

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Squire to me was like Charvette back in the day. I would go for the Jacksons and Charvels, but the Charvettes were closer to my price range. I A B'd them and found myself liking the more affordable Charvettes. I love Fender Strats. One of the best Strats I have ever owned was a 2000 Squire Fat Strat. It had the big headstock and 22 frets, but it didn't have the 2 point trem. It had the 6 point. It was built nice and had "the sound". I ended up trading it off. I kinda miss it.

[slayer]

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Jon, do you still have the Tom Delongue strat in Black? Jack.