If you could make a series of Fender / Squier guitars...

[Stephen_42]

...what would it be? Basically, invent ~4 or 5 Fender models sharing some theme that links them together. Be as vague or specific as you like!

Mine would be "Classic Modified", either top end of Squier or entry level of Fender, with much more emphasis on modified than the Squier VMs, but retaining as much of traditional looks as possible.

- Jazzblaster. Basically just a regular Jazzmaster, but with WRHBs and (corrected radius) Mustang bridge.
- Telemaster. Does this really need explaining on OSG?
- Active Jaguar. Jaguar, but with a swimming pool route to make room for active electronics. Ditch the rhythm circuit, and use the thumb-wheels to control an onboard boost or fuzz or something.
- Compstang II. Duosonic II (i.e. hard-tail Mustang), with the Competition Mustang finishes. (Including a heavily yellowed comp blue.) Hot rails instead of single coils.
- Jag-stang. I love that shape, so I'd bring it back. Perhaps simplified with hardtail bridge and single pickup.

Oh, and all of them would be available in Sherwood Green.

What would you do?

[jvin248]

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Ok, I'll play.

-Jazzmaster Triple Play: P90 Soapbar bridge, modern Wide-Range middle pickup but squished next to the P90, Classic JM neck with alnico poles and wire screen cover. Strat 5-way. Master volume master tone. Master tone push/pull to split the humbucker.

-Third Strat: Classic Strat neck and middle pickups with Tele bridge pickup. Master Volume located where normal first tone pot is, Master tone and Armstrong Blender as stacked concentric knob pot. Blender goes from SSS to HSH or anywhere between. (Armstrong Blender I use all the time, swapping in a Tele bridge is on my planned build list).

-Angry Esquire: Hot bridge humbucker split to a 4-way blade switch and controls reversed so V-T-Switch to the rear (this one I have).

-Jaguar Mayhem: Jaguar neck and bridge pickups with a middle P-Bass pickup. A row of overly complicated toggle switches: series, parallel, out of phase, some that are not connected. (my experimental Strat has a P-Bass pickup in it).

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[Mechanical Birds]

Jaggmaster - Jaguar with Jazzmaster pickups
Starcaster w/ Offset Tremolo
Jagstang done right
Tele with Jag pickups and tremolo
Actual Marauder reissue


All for $500 or less

[MayTheFuzzBeWithYou]

+1 for a Jazzblaster

also:
- a Lipstick Jaguar with a third Lipstick pickup behind the bridge (also with Block inlays maybe
- an Aerodyne Jaguar, Jazzmaster or Jazzblaster series (basically double bound, no contour body, but not a thinline! bound neck, and some cool colours: besides black, gunmetal blue, charcoal frost metallic, sage green, either all matching headsrock or a black one.

- A Toronado with a Trem.
- if I'd make another Thinline offset then with a cat-eye instead of a f-hole.

[Fiddy]

I would do every single cool design including the Bass V, Jarman, the whole 60s offset lineup, the Vista series etc...

All with Strat trems, headstock truss rod adjustment, mini pots, ceramic pickups, plastic nuts and shitty ugly 70s style schaller tuner copies.

Only available in red, black and sunburst.

[Stephen_42]

I would do every single cool design including the Bass V, Jarman, the whole 60s offset lineup, the Vista series etc...

All with Strat trems, headstock truss rod adjustment, mini pots, ceramic pickups, plastic nuts and shitty ugly 70s style schaller tuner copies.

Only available in red, black and sunburst.

Non-sarcastically, I'd take that if it was reasonably priced. Would make for a good project!

[Gavanti]

I would do every single cool design including the Bass V, Jarman, the whole 60s offset lineup, the Vista series etc...

All with Strat trems, headstock truss rod adjustment, mini pots, ceramic pickups, plastic nuts and shitty ugly 70s style schaller tuner copies.

Only available in red, black and sunburst.

Don’t forget the Strat jacks.

[Singlebladepickup]

they would all be jags, but there would a jag vi, a jag 12, a mando-jag, and a 25.5 scale jag with different pickup configurations like gold foil and such. They would all be cool custom colors and all would have satin nitro or true oil necks

[dinosaurkale->]

Belindastang - if Turser can do it for $100 then surely Squier can

Tele with jag/JM trem - Squier version of the Fender one, i guess

thinline Tele with JM neck pickup - i guess just a thinline version of the VM one from a few years back

Jarman Musuar - just bring it back. in other colors

Cyclone with WRHB - i dunno i just made this up on the spot

[Fiddy]

Don’t forget the Strat jacks.

Nah, that would be blasphemy.

[jesterpunk68]

Squier Artist Inspired line

Jazzblaster (Based off Lee Ranaldo's yellow jazzblaster)

Jag-stang

Belinda Mustang

Jagmaster (Originally based off of Gavin Rossdale from Bush's jazzmaster per the squier guitar book by Tony Bacon)

Black Jazzmaster (Based off Nels Cline Watt guitar, basically a stock vm or cv jazzmaster)

Chris Shiflett telecaster (with 2 squier covered humbuckers)

Rivers Cuomo strat with 2 squier uncovered humbuckers

Jim Root Jazzmaster (basically the contemporary active jazzmaster with a hardtail strat bridge)

[601210]

What I'd do is to create a "blank slate"series. Just lean in to the fact that lots of people buy Squiers as modding platforms and intend to replace everything bolted in from day zero.

So just make sure that the body and neck are as good as Squier gets and then absolutely cheap out on everything else. Cheap bridge, single pickup, maybe just a single volume knob, and then price it accordingly, I'd say around the Squier standards but definitely cheaper than CVs. Just have to make sure that the body is compatible with all the standard appointments -- maybe even throw in a swimming pool route on each of them so you can get wild. I'd want colors that are hard to do by hand like metallics and sunbursts, but I guess plain colors would theoretically be easier to sell.

Basically what the Bullet Mustang is for most of us here, but with slightly better base materials and a full range -- JM, Jag, Mustang, Strat, Tele.

They could perhaps market it with that in mind, like encouraging the possibilities of building your own unique model, but honestly it'd probably be a pretty bad idea business wise -- I don't know how big a market modders are, they'll probably mis-market it to the entry level folks who'll end up with a weirdly spartan guitar with awful pickups, and if it does do well then it would probably cannibalize their sales and not give them much benefit since they have a lot of competition for upgrade parts.

That's my fantasy, though.

[thatfenderguy]

Jazzblaster
Starcaster w/ JM vibrato
Basically bring back the Squier Tele Special with the JM neck and neck pickups.
Marauder

[Squareball]

A Squier VM offset Telecaster (telemaster)
- one with single coil tele pick ups and one with a humbucker in the neck.
I still can’t believe that Squier haven’t done one yet!
Could even be in CAR, 3SB, Black, White - I don’t care.

OR a Classic vibe version with bound edges like the CV 60's Tele.

A Squier VM Jaguarillo type guitar
- with stratocaster pickups, Jag tremolo, maple neck and a 70’s headstock.
Saw a Hohner JT 60 in Surf green recently but don’t like the headstock or the pick ups.

A Classic Vibe Jagmaster.
- Bring back the sonic blue MIJ one from ’97.
The guitar that got me interested in Offsets. I’d love to own one but not have to spend £500+ on a second hand one.

A Classic Vibe Jazzmaster deluxe
- Matching headstock, B+B in Sherwood green, Burgundy mist, Aztec gold.
I would buy all three!

[marqueemoon]

roasted ash bodies
roated maple necks
matte finishes
9.5 radii
unusual pickups (mini humbuckers in the Strat, gold foils in the Tele, lipsticks in the Jazzmaster, something Filtertron-ish in the Jag)
cool single ply tort guards
vintage style brushed nickel hardware