Glitter Purple Squier Stratocaster Project

[HNB]

Cheap Indonesian Squier Stratocaster was up and I grabbed it with the idea of putting a humbucker and tort on it. (I saw most of those were stock routed for H S H kind of like Mexican Strats.) I found a nice Stratosphere guard and grabbed a one meg pot and cream knob. I am just waiting on a rewound DiMarzio Super Distortion to arrive. Already swapped the pickguard out and I am liking it.

20180724_185824 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20180724_185829 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20180724_185836 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

[HNB]

I spoke too soon. The pickup was in the mail today. Got it all together. It is pretty amazing. It never fails to astound me how nice a Squier can play. Straight neck, nice tremolo movement, good frets.... Crazy how nice these can be.

20180724_204537 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20180724_204601 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20180724_204620 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20180724_204545 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

[HNB]

Oh by the way for anyone shopping Stratosphere tortoise. This one is their "brown" tort which is red. Their "red" tort is actually darker and brown looking. Go figure....

[Zork]

How many guitars do you have already? Do you sell guitars as well sometimes or just keep on building/ buying them?

[SAVEStheDAY]

Oh by the way for anyone shopping Stratosphere tortoise. This one is their "brown" tort which is red. Their "red" tort is actually darker and brown looking. Go figure....

I put a Jazzmaster together last year and thought that from the pics on their site. I ordered both pickguards and figured they'd be used eventually, but by doing that I never confirmed which was which!!!

[daemon]

Looks great, I love those Indonesian Squier Strats.

[HNB]

How many guitars do you have already? Do you sell guitars as well sometimes or just keep on building/ buying them?

I have a few up for sale, but lately more have been coming in than going out. Working on guitars helps with my anxiety. Being focused on projects helps me relax.

I put a Jazzmaster together last year and thought that from the pics on their site. I ordered both pickguards and figured they'd be used eventually, but by doing that I never confirmed which was which!!!

Only reason I knew ahead of time is a youtube video showed a guy talking about both color versions and they were the opposite of what you would normally think.

Looks great, I love those Indonesian Squier Strats.

I do as well. I like the tuners on these. I am not a fan of those diamond shape tuners on some Squiers.

[HNB]

How many guitars do you have already? Do you sell guitars as well sometimes or just keep on building/ buying them?

Also my birthday was this month so I got a couple inexpensive guitars to mod and a little nicer one.

[Zork]

I would love to see a family shot. There are so many unique and special guitars in your threads, seeing them all together must be awesome.
Working on guitars is a great way to fight anxiety, glad you found something that works for you! *thumbs up*

[thisisnickpaige]

This one is truly beautiful, Chris. Yeah, it's amazing how well cheap guitars now a days can play. This one turned out great too. Was this a refin or a stocked Squier colour?

[HNB]

Stock color. I think it was called Galaxy Purple?

[Acidhouse]

Awesome. I like that. It's purple and it's got one job. To Rock!

[offsets4life]

Nice looking guitar.

can that pickup be split or, is it just on full blast alla time?

[HNB]

It could be split, but I have it on full blast all the time. I can turn the volume down to clean it up if I want though. I haven't ever really liked the sound of split humbuckers.