What can fender squier do for you?

[Las Palmas Norte]

What can Fender Squier do for me?
Well they have provided me a lifetime of enjoyment and variety. What they've done is allow me the chance to build my own when the situation presents itself or buy one off the rack. Anything beyond that in my estimation would be unnecessary excess.

 

[Hugh]

Dear Squier, please reissue your Vista Series MusicMaster Bass. Same specs. Offer Shell Pink, Torino Red, Black, and Sunburst.

Also, give us a 5 watt class A Champ combo w/a 10" speaker.

 

[Shaytan]

What do you mean everything else is cheap?

As far as my CV Jag, the trem is actually good but I wanted the lock so I dropped an AVRI trem that I got a good deal on. The pickups are awesome. The only reason I actually replaced the switches is because the previous owner did some janky mods, so I figured I'd just get a parts kit and do the whole thing, but the switches are actually OK. I think a CV Jag with CTS pots and an import trem with a lock (which apparently DOES exist but is very uncommon) would basically nail what I want.

I meant the switch and output jack - in the upper tier Epiphones that get advertised as having CTS pots, that’s pretty much it as far as factory electronics upgrades.

 

[GilmourD]

I meant the switch and output jack - in the upper tier Epiphones that get advertised as having CTS pots, that’s pretty much it as far as factory electronics upgrades.

Honestly, that's probably not too terrible. I feel like even my Samick-made Epi Les Paul back in the late '90s had a Switchcraft-copy switch rather than the crappy box-style. I know my early-aughts LP Custom definitely had a Switchcraft-copy switch but still had dime-size Alphas or whatever so I had to use sandpaper on a pencil to open up the holes for CTS pots. The Switchcrat-copy stuff at least gets 90% of the way there and is honestly good enough for 95% of Squier customers.

I'm honestly one of those rare psychos that would drop a $200+ set of pickups plus all the requisite ancillary upgrades in a $200-$300 guitar... 🤪

 

[guitalias]

Jazzmaster body, 24" scale neck, stratocaster controls/pickups/hardtail bridge.

 

[DougMen]

I'd like to see a return to alder bodies and RW boards, and for all colors to be available with maple or RW. That being said, my CV 70s Strat is the best CV Strat I've ever had, and it has a poplar body and IL board. But, is it my favorite because it has the pickups I like most (which it does), and how much does the poplar contribute to those pickups sounding best to me? I don't know, because I haven't played a new CV 50s or 60s Strat with those pickups, but they sure sound great in a lot of YT videos, where I prefer the CV to some US Strat in comparisons. That leads me to believe that I'd like those pickups just as much in any guitar. I tried a set of the Tonerider style STA3 alnico 5 pickups that came in the 1st gen. CV 60s Strats in my CV, and I didn't like them as much, and went back to the stock new CV pickups, because I much prefer them. They nail the vintage Strat tone and feel much more than the older CV pickups, both the A3 and A5 ones, IMO.
And, a Strat with Filtertrons would be cool, as would one with min HBs or Firebird Pickups.