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Kiwi, ok! thanks a lot ) And thanks everyone for attention and for likes!)

Some nice instruments there Kiwi and interesting mods

Not at all bad when playing. It's certainly a huge step up compared to much of the Squier range.

My main guitar is a bit of a metal beastie with active pups, I bought this Squier to be a different option. I bought it second hand from my local guitar shop, I tried it in store and it played wonderfully so had to come home with me. Cost £200 and is well worth it. The neck is pretty thin, which I like, it plays fast. Tuners work smoothly and hold tune perfectly. The trem is nice, it gives a nice wobble, great for a surf rock kind of sound. It doesn’t do big dive bombs like a floyd rose though. It has a myriad of options and switches. Flick the main switch upwards and it uses only the bridge pup with the upper volume and tone wheels. main switch down uses both pups and the lower switches. One each to turn on and off each pickup, along with a high pass filter to cut the low end for an exaggerated single coil sound. The volume and tone knobs work with this circuit. The pickups are Duncan Designed and review very well, widely considered better than the Fender Japan pickups. I certainly like them, they are clear and with a lovely quack. Sound really nice clean and crunchy. i wouldn’t swap them for what I use it for, easily good enough to gig or record with. Very satisfying sound and exactly what you want in a Jaguar. There is so much to like about this guitar, especially for the price. However one thing many people complain about is the bridge. Squier tried to keep this guitar as faithful to the sixties model as possible and that includes the bridge, which is bad. It has loads of tiny grooves which the strings do not sit in well. I’m a pretty heavy handed player (mainly playing bass) and if you hit the strings hard they jump around in the saddles, not helping the tuning and intonation. This is easily solved though. As per most other reviews, I fitted a Mustang bridge, which is a drop in replacement. It has a proper groove in the saddles. Mustangs have a different radius on the fretboard so I got a bridge with adjustable saddle heights and it is perfect. I put 11 gauge strings on it which in conjunction with the new bridge solve the problems perfectly. It is a slightly shorter scale guitar than normal so the thicker strings work well with it. The scale makes it ridiculously easy to play. To sum up, this is an amazing guitar for the money. Plays really well, easy and fast. sounds great, iconic single coil tones on tap and clear note and chord definition. A quick £10 bridge replacement and you have a great axe that punches well above its price point. The guitarist in my band has an American Fender Jaguar and it is assuredly a better guitar, locking tuners but less tonal options. His sounds a little bit better, but nowhere near better enough to justify the price tag from my point of view. If you are looking for a great value guitar that is good enough to practice, record or gig, with versatility from jazz and blues, to rock and punk this guitar does everything far better than its price would suggest. You’ll struggle to find anything better for anywhere near the price.

It's funny, I remember when I started looking at guitars and playing around 1991, all the guys who'd been playinmg for years then used to eulogise about how great beginner guitars were then compared to their early days, raving about how great the standard Squiers (then made in Korea mostly, but there were some still Japanese in 1990) were and so on... Now, closing in on thirty years later, I'm one of the old farts who can't believe how much better beginner guitars are now. I wodner if it will ever get to the point where the high end big names like Gibson will be forced to do more affrdable stuff because there isn't the same market from non-pros for the expensive stuff? (At that, in my experience it's always been well-heeled amateurs in my experience that buy the pricey stuff; 90% of professional, working musos I know tend to be almost make do and mend about a lot of their gear, given for most it's not exactly big money time...).

I wrote up a little bit in the repairs and technical section about some new pickups I fitted to me Tele, and realised that now it has a sound clip it's a bit like a mini review:

The Epi 339 runs about $499 here in the US, and is, in many respects, worth the money. The guitar is fairly light, sits comfortably on the knee for seated playing, looks great, and has no cosmetic flaws that I can see. The fretboard is beautifully done, and all hardware works well and looks right. However, the guitar has problems. First, the top pickup is a snoozer--just not much there. If you are a jazz player looking for some subtle tones out of that pickup, you will be disappointed (as I was). I strung mine with flats--didn't help. Second, the action was far too high for comfortable chording; my luthier adjusted the bridge and truss rod, but most importantly lowered (shaved and re-slotted) the nut, which was too high and contributing much to the high action. It may be that I expected too much from this guitar. I bought it from an online retailer after looking in vain for weeks locally (we're pretty rural here); if I had played it before buying, I probably would not have bought it; after all, with the cost of the luthier and more cost for a new pickup, I will have spent up into a different quality of guitar.

Good day. I hope somebody will be able to assist me. So I have a Epiphone Les Paul Standard and the neck broke beginning of the year with the guitar still working 100%. It was in the hardcase for the time so I decided instead of fixing the neck to buy a new body and neck as a DIY project and just install the hardware and electrical parts in the new body. I removed the pickups by cutting the wire in the middle of each pickup and removed all the wires and control knobs without disconnecting any other wires from where it was soldered. So basically the only wires that I had to reconnect was the two pick up wires. So I installed everything in the new body with the earth at the correct place and joined the pickup wires precisely as I removed them. After all this I plugged it in and nothing. Not even a sound or noise. I removed the pick ups again to male sure that there is no short circuit but could not find anything. What can be a common problem? I want to see if I can fix it myself before taking to a guitar shop. Thanks