Musician's Friend via eBay has Squier 40th Anniversary Stratocaster Vintage Edition Guitar (Satin Seafoam Green) for $287.96 after applying coupon MEMORIALTWENTY at checkout. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member GeekPriest for finding this deal.
Features:
Nato body with a satin urethane finish
Bolt-on maple neck with a C-shaped profile
Maple fingerboard with 21 narrow-tall frets and black dot inlays
Three Fender Designed alnico single-coil pickups
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About this deal:
This price is $71.99 lower (20% savings) than the listed price of $359.95
Some info:
Crafted in Indonesia (in the Samick plant... this is a gooood thing, those folks know what they're doin)
*real* bone nut, *excellent* necks, and though divisive I actually prefer these Samick-made "fender inspired" pickups they're putting in the range to the fender pickups they're emulating (They aren't the cleanest sounding, but who tf is playing clean these days.... Eric Clapton ig lol)
...hardware is.... okayish. I have the Jazzmaster, and a Jazz Bass from this series... and I haven't had any real issues with either bridge, but the tuners on the J bass leave a bit to be desired.
Also worth noting that if you go in to shield it, you're probably going to have some cleanup to do in the cavities first.
Both my copies had a perfect neck pocket, but a friend of mine got a P-Bass after seeing mine, and had to reset the neck because there was a bit too much paint in the joint.
None of these reasons would keep me from recommending these instruments. Fantastic price TU.
Edit:
A couple things I forgot to mention-
Fretwork is good, my j bass and my buddy's p bass had perfect crowning on our fretwires, on my jazzmaster I had to recrown 2 wires, that had microscopic knicks in them (which caused some buzz)
As far as shipping (if they're new... they're new right? lol) Squier has in fact learned their lesson over the years... they are well packed in a braced box, and they'll come set up well enough that you can more than likely just tune it and play, if you don't wanna fuss with it.
Geez! At this price, its almost irresponsible to NOT buy it.
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Agreed but it's the gold pickguard that does it. A mint green, white, or black pickguard would fix it. Unless you just hate the Seafoam Green color entirely.
All you have to do is change out the yellow teeth-looking pick guard and it's a great looking guitar. Unfortunately it's nothing but single coil pickups, but for those who are into that, you're set. There are worse guitars for more money.
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05-21-2024 at 05:26 AM.
40th Anniversary lineup is excellent.
Some info:
Crafted in Indonesia (in the Samick plant... this is a gooood thing, those folks know what they're doin)
*real* bone nut, *excellent* necks, and though divisive I actually prefer these Samick-made "fender inspired" pickups they're putting in the range to the fender pickups they're emulating (They aren't the cleanest sounding, but who tf is playing clean these days.... Eric Clapton ig lol)
...hardware is.... okayish. I have the Jazzmaster, and a Jazz Bass from this series... and I haven't had any real issues with either bridge, but the tuners on the J bass leave a bit to be desired.
Also worth noting that if you go in to shield it, you're probably going to have some cleanup to do in the cavities first.
Both my copies had a perfect neck pocket, but a friend of mine got a P-Bass after seeing mine, and had to reset the neck because there was a bit too much paint in the joint.
None of these reasons would keep me from recommending these instruments. Fantastic price TU.
Edit:
A couple things I forgot to mention-
Fretwork is good, my j bass and my buddy's p bass had perfect crowning on our fretwires, on my jazzmaster I had to recrown 2 wires, that had microscopic knicks in them (which caused some buzz)
As far as shipping (if they're new... they're new right? lol) Squier has in fact learned their lesson over the years... they are well packed in a braced box, and they'll come set up well enough that you can more than likely just tune it and play, if you don't wanna fuss with it.
They must have raised the price. I don't see anything around that after factoring the coupon.
They did. It was $99.99 earlier before coupon and I had one in my cart but hadn't checked out yet.
Now they're $149.99.
So because they're on sale, they raised the price, and now cost more than they did before the sale. Nice move.
I got my sonic blue squier deluxe from 15 years ago, indonesia, it's so friggin sweet, and I owned a CV. Indonesia is clearly outdoing classic vibe
The Samick shop is using the same spec on their tools as Fender Mexico, so you get a really consistently playable instrument from them. So you know, CV are made at that same location. (Maybe at some point there were some out of the Chinese shop that doesn't really adhere to standards but as far back as I can remember it was Samick).
In the end all that matters is that, you're right on Crafted in Indonesia fender stuff (squier, guild) being very very good.
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Some info:
Crafted in Indonesia (in the Samick plant... this is a gooood thing, those folks know what they're doin)
*real* bone nut, *excellent* necks, and though divisive I actually prefer these Samick-made "fender inspired" pickups they're putting in the range to the fender pickups they're emulating (They aren't the cleanest sounding, but who tf is playing clean these days.... Eric Clapton ig lol)
...hardware is.... okayish. I have the Jazzmaster, and a Jazz Bass from this series... and I haven't had any real issues with either bridge, but the tuners on the J bass leave a bit to be desired.
Also worth noting that if you go in to shield it, you're probably going to have some cleanup to do in the cavities first.
Both my copies had a perfect neck pocket, but a friend of mine got a P-Bass after seeing mine, and had to reset the neck because there was a bit too much paint in the joint.
None of these reasons would keep me from recommending these instruments. Fantastic price TU.
Edit:
A couple things I forgot to mention-
Fretwork is good, my j bass and my buddy's p bass had perfect crowning on our fretwires, on my jazzmaster I had to recrown 2 wires, that had microscopic knicks in them (which caused some buzz)
As far as shipping (if they're new... they're new right? lol) Squier has in fact learned their lesson over the years... they are well packed in a braced box, and they'll come set up well enough that you can more than likely just tune it and play, if you don't wanna fuss with it.
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank truth.xbl
Some info:
Crafted in Indonesia (in the Samick plant... this is a gooood thing, those folks know what they're doin)
*real* bone nut, *excellent* necks, and though divisive I actually prefer these Samick-made "fender inspired" pickups they're putting in the range to the fender pickups they're emulating (They aren't the cleanest sounding, but who tf is playing clean these days.... Eric Clapton ig lol)
...hardware is.... okayish. I have the Jazzmaster, and a Jazz Bass from this series... and I haven't had any real issues with either bridge, but the tuners on the J bass leave a bit to be desired.
Also worth noting that if you go in to shield it, you're probably going to have some cleanup to do in the cavities first.
Both my copies had a perfect neck pocket, but a friend of mine got a P-Bass after seeing mine, and had to reset the neck because there was a bit too much paint in the joint.
None of these reasons would keep me from recommending these instruments. Fantastic price TU.
Edit:
A couple things I forgot to mention-
Fretwork is good, my j bass and my buddy's p bass had perfect crowning on our fretwires, on my jazzmaster I had to recrown 2 wires, that had microscopic knicks in them (which caused some buzz)
As far as shipping (if they're new... they're new right? lol) Squier has in fact learned their lesson over the years... they are well packed in a braced box, and they'll come set up well enough that you can more than likely just tune it and play, if you don't wanna fuss with it.
They must have raised the price. I don't see anything around that after factoring the coupon.
Now they're $149.99.
So because they're on sale, they raised the price, and now cost more than they did before the sale. Nice move.
In the end all that matters is that, you're right on Crafted in Indonesia fender stuff (squier, guild) being very very good.