Squier 60th Anniversary '50s Strat in Aztec Gold

Shes rhe one for me!

Should I buy it now? Theres a chep listing on Reverb

id say do it if you like it and its a good price as long as ots in good shape, my only gripe with squier is their necks other than that they are good guitars

https://youtu.be/NBkjcvNztKQ?t=1m1s

this guitar gets nice reviews like all the classic vibes do... have you played on or did you just ick absed on looks, specs and price?

they don't seem to fret them well do they? and the encks are a bit wimpy even though the classic series is emant to be vintage-feeling and old fenders generally had pretty substantial necks until well into the 60s

i just think they play way to skinny, their 9.5 fretboards feel skinnier than fenders 60's necks with the tiny 7.25 fretboard and vary a lot on the quality of the fret edges ive played few that think could actually cut your hand

that said tho the classic vibes tend to have better qc then the others

that's what i'm saying, the encks tend to be wimpy and they're poorly fretted....a t ebst the frets are amteurishly dressed... how much do they go for used? I would think 200 bucks or elss?

I have played it in studio and im buying it from there. Fretted well, nice lacquered neck. Could be better if it was nitro, but this is Squier so I frgive. Pickups are a bit noissy, but i dont mind, its kinda a nice noise. Less quacky, more punchy, my kind of guitar! Also, the neck is not authentic 50s. its way too thin and i dont like it, but everything else outweighs that.

even nitro isn't the same as old nitro these days, don't get hung up.... its all about thin, well sanded coats versus self-levelling, UV-reactive modern urethanes... even polyester ain't bad if tis applied the old fashoned way

I might add that solid color fenders weren't ACTUALLY nitrocellulose car lacquer other than the top coat, they're an acrylic car lacquer that uses the same acetone solvent called Dupont Duco... gretsch used Duco extensively too, Gibson mainly stuck to the odler style paint and still uses a variation on that formula... by the early 60s all the fender guitars stopped getting pore filler and started isntead being slathered with a layer of fullerplast to fill the the power and knots with less sanding required. Even the translucents like bursts got this treatment. You know the real bullseye looking fender bursts from around 63 on? fullerplast obscuring a lot of the grain udner the lacquer. its a thick coating of early plastic-based wood filler in an acetone solvent that kidna defeats the point of using thin lacquer finishes.

Hmm, very interesting stuff. I happen to like that kind of bullseye pattern. Its unique. Although tbh finish is not my issue.