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Squier Falls Down The Stairs:
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I put an old Von Herndon decal at his request...
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Had some Jackson keys...used the best of what i had laying around...
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Making progress...
You‘ve provided a lot of glimpses behind the curtain at Fender, but it would be interesting to se others, too.
I would imagine just about any manufacturer has examples of rather embarrassing mistakes.
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No other line that i saw personally had as frequent or as severe issues as Gretsch, but it would be interesting indeed, but this type of information - the truth behind the veil - is hidden by many and simply ignored by most.
Is there any reason you were able to determine why Gretsch seemed to have more issues than other Fender products?
Different management at the manufacturing level?
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Well, i believe there are several things going on here.
Gretschnis super popular - althoughni will never figure that out, its Fender’s top seller.
Produce, produce, produce!!!!
They are made in multiple factories, in China, abd Indonesia.
We can't really compare the Japanese ones (from Takada) because that's a premium model.
But on the "bread and butter" models, it's rushed production, green woods and lack of attention to detail and mini.al production oversight.
The marketing principlal is producec in huge quantities, as fast as possible, and let Fender SOCAL QC fix all the mistakes.
I think you mean “Terada” (that’s what’s on the sticker inside my Falcon), but I get your point. Before my wife got me my Falcon for my B-Day last year, I was looking at some Electromatics. I agree with your assessment. Although the Electromatics I tried out were very nice, were well made, and would have served me well, the Falcon is definitely a guitar built to higher standards. That Terada factory really seems to have their game together. The manufacture date of mine was also just before the pandemic. I don’t know if that has any bearing on anything, but it’s an interesting detail.
Anyway…
In a way, you‘ve confirmed a suspicion I’ve had.
The rushed production is what I was wondering about. Being hollow and semi-hollow guitars (even the “solid body” Duojets are heavily chambered with a solid top), there is more involved in their manufacture. If you try to rush that process too much, you’re bound to miss something along the way.
The insufficiently seasoned wood is something I didn’t know. That is concerning.
Personally, I understand their popularity, but that is another discussion for another time.
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Little Squirecaster is coming along nicely!!!
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Likely gonna switch the very dark .047uf caps for 0.0.01uf's while i have it apart.
The humbuckers have a nickel-silver baseplate and are msrked HMV, which builds OEM for Fernandez, Washburn and B.C. Rich.
The humbuckers have a nickel-silver baseplate and are msrked HMV, which builds OEM for Fernandez, Washburn and B.C. Rich.
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Swapping out .047uf caps for .018uf and 0.01uf...
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My son is starting to get serious, so i decided to do a pro-level setup on his Squire.
We took it to Starbucks and commandeered a table. The old nut had been filled and the string spacing/string path wasn't really great, so i whittled out a brand new one from a bleached bone blank.
Slots were held to .003" above string gauge with my standard picard horn profile. Angle across the nut is controlled by string winds on the post for "E," "A," "D," and "G" and is right around 10° which is exactly right.
(Note minimal low 'E' winds and progressively lower winds on the subsequent strings)
Only the "b" and "e" have a custom, extra-tall roller tree from Bitterroot Guitars, positioned so that all strings have the same angle.
First fret height is set to my preference (and this is also Fender and Gibson's published specs) of .020" and neck relief is .010" respectively.
12th fret action height is .070" which is how i setup all my guitars, but this is also the published specification of Fender, Jackson, Charvel, Gretsch, EVH, and Gibson.
Pickups were set to 8/64" with strings fretted at the last fret.
Man, this little guitar is really nice and stays in perfect tune.
We took it to Starbucks and commandeered a table. The old nut had been filled and the string spacing/string path wasn't really great, so i whittled out a brand new one from a bleached bone blank.
Slots were held to .003" above string gauge with my standard picard horn profile. Angle across the nut is controlled by string winds on the post for "E," "A," "D," and "G" and is right around 10° which is exactly right.
(Note minimal low 'E' winds and progressively lower winds on the subsequent strings)
Only the "b" and "e" have a custom, extra-tall roller tree from Bitterroot Guitars, positioned so that all strings have the same angle.
First fret height is set to my preference (and this is also Fender and Gibson's published specs) of .020" and neck relief is .010" respectively.
12th fret action height is .070" which is how i setup all my guitars, but this is also the published specification of Fender, Jackson, Charvel, Gretsch, EVH, and Gibson.
Pickups were set to 8/64" with strings fretted at the last fret.
Man, this little guitar is really nice and stays in perfect tune.
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Tonight, he got the 2021 Blackstar ID-Core Stereo 100 Combo.
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I don't really understand these modern amps, but i bought a USB to Mini USB cable and did a firmware update before i sent it to him.