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Mr Grumpy
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I really like it too, but Squires keep going up in price - as a %, they must have jumped up far more than Fender/Gibson USA prices in the last decade or so. They just don't seem the value they used to for the Classic Vibes.
I suspect, from reading the threads on here, that those damn ugly Peavey monstrosities that should all be burned at birth are actually very good guitars.
I had a Bass Jaguar VM, and I liked it, better and cheaper than the Epi basses around the same price, imho. Some of the VMs have become better value than the CVs.
I've seen a few of those, but the specs have never quite been as I'd want - interesting guitars though, but they seem to be being phased out.
I'm not sure that's entirely the case. From watching the recent Andertons Fender factory video, it seemed to me that the Fender fella almost gave away that a lot less USA parts are going onto the Mexican guitars than people are generally saying; some guitars such as the Worn series probably have quite a lot of USA parts on them, but I suspect that most have very few USA parts on them. I don't think Fender likes to give out the exact details, as they prefer a haze where people say/believe something that isn't quite right, but makes Fender look good, so they don't bother correcting it...
This has been the horrific BS at Fender recently - the marketing folk, who were always there, have completely taken over the guitar ranges and differentiation to maximize their profit which means less value for us, imho. The USA standards ("professionals", f'kin stoopid name...) come with some terrible appointments such as the basic tuners, just put the bloody vintage tuners on as a basic tuner or locking tuners, but instead they save them for higher spec models to "differentiate" them - the standard USA strat/tele should be a great guitar that you don't need to change anything. They've done the same with the entire range from Squire's to CS, and for a fender with all the appointments I'd like we're talking US$2000+, and that's just insane...
Tone circuit differences which date back to the very first guitars; quite interesting options that sound different.
I know many folks have had good experiences with them, but my experiences with bullets and affinities has been shockingly bad - I'd much rather spend $100 more and get a VM. It's interesting how folks just see different things in guitars that interest them - not right or wrong, just different preferences; I suppose that's what makes this forum endlessly fascinating.
