Squire Upgrade

Here's another project I picked up last night. 10 year old Squire Affinity strat in desperate need of TLC. With 10 years of dust and grime

I think it has an Alder body.

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Electronics as expected..

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The pickguard is single ply and scratched. Interestingly a replacement USA pick guard fits perfectly

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Suprisingly the body cavity has shielding paint. Its conductive but not earthed to anything!

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Headstock and fretboard all intact. Not much fretware. The tuners are needless to say junk.

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So tuners to be replaced with some Gotohs. I'll source a better trem and steel block for import style guitar. Full electronics upgrade and tonerider pups. The body cavity is deep enough for a 5 way CRL switch

Then fret job if required. A good clean and polish and setup then hopefully voila, twang.

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sweeeet! old squires are 1, a bargain and 2, a perfect platform for some easy mods like you've done that will end up making a really nice playable guitar.

From the picture of the back of the neck, it's had a lot of open chords played on it. Unless that's just the shadow.

cool project Ponch ! Is this an old Squier in your collection or one you picked up from Cashies ?
It's even red and white for the Swannies !
Should be a nice playing axe once you cleaned it up and added the upgrades

Belongs to a jam friend. He's had it sitting around for ever, the time had come for some TLC!

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Ah yes a Swannies axe!

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so you can use your Swannies scarf to clean all the gunk and build up on the axe Ponch !

Haha its so grubby it would turn it into a Magpies scarf!

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yeah we can't have that Ponch. Having one Pies fan (DB) in WA is one too many in my opinion !

See they were projecting images of Swanny and GWS players on the Sydney harbour bridge.

I thought I told you to use your Swannies scarf as a mower oil rag anyway mate ?