Happy Christmas to you all.
I've got some questions about the Squier CV Tele.
1. Used value: for a virtually unplayed CV (no bag 'er nuthin'), would you consider $225 a deal? A steal? Just okay?
2. Is the body routed to take a larger pickup at the neck? A P-90 or humbucker?
There's a nice looking CV locally on Craigslist, and the guy is asking $250 but has been trying to sell it for a month. I may grab it next week if it's a good deal and can be modded to take a different pickup at the neck.
BTW, on the second question, I saw a pic here in TFF of one of the 60s bound sunburst models sans pickguard, and it was routed for a bucker... the 50s is probably the same body blank, no?
EDIT: the search I should have done earlier reveals that I asked this same question about the neck route back in May when GC had one cheap but not cheap enough. So, never mind. Looks to me like $225 for a like-new CV Tele would be a good deal, and the bucker/P-90 install would be cake.
Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Merry Christmas! I'll post next week if I buy it.
Well, a P90 doesn't really fit into a PAF sized hole. so you may still need to do some routing.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
With that in mind, a P-90 would probably be my last choice. I'm really more inclined toward a minihummer (like an old Gibson "New York") or a hybrid like the Lindy Fralin Twangmaster or Duncan PhatCat. Maybe even one of those Charlie Christian repros!
But I'd no doubt play the guitar as is for a while.
Too bad. I'll never get to bang Catherine Zeta Jones and probably never get to drive a Top Fuel car, but playing a P90 Tele isn't too far behind either of those!
Last edited by Offshore Angler; 12-26-2011 at 05:12 AM.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
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"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But That only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Frank Herbert.
Yep, that's what I was thinking....
But i realized that I was actually considering buying a Squier guitar that I hadn't even played and already had modification plans for it. I can't go there. :) So I took a pass.
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