#squiertele

Squier CV Telecaster ‘Nashville Summers’

Since I bought this guitar for £250 S/H it has experienced a few changes. The first of which was turning it into somewhat of a replica of Kurt Cobain’s final favourite guitar, his sunburst ‘62 telecaster custom with a 6-saddle humbucker bridge, open coil black humbucker and covered neck humbucker in the neck position. However, since then I have installed a Fender ‘Tex-Mex’ strat pickup in the middle position, changed the 3-way switch out for a 5-way ‘superswitch’ to allow for the ‘nashville’ wiring configuration and a mini switch to allow the humbucker to be split. However, I recently decided to change the neck for a Squier CV 50s one, which makes the guitar sound far more percussive and bright for country/funk tones. I like to play country and lots of Prince tones on this guitar, and the 5-way switch provides a lot of flexibility. 

I have changed the Gotoh 6-saddle humbucker bridge for the standard single coil version. The current bridge pickup is a Bare Knuckle ‘Yardbird’, which has a little bit of extra grunt to it, but still provides the classic tele sound. Since there is no longer a humbucker in the bridge position, I have wired the split switch to the Seymour Duncan ‘Pearly Gates’ in the neck position. Being a fairly vintage/low-output humbucker, the split does not make too much of a difference. However, it does it make it less muddy, which is useful for when you want a clearer tone for funk/country, and for the neck and middle position. 

Squier Standard Telecaster in rare forest=/’racing’ green colour from 1999-[2000

I bought the guitar on Ebay for £180 and paid the high price due to the rarity of its colour. However, the guitar arrived broken with the neck ripped off the body due to full string tension, and I had to ask for a partial refund. Unfortunately, the neck was actually twisted and the frets were pretty shabby, so I decided to use the rosewood one from my sunburst Squier ‘Classic Vibe’ 60s telecaster. The neck pocket is a little wider on this tele, so I shimmed the pocket slightly at each side and sanded the paint a little. The original ‘standard’ neck featured 22 frets with the overhang, so after installing the 21 fret CV one, you can see the exposed gap and shabbily cut pickguard. Aside from this, it sounds great and plays really well now. 

The body is agathis, I believe. It sounds a little warmer than your classic tele, which is useful for what I am using this for. 

I have replaced the shitty ceramic pickups with a Seymour Duncan ‘Vintage Stack’ in the bridge and a Squier CV ‘60s telecaster pickup in the neck position, both of which sound great. 

The replaced the stock electronics with the original alpha harness from my sunburst CV tele.