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Vintage Modified Squier '51

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Overview

A winning combination of contoured form and streamlined electronics.

The Squier '51 returns in a hot new Vintage Modified model that delivers all the great style and features of the original value-priced screamer of the mid 2000s. All of the '51s enormous tonal versatility is back, with a powerful SH pickup configuration, rotary pickup selector, push-pull coil tap and more.

Features include a basswood body, satin-finish maple neck with "C"-shaped profile, 9.5"-radius maple fingerboard with 21 medium jumbo frets, single-coil Stratocaster neck pickup and hot humbucking bridge pickup, knurled "chrome dome" master volume control knob that also functions as a push-pull bridge pickup coil-selector switch (full humbucking or inner coil only for single-coil bridge pickup tone), knurled "chrome dome" three-position rotary pickup selector switch (in place of a tone control knob), single-ply white pickguard (black pickguard on Vintage Blonde model) and six-saddle hard-tail bridge. Case sold separately

Features

  • Basswood body
  • Satin-finish maple neck with "C"-shaped profile
  • 9.5"-radius maple fingerboard with 21 medium jumbo frets
  • Single-coil Stratocaster neck pickup and hot humbucking bridge pickup
  • Master volume control push-pull bridge pickup coil-selector switch
  • Three-position rotary pickup selector switch
  • Single-ply white pickguard (black pickguard on Vintage Blonde model)
  • 6-saddle hard-tail bridge
  • Case sold separately

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Specs

Vintage Modified Squier '51 Specifications:

Body
  • Body Material: Basswood
  • Body Finish: Gloss Poly
  • Body Shape: Stratocaster
Neck
  • Neck Material: Maple
  • Neck Finish: Satin Poly
  • Neck Shape: "C" Shape
  • Scale Length: 25.5" (64.8cm)
  • Fingerboard: Maple
  • Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (241mm)
  • Number of Frets: 21
  • Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
  • Nut Width: 1.650" (42mm)
  • Position Inlays: Black Dot
Electronics
  • Bridge Pickup: Hot Humbucking
  • Neck Pickup: Standard Single-Coil Strat
  • Controls: Master Volume, 3-Position Rotary
  • Pickup Switching: 3-Position Rotary Pickup Selector Switch: Position 1. Neck Pickup (Full Clockwise) Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups (Middle) Position 3. Bridge Pickup (Full Counterclockwise)
  • Pickup Configuration: HS
  • Special Electronics: Push/Pull Coil Selector Switch (On Master Volume Pot): Normal Position: Full Bridge Humbucking Pickup Up Position: Inside Coil of Bridge Humbucking Pickup
Hardware
  • Bridge: Hard-Tail 6-Saddle
  • Hardware Finish: Chrome
  • Tuning Machines: Standard Die-Cast
  • Pickguard: 1-Ply White
Miscellaneous
  • Strings: Fender USA, NPS, (.009-.042 Gauges)
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