Posts from August 2024

Some news about my current guitar "stable" and what I plan on doing in the future. I'll first list off what I have and why I've not gone ahead and bought another guitar recently. What I have: Two 1989 Squier II Stratocasters, , , 1993 Fender American Stratocaster (currently in pieces, nonfunctional). What I've been […]

What I will describe to you in a moment actually works for almost any bolt-on neck, but it's the Fender and Squier guitars where people notice this the most. Misaligned guitar neck defined: This is when the high-E string or low-E string is too close to the edge of the neck, causing it to buzz […]

I didn't see this coming, but it happened. Sam Ash is a musical instrument retailer that had 42 stores in the USA across 16 states, 9 of which were in Florida. I did shop at the Tampa store several times. In fact, that's where I first saw the then-new Squier Vintage Modified series back in […]

When finding out why the have 594 in the model name, that started me down a rabbit hole. According to Paul Reed Smith himself, the 594 comes from a 1959 four-knob guitar where the scale length was measured at 24 and 19/32". If you divide 19 by 32, that's 0.59375. When you round that number […]

Something I've learned over the years with computer crap is that any time you find something that's good and cheap, buy backups. If you don't, your favorite computer-whatever thing will wear out and you won't be able to find a cheap replacement. This literally applies to anything computer. Drives, USB sticks, keyboards, and in this […]