sanshouheil wrote:I'm with Crip on the January "oh sh*t we owe taxes" sales.
Best thing I can do is hunker down and save my musical dollars for a trip to the studio. I'd like to have a pair of 2x12 cabs for my amp but, first things first right?
Happy Early Birthday Shredd.
I vaguely remember turning 40.
August will be 50 for me.
Hope to either have a big party with bands and stuff or do a week in the mountains, just me and my wife.
Thanks Sans..
Yea, save up for the studio time. I'm not sure I understand why you feel like you want another cab though. Is there a specific reason?
On the Jan Sale thing, I'm not so sure CV's can drop much lower. Maybe another $10, but Squier CV guitars are made to Fender specs for the most part, and with the same quality.
There are slight differences between CVs and Fender RIs though. The Teles are made of Pine, but you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between their use of dense Pine and Ash though. And they are sticking with a 9 1/2 neck radius. There are too many people who just don't care for the 7 1/2 that my '57 Strat RI has. Fender kinda gave up on that a while back for production guitars. Not enough of a difference to account for paying an extra $400-$1,000 in my opinion.
I compared a CV '60's with a real Fender '60s RI model at Guitar Center yesterday, and literally could not tell the difference. That says a lot for the CV.
And let me say this also. I have a '57 RI Strat which at the time it was made in 1984 was THE top of the line Fender production model. And the craftsmanship of the Squier CV '50s Strat was CLOSE ENOUGH!! In fact... The neck was better. It uses a C-shape instead of a V-shape, but modern technology has made it so the precision of neck shaping and fret-work can be flawless. I'm not going to yank your chain and tell you that a CV is the same as a '57 RI, but with about $200 in mods, and some know-how you would be very close to it, and just as happy.
Check out the cost of a '57 RI:
http://www.guitarstop.com/Fender/57strat.htm
The 7 1/2 radius neck is overrated. And some people prefer a c-shape over a v-shape. It's more comfortable to do the "claw method" on a c-shape.
These CVs are NO JOKE!! They are for real in the quality craftsmanship department.