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Original message:183 days 22 hours 30 minutes ago

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Member: Harry Parateste

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Listen now, I have so many dreams of becoming this amazing guitarist.... Right now I am feeling the blues and really wannting to learn some.... I would like to build my own dream guitar..I have a beginners squire that I was going to rebuild up and make it awesome.. my question is should I do that or buy a new guitar and right now I really like the fender strats..mexican american or korean?? Really dont know what to go with other than price on that one? Would love some help thanks much....

Reply:183 days 20 hours 22 minutes ago
Member: Hippieway

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Well first things first, don't rebuild anything if it leaves you with NO guitar to play. It's hard to play the blues when the neck and the body are on opposite sides of the room, although that would certainly give me the blues. Play what you got until you get more then you can rebuild the Squire but why would you. Yes go buy a new Fender Strat or anything else that comes close to that dream guitar but more importantly play, play the Squire, play the Fender, play anything. Chances are a lot of nice guitars will pass through your hands by the time you become that amazing guitarist.

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Reply:183 days 14 hours 49 minutes ago
Member: SATAN

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go to www.warmoth.com and build your dream little by little. some of my best guitars are warmoth guitars, they are amazing....expensve (perhaps about $1000 max for the guitar of your dreams...) but if you work hard, and your good all year, maybe santa will help out........ in all reality, you would put far to much money into a squire.

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Reply:183 days 10 hours 34 minutes ago
Member: Harry Parateste

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Ok.. Well Right now I do own a few quitars so I was gonna just tear apart that squire.. But I thinking That I am going to just go with a new fender strat..Could you help me out with what the differences are between the american, meican and korean strats other than price and is it really worth buyin an american for that money?? THanks All

Reply:183 days 8 hours 40 minutes ago
Member: Grey Jay

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Satan, could you explain the Warmoth thing? I'm browsing the site and it seems a tad confuzzling.

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Reply:182 days 14 hours 46 minutes ago
Member: SATAN

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basically, warmoth has every part you need to build a guitar 100% to your specifications, so, you go to the section with bodies, select a body, select the wood, finish, pickup routing, pot routing, ETC, and they make it for you, same tyhing with the necks, go choose the headstock shape (which can be your own custom design) neck wood, fingerboard wood, tuner type, fingerboard radius, neck contour, fret size fret color, scale length, truss rod type, all of that stuff, and they build it to your specs, not only do they do that, but they do it with attention to detail only seen in the very highest quality guitars costing thousands more. i have quite a few of them, and they are far and away the best guitars i hjave ever played.

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without me, METAL is just aluminum, ROCK is just a pebble..... oh yeah, and Dont forget to +1 me! it might make you feel better!

Reply:183 days 8 hours 25 minutes ago
Member: Richey

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If you have the money, buy the American Strat. I have had an American Tele for 20 years. It has been through hell (gigs, being dropped, drilled, etc.). I still stays in perfect tune and sounds great. It has a few dings but nothing major.
I have never played a Korean strat but I have played a Mexican one and they are definitely not the same as an American one. The pickups are horrible. If you are thinking long term or "dream" guitar, go ahead and get the American Strat.

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Reply:183 days 7 hours 47 minutes ago
Member: Dillon Branscum

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Go American. Some mexicans can be good, but most of the time you will get problems. Like richey said the pick ups are not that great, but there are other things to. I bought one last summer and I have loads of problems with it. The neck is warped, the bridge and saddles are all messed up, and some of the tuners do not work as well as the others.

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Reply:183 days 6 hours 25 minutes ago
Member: Harry Parateste

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Alright,Well Im headn over to a guitar shop ton when I get off work Ill play a few different ones and let you all know how it ends up..Any more advice and help is well needed..Thanks For all of it

Reply:183 days 6 hours 10 minutes ago
Member: Hippieway

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Good luck and have fun

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Reply:182 days 17 hours 56 minutes ago
Member: Daniel Watson

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You want to build a dream Guitar , check out Torres Engineering on the web they have kits you can buy and build there easy to put together, check em out, inexpensive as well

Reply:182 days 14 hours 12 minutes ago
Member: SATAN

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hey daniel watson... are you an airplane mechanic?????

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without me, METAL is just aluminum, ROCK is just a pebble..... oh yeah, and Dont forget to +1 me! it might make you feel better!

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