my
Squier Pro Tone MIK (ive so far cleaned the hardware down to chrome but it will still be going thru rehab - refret, bone nut, set up and possibly, 2 x humbuckers!)
Squier Pro-Tone guitars were produced at the Cort factory in Korea. and marked the first real quality Squier to come from there. Made between 1996 and 98 and with a UK retail price of £339.95
...vintage style unit with 'Fender stamped' hardened steel saddles. Machineheads/tuners for the 6 string models are Fender's own schaller lookalikes. Three staggered pole alnico pickups ....
The bodies of these guitars were made from one piece, all the way up to four or even five pieces of solid ASH... were fairly heavy, but the build quality was first class.
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there was a time not so long ago where the Squier range came up and overlapped into the Fender range. We had some high-end Squier guitars that many people thought should be Fenders, and so to make it simple, we decided that it would be better for the Squiers to remain the entry-level thing"
Interview with Mike Lewis, Vice President, Fender, for Guitarist magazine, Aug 1999.
