Oh I played the neck pickup, you can't hear it, cause it is invisible ;)

I compared it with an Squier 40th Stratocaster and it is a little thinner. To me not skinny, but thin.

I had luck with my laurel fretboard on the purple telecaster/esquire... quite dark color after applying lemon oil. For maintanence dark fretboards easier to handle to me.

Yes, it is not the best bridge and even the saddles are not easy to replace cause most standard saddles will not allow the mounting of the strings. I took a nail polish file and rounded the sharp edges :)

I just checked the fender website where i ordered mine from, all the pics in all colors have skunk stripes, Makes sense , because I would not have ordered it if I knew it had no skunk stripe. So I am going to contact Fender and work something out, unless somehow i get one with the skunk stripe... dang it

It is just the look finally and has no impact to playability and sound. Whish you good luck with yours, sometimes the necks showing nice wood grain.

@@fritzsguitars I know but it just a Fender maple fretboard neck just doesn't seem right without the stripe, nothing against it, just I know it would bother me. It seems it might only be the green ones because on reviews of the other colors, all the ones I could find have the stripe. Yours is the first and only green review I can find. Maybe because the green ones are a new batch, who knows. You are absolutely right though, If I take it out and play it and she sings and plays great, I would keep it. But if its just good I know I would end up selling it so I might as well return it or see if they will swap it for the green esquire and some swag for the struggle...lol who knows, maybe different batches got different necks, thank you for replying

also the reviews for the first runs of them all rave about the necks and freat and even set up, seems the newer reviews of them are not as good, not bad, but more negatives, the early reviews are mostly all very positive

I am a fan of the R-446, but I got another one and was not satisfied. The guitar body shape was not as comfortable as on my old one. From pickup point the HBZ actives are fun for metal. You need to try both if you can and send back the one which is not good to you. Otherwise R-446

@fritzsguitars thanks for the reply :]

Too much at one point in time :)

It is :)

It's back on sale. I got on for $139 plus tax. Supposed to get it today.

@@me262a1 I wish I would have known because that green esquire is killer, Fritz got the green strat too and it came with no skunkstripe, on the website they all have skunk stripes, so I might be returning my strat anyways, if no stripe, if mine shows up with no skunkstripe i am gonna get Fender to comp me an Esquire

@@me262a1 did you get it? skunkstripe?

Before you mentioned it, I was not aware that my green squier sonic ht h should have this feature. Now I checked the web page and I saw it too. Little disappointing now that I know about :). Anyway, good you pointed that out, thanks.

Glad you enjoyed it

Wow thus are massive updates which will double the price of the guitar. I do also consider to change the pickups like you have done, just some no name AlNiCo5 products with similar output then yours. Schaller bridge looking nice too, need to find something inexpensive in this style. Thanks for ypur feedback!

Thank you!

My Squier Sonic Strat HT H needed some work before it played good to me. Fretboard edge was quite sharp as well as sharp fret ends. Check my description for more details. Now for me it is a good playable guitar, compared to standard stratocaster, the body is a little thinner and there I feel a slight different while playing. Most important despite the low weight it is not neck heavy :). The sound of the pickup might be not for everyone, I already changed them.

Thank you, the weight is 3,3kg.

Roswell active Pickups

With TE-62 I had good expierence, only the neck pickup I changed to an cheap amazon Fleor. TE-69 the bridge pickup to me sounded also not that good and it is a chunky Tele... around 4kg... if you do not mind... go for it. CST-24 I had several and pickup sound was not convincing and often they showed bad fret work / fret buzzing. I still have one CST and will try to change pickups.

Oh bro what you recomended the te 52 or te 69 mi friend ???? Thanks great video bro

TE-52 and TE-69 are both on the heavier side approx 4 kg. In this case take the one which looks better to you. Playability will be comparable on both. TE-62 has less weight around 3,4 kg but not the nice natural color ;-)

Already gone :)

This sounds exactly like what I expierenced with this orange Squier HH Tele kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2mUZ6itlp6JeKc A nightmare of quality. Really disappointing that they put QC sticker but not doing QC check. At least they are selling a new product which should have no issues beside basic setup. Sorry to hear

I like it too, a good dirt machine

Hope you will be happy with it.

Action on mine is now approx. E 1,7mm and e 1,3mm. I m not sure if I sanded the back of the neck for satin/smooth feeling or not. Guitar is on another location right now. Size is like standard Fender/Squier... I had 40th anniversary, Sonic HT, Sonic Esquire and all to me had the same thickness, shape. Only the satin lacqure on the 40th back had a perfect smooth feeling. Hope this could help you.

@fritzsguitars thanks a lot!

I think I returned it back in the day

Thanks fir the background info, was not aware of Melvins, this pedal has some potential

It is not a hole, it is a black hex screw to adjust the intonation saddle for D and G string.

go for it :-)

I sold mine, cause it was no more in use since I recorded all via plugin

Not too slim, not too chunky. A little widh from E to e I would say. Size you need to check Thomann, current series with stainless steel frets

Mooer Prime Plugin Sounds.

@@fritzsguitars In what software and audio interface?

mooer prime series, any of them :)

@@fritzsguitars can you give me a link please?

I have no link, google and you will find

My own creation

Sure, any instrument, even keyboard. It is just from frequencies better for guitar, you will miss the lower 100hz special 50 or 60hz to make there a cut on bass.

You like to compare Squier Telecaster with PRS SE or do you like to compare with Harley Benton CST-24? In any case for all Squier 40th Anniversary I can tell you, you will need a lot of time and models to find a good one, production quality is not good for that price :-). I selected 4 guitars and ended up to keep 1 and this is even not the Telecaster, I got the 40th Vintage Surf Green Stratocaster and still I am not 100% convinced.

Thx, winter is coming :-) and it will find his use

hahahhahahahah, its a hatchet but still funny!

Can not remember, if it sounds soft than it is the TS if it sounds hard than it is the SD

Exactly, little differences and maybe the way it feels while playing, nothing more

Roswell Ceramic high output single coil humbucker

I can not remeber on mine, I just liked it cause of this JCM crunch sound

Maybe never, was not showen latley

@@fritzsguitars oh man

It is a big drop in volume level, a point I did not like much

@@fritzsguitars I can imagine. And something I didn’t notice in other videos 🤷‍♂️

If you like the stil and single coil pickups, yes go for it. I needed to lower down the bridge pickup cause the frame was in my way while picking with plek. Hope this can help you :)

@@fritzsguitars ty so much bro 🙌🏽

it is the original squier ceramic humbucker

@@fritzsguitars sounds good!

Quite high output level approx 16 kOhm

no amp, just amp plugin engl powerball. Check out blackstar fly or other small models, they can deliver good distortion... or think about an distortion pedal

is it that bad?

official one, manufacturing was like a poor sample, just the look was great

@@fritzsguitars aw man, too bad they don’t sell it :(

engl powerball plugin for distortion and fender reverb plugin for clean

not only this, it felt something is missing where your picking hand rests

thx, I sold mine and focusing now on light weight instruments :) more than 5kg was too much after a while

No, the Harley Benton SC-1000 Active pickups are hot and driving the clean fast into overdrive. Only by reducing the volume poti you get a good clean tone... or with soft playing the strings

arctic white, there is no yellow into it

@fritzsguitars thank you mate !