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Squier '51 - $460 (Kealakekua)
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The Squier '51 is an electric guitar made by Squier, a brand of Fender. The '51 is notable for being one of the few original designs made by Squier, which normally sells budget versions of Fender's popular guitars and bass guitars
The '51 combines aspects of several of Fender's best-known instruments. The body outline resembles a standard Fender Stratocaster, while the single-ply plastic pickguard and chrome control plate is reminiscent of early incarnations of the Fender Precision Bass. The neck is essentially that of a Fender Telecaster, with same square heel and peg head designs. The bridge is a top-loaded hardtail plate. It has a humbucker bridge and a single coil neck pickup, as well as the rotary pickup selector, single volume control with push-pull coil-tap switch, and absent tone control.
The 4-wire bridge pickup allows for coil splitting by pulling up on the volume control knob to limit the humbucker to single-coil output. The neck pickup is slanted with respect to the strings, better aligning the single-coil pole spacings under narrower spacing of the strings. The lower control knob is a three-position rotary switch, selecting between the neck pickup, neck + humbucker, or humbucker.