Squier Super-Sonic
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| Manufacturer | Squier |
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| Period | 1996—1998, 2013 |
| Body type | Solid |
| Neck joint | Bolt-on |
| Body | Basswood, Alder |
| Neck | Maple |
| Fretboard | Rosewood |
| Bridge | Vintage style vibrato |
| Pickup(s) | 2 Humbuckers, Duncan designed Pawn Shop: Fender Atomic |
| Olympic White, Black, Blue Sparkle, Silver Sparkle Pawn Shop: Apple Red Flake, Dark Gun Metal Flake, Sunfire Orange Flake |
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The Squier Super-Sonic was a guitar manufactured and sold by Squier for two years in the 1990s as part of Fender's 1997 Vista series. The guitar was designed by Joe Carducci, who was Fender's electric guitar product manager at the time, and who may have been inspired by an image of Jimi Hendrix playing a Fender Jaguar 'upside-down', or left-handed.
The Super-Sonic came in 4 colours: Olympic White, Black, Sparkle Silver and Sparkle Blue. All Squier Super-Sonics came with a white/black/white sandwich pickguard and 24-inch scale, 22-fret rosewood fretboard and a 'skunk stripe' behind the maple neck. Like the Squier Jagmaster and Jaguar, the body was crafted from basswood in Japan. The guitar came with a reversed headstock and a -style bridge with hardened steel-pressed saddles and a screwed-in tremolo arm. Kluson-style tuners similar to those found on many were used on the headstock.
The Super-Sonic has two humbuckers. These pickups were produced in South Korea, and had wooden spacers, and ceramic magnets. The guitar had no tone control, but instead utilized two volume controls with pickup switching controlled by a 3-way toggle switch. The volume controls were wired reverse, with the volume control closest to the bridge controlling the bridge pickup, and the volume control closest to the input jack working the rhythm pickup.
Production of the Vista series in Japan was halted in the late 1990s, making these guitars increasingly rare and collectable [1]. Production dates can be estimated using the serial number on the reverse of the guitar's headstock. It is generally accepted that guitars produced between late 1996 and during 1997 have serial numbers beginning with 'V + 6 digits'. These earlier guitars were sometimes sold with a 'Fender 50th Anniversary' sticker on the reverse of the headstock. Slightly later guitars produced between late 1997 and 1998 have serial numbers beginning with 'A + 6 digits'. A date stamp can often be found when removing the neck of the guitar.
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