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theres a nice black one as well, but the red looks lovely.
Will go rather nice with my paranormal cyclone.
I would say they're not, and the people you do see gigging with them spend a fortune getting them gigable and keeping them in gigging condition, via techs upgrading parts and fixing issues - there's a famous American Jazz guitarist who used what he claimed was a stock Squier Affinity Strat what he didn't tell you was that it was modified though he did admit to having one mod done to it or that he was paying a tech a fortune setting up the guitar before every gig and checking it over after every gig and replacing parts and this is a Jazz guitarist these people don't gig often nor ''play hard''. I can't remember the American Jazz guitarist's name, but at one point he was bragging that Gibson where supposedly making him a custom signature hollowbody, he had a huge falling out with his now ex guitar tech, and that tech did an interview where he outed the Jazz guitarist over his ''non modified Squier'', it was an image thing and part of this Jazz guitarists showmanship and act that everything other Jazz guitarists could do he could do on an unmodified stock Squier Affinity Strat - if this truly was the case why was he bragging about a Gibson signature hollowbody being made for him which incidentally never materialised nor did an Epiphone version.
The 40th has a bone nut v the affinity plastic one
The 40th has tall narrow frets v affinity medium jumbo
The 40th has a proper JM bridge and trem , the affinity doesn’t
The 40th has a satin neck and an anodised aluminium pickguard
The 40th has lightly aged hardware and neck tint , the affinity doesn’t
There are more differences but I can’t be arsed to type them all out - please don’t post stuff like that unless you know what you are talking about @CavemanGrogg as people who don’t know any better will take what you type as fact and it may influence their buying decisions !
I’ve never actually had an Affinity but I did have a Squier Bullet Tele I bought new for £95 and that was perfectly playable and completely stable too. Would have happily used that in a band as it was. Oh, it went to you to pass on didn’t it. Fabulous thing.
Does anyone reckon this would need a neck shim to change the break angle? I know it’s fairly common with some of the Classic Vibe JMs and I’m assuming the 40th range is pretty close spec wise to them.
May end up using the neck as a donor for my P bass - I much prefer a J neck - but will need to wait and see what's what first.
Excellent value for money in my opinion, so thanks for pointing it out OP!
Havent bought a guitar for years.
Easily rectified though and now it plays well. The fretwork is great.
Had I not known how to do a set up though - I would have been disappointed as it was almost unplayable out of the box.
I would get another of the 40th anniversary though as they are excellent quality at this price, but you may have to do some work yourself, which I do on all my guitars irrespective of the price paid.