Holy cow...look what I just got for $79.99!!!!!!!

Courtesy of Guitar Center Rockville, MD. They had this VM70's listed as "Used Squier 2010s Stratocaster Solid Body Electric Guitar Black. Condition: Good." After tax and shipping it came to $105.38.

I don't need this, but at that price, it will be super fun to upgrade the heck out of it and get the body painted white! I've already got a loaded pickguard with high quality pots and pickups. Here's hoping this one has a neck on the thicker side.

 

It won’t be a hack job. I’m jonesing for a white Strat with a nicely ambered neck.

I’ve had a black American Standard Strat since 1995 that I sold after acquiring a 2013 Fender Japan FSR 1954 Reissue. Since it’s 2-tone sunburst, it looks black from my vantage point.

If this VM70’s turns out to have an acceptable neck profile, then putting a full size block in it, upgrading the tuners and string trees (which I will only do if the ones in it now aren’t sufficient), replacing the pickguard with my loaded with the pickups of my choice w-b-w 3 ply one, and refinishing the body white will make this guitar very different from the one I’ve got now. Thus, making it, in my view, reasonable to have a 2nd Strat.

 

Yeah...I’ve gotten very used to the vintage tuners in my Japan Strat, so if these are stable, I won’t change them at all.

 

I still can’t believe it myself!

 

Just received an email from GC this morning saying that the picture attached to the sale item was incorrect along with a photo of the real item for sale. Then they asked if I still wanted to make the purchase. It was an HSS, rosewood board Affinity Strat.

I passed.

 

I told them that I understand mistakes happen and that, in reality, they should absolutely honor the price for the VM70's as shown in the photo. I don't expect to hear back.