The Fender Squier Series guitars also usually got a thicker, better quality pickguard with a nicer beveled edge while the Squier by Fender usually got a thin single ply pickguard with a flat cut edge.Īnyway. The main differences (besides the headstock logo) were the "Fender Squier Series" had a body that was 1-3/4" thick like a "real" Strat instead of 1-5/8" and the trem was US width 2-7/32" and had a full size (albiet still pot metal) block and Fender stamped steel saddles instead of the narrow MIM/Import width (2-1/16") trem with thin pot metal block and die cast zinc saddles on the "Squier by Fender". Tuners in both cases were typically the dreaded "trapezoid" type, unsealed with stamped sheet metal covers. The former were cheaper models with lower grade hardware, the later had slightly better quality hardware and some dimensions were closer to US Fender spec, although the body materials on most of them in both cases were plywood (some later VN5s with two color gold logos had solid wood bodies) and the electronics were cheap import type on all of them (dime size 500k pots and 0.022uf caps) with cheap ceramic pickups. VN serials were made as either "Squier by Fender" or "Fender Squier Series". Click to expand.VN5 was a serial number used on Made in Korea Strats from Saehan/Vester.
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