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Fender Squier Mini Strat Electric Guitar - Sunburst
26 January 2022
Defective nut placement renders the guitar unusable
The initial inspection of the guitar showed that two neck plate screws were loose. This resulted in a 1/16" gap at the rear of the net joint. Besides destabilizing the neck, it caused the strings to be abnormally high off the fretboard. I also found that the nut was slightly too far from the 1st fret. Even with the bridge adjusted for good intonation at the 12th fret, the guitar sounds out-of-tune when playing chords that contain open strings. The guitar is playable if a capo is used on any fret. However, that is not a good solution for a young student who is not familiar with a guitar neck.
The loose neck plate screw problem was easily remedied by loosening the strings and tightening the screws. The second issue requires calculating how much the nut has to moved forward, removing the nut, rerouting the nut channel, fabricating a shim to fill the gap behind the nut, and replacing the nut. This needs to be done by a competent professional.
The finish is good, the fretwork is good, the pickups actually sound quite good for an inexpensive guitar. However, without repositioning the nut, the guitar is not useable.
I have purchased and played numerous Fender (Squire's parent company) guitars since the early 1970's. This is the first time that I have seen significant issue with one.