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Your control plate came out perfect. Just weighed my unmodified 2021 CV50s (Indonesia) and it weighed in at 7 lb 6 oz on the postal scale.

I got one not long ago. My fourth classic vibe was with the intention of getting a player or American performer if I liked a telecaster. This squire surprised me. The first squire that I wasn't looking for new pickups as soon as I got it. Those brass saddles helped the tone a lot. I think that may be all I need. Thanks for the video.

Nice mods.

By far the heaviest classic vibe i've come across.. my cv strat's under 8 lbs..

9.6 lbs? That’s a P-Bass.

Is it a need to .or is it just your preference.

Musiclily of Amazon has a ready made control plate, they are called narrow knobs slanting switch

it appears that the Classic Vibe I bought used after the owner died already has brass installed.

Instantly recognisable as Stratocaster sounds from both guitars, but the 91 has a brighter tone with more depth to my ears. I wonder what the difference would be between a 69 and a 91? Maybe nostalgia can affect the judgment 😊!

Where do you find the metal plank?

Can you use some 0000 steel wool on the back of the neck to knock off that shine?

When I got mine the fret ends were sticking out a little so I had to take a fine file to dress the fret ends. It's not hard, but if you don't feel confident take it to a repair person and have them do it.

I just got my Squire Classic Vibe Tele from Sweetwater a month ago and it was great out of the box. their 55 point inspection is something I don't think anyone else offers. You mentioned the string tree. I got a tree from Music City Bridge that holds down the E, B, and G strings.

How the heck could be so heavy and made of pine?? Pine is super lite.

The 91 clearly sounds better. I like both of them but the older one would be a keeper.

I just put the same saddles on my cv thinline. I was also able to intonate perfectly but I noticed that they don’t line up perfectly straight. Middle one was fine but the other two weren’t flush with middle one. I expect the saddles are just slightly wider than the stock cv ones. Did you have the same issue?

I bought a Chinese made Squier CV Telecaster in Butterscotch Blonde off a friend of mine back in 2016. I bought it as a back-up guitar as I already owned a Strat and a Les Paul and kept it mostly in open G for those Keith Richards moments. However, I started to follow Ask Zac and listen to more Tele players and it's become a firm favourite. It came with brass saddles and well polished frets, so I haven't modified it from stock. I just love the simplicity of it and the stock alnico pickups make a great sound.

Very nice mods! Well done. Moto x fox,! Thats old school there.

Thank you for showing us how to customize our Classic Vibes!

Outstanding, I have one coming and will do these same simple mods. Im excited, Im a Gibson guy and this is my first Tele. There is nothing that sounds like a Tele. Such a workhorse of a guitar.

Cual recomendariais vosotros la Vibe 50' o la Harley Benton TE 25 aniversario???? Esta ultima parece venir mas completa ademas de ser algo mas barata !!!

What is a cranny ?

I don't know why this came up in the feed now but how are the fret edges and fret level? My paranormal had beveled and smooth fret ends and I don't think had any buzzing. I think it has the same pickups as the cv telecaster.

Mine was a 80s mij Squier strat. So wished I had it now. They’ve become quite desirable nowadays. It was black and white pg. I felt like Clapton lol

I have the 60s strat cv. Love it. I changed the tuners. Put me some fender pure vintage 59s pickups in it. And a mojotone solderless blender wiring harness. Not that it needed I just wanted to. Also later on I put a fender v shaped jumbo fret neck. I own a few strat. By far I reach for this one first. Next one I’ll buy the tele.

Sounds really bad really bad

I really wanted a belly carve and to lighten the body, the Affinity is the only model that has the belly carve and the body is also much thinner. Cut a new hole in between the two existing holes with a hand drill then mount a toggle switch in the third hole you don't need. Everyone will ask what the toggle switch is for (?)

the first production Classic vibe telecaster 50s had brass saddles. I don't understand why they changed them.

Mine wasn't a "truly pull out of the box and play guitar". The "plastic" non-bone nut was cut way too low. Bought a TusqXL to replace it. Had to reset, level, file several frets, and polish them. Replaced the saddles with gotoh compensated. The crappy thin wiring was replaced with proper cloth pushback wiring. Replaced the pots with CTS, the switch with Grigsby, Fender caps, Allen Bradley NOS resistor. The control plate had to be drilled out to slightly larger size, as well as the jack plate. (I have a drill press). New knobs to fit the larger CTS pot shafts. The grounding was poor, so replaced the bridge plate with a Fender vintage. I have a 50's Custom Deluxe tweed amp (5e3 circuit), and found these stock pickups to be ho-hum. Installing a set of Fender pure vintage 64 tele pickups. Will copper shield the pickguard, and ground everything properly. So far, I have $721 dollars into this tele, and except for the weight (mine weighs 9.1 lbs), really think this stands toe to toe with Fender's $1700 dollar tele's. I plan on routing out a sizeable cavity on the back and installing pickguard material for a cover, to reduce the weight a pound or so. There's a guy on youtube who stripped all the poly coating off his Classic Vibe tele. The scraped off finish weighed in at 8oz. Half a pound!

I bought this guitar and it was so heavy. I decided to do a drastic modification as I was sure to keep the guitar. I took my routing machine and routed away any wood which is invisible under the bridge plate and under the pickguard. Finally, I painted the cavity with a shielding graphite varnish. After that I ordered an ashtray bridge plate with 6 steel barrels and the same Position of mounting screws and I am satisfied with it. The wood routing resulted in a weight loss of about 600 g. The guitar was 3,9 kg, now it is 3,3 kg.

Good mods!

What is the origin of Fender Designed pickups ? Tonerider ?

I paid more for the single pickup Esquire model,

Nice Don Williams lick at the beginning

Thank you!

I found those Gotoh brass saddles. Will they fit right in the stock bridge?

Genial 👌

Great video . Thanks . I just purchased this guitar in Myers blue , and I love it . I will definitely add the treble bleed cuircuit. Other than that perhaps locking tuners , but current tuners are holding well .

The biggest problem with this thing by far is the weight, it's way too heavy, playing it sitting down is fine but as soon as you wear it on a strap you can immediately feel all the weight on your shoulder, maybe you can wear it on your waist like Steve Albini and that might help

I had already put the Gotoh in tune compensated brass saddles on my 7lb 8oz cv50 butterscotch. Now with new SD hot rails bridge pickup and Dunlop pots.

My 2010 CV50 yellow pinecaster weighs 7 pounds and 8 ounces. It is a very nice Tele that I purchased in order to get a great sounding telecaster after I purchased a white Fender Stahdard telecaster 2010 +/- model and found that the stock Fender pickups were not noise cancelling in the middle switch position. So I purchased the Squire cv50 pinecaster and was rewarded with great stock Tele sound to my instant liking. I guess I lucked out getting a light 1. I appreciate the lighter guitars these days. Your video presentation is very excellent. You obviously actually own and like the guitar. You are not a casual reviewer getting ready to send it back. So many reviewers bad mouth Squires. Squires are very decent guitars. You are personable and you focus upon elements of guitar knowledge that the actual experienced player can relate to and learn something. I appreciate Squires. I had once fallen upon hard times and no longer had my Fender jazz bass, Japan made. I went to guitar center and purchased a very nice red metallic Squire Affinity Jazz Bass. And I purchased a set of Fender noiseless jazz bass pickups. I had a pro tech bass player install the Fender noiseless pickups and treble bleed circuit. I put on a beautiful nickel jazz bass bridge, replacing the cheap stamped metal stock Squire bridge. I put on Grover bass tuners. This is my best sounding bass guitar today.

Buys 50s tele and changes the 50s elements. Meh

Sand down the neck? Put in a bone nut. Switch out the tuners and electronics. Appreciate your video.

I would love to see you do a fender classic vibe jazzmaster or a sqwuire short scale jaguare bass guitar 🎸

I've got one of the first run squire telecaster vibes. Mine has big pots and 3 brass saddle. I've also got a squire 2022 stratocaster vibe little pots ! that was kind of a bummer. They must have changed after the first couple years! Thanks 🤘

If you're listening with headphones you will be ear ra4ed

Really interesting videos ! Thanks ! New subscriber.

Great video love honest opinion and sensible criticism. Keep it up .

Great and easy to understand video! ...did I read right that something in the barrels cause ´could´ cause cancer according to the state of California?! :O if so, what is it that could? thanks again!

you should also replace the jack input , with an elecrosocket. under $10.00 far superior will never come loose