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CHEAP ’N’ TASTY

I read your article on cheap guitars [issue 462] and also the letter from reader Steve Baker with his account of GAS progression and finding a mid-90s Korean Squire Telecaster that performs higher than expectation [issue 464, Feedback]. Back in the 1980s, I bought a Squier Stratocaster that came with a small Yamaha practice amp and the serial number indicates that this Squier was made in 1988, also in Korea. It’s been gigged and used over the years, but it also has an absolutely amazing, beautifully finished and playable rosewood

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