Squier Cyclone

Does anybody have one or have play'd one?

Got one incoming for a good price.

Maybe it'll bump up this thread.

Plan on some mods, I'm thinking faux- Mustang or faux- Musicmaster;-)

Cool yea post some pics bro...

Arrived looking like this

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/andys_01/SquierCycloneUnmodded2.jpg

Decided to turn it into a Musicmaster style guitar, in appreciation of an old Musicmaster I had years ago, and wish I still did.

Took a red torty pickguard blank and using a scroll saw and a set of files, I shaped it to fit. I had a nice single coil sized Hotrail looking for a home, so I put it in there, but put it in the neck slot. I had strung up the guitar without the pickguard, and found the optimum position for the pickup beforehand, which as it turned out was the same position as a Musicmaster almost.

I spend much of my playing these days on neck pickups, so this seemed to suit

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/andys_01/SquierCycloneModded2.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/andys_01/SquierCyclone3.jpg

Nice little guitar, very comfy to play and with the simple set up, very rewarding too. The Hotrail is pretty high output though, it tends to drive the amp a bit more than I really need, so the original pickup might go back in, or I'll look for a tasty lone Strat pickup.

I even had enough red torty material to make a spare red guard for my other single pickup guitar;-)

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k7/andys_01/LPMelodyMakerRedGuard.jpg