Fender Japan JV Strat Shootout!

Siblings from Japan!

Both from 1983, my Fender JV in black and introducing Natrasha, a first edition Squier JV found and rescued from a bin!

Natrasha was given a bath and a nice hot meal and she's feeling a bit better with new pickup height adjustment rubber, resuscitated original saddles, a tweak of the truss rod and fret polish with some Fret Doctor oil on her dry neck. Installed also was a CTS 5 way switch, replacing the original DM50 5 way and I modded the bridge pickup to be on the tone pot like my Fender JV.

So this is a demo of the 2 guitars - both with original made in USA Fullerton era pickups and going into a Two Rock Classic Reverb with an Origin Effects RevivalDrive in the front.

Recorded with direct speaker emulation from an Ironman II and an SM57 on the 2x12" cab with no funny stuff, plug-ins or EQ on the result.

See what you think!

These guitars represent the era of change from Fender when CBS was selling them and the new FMIC company was setting up along with the move from Fullerton to Corona. Now Fender are well known to us and the 50's and 60's Strat re-issues are everywhere but these guitars were harking back to the originals and Fender had forgotten how to make them like they used to. Enter the Japanese factories that made Grecos, Tokais and the like; they knew how to do it and started making them for Fender for export as Squier and for the Japanese domestic market as Fender Japan. JV Strats and Teles I think are flying under the radar!

00:00 Intro
11:01 Squier Neck
11:44 Fender Neck
12:40 Squier Neck & Middle
13:11 Fender Neck & Middle
13:45 Squier Middle
14:20 Fender Middle
15:12 Squier Middle & Bridge
15:51 Fender Middle & Bridge
16:38 Squier Bridge
17:48 Fender Bridge

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