Squier Super-Sonic
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| Squier Super-Sonic | |
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| Manufacturer | Squier, Fender |
| Period | 1996—1998, 2013—2014, 2020—2023 |
| Construction | |
| Body type | Solid |
| Neck joint | Bolt-on |
| Scale | 24 in (610 mm) |
| Woods | |
| Body | Basswood, alder, poplar |
| Neck | Maple |
| Fretboard | Rosewood, Indian laurel |
| Hardware | |
| Bridge | Vintage Stratocater-style vibrato |
| Pickup | 2 humbuckers |
| Colors available | |
| Vista Series - Olympic White, Black, Blue Sparkle, Silver Sparkle Pawn Shop Series - Apple Red Flake, Dark Gun Metal Flake, Sunfire Orange Flake Paranormal Series - Blue Sparkle, Shell Pink, Graphite Metallic, Ice Blue Metallic Made In Japan Limited - Olympic White, Black, Blue Sparkle, Silver Sparkle, 3-Color Sunburst | |
The Squier Super-Sonic is an electric guitar manufactured by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, originally marketed under their Squier brand. The design, conceived by former Squier marketing manager Joe Carducci, is said to have been inspired by a photograph in which Jimi Hendrix is pictured playing a Fender Jazzmaster upside down.[1]
The Super-Sonic features an offset body similar to an upside-down Fender Jaguar or Fender Jazzmaster, but with two humbucker pickups, a three-way pickup selector toggle switch, and a traditional Stratocaster-style six-screw vibrato bridge. Unusually, the Super-Sonic has no tone control and instead has only a volume control for each pickup, wired in reverse with the control closest to the bridge controlling the bridge pickup, and the control farthest from the neck controlling the neck pickup. Like many other Fender offset designs, the Super-Sonic is a short-scale (24-inch) guitar, and also features a 22-fret bolt-on neck with a reversed CBS-style large headstock.