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Willybooger demo review of Fender Squier Mini (Mini Strat) into a Marshall MG 10
Mini Strat Electric Guitar
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Fret-King Black Label Country Squire Semitone De Luxe
One of the new additions to Wilkinson's well-respected Fret-King Black Label range, the Country Squire Semitone De Luxe takes an established design and goes all Inspector Gadget with the spec sheet. The story begins with a two-piece centre-jointed, semi-hollow alder body bolted to a slim C profile maple neck. The neck itself has a 254mm (10-inch) radius rosewood 'board and 22 well-finished medium jumbo frets.
So far, so unremarkable... but here's where it gets interesting. Unlike the American classic that inspired it, the Country Squire has a vibrato unit. Instead of the six- saddle format, the Wilkinson WVT vibrato has three vintage-style brass blocks to retain some of the T-type vibe. At the other end of the guitar, you'll find Wilkinson's E-Z Lok machineheads with staggered shaft heights to avoid the need for string retainers.
The Semitone De Luxe adds to its Swiss Army Knife-like versatility with a Wilkinson WHHB humbucker in the bridge position, a WHS single coil in the middle, and a WDG mini-humbucker at the neck. The wiring loom consists of a master volume, a concentric tone and Vari-coil control, and five-way pickup selector switch. Let's back up a little. 'Concentric' means that the tone and Vari-coil are stacked. The tone is the large knob on the bottom; the Vari-coil is the smaller knob on the top. What's a Vari-coil? It's a variable coil-tap that shuts off a proportion of a humbucker's windings to produce single coil-like output and tone as you turn the control down - handy.
