Notices
Fender's Bill Schultz passes.
In Fond Memory
Guitar Sales.
The Squier JV Pages will not be held responsible for any misleading for sale ad's or eBay links in the 'JV Forum' or indeed on this page, and any advertisment that is persued by yourselves is entirely at your own risk!
Amended Info.
As stated on the home page, it is my intention that only accurate information will be printed on this site, but all the time new infomation is being made available, and some info may occationally be amended (hopefully not too often) All information has to be verified somehow (not easy!...unless you worked at the factory!).
Broken Links.
Please could you let me know of any broken links within these pages via the JV Forum,
thank you!
The 1984 to 1987 Squier Standard models ('E' series)
In answer to a lot of questions that I have recieved about the 'E' series, and the absence of the 'E' series models on this website:
The lack of info about the 'E' series on this site is simply because this is primarily a site dedicated to the first two years of Fender Japan and the Squier and Fender JV models. Yes it is true that the 90's Pro Tone's were added later, but this addition alone has vastly increased the amount of time that has to be spent answering emails, updating the website etc, etc! So I'm sure you can appreceate that adding information to the site on yet another model would be too time consuming.
The Japanese 'E' series Squiers are in my opinion excellent guitars (as are the early 90's Silver Series models), and like the SQ's, they are made entirely from Japanese parts, (though they are a little more loosely based on the originals than the JV series).
Despite being officially known as the 'Squier Standard Series' in the UK, they were often known as the Silver Series because of their silver Squier logo, though the true official Silver Series came a bit later on (approx. 1991 1993). Interestingly, during the mid 80's the JV series guitars were known by some as the gold series for the same reason, though they soon became universally known as the JV series.
It is very likely that the same JV tooling was used for the 'E' Stratocaster models, along with pickguards, knobs, pots, caps trem covers,and possibly a few other parts on a few earlier guitars.
I can only offer my apologies to fans / owners of the 'E' series guitars for not including them on this website, and it is no reflection on their excellent build quality (Eventually I will try to include some helpful info on 'E' series guitars.)
Referencing pictures on this site for restoration of guitars back to original specification:
If you are considering returning a non standard JV guitar back to it's original spec, and you require pictures to help you along the way, then please refer primarily to the guitar model pages, and please check all info supplied with the pictures in question (throughout the site!), as some pictures show guitars with post production changes / mods etc, i.e; 57 Strats with 62 guards, tortie guards on Strats and so on.
Please also note that a couple of owners pictures are featured on some of the model pages, and some of the guitars shown may have been modified.
Again, please check all site info carefully before proceeding with any work, and if you are still not sure, then please email me via the home page link, or post a question on the JV Forum.
Thank You!
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