Squier Update

After shielding the project strat, I decided the first thing that needed to be changed were the crappy tuners. The stock tuning machines were:
a) old 'vintage' style, rounder than the standard fender strat ones.
b) made shitty. hard to turn. really had to crank on them to tune up.
c) poorly designed. Big a clunky, plus the mechanics themselves were poorly thought out. 3-4 full cranks only got you 1 revolution of the peg.Long story short, I took off the old tuners and put them in a sack. A garbage sack. I made a trip to the local Guitar Center and purchased a few upgrades. First in line were the new precision tuners, featured below, which were smoother, faster, and more 'stratocaster' looking. Also, I'd heard that Squier (a cheaper Fender line for those who don't know...) uses EXTREMELY cheap switches and potentiometers (pots) for the volume and tone knobs. Therefore, I also purchased a new volume pot and a standard Fender 5-way switch. The last picture is during the soldering stage of the upgrade process.