5 ways that Fender and Squier can improve their guitars

As much as i love Fender and their guitars, there’s definitely ways in which they can improve their instruments and here’s five:

1. Widen the nut holes. Seriously, why can’t i just pick up a guitar and play it, why do i always have to grab my file and hope for the best because your nuts struggle to handle anything higher than 10’s. What if someone learned on acoustic and is used to those strings, has an aggressive playing style like myself and needs heavier strings so they don’t keep breaking them, or just wants to detune to something like drop C, why not just have a nut that can handle 12’s and 13’s instead of forcing people to risk damaging their guitar necks. After all, Strats used to come out of the factory strung with 12-52’s and it’s much easier to play a guitar when the holes are too wide than it is when they’re too narrow, so making this easy fix would definitely satisfy your big gauge players without hurting your delicate players who prefer lighter gauges.
2. Loosen the nut. For some reason, the nut on your average Strat is really tight so it’s hard to get out and especially hard to put back in. As a lefty player, i’d love a nut that i can remove and flip with ease but whenever i try that, the wood above the neck splits and you need a new neck and if the new neck costs the same or more than the guitar itself, then you end up throwing out a perfectly good guitar.
3. All springs out of box. If you’re using a heavier set of strings like Beefy, Not Even, or Mammoth in standard tuning, you’ll definitely want to have all 5 springs on your bridge to anchor it down and if you want a floating tremolo, all you have to do is remove 2 springs. However, Strats only come stock with 3 and to pour salt on an open wound, some newer models only allow you to install 3.
4. Remove backplate. Even without the backplate, it can be difficult to swap strings, so why make it even harder for people to do so. Of course, it’s very easy to remove it once and not put it back on but it’d definitely save money to not even include it on lower end models.
5. Cut out unnessecary parts on non-classic models. Seriously, your average Strat player doesn’t use the tone knobs and only uses the neck and bridge pickups. So instead of having 3 pickups, a 5 way switch, a volume knob, and 2 tone knobs, why not just have 2 pickups (one for neck and one for bridge) and a volume knob for each. This way, you save a lot of money by removing parts people don’t use.
   Do these 5 things and you’ll make your guitars a lot better.