{"product_id":"squier-paranormal-stratocaster-deluxe-maple-fingerboard-lake-placid-blue","title":"Squier Paranormal Stratocaster Deluxe Electric Guitar, Maple Fingerboard, Lake Placid Blue","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSquier Paranormal Stratocaster Deluxe Electric Guitar, Maple Fingerboard, Lake Placid Blue\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Paranormal series exists to build the guitars Fender never got around to making, and this one is a proper what-if: a Stratocaster wearing the pickguard, the pickup pair and the oversized headstock of a 1970s Deluxe. A chrome-covered single-coil sits up at the neck where a Telecaster keeps its warmest pickup, a full-size humbucker fills the bridge slot, and the whole thing is finished in Lake Placid Blue over a white pickguard. It looks like something that fell out of a parallel 1974 — and it plays like a modern Squier, which is the good half of the deal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo pickups doing two very different jobs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe neck position carries a Fender-Designed alnico single-coil in a chrome cover — the Telecaster-style unit, not a Strat one. It gives you that rounded, slightly compressed response with the top end tucked in behind it, the sound players chase for clean chord work and thumb-and-fingers playing. At the bridge there is a Fender-Designed alnico humbucker with real output behind it: it pushes an amp into breakup where a single-coil would still be polite, and it stays quiet under stage lighting and computer screens. Two pickups this far apart in character give you a genuinely wide range rather than three flavours of the same idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe push\/pull that doubles the bridge\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePull up on the tone control and the bridge humbucker splits to a single coil. That is the setting that makes this guitar make sense as a one-guitar rig — the humbucker for the heavy end of the set, the split coil for the spanky, glassy bridge sound a Strat is supposed to have, and the neck single-coil for everything warm. No pedal, no amp channel, just the knob you already have your hand on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eDeluxe-era hardware and looks\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe large headstock is the giveaway: natural maple, black Squier logo, exactly the oversized outline Fender used through the '70s, and it adds a little mass behind the nut that you feel in the sustain. The bridge is a six-saddle vintage-style synchronised tremolo with the arm threaded in, so you have individual intonation and length adjustment plus a gentle vibrato when you want it. Vintage-style tuners keep the look consistent, the skirted amp-style knobs are lifted straight from the Deluxe playbook, and the hardware is chrome throughout. The three-ply parchment pickguard covers the whole lower half of the body the way the original Deluxe guards did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBuilt to be played, not admired\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe body is nyatoh under gloss polyurethane, with the belly cut and forearm contour a Stratocaster has always had — the reason a Strat sits comfortably against you where a slab body does not. The bolt-on maple neck is a \"C\" profile, which is the shape most hands find neutral, topped with a maple fingerboard, black dot inlays and 22 narrow-tall frets over a 9.5\" radius. That combination is deliberate: the flatter modern radius lets you bend without choking out, and narrow-tall wire gives you height to grab under your fingers without a wide crown pulling notes sharp. Micarta nut, 42 mm wide, 25.5\" scale, .009–.042 nickel-plated steel strings from the factory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it suits\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone who wants Strat comfort and Strat geometry but has never quite got on with three single-coils. Players covering a lot of ground in one set — cleans, crunch, a proper heavy bridge sound — get all three without a guitar change. And if you have wanted a '70s Deluxe for the look and never wanted to pay vintage money or deal with vintage weight, this is the shortcut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet up in-store by Guitar World Australia's techs before it ships to you, so it plays perfectly the moment it arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eBrand\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSquier\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eModel\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eParanormal Stratocaster Deluxe\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eSeries\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eParanormal\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eColour\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLake Placid Blue\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eBody\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNyatoh\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eBody Finish\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGloss polyurethane\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eBody Shape\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eStratocaster, with belly and forearm contours\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eNeck Finish\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolyurethane\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eFingerboard\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaple\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003ePosition Inlays\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBlack dot\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eHeadstock\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLarge '70s Stratocaster, natural maple\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eNeck Pickup\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFender-Designed alnico single-coil (Telecaster-style, chrome cover)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eBridge Pickup\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFender-Designed alnico humbucking\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003ePickup Configuration\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003ePickup Switching\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3-position blade: bridge humbucker \/ both \/ neck single-coil\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eControls\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaster volume, master tone (push\/pull coil split on the bridge humbucker)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eBridge\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6-saddle vintage-style synchronised tremolo\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003ePickguard\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3-ply parchment\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eControl Knobs\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSkirted amp knobs\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eFingerboard Radius\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9.5\" (241 mm)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eNumber of Frets\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eFret Size\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNarrow Tall\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eNut Material\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMicarta\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eNut Width\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1.650\" (42 mm)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eScale Length\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25.5\" (648 mm)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eNeck Material\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaple\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eNeck Shape\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\"C\" Shape\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eNeck Construction\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBolt-on, 4-bolt\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align:left;\"\u003eTuning 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