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There's only a handful of ways to get decently priced gear shipped free to PR. The main ways are buying on ebay from MF and music123, and as I recently discovered: buy from hardluck kings (hurl).

Say hello to today's music123 purchase: a Black Squier Cyclone. I would've preferred LPB, but that would mean ordering through their website and paying shipping. Plus, I prefer used instruments... always have. I would've posted this thread earlier, but I decided to wait until I had a tracking number, since it's pretty hit or miss with orders to Puerto Rico- some ship, some get canceled by the seller and the purchaser gets a refund. Well, i got that tracking number.

I've got a few ideas about what I'm gonna do to it. So far I'm thinking new pickups (this or this on the neck, and this or this for the bridge), a white comp stripe, and new saddles.

Anyway, here's the pics of the guitar from ebay. Hopefully it'll be here next week

Black looks good. We have Daphne Blue, Surf Green, Fiesta Red and Olympic White ones in Canada.

don't u have friends or relatives in NYC? enough dudes go to PR from NYC that you should be able to get shit smuggled to u pretty easily...

If ya need something shipped, I'd be happy to help ya out next time. I've got a P.O. Box at the post office, I'm at the post office every few days to get my mail anyways, so I can pick it up and ship it at the same time.

Used versions of these have already surfaced??? WTF???

brainfur wrote:don't u have friends or relatives in NYC? enough dudes go to PR from NYC that you should be able to get shit smuggled to u pretty easily...

I've got plenty of them, all over the US. Hell, I own a house in Orlando. I usually have stuff shipped to my sister's house in Miami, since she travels back and forth a lot.

Joey wrote:If ya need something shipped, I'd be happy to help ya out next time. I've got a P.O. Box at the post office, I'm at the post office every few days to get my mail anyways, so I can pick it up and ship it at the same time.

Thanks for the offer. I'll keep that in mind for the next time. Right now, I've got 3 new guitars on the way (2 from the states, one sourced locally) plus parts for my lefty strat project, so I don't think I'm gonna be ordering anything until after summer. But I'll definitely hit you up then if I need to.

Pens wrote:Used versions of these have already surfaced??? WTF???

It's the first one I've seen.

I bought a Cyclone off eBay a few months ago and I love it. I installed the Dream 180's that Guitar fetish sells and I could not be happier. There is little to no hum when not playing and they sound great. Here is a picture of mine.

You got a demo online with those pickups?

karmataburn wrote:I bought a Cyclone off eBay a few months ago and I love it. I installed the Dream 180's that Guitar fetish sells and I could not be happier. There is little to no hum when not playing and they sound great. Here is a picture of mine.

That looks awesome! Kinda like a pawn shop Mustang

No I do not have an online Demo yet. But that is a good idea maybe I will put something up. I never realized it but it does look like a pawn shop Mustang. My only complaint about my Cyclone is how heavy the guitar is. I think it has the thickest body I have ever owned.

Looks amazing. Be sure to post again when you have it in your hands

I think I've decided on the pickups.

This is the definite neck choice: http://www.guitarfetish.com/Brighton-Ro ... _1515.html

And one of these for bridge: http://www.guitarfetish.com/GFS-Pro-Tub ... p_352.html
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Surf-90-Bla ... _1511.html

From a strictly aesthetic viewpoint, the Surf 90 wins.. and I do like how they sound, but hearing the Lipstick humbucker with some distortion gave me second thoughts (video below, starts at 7:08)

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So... anyone have issues with Music123 and shipping? They supposedly shipped it Thursday (Friday AM), but the tracking information is stuck like this:

Well, the Cyclone arrived this morning. First impressions.

1- I can't believe I only paid $160 for this guitar (and got free Priority Mail shipping!). The fit and finish are almost perfect - 2 sharp fret ends on the 6th and 7th fret, but I can take care of that.

2- Action was perfect out of the box.

3- I love how it sounds clean on both pickups. I tried it through the Orange Bedroom amp, and through my Fender DSP 212, and it sounded great clean through both. However, once it gets distorted, the bridge pickup sounds quite muddy, and the neck pickup quite thin and metallic. Together and distorted, they compensate enough for the shortcomings of each other to sound halfway decent.

So the pickups are gonna go.

And mandatory pics:

looks pretty cool!

Looks nice my friend. Do want.

Ridiculously good value for money! Looks great.

looks great in black!

look great. gratz. do u intend to install any trem?

I'm going to block the strat trem it came with