Squier Paranormal Custom Nashville Stratocaster
With countless brands mixing up the design cues, Squier’s Paranormal range not only recreates some of Fender’s more leftfield designs but, as here, mashes-up two classics. The build quality proves very good, using poplar for the body ( just like PRS’s SE Silver Sky model, and the Shergold Telstar opposite), plus a bolt-on maple neck and laurel fingerboard with a modern 241mm (9.5-inch) radius. The modded mash-up vibe continues with the Tele-style bridge and neck pickup, a Strat’s middle pickup and a ‘seven sound’ mod pull-switch on the tone control. “A triumphant display of repurposing,” we said.