Porretto

Bill Lawrence is known for his pick-up design and his long career as a German guitarist. In fact, when visiting the Framus Museum in March Germany, you can learn of his influential musical career when he was known as Billy Lorento. Always interested in electronic, he applied his two interests and soon developed his own pick-up for the guitar. Over the years he has introduced a long line of innovative electronic products

So one day I got the itch to have a twangy Stratocaster added to my guitar line up and I went hunting on the internet. After about 3 weeks of searching on eBay and craigslist.org, and reading that these are really good guitars, in fact some say too good. This Fender Squire series took down 23% of the USA Fender Stratocasters sales in 1996 so Fender USA decided to quit the production.

The insiders know this and since then they are very sought after by collectors and players. This one has a solid ash body, maple neck with rosewood fret board, 21 frets, 3 very good sounding single coils.

Here is a link to the reviews of the Squire Pro Tone at HarmonyCentral.com.

I came across this damaged Squire Pro Tone by Fender in a red translucent thick poly coat with gold hardware. Fender put these Squire Pro Tones out from 1996 - 1998 and took them off the shelves around 1999 because they were cutting into real American Fender Stratocaster sales (not Squire).