ST-62 SB Vintage Series : Great guitar if you're looking for the single coil sound

I'll start off with some pros and cons

Pros: The sound is ridiculously good on it, the neck pick up is the best in my opinion but that's with strats in general for me. The tuners are actually pretty good, they're better than on my HB35+ which is about ¤100 more. The hardware feels pretty solid and not easily broken. It definitely looks the part too, I want to paint the pick guard black though, just because I like it more, not because it's terribly offensive to look at (to me at least). There are not sharp fret ends poking out and the output jack is well set and the set up in general is decent. I've only tested Squires in shops, never had one but I've tested a lot: Affinities, Standards, Classic Vibes etc. And I think quality wise it stands between a standard and classic vibe which is pretty good in it of itself.

Cons: There are the usual finish problems you can expect from an HB (although my HB35+ was absolutely perfect) only two though, I'll upload the pictures later. The neck is not what I expected, I expected a skinny neck considering its supposed to be a sixties strat (correct me if I'm wrong!!) but the neck is not much thinner than the hollow body the plastic pickguard protection is annoying as balls as I haven't been able to remove it from under the knobs and when using them it sounds like the guitar came from a cereal box. The colour on the pick ups and the knobs don't match the pick ups are frost white I would say and the knobs are vintage White (you can't really tell from the first picture). By far the biggest con though and I'm sure this an honest mistake and can just get one somewhere else is that the included trembar doesn't fit through the bridge, it's too thick, maybe I'm missing something?

All in all I'm pretty happy with it and I do plan on keeping it for those SRV tones not doing the whole 13 gauge thing though, hope this was helpful for at least one person! *Ps forgive the mistakes it was only so you could hear the sound of it going exclusively through a boss Katana 50, what can I say, I'm a student on a budget and both pieces of gear are giggable so that's a win in my book.