drunkinminer

A good Gibson. Sorry don't have a pic as they don't exist.

How about telling us what you are looking for and see if anyone here has it.

Mexi Fender, please! A sig model for under $1000 that I'd feel good about having my name on. e: Make it a nitro-finished non-relic'd Mexi strat for under $1000. You'd sell a million! Beat me to it. That would be my pick as well.

I win.....for now. no i did

I don't remember seeing him around recently, so maybe something has happened... Wonder why?

I wish I had cheap taste, but I don't. That's why everything in my life is so good I guess. Talking to this guy is like:deadhorse: BTW I didn't say that I couldn't afford nor did say that the MIAs were junk, it's just that I couldn't find a MIA that spoke to me. I unlike you a guitar has to speak to me before I buy it. I bet you went into the shop and bought the first MIA you saw without trying it because it was MIA it must be better. I'm done wasting my time on the likes you. I have to go play my 'cheap MIM".

Comparing MIA standards to MIM standards, there is no comparison. I am only a hobby player and would never own a standard MIM. Call me a snob but my 08 MIA standard cannot be compared. It is better in every way. I have owned 4 or 5 of each. Some MIM strats are good, just not the standard ones. I would beg to differ their but as with all snobs there is no changing their minds. But then again that's not what I'm here for. But I will say this when I bought both of my MIMs I tried every Tele in the shop MIM MIA and Squier and the MIM were better hands down and that was with two neck pickups that were muddy.

Someone @Fender told me that the MIM neck and bodies are made in the States, then take a short trip over the border for painting and assembly. I own 1 MIA Strat, 1 MIA Tele, 1 MIM, Strat, 1 MIM Tele. I change pups and do other mods on all. Slight preference for MIA neck. The similarities far outweigh differences. One of the factors that I took into consideration when I bought my two MIMs were that I was going to swap pretty much everything but the body and neck. after converting one into a Esquire and the other I swapped the tuners bridge Pickups and a few other things more for looks I still came out cheaper the if I had gone MIA. I just couldn't justify spending that much if I was going to swap parts anyway. And I must I've been pleased with how both turned out. So to me it doesn't matter if it's a Squier, MIM, MIA, or any other at the end of the day as long as you are the one who gets enjoyment out of playing it then nothing else should matter.

It's interesting that you say this because I believe, per a recent article done by a guy who'd just toured the Mexican plants, the necks for the MIMs are, in fact, made in the states and sent down. Hmmm..... That's true and so are the bodies.

I don't think it matters as long as you like it.

I own two MIM Standard Teles. I tried out everything in the shop MIA included and to me I just could not find a MIA that I could bond with. The two that I did bond with the only problem I had was the neck pickup on both. they just seemed lifeless. but that problem got solved with a Seymour Duncan STL1 and a STR! in the Tele and a STL1b in the Esquire solved that. After modding the bridge and tuners and a few other minor mods it sounds better then any of the other MIAs that I tried in shop. And after mods it still cost me less then what a MIA would cost. One other thing, when people hear both guitars they can't believe that they are MIMs. In fact I had one guy argue with me after I told him it was a MIM that there was no way it was a MIM because it didn't sound like a MIM. And this business about MIAs haveing nicer maple is bull I've seen alot of MIMs with flamed maple mecks and this was on the Standards. So to answer the OPs question I would have to go with the MIM.