Personally:

I'd upgrade the pickups on the Squier. Wait, get the American strat also, then add the upgrdaded pickups from the Squier to the USA Strat, and the factory pickups from the USA Strat to the Squier. But it all depends on which guitar plays better (which I would assume is the USA Strat).

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