Fender Squier Double Fat Telecaster Deluxe

I don't know the details other than it's a Korean made Squire, mahogany body, rosewood board. Just the basics, Tele style, 22 frets, two humbuckers, one tone, one volume and a coil cut. Fully adjustable bridge.

I play everything from Blues to Bop, and this baby handles it. Through my Line 6 plexi model, it nails that Clapton Bluesbraker period sound cold. And with the Recto models, it really sounds like a Paul when you hit those big open power chords. Through a clean setting with the tone rolled back, it gets a decent faux archtop sound. I don't use the coil cut much, as I bought this for the humbucker sound. I am really suprised how good these "Duncan designed" pickups sound.

Well it came with 009's which are light for my taste, but still played in tune well and with easy action. There was a small scratch on the top of one of the frets, but hey at this price? No other problems. I took it to a pro to have it set up with 10's.

For an inexpensive axe, it's very well made. It definetly seems like a solid instrument. I always take both a strat type and a humbucker guitar to gigs, and while this is not quite as good sounding as my 30+ year old 335, it's still good enough to fill the role.

Overall I would rate this guitar a 10. The sound is absolutely incredible considering the price. I have been playing for over 30 years, and have owned Andersons, Pauls, 335's Strat's,jazz boxes, you name it, and have played virtually evrything else. This guitar is the best value I have ever encountered in a solidbody. I wanted a "beater" guitar with humbuckers I could take to jams. i got a lot more than I thought I would. When I start to gig again next year, this baby will be on the bandstand as my humbucker axe. It would be worth it at twice the price. I can't even imagine how good it would sound with a set of real Duncan's.

2002 model all in black. All mahogany body & neck, rosewood board, fat frest string-thru body etc etc. It has enough features to make it usable for what I want. Hence the 10 rating. Others have described 'em all better than me.

Used with USA-type pre-amp overdrive (recto setting on Line 6 Flextone II). Sounds great now I swapped the bridge pickup for a Seymour Duncan Invader and put 012-052 strings on it (but still tuned E-E concert pitch).

Variety? I bought it for one sound. That's what I got! stacks and stacks of low end, enough cut to slice through a mix of bass drums and another guitar, and the ability to sound really evil with mids rolled off.

Setup great from the factory. No complaints whatsoever. The design and the build quality are superb. Fact is though, altjough it wears a Squier badge and a Fender registered mark it's actually a Cort!!! These things are made in Korea at the Cort factory, and a damned fine job they make of it too.

It gets played at home, rehearsed with and gigged. I always fit straploks and never gig without a backup. It'll last, in fact I think the only problem will be it'll look too new for too long!!!

This is Fender right? Best idea would be to learn to fix things yourself or get to know someone who can.

Playing 23 years and still love hard in-your-face music but like the timeless style of a Tele, especially its profile. This thing looks like a Tele and sounds like a hot-rodded Les Paul. The stock pickups were OK but the Seymour Duncan Invader tops it off. Altogether better than any other guitar I've owned from Les Pauls through Flying Vs, Jacksons, ESPs to Ibanez Jems and indeed any guitar I've played. I suppose it just fits what I want to play so well. My other live guitar is a Gibson Gothic Flying V which only really beats the Double Fat Tele in pose factor. In every other aspect it's inferior.

If it were stolen or lost I would HAVE to get another.

Made c. 2001, Korean made(better than mexican, just as good as U.S.)
22 frets on a rosewood board, carved mohogany body, metallic black,
1 tone, 1 volume(who needs more?) 3 way rythem/trebel switching, dual humbuckers(yes on a tele that's why I bought it) although now it has emg 81 & 85's in her(Zakk Wylde set-up) the guitar is a neck-through-body(not bolt on) great for sustain, solid mohogany, set bridge(death to floy rose) the neck is a bit bigger than a regular tele which makes it great for lead but still small enough for people who don't have long fingers like me.

I play metal, that's right I use a telecaster for metal. To top it off I don't even play my Ibanez anymore and those are awesome metal guitars, but not compared to this. I plug it into a crate half stack which give me a nice low crunch and awesome clean. Effect? Use your imagination. As far as the sound of the guitar...before the emgs and ghs boomers(10's) it still had a very nice mellow sound, then heavy dark crunch on distortion. I play blues, rock, metal, and yes country, and this guitar never ceases to amaze me, no matter what style I play. The guitar had an 8 sound rating before the new strings and pickups, now it's a 10.

I bought it used but still in mint condition. I don't know what the factory specs were. As far as I go, I have no action. The lower the better. My guitar has no cosmetic flaws or defects. Gorgous guitar.

I tell you what Ibanez makes the toughest guitars, hands down. I don't want to find out this guitar's durrability. My strap came off one of my Ibanez's in a practice a few years and it dropped on to cement. I about had a heart attack. It put a little ding in it but nothing more. Ibanez is invincible. But I have never tested the durrabily of any of my other guitars since that day. I baby them. I put strap locks on all of them and keep them in a hard shell flight case. I don't take any chances, I cry if I every broke one.

Common it's fender what support? Get a warrenty from your local music store. They will help you more than any manufacturer will.

I've been playing for 4 years. I have a '58 Les Paul Gold Top(yes true '58 mint cond.) a '67 Tele and '68 Strat, Three Ibanez's A GRX20, GAX75, and the granddaddy of all metal guitars an '85 RG550, and now this beautifull Squier Tele. I will never part with any of them. I want more and I'm now thinking about buying a Squier Bullet and putting an emg 85 in it. Squier is very cheap, but new pickups will make any well made body and neck a high end guitar.

sounds pretty good with humbuckers.

I just got it and have to go thru and tune the action and intonation...should be no problem. I especially like the feel of the narrow dimension of the telecaster neck.

Don't know about durability yet. It feels very light and probably not ready for serious abuse. It really reminds me of an old Silvertone guitar. Mine has a nice finish, so i don't plan to bash it around. I like old crappy guitars like Silvertones, Danelctro, Mosrite, etc, and this one really fits nice in that category. Call me wierd, but I like the "cheap feel" of a guitar like this.

I've always wanted a telecaster, and this one is especially cool. The single piece build, archtop, and humbuckers and paintjob all work to make it a friggin' sweet guitar. I'm in love with it. I don't even play it, I just sit and caress its sexy body :O

Two Duncan Designed Humbuckers , mahogany set neck and carved to body. Rosewood fingerboard , mettalic blue finish. bridge pickup coilsplitter , Big frets. Made in Korea

Sounds great , great sustain , rich tone

I lowered the action and put heavier strings on it. The workmanship on this guitar is first-rate. This guitar just feels great in your hands.

solid

forget about it , immpossible to reach fender. Im not sure about the warranty , but I am sure it would be easier climbing Mt Everest than contacting fender.

A really terrific ax for rock , blues ect. I think they sould have made these in more adult colors like wine red , vintage sunburst , brown ect. I dont think of this guitar as a teenage type guitar like the stagemasters , so I think squier might have had more success if they marketed this guitar as more of an adult guitar. It has been discontinued unfortunatly. Having 2 tone and 2 vol. pots like a LP might have bee nice too. Cant cost too much for 2 pots.

Tele body Style, Mahogany neck & body, red metallic finish, two humbuckers, coil spiltting tone knob. I did buy a hard case, because gig bags are worthless.

Duncan Designed Humbucking pickup sound good. Duncan "Designed" means they weren't made by Duncan, but ratther by Squier from a Duncan design. I replaced the bridge pickup with a Gibson 490T. Now the guitar sounds just like a Les Paul! The tone rating went from a 7 to a 9!

This guitar was made very nicely! Who knew a Korian guitar could be made this well? The action, frets and paint job of this guitar are as nice as my $600 USA Gibson Les Paul Special.

OK, seems well made.

It's insane that I paid only $200 for this guitar and put a $40 used Gibson pickup in it. It sounds just like my Les Paul. This guitar is as nice (or nicer) than the $500-700 USA Gibsons. A Les Paul in a tele body... Too Cool! All for only $240.

To the people embarrassed by owning a Squier... Don't be a snob aboout name brands. It's the guitar's playabilty and sound that matter... not it's name. I have an American Fender tele, a Gibson Les Paul Special, a Yamaha AES1500, a Martin J40, and a Gibson J45 (among others), and I'm proud to play this fine guitar. It rocks (especially for only $200).

I bought this guitar in 2002, im not sure when it was made. It's korean made which is nice cuz that means u don't hafta pay twice the amount of money for an american made guitar. it has a volume knob, a tone knob, and a three way selector. It has a bridge and a neck humbucker, nothing in between. The pickups are duncan design and they sound great on clean and distortion. im pretty sure the body and neck are mohogany, and the fret board is rosewood. it has a tapered body, and looks great in black and dark blue. its got a regular tele style bridge, and no locking mechanism, which is nice because the locking mechanisms always screw up the tuning of the guitar. It has 22 frets which are really big and very easy to play.no accesories were included when i bought mine.

This guitar is everything i want and more. for my style (punk/ska/hardcore) it is excellent, and ive never had a problem with it, except for a slight buzzing sound which was easily fixed with thiner gauge strings. I use a Peavey Studio Pro 112 and it sounds great. it also sounds good in my buddies marshall valvestate. The sound is really, really full, almost too full, but i find that turning down the bass and turning up the treble suits the guitar really well. Not a whole lot of variety when it comes to different sounds but my amp compensates for that.

The action on the guitar is excellent. it seems to play very easily, and chord switching is very easy. there were no flaws in the placement of pickups, or routing of the bridge, or or in the wood, or the tuning pegs. simply said, there were no problems with the guitar at all, except for the buzzing sound caused by thick gauge strings.

This guitar will, and has withstood live playing quite well, no problems there. the hardware is great im sure it will last for a lifetime, i plan to eventually upgrade the pickups, but for now these are just what i need. the strap buttons are quite solid, my strap on the other hand wasn't but that was easily solved. i always play with a backup anyway because i usually use both of my guitars for most of my shows anyway, but i suppose you could play without a backup.

i've never had to deal with fender.

i've been playing for about two years now, my only other guitar is a yamaha pacifica which has held up well, considering what i put it through. This guitar seems like it will step up to the challenge and im sure i will have it for quite a long time. If it were lost or stolen i might replace it simply because i love the sound, although i might just upgrade to something like a les paul. I love its sound when on distortion, and its really easy tuning. i hate how easy it is to play because i find myself pressing too hard on the strings causing them to bend and put the guitar out of tune. i dont really have one favorite feature i just like the whole guitar. I compared it to the fender telecaster and the squier single fat tele. both guitars were satisfactory but i chose this one becasue of the humbuckers, i really like the sound i get when on the bridge pickup and none of the other telecaters had a bridge humbucker. i wish it had the classic telecaster look, dont get me wrong i think it look alright as it is, but i really wish it looked like the classic tele.

Korean built, all mahogany, set neck, Tele shape with contoured top. Twin coil tapped Duncan-designed humbuckers. Through body stringing.

Fat frets, virtually all hardware finished in black, black metallic lacquering.

Looks like it is a premium quality guitar, all except the Squier name, but who cares about names, huh?!!!

I wanted a guitar to fill the sonic hole in my band's sound, heavy, aggressive and loads of bottom-end.

It does that like it was made for it. The sound it produces has inspired many a riff.

Yeah it's versatile enough with the coil taps especially, but I have a USA standard Tele that does that kind of sound better than anything, so low down grunt is where it's at for this guitar.

Fantastic!!!!!

Superbly set up straight out of the box, no complaints whatsoever!!

Used it quite a bit since I got it and it still looks brand new.

I'm pretty certain it will be 100% dependable and reliable.

I NEVER gig without a backup but I can see that I won't be using the backup much at all.

Never dealt with them for this guitar but have talked to Fender in the past and found them very helpful.

Look if I had the chance to ask Fender to produce me just one guitar that suited me to a tee they couldn't have produced anything better.

It's almost like that, and what's great is that they produced it in Korea so rather than paying over #1000 for it, it retails at less than half that.

Short of detuning severely you will not find a guitar with such low-end grunt anywhere in my opinion.

Tune to drop-D and the Double Fat is an absolute monster. The other guitarist in my band plays with an almost clean-crunch sound and the bass player has a tone loaded at the top end from his Rickenbacker. My role is to fill out the bottom end somewhat, so I Drop-D-tune and cut all the mids, set the bass on about 6 and treble on 10 with lots of gain.

My amp setup complements the Double Fat perfectly. It's a Marshall MG100DFX head with the Marshall MG series 4x12" cab.

In short, if you want a real angry, bassy growl without having to detune, go for this guitar. if you want a "conventional" PRS/Gibson type sound it would make sense to buy 1 of these and change the pickups because the guitar itself is top notch.

I've been playing 22 years now and still playing in Punk bands although I also sing now.

I've had literally dozens of guitars and formed a "bond" with only 1 so far, my USA Standard Fender Tele. However, as this guitar was a present, and because it does what I want it to do so damned well I can see me keeping it for the rest of my playing days.

I'm proud to use it, and if Squier can build a guitar this good then I for one will promote their name.

Double humbucker, set neck blah blah blah, you know the score. Got mine in the dark blue finish. Mmm, purdy.

My prime aim for getting axe was for the Black Francis/Pixies vibe. I play in the UKs OOOOONLLLLLLY (as far as we know) Pixies tribute, and since Frank used a Tele with 2 buckers, this was poy-fect. Features a universal vol and tone, the tone pulls for coil tap.

The coiltap is a wicked feature, it really opens out the possibities of what could be a limited guitar. Weezer to Dire Straits in a blink.

Decent strapbuttons, all securely screwed on, got the usual pack of allen keys with it, standard stuff. I'm a happy bunny.

I'm using the Tele with a Marshall DSL50 amphead into a Trace Elliot 4x12 cab. The clean channel sounds great with this guitar, but the already biting (gotta change those stock preamp tubes!) distortion channel is a little overwhelmed with the trebley Tele. So again, be careful with EQ settings.

Right, like I said, I bought this primarily for the Pixies sound, but also for use in my own alt.rock-surf-pop ventures, and the thing is great. Both pickups in coiltap mode is a very passable 'Doolittle' era Pixies tone (I think Frank used a standard Tele in the studio), and to the bridge for some more nasty chunky groooves ala 'Trompe Le Monde'. I set the amp cleany-crunch and use a low gain Boss DS-2 as a boost. There's a little noise in coiltap mode, but thats the done deal.

For use in my own stuff, its pretty cool too. I tend to use a smoother, kinda more "classic rock" sound (not the style i write in but like the sounds) and the pickups do have a bit of a nasty bite to them- rolling down the volume and tone a little can tame it enough, thought. At the moment, I'm using the DS2 to kick the clean channel (set to crunch). Pretty damn nice.

I'm considering putting in a new set of smoother pickups in next year but dont wanna risk losing the Pixies sound. Not sure what i'll do yet.

Out of the box, it played great. I changed the stock 9's to 10s and it doesnt play quite as nice now, despite messing with the action. I'll probly get it set up professional soon.

Couldnt even see a fingerprint on the guitar, perfect condition, not one sharp fret or loose screw. Fender done good with Squier this time.

I've only done one show and about 3 rehearsals with the Tele so far but i've had no problems at all with it. Okay one problem- all that dark paint (its got a painted neck, headstock, the lot) and a rosewood fretboard aint half hard to see on a dim stage! I kept hitting bum chords, I wish they'd made the fret markers on the side on the neck lighter and bigger. But, I guess I just have to adjust till it all comes naturally again..

I was using a Fender Jaguar prior to the Tele, and I feel a lot "safer" with the Tele. No more strings popping out of the crappy bridge, no more knocking the circuit switch.. yay :D

Never dealt with Fender.

I've been playing for 7 years, and just formed the Pixies tribute this March. Without getting the exact model Black Francis used, I think this is as close as i'll get for a while. Plus, his had a Floyd Rose. Ew.

I suppose if I got to custom design my own, I'd maybe have volume and tone controls for each pup, and move the selector switch to the lower horn, but thats just ideal.

Its definately flexible enough to use in the Pixies tribute and my own material, theres 6 totally usable sounds on tap, theres a lot o noises in this thing.

Definately worth a careful look, dont let the brand (or stupidly long name) put you off- its a very well made axe.

www.Nimrods-Son.cjb.net for more info on the Pixies tribute. Thanks!

good for it price mahongony body and neck rose wood fret board 22 jumbo frets black hardware fixed bridge coil tap generic tuners 2 humbuckers your basic shit

im in a street punk band called stereo threat (check us out on mp3.com) i play mostly les pauls but i got his just to check it out the pick ups were shitty in my opinion they were very dark and muddy sounding i swapped them out for duncan jb's and it sounds great

it plays good its average weight carved top which play better than a flat for some reasonintonates perfectly neck plays fast and is set for more sustain

dont ask me i only use it at home i gig with les pauls

never fucked with them

its cool it works it sounds good since i changed the pick ups but not my first choice