Fender Squier Affinity Series Strat

It has 10 pick-ups and 31 frets

How does it suit your music style (and what is that style)?
I can play come as you are..and it sounds just like kurt cobain i think im gonna be good at this getar stuff

Is it noisy? On what settings?

Well, yeah silly

What kind of sounds can the guitar make? How much variety?
I once had a friend of mine fart into to that thingy that goes into the hole of the getar and the hole of the amp...so i guess my guitar can fart

How well were the pickups adjusted?
Well it is easy to pick up
Properly bookmatched top? Properly routed bridge? No i didn't buy i

Well one of those string things feel off so i had to throw it away

Huh??? what do you mean..ohhh i bought it from some really fat hillbillish typa guy for $500 he said it was a good price for such a great getar

Not much i can say.....i liked it untill that string thingy feel off and i had to throw it away

said before

i used this as a beginner guitar
the tone is thin and crappy
very noisy pickups
bad bad bad
very cheap wood so sound doesn't resonate
SINGLE COILS AREN'T FOR HARD ROCK! MAYBE FOR CLEAN MELODIC CHORD STRUMMING?

poorly cut...saddles loose and missing springs
action higher at smaller strings
flapping strings on lower

the nut is very small and 11 gauge E couldn't fit
:/

this guitar is very cheaply made
what do you expect for $160?

maybe with a new neck and new pickups could you get a decent sound...

finish looks okay

no experience

i have been playing for a year
i am looking to sell this hunk o junk
i now own a fender fat strat with a semour duncan humbucker in the bridge. a fender princeton 65 a solid reliable amp with pretty good tones. i use a metal zone for distortion. buy this if you were a beginner....nothing else

I dont know what year it was made. It was made in China. It has 24 frets I think. It has a volume and two tone controls(which I rarely use).It has a rosewood neck and a red body with a white scratch plate. I bought the guitar with a squier sp10 amp and a lead.
It was my first guitar which I have learnt with and has served me well.

At first I played it through the clean channel because I started learning by strumming simple chord sequences. I started playing it through the distortion channel on the bridge pickup which sounded great for blues and rock'n'roll.
But I play heavy rock now so I have switched it to the neck pick up.
It has a rich sound but with a little buzzing which can probably be sorted if I had time to. It is all you need from a guitar if u put it through an effects pedal it sounds gr8. I have a Boss Me-6 which I havent used because Ive not bought the adaptor yet but I have tried a zoom gfx707 and it sounds pretty damn good. I have also played it through a fender performer 65w amp which can give me a wide range of sounds from blues to nu-metal. My 3rd string goes out of tune alot.??

The action is low but not too low giving it a pretty long sustain. There are no major flaws but it has been banged around a lot so now it has a few scratches,chips and dents and some of the tuning pegs are loose. The 3rd string goes out of tune after a few bends which is rather annoying(good job I play rythmn most of the time).
It did start of a good solid guitar but I have give it a few bangs about so what can I expect still it works fine!!!!

This guitar will withstand live playing but I would take a backup if I could afford one because the wiring has come loose inside the jack and so now and again I have to open it up and rewire it (I use foil to keep it 2geva). I love my guitar and it has served me well but when I start gigging properly I will buy a better more expensive guitar for obvious reasons but the squier strat is a great guitar for beginners. The strap buttons are solid but the bridge is rusting a little which is probably due to my lack of cleaning it. Overall at the end of the day it is slowly falling a part but will probably last another 10 years or so of continuous playing.

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Agreatbeginners guitar which I am glad I purchased. It is not for the experienced player as they would expect more from a guitar.
If I fitted expensive pickups to it and got that annoying 3rd string sorted I would call it a Fender Stratocaster.
If it was lost or stolen I wouldnt buy it again I would buy a more expensive guitar like an Ibanez, ESP, PRS(I wish) or anything in that league. I have been playing for 3 years and am now in a band I hope to make it big time all thanks to my squier Strat.

You've heard it all before.
'Crafted' in china. etc. Its a standard starter guitar, all single coils. None of it is of the highest quality.
Average whammy; and it doesn't go out of tune too quickly.

Plastic tuner thingos. They fall of when you turn round and smash the neck into a radiator.
I speak from experience.

It's very trebley like a strat should be, but its also very thin. Attempts to boost in the right places with eq result in mushy sounds because theres nothing to boost. There isn't really enough flexibility in tones for me here.
If you want beefy distortion/skate punk/metal sounds then it just doesn't have much to offer. However for Hendrixy clean sounds or bright blues/funk it could be up your street.

It would be great if I could souns like a frood and say I dropped a couple o di-marzio, replaced the pickguard and sunk in a 'bucker with pull pot etc. but I don't feel that this guitar is worth it. Don't plan on buying this guitar and doing it up, you are better spending an extra #50-100 to get out of the budget starter range, and you will be left with something you can use more of.

No buzzes or anything, but a lot of space beneath the pickguard is just a void. Tapping the guard or dials makes percussive sounds. When doing melodic finger style stuff with a pick i always set it to the middle pickup (see next section), and ocasionally I tap the pick on the pickup and it makes a loud 'tap' which isn't too good.

At the mo I am putting it through a marshall avt-275 and a guvnor plus. For most stuff I play I am lookin for more options, which a bucker would offer me. However, I do not regret not having bought the yamaha pacifica (same price, but includes 'bucker)

What I really like on this guitar which puts it above the pacifica is the neck and the action. When I was testing the avt-275 the guy in the shop saw me withy the little shit guitar and tried telling us that we needed a yamaha,or something with a bucker to get the best out of it. I tried it, and there was no reall improvment on tone, I got back to my strat and then I could really feel how much better the neck was. It was smooth and easy to play with. The action just felt 'right' and it was smooth and low.

I have changed all the pickups positions, and it really is an individual guitar now. All the pickuops give me totally different tones, and lots of variety compared to when it came from the shop, and everything was samey.

I am, one of those guys thaty takes everything apart, and I did it with this, because of a wobly/noisy pickup switch. I never solved the problem, but i managed to scew it back in wrongly, so the left position now selectd the right pickuo and vice vers. I like that personal touch. This guitar really feels quite individual, and I like that. If I was rating how it came out of the shop, it would get lower.

The finish dents easily.

Not too sure. Its made cheaply, and I wouldn't say that that much time had been spent on checking soldering and stuff. Western quality control only comes in at #400+ and the quality with it.

Strap buttons didn't snap when the strap did, so I guess thats good.

Live yes, as far as duarbility goes. The finish isn't thin or weak, it just dints off really easily, mind you, I walk into a lot of stuff.

I said about the cheap tuners, didn't I?

I would not buy this again, because I like to think I'm not a beginner anymore. This guitar is ideal for exactly that- a beginner, or only a part-time player. I am not knocking players with it, but its not the guitar your going to buy as your second.

I am upgrading to a schecter 006 as soon as i have the requisite wonga, but I'll keep this as a backup, so I can look like a groovy frood with my 3 guitars.

When your confident do take a scewdriver and personalise it beyond the stickers on the outside.

Don't know what year mine was made, but it was made in Indonesia. 21 fret, standard strat setup with 3 single coil pickups and one tone and one volume control. It has a 5 way selector switch. I bought mine used, but it is in great shape, torino red in color, rosewood fretboard, maple neck with a skunk stripe. Probably made out of Alder, but can't say for sure. High gloss red finish, with a white pickguard. Non locking tuners but they stay in tune quite well surprisingly. Very fast thin neck, very easy playing guitar. This is the second one I've played, as I bought my son a white affinity strat for Christmas, and they both play very well. It came with a Fender gig bag. The whammy bar for some reason was missing, but hey, I paid $75.00 for it.

Suits my music style quite well. I play a lot of old classic rock like Hendrix, Cream, Allman Brothers, Skynryd and rockabilly stuff as well as Steve Earle type music, some blues and some stuff that I write myself. I have 3 amps available in the house, an Ibanez IBZ10, 10 watter that screams, an Ibanez TB 15R that also screams and a Marshall G30RCD, I also run a Rogue DS-5 and a Danelectro Corned Beef Hash Reverb through it. It is no more noisy on any setting than you would expect from single coils. Actually quieter than my American Standard Tele and my Mexican Made Strat. It has a very bright sound at the neck pickup, more of a mellow bluesy tone on the front two pickups. Sustain is quite good for a bolt on neck cheapo strat clone. I can play anything from Hendrix to Zeppelin, Blues, Steve Earle, Clapton, Metallica and Creed on this guitar and it sounds just fine. I love this guitar and to be honest am very impressed with it. I don't know what everyone who writes on here is complaining about. After all, the guitar costs $149.00 brand spankin new. What do you expect? I cannot really tell a lot of difference in this guitar and my Standard Strat (mexican made) and I paid $350 for it. This one is a little lighter and thinner, that's all. Put a blindfold on, get some good amp settings and you can't tell the difference in sound.

I bought this guitar used, and it was set up perfectly when I received it. Intonation was excellent, pickups are perfect. I could not find any flaws on this guitar at all except for some pickguard scratches. Excellent action, fit and beautiful finish.

I've already played live with it and it works just fine. Stays in tune better than my tele, mex strat and my les paul. Only time will tell about the finish, and the strap buttons are solid enough for me. I think it is quite dependable for the price. I would never use any guitar live without a backup. I used my Les Paul Standard without a backup once.........it puked out on me and left me hangin and it's a $2,000 guitar.

Never dealt with them.

I've been playing for 35 years straight. I also own a Mex made Fender Standard Strat (not too impressive for the bucks), an American Standard Telecaster (great guitar), A JB Player Tele Copy with the Vintage Fender Noiseless pickups installed (outstanding guitar), a Gibson Les Paul Standard, a Takamine EG-230 Acoustic Electric and a Regal Acoustic Guitar. Nothing I wish that I had asked about it before I bought it.......I got a great deal. I love this guitar because it is inexpensive, looks, plays and sounds great. Excellent deal especially for an at home practice guitar that you wouldn't be too concerned about if it got lost. If this one were lost, I'd fork out the bucks for a new one.

Made in China, 21 frets, 1 volume & 2 tone pots, 5-way selector, 3 single coil pickups

I am using it through a Zoom505, it is noisy (especially on positions 1, 3 and 5), positions 2 and 4 are not so noisy cause they use 2 pickups with different phases. The sound is not bad when it is clean, with much distortion it gets microfonic. No sustain. Overall - not usefull for heavy music.

the setup was decent, everything was nice for the price :)
perhaps shielding can limit the noise...the tone pots do not seem to make big difference, the trem is alomost useless, the guitar stays in tune if you dont use it though, the neck is comfortable

actually i've played this guitar live and there were no problems. but i do not recommend it if you are playing any heavy tunes...it is ok for practicing though

dunno

if it were stolen i would buy different guitar (maybe ibanez or yamaha)...i got it because of the price

Rosewood neck, black finish, three single coil pickups, non-locking turners and five way switch. (Standard Strat setup). Started all factory, then changed the complete pickup assembly to factory Mexican Strat.

At first the sound was sick to say the least. The pickups not only needed shilding, but also needed to be laid to rest in a hole in the back yard. Fender has several grades of pickups, and these are at the very bottem of the list. Noisy and harsh! Okay I know this is a starter guitar for my child, but go to ebay and buy an assemble for under $40. It's worth it. I give it a two stock, but add the pickups, and it goes way up. With the new pickups this guitar sounds as good as the Mexican made strat, just not as much punch.

The action saved this guitar from the trach. I only picked up this guitar for my kid becouse it played so well. It fits like a true Fender, and the finish is clean and flawless. Unpluged I could play this guitar for hours. Easy smooth action, but beware when you plug it in. It will fool you.

It's a Fender, and made very well (on the outside anyway). Turners, bridge, and neck fit perfect. This is not made to gig with by no means, not even as a backup. But as a first guitar to play at home, not bad. Pickups, switches, and pots (tone and volume) are trash but eaisly changed.

I have dealt with Fender a few time, but not with this guitar. They stand by there product, but only after you bug them enough. This is a throw away guitar to me. I would replace it before I tried to send it back to Fender and pay shipping.

Okay, first let me start by saying this is a guitar I got for my kid to start on. I have been playing for over 20 years, own two other Fender Strats, one American, one Mexican backup, as well as a Paul Reed Smith for the Studio. I use a Behringer and a Marshall for gigging, and a Vox and the Behringer in the Studio. Stolen or Lost? Before I changed the assembley I thought about putting ten buck on it and leaving it on the hood of my car. My kid even told me it sounded bad. But now, it's okay, he likes it, and if it turned up missing, I would buy him a Mexican Strat and go on.

I own several Fender Guitars. The thing looks really authentic to me.

I play it through a Danelectro Echo into a Kustom 212, a Fender Hotrod Deville 4x10 and a Hughes and Kettner tubeman. When I bought the strat it was a demo equipped with Kinman Blues pickups.

The guitar plays very nice. Sometimes there's a buzz on the fifth fret but putting it near to the central heating makes it dissapear. Maybe the wood is too young.

I bought the guitar with the idea to put the pick ups in my Fender when the Squier broke down. I play it now for more than two years... I can depend on it. More: I take the Squier to gigs when I wanna be sure nothing goes wrong.

Never had to deal with Fender China.

It is my favourite guitar. Especially when I'm with other Fender players.

MADE IN CHINA: 3 SINGLE FRETS: SOLID BODY: 3 CONTROLS: 5 WAY
TOGGLE SWITCH: ROSEWOOD NECK: BODY STYLE STRAT: TELE STYLE FRET:
HAND TREMLO:

THIS GUITAR HAS A NICE TWANGING SOUND: ALSO CAN BE USED FOR JAZZ
,COUNTRY, BLUES, AND STANDARD MUSIC PLAYING. IT IS ONLY GOOD FOR
PRACTICING OR IF YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE FOR THE GIG:
MY PEAVY STRERO CHORUS(1999) PUTS OUT DECENT SOUND WITH IT, BUT MY
SUNN CONCERT LEAD (1971) PUTS OUT A CLEAR GOOD SOUND WITH IT.
I WAS REALLY SURPRISED THE COMBINATION IT CREATED.
GUITAR GETS STRONGLY DISTORTED WITH VOLUME SET AT AROUND 7+. I
HAVE HAD MARS MUSIC, WHERE I BOUGHT IT CHECK IT OUT. THEY
SAID IT WAS CHARACTERISTIC OF GUITAR: I ONLY BOUGHT IT FOR
PRACTICING, OR WHEN I SETUP MY KARAOKE GIG OUTDOORS, THEN I
TAKE IT. I PLAY ALONG WITH THE KARAOKEE CD'S. A ONE MAN BAND NOW.

THE GUITAR IS WELL MADE: JUST CHEAP ELECTRONICS: THE PICKUPS
ARE FAIR, BUT NOT THE BEST: ACTION IS FAIR: ONLY TROUBLE I'VE
HAD WITH GUITAR (I'VE HAD IT CLOSE TO A YEAR)IS THE VOLUME
DISTORTION, AND RATTLE FROM THE LOOSE PICKUPS. MARS MUSIC
ADJUSTED ALL. FOR THE PRICE, IT IS A GOOD PRACTICE GUITAR.
FOR BEGINNERS, IT IS VERY GOOD.

THIS GUITAR MAY BE USED FOR GARAGE GIGS: I WOULDN'T USE IT
ANYWHERE ELSE, UNLESS THIS IS ALL YOU HAVE.
HARDWARE IS QUESTIONABLE FOR DURABLITY. I WOULDN'T DEPEND
TOO MUCH ON THIS GUITAR IF I USED IT FOR MY LIVELIHOOD.

MARS MUSIC HAS BEEN OUSTANDING WITH ALL PROBLEMS I'V HAD
WITH THIS GUITAR; GOOD FRIENDLY SERVICE: FAST RESPONSE:
NO CRAP FROM THEM. I'M REALLY SURPRISE. WARRANTY IS
FOR 1 YEAR.

PROFESSIONALY PLAYING FOR 38 YEARS: I HAVE A GIBSON ES335:
IF FENDER SQUIRE WERE STOLEN, I WOULD GO WITH A YAMAHA ELECTRIC,ITS IN THE CLOSE PRICE RANGE. COMPARED WITH THE YAMAHA PACIFICA, THE
YAMAHA WITH IT'S HUMBUCKER, AND 2 SINGLES IS A LITTLE MORE
CLASSY. IT WINS OUT. I WISH FENDER SQUIER HAD BETTER ELECTONICS AND
A HUMBUCKER. I CHOSED THIS GUITAR BECAUSE I NEEDED IT FOR
PRATICING AND OUTDOOR GIGS. I DO NOT LOVE THIS GUITAR.
I OWNED A 1968 FENDER STRAT WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. I LIKED IT
, BUT WAS STOLEN IN 1972. AFTER THAT I WENT WITH GIBSON.
I CAN COMPARE IT TO MY ORIGINAL STRAT, BUT THE SOUND IS NOT THE
SAME.

1997 squire strat with s/s/s pickups, not shure what kind. 5 pickup slector, the usual stuff. Everything worked, even when falling apart. the tuners were decent but then playing, the peg flew out from the little hole in the headstock and slaped me acrosse the face. didn't hurt, but now the e string jumps up when tuning, so I have to tune up past the correct pitch then come back down. All good for about 6 years.

All kinds of music, used it in my junior high jazz band. The sound is decent. pickups what you would expect out of a squire. but also what you would expect from fender. not bad, not good. i'm gonna turn this into a project guitar, replace with nice texas special pickups used in srv's axe and the pickguard and deffiniatly the tuners. this guitar goes out of tune like a crazy mofo, but it's a squire.

Pretty good from the factory.

Very reliable considering what i put it through. lasted me 5 years, great for a begginners guitar, I would deffiniatly recommend this over those really cheap esp, dean, or other brand guitars that run about 150.

don't know

Got me through my early stages without thinnin the wallet. Definatly recommend and even some people recommend these as main axes. Pretty kewl

Strat style S/S/S with a solid wood body. All the features of a standard strat.

Where should I start...The center pickup did not work, all the pots grounded out at about 3 on the dail. The Bottom tone pot phased in and out. The WORST electronics I've have ever seen, more problems than I can cover...trouble shooting it would be a pain...I decided to rip it all out and redo everything

Finish and fit were good the action was nice but the nut sucked...The high E string would literally fall out of the nut !!!!!!!! Bad!!! I put a new neck on the body.

After I get done with it, it will be an awesome guitar. But out of the box it a peice!!!!

Never dealt with Fender

I bought this guitar because I wanted a cheap guitar that I could gut and redo. I was only interested in the body...a universal pick-up rout and solid wood. Everything else I didn't really care about. I would never have bought this guitar if I wanted it as is. It didn't even work right! It's well on its way to being a great guitar, but with a lot of work!!!!

Pretty standard. It's just a strait up guitar, three single coil pickups, two tone controls and one volume control.

This guitars sound doesn't suit any music style because it sounds like garbage. I have a few friends who own these guitars and they don't sound good through anything. We all use decent amps (marshall, line 6, fender) and the guitar still sounds bad. I own a Schecter C1 and a yamaha pacifica (the pacifica is less money new than the Squire) and they both destroy it in every aspect. I don't know how people can give this guitar an 8 or 9 for sound, it clearly doesn't sound almost perfect, and you wouldn't expect it to for under $300 canadian.

Every squire affinity series I have played has been set up very poorly, but they work when you first buy themif that means anything...
The paint on these guitars is very good though, my friend dropped his from 5 feet high on to concrete and it didn't even scratch. Props to squire for that.

The actual guitar is very durable, but the hardware is all crap. The nuts on these guitars have a tendency to just fall off, and the tuners don't stay in tune for long enough to even play three songs.

I have been playing for 6 years and currently use a Schecter C1 and a low end Yamaha Pacifica through a Line 6 spider 212 combo. I play in two different bands and gig monthly. I wouldn't even consider bringing this guitar to a gig and I don't recommend it. All I can say, if you are looking in to buying this guitar at least check out a Yamaha pacifica. For a little less cash you get a much better quality guitar. Also, don't try to play metal, hard rock, or punk with shitty single coil pickups because you will get insane amounts of feedback at jamming volume and look like an ass.

About as standard as a strat can get. Light body, laminated top, 2 tone, 1 volume. 3 single coil pickups. 21 frets 1999 model. Torino Red finish.

Believe it or not, this strat has a lot of potential. Let me explain first. When I first got it 3 years ago and played it, I thought it was ready for the garbage can. But instead, I thought maybe I could tinker around with it. The pups were noisy as a tractor. so i replaced them with duncan JB jr.

Um I think its 2000? 2001? Not sure. Well anyway, it was made in china, 21 frets, rosewood neck, blue finish, white single ply pickguard, 3 single coil pickups, two tone one volume knobs, 5 way pickup selector,.. just basically everything a strat has... lol

I mostly play Blink182 type stuff. It's a pretty good guitar, i get a good sound out of it. I've played it thru several amps, and I get a different type of sound out of each amp (duh. The bridge pickup is the noisest though. I get a LOT of buzz from it, but then again I dont really use it. Positions 2 and 4 are great. Nice clean bright sound.

This guitar came great and still is. I've banged it and dropped it several times and ntohing is wrong. Nothing chipped, no dents, nothing broke or came off. It's pretty sturdy. The action is great and it also stays in tune well.

I think that this guitar would withstand live playing. It seems pretty sturdy and reliable. I've had it for some time and its held thru pretty well. The first time I dropped it i was really scared cuz i thot that it wud be broken (being squier and all) but nothing was wrong w/ it. it still played fine and still does. its a great guitar.

Never had a problem w/ it.

I've been playing for some time now.
And I really like this guitar. I honestly dont see any real difference between this and any other strat. Its a great guitar at a great price. If it were stolen or lost I'd be pretty pissed, and I would probably buy it again.

Though I don't know the year my guitar was made in China. It has 21 frets, 3 single coil pickups, 5 way selector, rosewood fingerboard and a maple neck. It is a strat style which I prefer over any other, it also seems to balance fairly well. I have non-locking tuners and I don't know what kind they are, the guitar has a black finish and a white pickguard. Plastic knobs for Volume and the 2 tones. Neck is nice and small and the frets are small too, and the guitar is light.

One thing I must say is never play this guitar near an analog monitor! The buzz you get drowns out the sound of your playing and gives you a headache. The pickups are OK, but the bridge one is VERY twangy which I hate. It took me a long time to set it up properly but now the intonations is alright but you always get string buzz. I tend to play a lot of rock and keep it on the front two pickups for a warmer sound. If you want really cool sound you can use the 2 rear pickups and turn down the tones all the way making it sorta hollow sounding.

The guitar from the factory was pathetic. The place I got it from has the WORST service in the city of Calgary. (Every musician I have talked to agrees with me) It took them 2 weeks and they didn't do a thing. My strings kept breaking all the time right on the bridge so finally I sat down and worked on it. The bridge needed major adjusting, the intonation was miserable, and the sattles had jagged parts of metal in them cutting my strings nearly ever time I bent them.

I have played at many gigs and it does alright for what its worth. The volume control crackles but it may be dirt. The finish is not good at all and it scratches VERY easy. The pickguard is worthless because when I tried to tighten the screws a tiny bit it cracked the pickguard all around the bloody screw! The nut also comes out sometimes so I hot-glued it in.

With a lifetime warranty I don't really have to worry very much. However, I have never had to use the factory support so I can't say how good it is.

Overall its a good guitar for the price. Its great to start with and for a practice guitar but needs a few replacement parts.

Everyone knows the features - standard strat set up. This has the rosewood neck, not sure what wood's in the body. Pickguard came white, replaced it with a black one and the body is black. magic markered the knobs and the switch black. yeah. i'm an idiot.

first, so you know where i'm coming from, i've been playing electric guitar every day for about 5 years and this is the only guitar i've ever owned, so you can take everything i say with a "grain of salt" i guess. i play punk, classic rock, early 90s rock, and folk music.

the guitar itself sounds bright and a little thin on the bridge but can be cured with good reverb. here's my set up: Squire Affinity -> Dunlop Wah GCB-95 -> Boss DS-1 -> ProCo Rat Distortion pedal -> Peavey Rage 150. It's the Rat that saves this guitar and makes it playable. i run it into the clean channel on the amp and it sounds great at bedroom levels. if i wanted to gig, i'd change the amp - not the guitar. in my opinion, i can get decent sounds for almost all classic rock and some early 90s stuff. Nu-metal and speed metal? hell if i know, but i wouldn't count on it.

Tuners don't stay in tune - other than that, everything was fine. i'd recommend adjusting the pickups to get the sound you want. i've got the bridge pick up right up under the strings to give it more kick - so suit yourself.

it's a tough guitar. i've treated it pretty badly over the years. it was flooded when my house went under but was repaired and sounds fine. it still has mud caked on the back, but plays beautiful. However, the nut on the input jack kept coming loose because the washer wouldn't give it a grip. this caused a lot of problems - if it's giving you the same problem, take the washer off, tighten the nut back down, and it should be fine.

This is a good guitar for the money. i've played it against a Mexican Strat and with good reverb and the squire sounded better to me - the brightness made it more "present" than the mexican, if that makes sense. it may not be able to compete with more expensive guitars, but don't buy something more expensive just because the rest of the band is playing $600 Ibanez's. if there's a certain sound you can't get, don't be lazy - get to know your guitar (amp and effects too), make some adjustments, and it might just work.

not sure what year, i think a 2001
21 frets
5-way selector
3 single coils
1 volume 2 tone

I play a lot of different music. The only thing that this guitar isn't good for is more modern day rock and metal. The pickups are just too weak, they are also really really noisey on distortion. I use a Boss Metal Zone for distortion, it helps a little, but the pickups need to be better. Also, i hate the tremolo bar, it never stays in tune. 5 minutes with the tremolo bar and you have to retune the guitar.

everything was fine except for the plug, the nut keeps on coming off, not a big deal, but it gets annoying after a while

a backup is a must if you are gonna play live with it(i dont know why you would though).

never dealt with them

i have been playing almost 4 years. For 150 dollars, i think this guitar is ok for beginners and for a practice guitar. It needs new pickups, otherwise its fine

Mine was made in Indonesia. It has 21 frets, 3 single coil pickups (SSS). The bridge is the traditional strat. It doesnt take 10 cause the tuners are not very good and the 21 frets which I wish were 22.

Ive been playing for 5 years now and Im currently playing heavy metal, hard rock and some blues. It is very good in any of this styles. I use a vintage Giannini tube amp, CS-3 compression (BOSS), Crybaby Wah (Dunlop) and MT-2 Metal Zone (BOSS). I must say that if you think this guitar doesnt sound good you must buy a MT-2 pedal it makes it sound GREAT!!!!

I got a perfect setup from factory. Everything works just fine. The neck has a little curve to it, but nothing to make it a crap.

I would play a gig with it without a problem.

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Ive been playing for 5 years and this guitar is perfect for my style. I have a Gibson Les Paul Studio too and this is another GREAT guitar. The squier is very good if you have the correct equipment. Specially for the distortion. I must say it: YOU MUST BUY A BOSS Metal Zone MT-2.

Made in China "2000" Alder body ..Rosewood fretboard, Trem..etc.,

Stock pickups were thin and weak sounding..replaced with Carvin AP11's
Stock 5-way switch quit in 3-5 months replaced with OEM one
added two springs to the trem and tightened down the trem bracket screws,,I never use the trem but I like the complex tone the little movement that it does give the axe over an hardtail
Now with these inprovements this is a great "players" axe...something that does what it's suppose to do and you don't need to worry about banging it around...
I gave it a 10 for tone after the upgrade....."1" before

Great for an $150 axe for "players" who don't want to worry about banging up their MIA's...
It does have a small neck that takes alittle getting use to...but no problem if you try...I've got big hands too!!

Does the job and more...
It wouldn't hurt doing some upgrades!...Some people say "just buy a std. Squier" But I like the slimmer body!!...for light weight and ease of movement on stage

Who knows?? even Fender doesn't know

I give this an 10 with some basic upgrades....
Beats most other $150 axes out there...like DeArmond..Samick..Ibanez..etc..,

standerd strat, 3 buzzy single coils de tuning trem usual,

i play most rock from metal to grunge, its badly found wanting by not having a humbucker which is a shame. Clean its sounds nice and bright.

they only do them (now) in sunburst and although it looks good its not "real" just a print!!! so far it hasnt chipped and it was almost perfect straight out the box as far as inootation is conxerned

It looks solid enough, i havent maneged to dent it (yet) despite dropping it a few times,
it would easily withstand playing live.

never delt with fender\squier

ive been playing about 7 months, and this is my second guitar, I started playing on an upside down encore strat but decided that i needed a proper lefty, as far as cheap lefty's go you only have a few choices, encore or squire tele\strat,
It's not bad for the price, although f i was right handed i'd have got one 30 quid cheaper with a free gig bag,
but then if i was righthanded i might have gone for somthing diffrent but the choice just isnt there.
If your left handed and starting out I'd recommend it,
the only thing that's a problem is the lack of a humbucker which im hopefully (funds pending) getting fixed soon,

Features Are the same as all other Affinity strats listed here. A light solid wood body, maple neck/w rosewood finger board.ECT..

I bought the Affinity package with amp and accessorys for my son at christmas this past Christmas of 2001. I found the amp to be pretty crappy. The Guitar was very nice though. Hey I think it is a great first guitar. It is about as basic of a guitar you will find that has a decent sound and the quality craftsmanship of Fender. The pick-ups are very noisey. It is a Fender Strat thing, I have a friend who plays an American strat and his pick-ups are noisey as well. I have found to turn down the volume on the guitar and turn up at the Amplifier it helps cut down on the noise.

The guitar came through mail order(Musicians friend.) The action was decent, the set up was fine, and it was intunated. I found the neck to be fast. The guitar feel was fluent & smooth. I did find that there seemed to be an edge like feel on the sides of the fret board that sometimes made the neck feel almost boxey. Still it is a great guitar for the money and it has the authentic Fender name you can't go wrong.

the Paint job is still flawless on the guitar almost 5 months later. Everything else seems OK as well

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Great guitar and great sound for the money. Alot nicer than any other strat or strat copy at that price range

Made in China, 2000. Lefthanded, 22 medium frets. Don't ask what kind of wood! Fender will probably try yo tell you it's 'made of solid tonewood', but I think it's some kind of hardwood. It hardly resonates nor vibrates, and does by these means in no way complement to the guitar's allover tone. But hey, at least it's solid wood! A classmate of mine has an old Japanese Squier which is made of multiplex! Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. One volume control, two for tone, five-way switch, three 'specially designed' (I love the way the guys at Fender say that! :p) single coil pick-ups, passive. Beautiful brown sunburst finish. Strat-style body (duh! What was this guitar alled again...?). Vintage tremolo. Normal 'specially designed' tuners (there's that word again!), great neck (though please do not ask me how to describe the shape!). I think it has a 14" radius. Included accesories: strap, crappy cable, pick, instruction video by Wolf Marshall. For the money, this is one hell of a lot guitar!

This guitar is not intended to fit to a specific music style. This is a real beginner's guitar, meant for people who aren't even looking for a personal style yet. And for those people, this guitar is perfect, in my humble opinion.

The sound of this guitar actually is quite underestimated. Most people who have one of these play it through one of those crappy Squier amps which is included in the Strat Pack. I playes this guitar through a Vantage VG10-R at first, which isn't much better. The guitar is very noisy when played through this amp.

Later on, when my playing progressed, and my income as well, I bought my first tube amp, a Hughes and Kettner Tube50, which was an enormous improvement for my tone, but I can't really tell how the sound of the guitar itself is... Anyway, it's noisy, no matter what settings you chose, except when you turn down both tone-knobs. The sound is really bright normally, which probably is a result of the choice for this particular kind of wood. When used on the right amp, you will actually start to hear the differences between the three pick-ups! When used on one of them small 10-watt combo's as described in the above, they all sound alike...

But I will replace the pick-ups soon :D

The set-up was OK for me, because when I bought this guitar I really had no idea of how to set it up better. The action was fine by me. But now I'm quite spioled, because I currently own a Jackson DK-2, which has a much faster action. Thinner neck, Floyd Rose-licensed tremolo...

The pick-ups aren't adjustable. The bridge is horrible! This is a really bad tremolo, which causes my guitar to go out of tune real often, even when I do not use it.

Further on this is a fine guitar. Not flawless, but reasonable.

This guitar will probably withstand live-playing after replacing the tremolo, and maybe the tuners as well. You would have to be nuts to play this baby on stage though, because of the noise and the fuzz. The finish is good enough, and won't scratch easily. I think I could use this guitar on stage without backup. It is a very dependable guitar.

One year warranty. I've only once used this warranty, when the guitar output came loose. This was easily repaired by dealer personnel though, so I've never had the pleasure to deal with the company themselves.

I have been playing this guitar for about two years now, and have got very attached to this guitar, so if it were stolen, I wouldn't buy a new one, but do everything in my might to get it back! This is my first guitar, it watched me grow as a player, and has become a part of me. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Currently I play a Jackson DK-2 LH, through a Hughes and Kettner TUBE 50, with a Koch Pedaltone used as a (completely tube-driven) preamp through the FX-return.

Made in China, bought brand new in 2001. Has 22 fret bolt on neck. Solid top, 1 volume, 2 tone, 5-way selector. Has 3 single coil pickups. Maple neck with rosewood finger board. Black finish with a white pick guard. Looks the same as any strat.

The guitar sounds good if and when you can hear over the buzzing. I have ran it through Crate, Marshall, and Laney amps. There is too much feed back and buzzing to preform with it, but it is a nice guitar to practice on.

Nice color and design. Have had it for a year and there are only 3 scratches on it and that is from a belt buckle. Does not scratch easily.

The hardware on it isn't the best but it is good enough. The strap buttons are solid and the finish is good enough to last. Because of the buzzing and feedback, you would have to be stupid to play it at a gig.

There is no warranty because it is a cheap beginners guitar.

I have played this guitar for a year. I wish I would have bought a guitar with less feedback. If it were lost or stolen I would buy something else(if i could afford it) because I dont like this guitar. The thing I like about this guitar is it can take a beating and not get scratched and it looks very nice. The thing I hate is the feedback and puzzing it makes. My favorite feature is the neck because it has good action. I thought about getting a tele but I got this because it looks nicer and I once was dumb and thought looks are more important than quality. I would say if you buy this guitar only use it for practice because thats about all its good for.

I got this guitar in early 2001. Basicaly its a chinese made scaled down fender Stratocaster. Its has 21 frets on its rosewood fretboard, which is a nice (not to fat, not to thin) 'C' shape. It comes equiped witht the tradional 3 single coil pikups which hold their own albiet they do hum like hell when too close to my pc monitor. The Affinity strat has a lighter and thiner boddy than the standard squier stratocast which makes it very comortable to playin sitting down and light to hold on a strap. The bridge is a standard vintage trem unit. If you lay off using it (that includes haevy palm muting) the tuning stability is quite good, however if you use this guiatr's trem for more than about 3 or four minutes then you will noticably be effecting your tuning, and before you ask dive bombs are out of the qustion!

I play metal and punk. I must say i have grown quite attached to its bridge pikup and have labled it as 'my sound' when used with one of my distortion settings on my Korg AX-G100 fx pad. This is a very popular guitar used to play many different types of music, and while it cannot obviously be the best at everything, for a number of reasons (price, and...well no guitar can sound EXCELLENT at evry syle of music) it is very far from sounding bad. You can get evryting from a deep rythm sound from the neck pikup, right down to crunching distortion from the bridge pikup. I did however chose to replace my bridge pikup with a cheap Kent Armstrong 2coil hotrails (aka mini humbuker) however this proved too tinny in the bridge postion, and longed for my old sound so i moved it up to the middle potion, where when combined with my bridge single coil can produce and amazing valve drived distorion sound on my cheap crudy 15wat amp.

the action was quite high on this guitar, more evidently so furthur down the neck. However this could simply be adjusted with a alan key on the oh-so-simple bridge. The guitar was perfect when I bought it but now there are a few chips here and there due to my clumsyness, but thumbs up to squire for the perfect finish.

ive had this guitar for a while now and it realy is a workhorse, not 1 problem at all in any respect of durabiliy or reliablity. Obviuosly its no american series strat with noisless pikups but theres not mystery glitches and bits falling off. I would see no problem gigging this guitar seeing as the way i treat it (and it surviving) when i realy get into practising with itis realy rought and it does get thrown about a lot, and it doesnt seem mind.

Never had to deal with them

this is my only guitar, but i have a good general knowlegede gear in general, and i can truley say for the money that this is a quality guitar, and if you've played anything else in this price range (and i have) you will respect that even though on a whole this is a bargain bin guitar i can rival some of its more expensive cousins. If i lost this guitar i would buy it agian i would definatly recomend it.

2001, China, Has 21 frets. Reg Strat Controls. US pickups. Non Tremal Style Bridge. Die cast tuners. Rosewood Fret borad and maple neck. Black. 1 ply pick gruad. Looks like Eric Claptions Strat

Good for all type of music. Sounds good through a vox amp. The Pickups are a little nosy. It is little different sound from the american strat (i think) I thnk it has better sound then the squier standered strat.

Great Action. I re adjusted the pick ups. In tune when i got it. The gUitar was perfect. the only that i dont like is that it is a 1 ply pickgruad. I am going to get a 3 ply because i think it looks better but that doesnt really bother me.

It should last for a wile. My Guitar is black so every single time im done playing i wipe down the fret borad. It should last. If it starts to wear ill keep it and but a rickenback 330. Strap buttons are solid. I would use for a gig but would bring extra strings just in case.

Used to have the same guitar but made in indonesa and the guitar was just screwed with problems but i had a life time warrenty so i broght it to sam ash gave them this one and they just gave me this guitar right out of the box.

this is the best guitar that squier makes. I think it is very under rated and should be up there with fender strats.