Fender Squier Affinity Series Telecaster

My guitar(as stated in previous reviews) was "crafted in China" it has 21 frets ,2pickup and tone and volume control. It's the usual Telecaster set up. The neck and fingerboard are both maple.

The sounds that this guitar can produce are nothing short of stunning(for any price, let alone #125). The front pickup is mellow and smooth and the back provides a nice twangy(I had to say it at some point) cutting tone. The middle selection offers a great combination of the two for perfect jazz style chord work. The sound is basically what a guitar is(or should be) all about. And beleive me this guitar gives you bucket loads of variation and great tone.

The action of the guitar, in addition the tone and general feel of it, was one of the major selling points for me. It is perfect for my style of playing. The finish is a poly based baltic blue and is flawless. Intonation was absolutley perfect out of the box and as a hole it is faultless. As soon as I picked this up I felt like I had been playing it for years. A first class product! A mate of mine came to have a jam and agreed that this does not feel like a "budget" priced guitar. It feels like a #500 instrument. I have been playing for 10 years and this is the nicest guitar I have ever played. The facts that beginners can now start withg something like this is amazing. Fender really have done a brilliant job.

Feels solid as a rock. Great sustain. Stays in tune no matter how many bends you throw at it and how hard you strum it. I would use this to play live or record without a worry.

Never spoken to them. Goit a 1 year warranty from the shop

Overall I would say that this is an ideal guitar for anybody who wants a Tele but doesn't have #900 to throw at an American Fender. I tried a number of Tele's and this was the nicest of them all. Yes that correct THE NICEST. I tried a couple of Mexican Fenders and this soundend much fuller and well...more like a Telecaster. I think that Squier have come on leaps and bounds in the last ten years as I remember the Squier stats feeling cheap and nasty and having a horrible action. Now however they have made me very happy indeed. Many thanks to Fender for an excellent product.

Made in China, twenty one medium size frets, solid Alder body with a C shaped Maple neck, volume and tone controls with a three way pickup selector switch, two single coil pickups, Arctic White finish with white single layer pick guard, top loading bridge with six individual saddles. Supplied with allen wrenches for the saddles and truss rod. A Twentieth Anniversary model.

I play a variety of styles, standards, rock and roll, soul/R&B, country, blues. I find this guitar useable for all of them. I play it through a Ampeg Gemini II and also use a Kramer K-15R amplifier when I don't feel like firing up the old Ampeg. I don't utilize any external effects at the present time but do sometimes utilize effects that are built into the amps. A little hum when selecting the neck or bridge pickup, none on the middle selector setting when both pickups are on. I like the sound of the stock pickups. The neck pickup, which has a chrome cover, sounds nice and full - almost like a humbucker. The bridge pickup, which is definitely louder, is nice and bright. Both pickups have good clarity and tonal range providing a wide variety of sounds just by adjusting the volume and tone controls. If you want that distinctive Telecaster sound, this guitar has definitely got it. Before I actually played this guitar through my amp, I was thinking of the possibility of replacing the pickups. Now I see no need to because I'm satisfied with the way the stock pickups sound.

The action on my Tele was playable right out of the box. The intonation and neck releif were set well. Pickup height required no adjustment. It was assembled very well with nicely made parts. The fret job was very well done. The paint on the body and chrome plating on the steel parts are flawless. The nut could have been notched and finished better but is useable as is. I will need to deepen the D string slot a little. The neck has no angle in relation to the body and that in combination with the type of bridge results in the bridge saddles being set lower than they should be. I will shim the neck at the heel so the bridge saddles can be raised slightly.

I think it will stay in one piece as long it is treated like a guitar.

I haven't dealt with Fender/Squier.

I've been playing for nearly thirty years off and on and have owned Fender Strats and various Gibsons. This is the first Tele I've ever had and I'm totally happy with it. If anything happened to it I would definitely get another. It is as nice or nicer than any genuine Fender I've ever played! I was thinking of using it as a platform to do a bunch of modifications on but now I'm just going to set it up real well and enjoy playing it. I got a Squier Strat a few months ago and it's the nicest Strat I've ever had as well. For less than the price of a genuine Fender I got a really nice Tele and a Strat from Squier! Bottom line: If you want a Telecaster but don't want to spend alot of dough, get a Squier Affinity!

All the features of the usual Tele, maple fretboard, alder body. Nothing to get excited about

It was my main guitar for about two years and then I bought a mex standard strat. When I compared the two the Tele seemed kinda dull and lifeless. It doesn't really have that twangy sound (atleast to my ears) I use it with my 68' Twin Reverb silverface. Sounds pretty good distorted, and with reverb.

When the guitar arrived, it was set up pretty well, action wasn't too high or anything. I switched out the .009's for 10's however and never ran into any problems. a few of the frets stuck out through the sides of the fretboard on the higher part of the neck, but if you're not really picky it shouldn't really bother you. The Affinity Squier comes with those cheap tuners you see on basically everything nowadays - mine stay in tune OK. I bought it from musicians friend as a scratch and dent (a dent and chip below the pickguard) with that arctic white color; which really isn't white at all, it's like a light yellow (yuck)

Yeah, this guitar would withstand live playing. It would probably take a few years before the hardware started going bad... I'm guessing saddles and tuners would go first. The strap buttons on mine have never loosened up in the years i've been playing it.

I've been playing for three years. I play blues,rock,surf. I own the Squier Tele, Mex. Fender Stratocaster, Epiphone Les Paul, Harmony Strat, Samick Acoustic, Yamaha 12 string acoustic, a 68' Fender Twin Reverb, a shitty Danelectro distortion pedal, and various knockoffs. I haven't had any regrets about this guitar except the color. If you're a beginner looking for a good electric to start on, then this might be the way to go.

i have not long bought an affinity squier strat,it is a limited edition blonde.
It was released in july 2002 and i am not sure if it is still made.
it has 3 single coil pickups with 2 tone controls and one master volume control,other features are a 5 position pickup switch and synchronous tremelo bridge.
it has 21 frets and the body id solid alder with a maple neck.the machine heads are standard die-cast tuners.
it has a 60's style headstock with a black scratch panel and had dot position inlays.
i havnt had it long enough to see what happens if it gets knocked about but it does have a polyurethane finish which is usually quite tough.
it came with no accessories but the shop assistent was feeling generous and gave me a gig bag and a handfull of plectrums.
all in all it is a good quality guitar for the money as you can spend the same money and get something that wants to cut your fingers and sounds like someone just stood on the cat.
if you are after a good all round cheap guitar this is the one to get

with the 5 positions you can get the sound you want for individuall songs.i play rythem on it and my son likes playing lead and it does both fine

i have found no rust flaws ect,it is still factory set up as i havnt had a fiddle with the bridge and pickups yet

i would be happy to play this quitar live and bt the feel of it it seems very solid so hopefully it would take the knocks,i think i would go and buy some higher quality feder strings first though as you get what you pay for

i have had bo dealings with fender

i have been playing for many years and have quite a few different makes of guitars and for the money this one is good,if it was stolen i would consider buying another one

my telecaster is a chinese telecaster made probably 2001 or 2000
its a 12 fret guitar with a rosewood fretboard all metal hardware no cheap plastic tuners 1 volume one tone knob typical tele stuff 3 way slector switch with lead and rhythm pickups the finish is black with a white pickguard standard tele bridge though it is top loading not string through body the neck is abit thinner than a strat neck very comfortable it gets 10 cause it c0mes with everything i normal telle does but except it has a top loading bridge

the guitar sounds awesome i have used it to play an array of musicial styles from ska punk reggae funk metal rock classical blues you name it ive pretty much played it on this guitar i ran it thru a ds-2 and a ce-3 the guitar handles the effects pretty well as good as a guitar with humbuckers does the tele has a bright sound not too bright but brighter than a strat some might think its to bright but if you much around with your amp you can get it how you want. It has the normal twang you expect from a telecaster i have used it to play reggae and funk songs and this guitar sounds wicked, the guitar can be noisy at times but you expect that with single coils. The guitar has a really great sounds as an example i was playing a gig with my mates and we had a strat copy a jackson with so seymour dunc's and a floydd rose in it and my mates stillw anted to use my guitars to play punk songs with they used it to play i want you bad and kryptonite the guitar is very good for palm muting cause of the bridge and cause you dont hit the middle pickup cause there isnt one. i play it thru my tubeworks td-762 amp sounds great on it.

The Guitar was setup alright when i got it but i had to tweak it abit to how i like it, the only problems i had with the guitar was when i bought it the tone knob was bent the nut had been glued on nad the tone knob didnt work in the lead position. The Paint work is a falw on the guitar it looks good but if you nock it hard enough which doesnt have to be very hard it chips and dings easily.8 cause of the paintwork

The guitar would withstand playin live but i have had some dramas i put 10 to 52's on it and while playing live i snaped a string at the saddle i put another one on and snapped the string below it. it was annoying but i had adjust the strings abit but its fine no no problems. The rest of the hardware on the guitar is goning to last its good quality i havent broken anything on my guitar and ive had it for a yr or so. the strap buttons on it seen to be alittle smaller then on a strat so the strat can fall off pretty easily nothing a few rubber bands on your strat or some strap locks cant fix. tnhe guitar wont breakdwon anytime soon. i would gig without out a backup ive already done it but you should take some strings with you. 8 againc ause of the paint work thats the only thing i think lets it down

i havent had to deal with the company so thats says abit i never had to get it repaired it didnt come with warranty when i bought it

Ive been playing for about 4 or 5 years, i own 3 strat copies ones in peices ones custom made by me the other has 2 humbuckers i also own 3 acoustics a ds-2 and ce-3 chorus tubeworks td-752 tube driver map and a drive cd-200 30 watt amp. If this was stolen id buy another one in a flash i really love this guitar its unique. I love the twang in the guitar which i used to to play everything from nirvana, stabbing westward,nin, mest, goldfinger,placebo,led zepplin,n.uf.a.n, reggae music. The only thing i hate well dislike is the paintwork it looks really good but it chips to easily, one thing i like is it works for heaps of styles of music. Ive compared it to a jackson 4 strat copies a fender bullet and i like this the best same with my mates. Anything i wish it had harder paint work that doesnt chip. I reccomend this guitar to some that wants a descent guitar that works well for lots you can play from nirvana to goldfinger with this thing and it works well for all them types of music

Fender Squier Affinity Tele, Chinese, Cream w/white pickguard, maple neck. In terms of "features", it's a Tele.

I modified the guitar as soon as I got it home by replacing the bridge pup with a Fender Lace (Red) Sensor. Therefore, I can only comment on the stock sound by comparing it to an Indonesian Squier I played in the store. The Affinity was thin and lacking in bass with the stock bridge pup. However, as I recall, it was very nice and twangy on the high end, though somewhat noisier than the Indonesian.

Set-up out of the box was perfect. The neck is wonderful! The easiest-playing neck of my 5 guitars. Saddles are lighter than the Indonesian, body thinner and less resonant. No string-thru design. However, that's where the bad news ends. The Indonesian rosewood necks were extremely variable in finish. I wanted white/blonde; the color of the Indo was a sickly yellow-brown, somewhere between diarrhea and vomit. The Affinity, OTOH, is really beautiful! And with the Lace Sensor, she sounds absolutely stunning! I can't describe to you the sheer playability of this guitar. I actually hate to put it down. She responds to every touch, with resonating, chiming subtleties that must be heard to be believed. I don?t care if the body is thinner, or if the saddles are lighter, or if the strings don?t go thru the body. How ever she does it, she does it right. I have never before sat down and played for four hours straight, feeling absolutely and wonderfully exhausted afterwards, not being able to wait to start again. I adore my Dean EVO SS, whose LP-like dual humbucker design is far richer with overtones and harmonics; and my Stagemaster w/3 Seymour pups + Floyd Rose, with its magnificent range of Duncan tones; but there is something unique about this guitar that just lets me get down to the music. It?s clean tone is to die for, and is not equaled or even approached by any of my other axes.
I have no trouble with the tuners. She stays in tune very well, considering the strings are new and still stretching.
I should add that, in addition to the Lace, I shielded the cavities with aluminum foil; which made the instrument much quieter. Further, in all fairness, the 3-way switch looks pretty crappy and could definitely use an upgrade. The pots are fine, though, and the cap looks like plastic rather than ceramic. The wiring is light, and perhaps one day I will rewire it. And the stock neck pup is decidedly inferior. However, these slight shortcomings must be viewed in light of its price, with was $160. Add $55 for the Lace, and I have an awesome instrument for $215. If I put a Lace in the neck, installed a new 3-way switch, and rewired it, I would be into it for another, oh, $75 max. And as far as I?m concerned, would be well worth the time and expense.

If you're worried that your friends will laugh at you for having a Squier, don't buy this guitar. If you aren't willing to put a few upgrades into it, think twice. Otherwise RUN down to your music store and check this baby out. Buy a Lace (or maybe a Duncan) pup, shield the cavities and replace the switch. The sit down and enjoy.

My Squier Affinity Tele is black with a white scratchplate and maple neck. It came in one of these Fender starter packs, which meant there was a 10w amp (which is surprisingly powerful) gig bag, strap, video blah blah blah included. I have a number of guitars and this one of my favourites even though it is considered a 'beginners' guitar. It has two single coil pickups, a 3 way pickup selector and volume and control knobs, black dot inlays. It is exactly the same as a Fender one except perhaps not quite as well constructed, or expensive!

It sounds pretty good in my opinion. The pickups produce a really nice tone. I favour the bridge pickup, but your playing style will determine this. There is lots of variety in sound and the guitar would suit any music style i reckon. I play mine through a 25w Marshall amp and a Zoom GFX707 effects station and the range in sounds is amazing.

Sometimes I use a capo too which is really cool 'cause when I have the bridge pickup set on it makes some really lovely sounds. It is well built and which always improves a guitars sound

When I recieved the guitar I was surprised at how well it was set up. I thought I would have to get the all that sorted out before I could start playing it, but all I had to really do was tune it so I was playing it more or less straight away. The finish was perfect - no dents or knocks. The neck fells great at the back too because it isn't painted or heavily finished. It still has that natural wood finish which I love.

The action was perfect. In fact I adjusted the action on my other guitars to match it. There were no badly fitted frets or anything like that. Great quality for the price.

Ive had the same strings on this guitar for ages (the ones it came with), everything has been reliable, no problems at all. It stays in tune very well and is still lovely to play. No noeck warpage or anything like that. Very dependable

I got it from Great Universal, the home catalogue company (who I doubt know much about guitars). Kind of fortunate really that I've had no problems with it.

I love this guitar. Its dependable, looks nice and sounds good too. It is much better than any other of my guitars and I sincerely reccomend it to anyone who wants a great guitar for not much money!

I got my tele when trading in an Epiphone Flying V and saying that I wanted to have a telecaster, the guy said "pick one, no extra charge." So I tried a whole bunch of them until I grabbed one that just felt right, one that felt like I had been owning it for years.
My tele is a Chinese made affinity series telecaster in black probably made in the late nineties since it had a thicker body than the others, through body stringing and a rosewood fingerboard. It came with the standard Telecaster set up of two single coils and passive electronics. As soon as I got it home though I began modifying it, the first to go were the tuners, the original ones were okay but I prefer Gotoh tuners on all my guitars because of their stability. Second to go were the pickups as I replaced them with a seymore Duncan "Little '59" in the bridge and a Dimarzio Red velvet in the neck position. This worked fine but the neck pickup and the mixed setting sounded too weak so I got out my router, widened the hole and put in a humbucker coming from a Gibson Les Paul Custom in it and thus balanced it out more evenly.

Because of my modifications, my tele sounds a lot fatter than most teles do. The Duncan really makes it rock, when using a distortion it sounds really good, it doesn't go muddy like with a les paul. When played clean my tele sounds like a tele, which surprised me concerning the mods I did. It does sound a little less brittle and much warmer but still like a Fender. The tele became my main stage guitar and I have bought (and quickly sold on) other teles as spares but none of them can match this. My one complaint is the weight, the older affinity teles are very weighty.

As I said before I did all the mods and ajustments myself so I don't think I can remeber how it originally was, I love using heavy strings 011-056 as a minimum and the neck took no ajustments to cope with that. My only complaint is the weight, it's heavier than my les paul but due to the sound and how it plays it stays the first guitar i pick up when I want to play.

I used this guitar live from the first day I got it, I took it out instead of my usual stage guitar (a red 1989 Squier Stratocaster)and played it the whole gig through. at the next gig I left my Strat at home. I replaced the old strap buttons with Schaller strap locks (again a mod I do with all my guitars) so there's no danger of my guitar coming loose from the strap. I tried buying telecasters to use as back ups but so far I haven't succeeded in finding one that's equally fit to dub in for it. (I even had a 1983 Tokai strat copy, amazing guitar, but I sold it again because I couldn't get it to sound right.) I would be really bummed out if somebody took it away from me.

Considering the mods I made, it probably wouldn't worth a dime right now but hey, I love it.

My current guitar line up includes the previously mentioned 1989 Squier strat (my baby), a self built mini flying V with Telecaster pickups (I am a luthier and I love my job!) used as a backup but due to it's too bright sound not for long, a heavily modified Peavey T 15 guitar and a self made Nylon string solid body. My amps are a peavey VT series tube head (the "Mace" the same amp Dave Davis uses) with a marshall cab, for smaller gigs I use my recently acquired Hughes and Kettner Attaxx Club 65 combo (great amp.)

The setup is fairly standard, although without a reverb tray. Intonation and action is easy to adjust via the bridge. The 3-way selector switch feels sturdy, as do the tone and volume controls. In fact, the whole unit feels very well put together. I've found with Squire, that you could have three guitars of the same model in a shop, and they'd all feel and play differently. I've found Squire strats and teles that feel better than Fender's own, but it's the luck of the draw, and to some extent, personal taste.

The affinity tele I picked up had a great low action and playable, 'friendly' feel. There was no fret buzz, despite the low action, although the nut is a little shallow and vigorous playing will cause strings to jump out of the nut.

The only other complaint I would have, is that there is little or no sustain. This is no doubt due to the thin body and cheaper electronics, and for the money you can't complain. All round, after a week of playing it, I find the affinity tele a great buy. How it will age is another thing, and I would have actually prefered to get a standard fat tele, if only for the neck humbucker for a greater tonal range.

The guitar stays in tune very well. I had an Ibanez and a Gretsch which were more expensive than the tele, but would not stay in tune half as well. The only problem is the G string, which is common to most guitars, it seems, and that doens't go out much or often.

The maple neck is very nice to play, compared to a rosewood neck, but again that's personal preference. Overall I'd rate it five out of five for the price - the most importnat thing is that I enjoy playing it completely!

it's a chinese tele, don't know when it was produced. 21 frets, 3-way selector, volume and tone control, 2 single coils of the cheapest nature, maple neck, don't know what the b/w body is made of, the finish is flawless so far (got it one week now), the pickguard is of cheap plastic and you already see traces of strumming. non locking brass tuners, brass bridge.

i play different styles, mainly punk/rock but also folk and jazz as far as my ability allows me. i mostly play at home with my pod II with headphones and directly plug it into a four track recorder. i also use a cheap no name 10w amp, i own an old acoustic 50w but can't use it at home for my neighbours would lynch me. i shall change the pick ups for sure, for they are rather thin sounding and tend to be noisy. in general the guitar features that twangy sound i was looking for - it's my fourth guitar, my main axes are a fender mex fat strat and a ibanez rg470. the tele sounds well when it is played clean or with some overdrive, with the new pick ups (i think of texas specials or dimarzio) it should be even better.

i got it via ebay from a shop in germany - it's setup was surprisingly good! i have tried out dozens of fender teles earlier this years and believe it or not, i didn't like them as much as this one (that's why i bought the strat then). the action is great, neck is very easy to play (i started playing with cheap guitars 25 years ago, i know what it means to play on a shitty set up guitar) it stays perfectly in tune though i bend a lot, no string buzzing, selector and volume knobs work fine, haven't detected any flaws so far except for that mainly cheap materials were used for it - but who complains about that at this price? for this price it's perfect.

i have played it for hours and it worked fine, it seems dependable but what do i know after one week. wouldn't gig with it without a backup though, but even good guitars can have problems at the wrong moment so i'd always have a backup guitar anyway.

as mentioned i got it through ebay so i have no warranty though it's a new one.

i play electric for 25 years now. started on a framus strat copy that i gave to a friend, then for a long time on a ibanez pf200 that i still own. aside from that i have a fender mexican stratocaster and a ibanez rg470.
i am very satisfied with this guitar considered the price (don't be fooled that it's higher than in US, instruments are more expensive here, it's about the cheapest price you get a new guitar for). i was looking for a cheap tele because i wanted that sound and i got it, simply and plain. it's an incredible good guitar for that price, i love to play it!