Fender Squier II Strat

Have no idea what year it was made. But it was made in Korea!
It has a total of 21 frets.
Laminated top.
Has Tele like dials that are for volume tone tone. With a 5 way pick up selector.
Pick up config is s/s/h wich i realy like.
Stock pick ups. But not for long.
Finish is jet black with no pick gaurd.
Body style is a regular strat except that the plug-in is on the side ( excuse my bad termnology )
bridge is a standard is a Standard strat but iam prob going to get a floyd rose.
Tuners SUCK like plastic sorta. But iam also going to get some locking ones.
The neck is solid maple with small/medium frets.

I play punk rock and it satifys me in tone quality.
Iam using a mashall 300 watt YEAH!!!!!!! or not. Just a Rocktron 45watt.
I make it noisy, but in my mind its not noisy if the o/d isnt on so i guess it isnt.
I keep it on all humucker or single and hum. Gives it a ebrasive sound to me. Sorta dark. More of an obnoctious sound like my own personality wich i like.
Total love the whole thing!

I have no idea how the factory set it up. Got it t a pawn shop.
Pick ups werent adjusted at all until i bought it. . All of its perfect to me now except for the crap tuners bridge and one of the single coils wont screw down all the way and wiggles.

I've played many a show with it. Because its all i have. I holds up awsomellylylylyly. Hardware is crap. Buying all new stuff for it. But the pick ups are fine.The finish kinda makes me mad. With the solid black you can see every finger print and every time the pick touches the guitar. i cant get the pick marks off of it. Solid strap butons but iam going to get the locking thingy i've seen around.Yes i do use it at gigs without backups cuz its the only one i have.

Been playing it for 5 years.I own no other guitars but a couple of amps thats about it.Nope i love this guitar to death. If it got stolen i would hunt the person down and gut them like a fricken fics. Then get a wal mart guitar and beat them to hell and back till he or she never wanted to see a guitar again.! I wish it had everything i list above. i'd liuke to share to the worl: I have no money No job no car, but Iam in a band!

I saw one Made in USA,with 23 frets solid,Volume, tone, 5 way selector
Pickup configuration - S/S/H, H/H, Body style strat Tuners Non-locking Rosewood frets cable

Style - Rock
Amps - Peavey & Korg 1500g Effects processor
Clear as a bell that chimes in silence
Bright sound
No dislikes

Everything is perfect and suits my needs

Reliable and durable both in lifetime & sound

Bought in a black market.

Playing for 4 years
No
I'll buy it again
The clarity of sound and the inspiration I get from playing it!
I can't compare it with its equivalent counterparts, since it gives me everything I want. Hence I need not compare it with anything.
Yes, a free amplifier with processor.

1989 Squier II. Made in India. I saw one other Indian made one on this board. Blood Red. Rosewood Neck. JUMBO FRETS...why I bought it.

The body appears to be solid. The red paint is put on thick, even under the pick guard. The pick up cavities are all separate.

The truss rod is only accessible at the base of the neck, and you have to remove the neck or pick guard to get at it. There is no inlay on the back of the neck.

Sounds Good.

Intonation was way out but tightened up easily. The G string nut slot was cut too deep but I filled it in with two layers of super glue. New 10gage strings....no buzzz...saddle feels warm.

Still waiting to see about durability. First indications show that it stays in tune.

no.

I think I scored big time.

Korean, I'm guessing 1991, s/n M1121310. A pretty faithful
knockoff of a '50's vibrato-equipped Strat (3-p/u, 1-ply
pickguard, etc) except for the string trees ('60's/'70's
style stamped) and the 5-way selector switch. The standard
cheap tuners are also non-Stratlike -- the strings thread
through holes in the shaft sides, rather than into holes
inside of slotted shafts.
The neck is a nice grained maple; the body is laminated
(plywood) but light in weight.
If you like Strat features, then this is reasonably similar,
except for the lousy tuners.

Surprisingly aggressive-sounding, staggered single coils. They
are darker than any Fender pickups I've ever used, and remind
me most of the old hot Di Marzio Strat pickup (the model name
of which escapes me.)
I plugged it in right after my '77 had broken a string onstage,
and, having never used them back-to-back before, was very
surprised at how much louder the Squier was. I really like
the sound, to be honest -- it's not overly bright, it has good
balance, and a real growl. A great mate for my furry-sounding
Princeton Reverb.
Being single-coils, there's some noise, but it's not ridiculous.
The bridge and neck are great -- I'm no fan of middle pickups
in general, but the other two make me happy.

I bought it new. I got so frustrated with the factory
setup (and tuners) that I really didn't use it much for
about 7 years. I had other guitars to play, and had bought
this for its light weight (I'd recently injured my back.)
It languished until I swapped out the tuners for some
Stewart-MacDonald "vintage-style" slotted tuners. I put
on Graph-Tech graphite string retainers, and handed it off
to a great setup guy, with instructions to block off the
vibrato with a piece of basswood so that it would not move
anymore.
When it came back, it was a gem. It plays great, stays in
tune forever, and looks like a real '50's beast -- red w/
maple, like Mark Knopfler's old one.
So, the factory setup sucked. The neck pocket fit, the neck
alignment, and the wiring are all quite good, though. Because
of that, the guitar's stock shortcomings were fixable. As with
most cheap guitars, replacing the tuners and disabling the
vibrato assembly are the keys to wrangling a nice guitar out
of a small cash outlay. A real sleeper. (The lowish grade is
for the setup, not for the very decent body and neck work.)

It's as solid as the next Strat. Down the road, I wouldn't
be surprised if the saddles become prematurely grooved, as
inexpensive saddles will. If I start breaking strings, I'll
replace them. I haven't broken a string since 1999, so if
two or three snap in a month, I'll know that it's time.
The stock tuners were shit, too, but you need to replace
those just to make the guitar playable, so those don't
count in my case -- they're long gone.
I have on scratchy pot which I need to clean. The switch,
the other two pots, and the output jack are all working
fine, and are solidly installed. My guitar doesn't get beat
on, but it looks as if it could take it if it had to.

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I have a ton of gear, collected over 25 years of playing.
I bought this to save my back, but it's turned out to be
a really nice guitar. I absolutely needed to do two things
to make it playable -- replace the tuners, and disable (or
re-spring w/ heavier springs) the vibrato. Now it's a budget
gem.
I once suffered through watching a gig where the lead guitarist
was playing one of these, with the original tuners, and
with the sloppy, loose bridge. I don't think the guitar was
even tunable, as it came from the factory -- the bridge
moved every time he'd tighten a string. I told him what needed
to be done, but he got frustrated and traded the guitar in
on something else. I'm glad I kept mine.
As modified, it's a 10 in my book. Off the hook at the store
it was a 6.

Korean made, 1989 Model, Serial No. E 983249. 22 frets, maple neck, black alder body (pretty sure it's actually alder, too), standard strat controls and configuration. Came with absolutely cheap bridge and tuners: seemed to be aluminum outsides with plastic insides for the tuners (the caps actually came off with too much regular use). It never stayed in tune before I had some decent hardware put on it. Pickups are stock, cheap S/S/S. Slightly better off for a Squier, nowadays they skimp more on the wood than hardware, which can be replaced.

I play lots of Jazz and some rock now, though this was my first electric and I was heavy into the Clapton and Zeppelin stuff. I just wanted something to plug in and play, and for the time it worked for me. I use a Marshall MG50RCD, and the sound is fairly decent from the guitar. The pots have always, always crackled; there is just no getting around it. I actually had to hit the damn thing to quit making noise (it works).

It sounds...well like a Strat, really. Usually, the sound is sub-standard. Crappy bass, the 2 and 4 selectors rarely work, they just sound like the tone is all the way down, all of the time, no matter how I mess with the knobs. The mids are actually nice on this one, though, and if in the bridge or neck position, the guitar stays true to a Strat sound, just less tone. In general, the three middle selections are awful, and I stay away from them.

If I could describe the tonal pallette, I could say it sounds as though the guitar just isn't trying hard enough. It simply refuses to reach for a good low or upper sound. Its personality is apathetic. I think that sums it up nicely.

Well, I bought it used. There are some rather large blemishes on the edge of the body, on the bottom. I think it gives the guitar some personality, doesn't affect the sound, anyway. The nut is original, old, plastic, and s*$#@y. Pickups actually fell out from their places for the longest time, I finally had the gall to get it set-up by a friend of mine and he had some springs to put in. Plays much better now. Action can't be lowered beyond a certain point, or the top three strings will sound sitarish (if i dished out 30 bucks for graphite saddles it might help, but it's not really worth it). String pinchers on the headstock are very old, look like they're about to fall out. When I bought the guitar, the tuning caps were approaching the tear-apart condition, which they eventually did. I spent 100 bucks three years ago to get the tuners and bridge (the bridge that SNAPPED when I attempted to put on 12-guage strings), and all the better for it; when fixed up the guitar actually feels all right enough to play. I have 12s on it now, and though it doesn't help a whole lot with tone, it gets by. Like I said, apathetic. This guitar is a sleepy teenager.

This guitar would serve as a last-resort rock back-up. It can fill in for lifeless power chords. If I were looking for a weird sound, I would automatically run to this instrument. The hardware I have on it now is sturdy and reliable, but the pick-ups are nasty nasty. If I had those replaced, this would no doubt become a decent piece.

The finish is pretty much moot at this point, the huge gash in it near the bottom just begs it to remain beaten up. I had to replace the strap buttons, twice, and the second time I did, I had to use carpenter's putty to secure them. Those suckers don't move at all, now --sturdy as hell. If I weren't playing anything imporessive, I might gig with this little buddy. It's fine for jamming with friends or debuting a new song to a small group. Shows, though, I would say off limits until I get some ok pickups (if I even do).

Overall, it was originally crap. Afer working on it, I'm proud of the fruit of my labor (or dollars, anyway).

Going to Fender about this guitar would be like approaching the Federal governement for a bad book of food stamps. This is more of a do-it-yourself type thing, a good guitar to learn about how solid-body electrics work.

I've been playing for five years, presently. I stick to my Jazz brain and rock roots. Since I was a beginning electric guitarist at the time, I think it was an ultimately good learning experience. I should have saved up for a decent Strat, though, so I couldn't have been turned off by the bad sound that I thought was me.

If this particular one were stolen, I'd be sentimental, it was my first electric. I wouldn't rush to buy a new Squier anything, however.
I really didn't compare it to much, it was all I could afford at the time. I appriciate the experience, though. It's been fun in a frustrating way.

This is a 1989 Squire II strat made in INDIA. Yep, according to the Fender book there was a plant in India for one year. Evidently they had quality control issues and they closed the plant down. However, this guitar is very well built and the ring and sustain is incredible. I agree with a previous reviewer... close you eyes and strum a G and E cord with power. If the guitar sounds flat it is probably plywood and glue. Mine is solid wood I believe to be alder. The pickups are cheesy but they are easily replaced and I am going to replace them and put a tone-x switch in the mix. This is a S/S/S classic configuration and the body cavity in not routed into one big whole where all the pickups go--classic strat style as it was meant to be. The finish is a nice pale yellow gold with a rosewood neck. Also, this guitar stays in tune. I can bash it, leave it in the case for days, pick it up and perfect pitch. This surprised me but since it is an '89 I figure all the wood has settled into position. Came with case. I am very happy with this and I use this for informal jam sessions when I don't want to carry my McCarty around my other guitar fanatic friends--ooooh that's nice can I play it? No! The McCarty stays home unless I'm gigging or recording. By the way the McCarty blows any gibson out of the water. I don't care to hear excuses like, "ya man but the les paul has a different vibe"
Crap, McCarty invented the les paul and this is the real 59 paul the way it should have been. Anyway, this Squire II is probably made more like a strat than some American models. Remember when they routed the body out and replaced a tone control with the input jack. Geez, what's that save $20 in production costs?

Rings for days... change the pickups to your style. Using a Marshall studio 15 with a sealed mesa 1x12 cab. Whoa! Also have a 55 Grommes head modified at the Soldano shop in Seattle. I use that with a tube king. Sonic thunder indeed.

Action fine tuned at Mike Lull's guitar shop in Bellevue. He is incredible and he knows his stuff. Worked on all of Alice In Chains guitars, Heart, etc...

Four bolt neck solid as a rock

Helloooooooo

I enjoy it and I would buy another one. I think the stuff made in '89 is better than the new stuff. They are really pumping them out now. The stuff I have picked up at Guitar Center is junk.

this a pretty old squier II strat. me and my dad had it laying around and one day he said he wanted to make it better. so we took it apart completly and gave the body to his friend who worked at Lexus(yes the car company). when we got it back it was pearly silver-ish gold. it looked so cool! then we bought sperzel locking tuners and put them on the neck. then we got a seymour duncan hot rail pickup. we blocked all of the other controls except the volume and the trem. we also put a blue pearloid pickguard on it. now here's the catch, as you may have figured out this is just like the tom delonge strat. but we did ours about a year before his came out.

with the duncan it sounds awsome.

action is perfect. no buzzing. Awsome!

very reliable!

didnt deal with them

AWSOME!!!

made in korea blood red finish standard strat setup s/s/s pickup configuration neck is fairly thin not as thin as an ibanez (duh)but just a little thicker, gloss finish on neck which i dont really care for cause your hands stick to the finish cheap tuners and vintage style tremolo bridge also on mine neck and bridge are slightly narrower than a fender strat which is a pain in the ass cuz fender replacement parts dont fit and plywood body

the sound of this guitar is ok not the best but its pretty good. it does have that quack that strays are famous for i dunno why though i cant stand that quack sound but heres how each pickup sounds- the bridge is bright and thin and twangy (i use the mid shift on my amp to fatten up the sound) sounding distorted sounds good the middle is a little warmer sounds kinda like that my own prison clean sound the distorted its ok but i dont use this pickup much the neck pickup has the best clean sound of the three very warm and darker than the mid and bridge think hendrix hey joe and thats pretty close in all i give it a 6 cause it could be more versatile and the bridge and middle sounds could be much better

got it used so i have know idea how the factory setup the pickups were setup pretty good but i mess with them alot to see what sounds i can get the action sucks high as hell and still buzzes all over the neck frets are worn down which is probably the cause but dosent buzz through the amp much so i dont really mind the finish is fairly thick but will stinn chip and crack wich i also dont mind cause in my opinion a few scratches and dings kinda give the guitar character. the tuning sux with the trem but i dont even use it anyway i keep it flush and leave the bar layin around my room

this guitar may or may not be suitable for live playi i dunno i dont ever play live i do use it for jazz band at school and for that it serves the purpose(especially considering the fact we probably only played jazz the class like twice usually the teacher tells me to play along while he plays somethin he wrote or other students get me to play along) the strap buttons are descent but i will eventually replace them with strap locks. its dependable as long as u dont use the trem i wouldnt use it live without a backup(even though i dont play live now)cuase u never know what will happen

i dunno

overall its a considering what i payed its damn good but it still could be better but it serves the purpose. i've benn playing for a yr now and this is my second guitar my first was a junk synsonics terminator(read my review) if it were stolen i'd be mad but i'd get over it cause i may be getting a shecter i wouldnt lose it cause u gotta be pretty dumb to lose a guitar. currently my setup is squier strat> original crybaby wah> peavey chorus> fender roc pro 1000 amp .i wish it it had a humbucker but o well

Late 80's(?) Made in Korea Squier II strat. Standard strat setup - S/S/S. Maple neck, thin and flat, skinny frets, vintage white pearl-ish finish. Cheap tuners. Has standard whammy, but I will probably just block it off.

Really like the neck and those skinny frets. I don't know what the wood is, but it is really light. I have long thought that the light ones somehow sound better.

I have a real nice Strat Plus Deluxe (lace pickups) and an early 80's Ibanez Roadstar (strat-style), both of which are excellent instruments. However, I have been on the lookout for a 'straight' Strat - that is, regular pickups, classic sound.

I spied this "Squier" (snicker, snicker) in a pawn shop for $89.00 and figured 'what the heck', I'll give it a try. The neck was bowed to hell, action high, but otherwise in good shape.

Plugged it into a Hot-rod deluxe, strummed a nice open "g" chord, and WOW. It was 'that' sound. Gorgeous, ringing sustain. Clear as a bell. Position 2 and 4 - perfect classic sound! I've been playing for 30 years, have owned many guitars including a '59 strat, and this sucker is right up there with the best of 'em. Now mind you, no one was more surprised than me. But every once in a while you come across an axe that just has it, and you can tell from the first note. I'm sure there are countless numbers of these out there, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of them sound unremarkable. All I know is this one does it for me.

I got it home and adjusted the truss rod and it came right up good. Left just a little relief, and left the action high. Otherwise I did not touch a thing.

I assume the pickups are stock, but I don't know for CERTAIN. They are white w/ staggered pole pieces. There is only one small thing sound-wise for which I deducted 1 point. The high e string is slightly quieter that the g or b string for some reason. Maybe it is the staggared poles - I don't know. Most noticeable in pos 2.

After truss rod adjustment, action is nice - high, like I want it. As for fit and finish, I don't see any glaringly poor fit. All looks good to me. Tuners ARE cheap, though.

It has made it this far, I doubt it is going to suddenly fall apart!

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Based on what I paid, I have no hesitation giving this a 9. Hell, I'd give it a 7 or 8 even if it wasn't inexpensive.

If it was stolen, I doubt I would easily find a 'special' one like this, but I would try. Otherwise, I would probably have to pay a lot more to duplicate the sound.

Korean, probably a '96, typical unremarkable Strat hardware, three single pickups, two tone controls, one volume and a 5 way switch, trem bridge, non-locking tuners (I personally despise locking tuners and would rip them off any guitar I bought and burn them) maple neck, unsure of the body, but it's exceptionally heavy, fire-engine red, bought used

I really like it's tone, very versatile, I can play anything from jazz to death metal, though you may not be able to create a specific tone, you can almost always find one that works, I use a Crate G160XL and no effects, this amp is somewhat limiting as it's tone is definatey solid-state, not VERY full or rich, but it suffices, perhaps a little too much like every other strat for my taste

I bought this gutiar used, but I know the fellow well, and I don't think he'd get it setup (he wouldn't buy a guitar that didn't feel right from the factory) and it felt nice, the pickups were in a mediocre position, I did do a little tweaking, to good effect, construction is very solid, but that's no surprise considering the simplicity of these guitars construction

Live player, yes, not without a backup, as mine, at least, is prone to humming everynow and then, and the pots and switch tend to crackle as if they're corroded, (i've had t de-corroded several times) the hardware and finish are plenty rugged, it's held up numerous abuses since I've owned it with minimum problems

I've been pklaying 5 years, I own a few other fender products and some no-names, I would definately get a similair guitar were this one stolen, but probably not this excact model, this guitar is certainly the better of any other squier, and probably the equal of many fenders made in korea and japan, it's certainly better than the Ibenezs, Carvins and any one of a number of fender copies that are becoming popular, if this guitar could improve in one area it would tone, while it's the area I rated best, and it is good, it doesn't seem to shine in any genre, and lacks any individuality