Fender Squier Stratocaster

-2004 made in indonesia
-21 frets
-5 way selector, volume, 2 tone swiches (1 for bottom pickup)
-solid body maple
-whammy bar
-non-locking machine heads
-shallow frets
-thin, playable neck

-It suits my many music styles from heavy metal to rockabilly
-I use danelectro overdrive, octave distortion, phaser and octave pedels.
-It is fairly quiet untill the volume knob gets past 8, then a quiet hum is present when nothing is being played.
-The sound can be changed to almost anything you want with individual adjustments on pickups, from a bright sound to a full and dark sound.
-Great for harmonics!

-The Bridge didnt need any changing from the factory, it was pre-calibrated.
-The guitar was flawless.

-It can get through a whole set onstage without needing tuning, i usually tune it every other day of practice eventhough it usually dosnt need it, with the exception of the whammy bar which can detune the strings slightly but are still in tune with each other.
-The hardware is very durable and hasnt let me down with my agressive playing style.
-Either then a small, almost invisible split in the finish near the neck that you have to look for the finish has no depects.
-It is a very reliable and has never let me down.
-The only reason i would need a backup guitar would be because of the strings, I cant forsee it letting me down in any way

I havnt dealt with the company simply because there hasnt been a need to.

The gutiar is great, very customizable and affordable. i would recomend it to all

I got this guitar used online (from an old pawn shop sight) for $50. It's a 90's Korean Squire Standard with the smaller headstock and a maple fretboard. It was pretty hit when I got it. None of the pickups worked and the finish was shot (had been metalled with tape stripes and then dragged by a car). It was my guinea pig as I had wanted to begin working on my own guitars. I had owned a 79 strat, so I knew what to expect from the feel, and I figured I would add on my own parts. After taking it down to the wood and finding that it was plywood, I almost dumped the whole project but then figured I'd do it anyway. I put about 77 coats of tung oil on it (which kind of made cool stripes with the layered laminates), added some schaller tuners, and got ahold of some mighty mite pickups and popped those in. I immediately liked the feel of the guitar and have since added a bronzed pickguard and a 69 custom shop pickup (initialled by Abigail Ybarra) in the neck. I know the wood will always be plywood, but it's a fun guitar to play, and I get a good sound, so who really cares?

It gets the strat twang pretty good and if I want a chunky sound I'll use a double humbuckered git. Mine's not too noisy. With the right amp (fender super 112, or mesa boogie 22) it gets a good tubey, bluesy thing. When pushed (boogie formula pre into a peavey deuce as power amp), it gets downright raunchy. Not a lot of sustain, but real good bite.

I had to overhaul, but now it's olde-leather-coat comfortable.

Great thing about a strat is that I know it will be around after I'm gone(as long as it's cared for).

Never had to (in 27+ years of owning fender products). What does that tell you?

If it were stolen, I wouldn't run out the door to get another, but I would have a beer and bring to mind certain jams that I had had with it. Now it's like an old friend( had it for about 7 years) since it was the first that I put a lot of work into. I've got much better guitars (a Parker, a nice older Washburn 335 copy, a real good Raven PRS copy, and a bunch other pretty good klunkers), but this one is always fun to fire up.

I bought this guitar off of ebay.Black with white pickguard. 3 single coils.rosewood neck with sealed tuners that have squier written on them. the neck is different than any other squier I have ever played. It's very chunky but feels great, very smoothe, the frets are filed properly so you dont feel them on the sides. very impessive neck. solid. lots of laquer on it? not like these new affinity or standards.the serial number is cae.... which I found out came in a strat pac deal. I am suprised cause this guitar plays like my jap strat.

After playing this guitar unplugged, which btw sounds very resonate. I plugged it in and again was very impressed. I bot a nice heavy metal sound from the bridge pickup and the rest of the pickups sounded good. position 2-4 seemed to cancell out any hummmmmm. which is great.sounded full in the clean position too. It really does quite a job. I could easily play live with this guitar.

The action is a little high on this guitar, but I think I want to keep it this way! it chords nicely at this setting and I can still get fast leads.the guitar feels very solid has a heavy feel to it. I went to the local guitar store today and This one blows all the squires I played today away. the 20th anneversary model was very close.and the older korean model smoked it. but the rest did not compare. very thick finish on this baby

Strats are always needing attention. you have to just keep an eyeand tool handy to tighten something up on your strat

N-A

good little ol guitar,people were getting a heck of a deal on this strat pac> I would of never guessed? must of been a mistake.

It's made from cheap wood, has cheap pickups, cheap tremolo...simple put, the guitar is a cheap piece of crap. The electronics are a mess, they either are from the start, or get to be down the road. The finish is decent, but dents and chips very easily. I hate my Squier so much that I purposely chipped off some of the finish to check out the body wood, it's absolute crap! The tuners do not keep you in tune for a long time, you have to keep tuning up. Also, the tuners are very cheap, they make the cheap tuner sound, which is a cracking-like noise when trying to tune it up. I can't believe I bought this about 9 or 10 years ago, it is one of the worst guitars you can buy!

It's a very crappy version of a real Fender Strat, but is made of the some of the crappiest, cheapest stuff. I have gotten much wiser since I bought this guitar, I now use a Gibson Les Paul, Epiphone Elitist Les Paul Standard Plus, Epiphone '58 V, Gibson '63 Firebird, Fender Thinline Tele., Ibanez JS2000, Ibanez Jem, and just bought a Peavey EVH signature guitar. I use Peavey heads with custom built 4X12 cabinets (either 4-100 watt speakers or 4-200 watt speakers). I have a custom made pedalboard--Dunlop 535Q wah-Digitech Whammy-Boss SD-1-Boss DS-1-E.H. USA Big Muff Pi-chorus pedal-delay. I have a stage tuner that I connect from the dry output of my Whammy pedal. I use either my DS-1 or USA Big Muff Pi for dist. and use the SD-1 for a boost in gain. The Squier Strat can't even compare to any of my guitars, I am saving it to smash for my next show.

Past the 12th fret I have quite a few dead spots, which makes it unuseable because I am lead guitarist in my rock band and lead guitarist in my instrumental band. Everything on this guitar goes on you after a few years, the pots get very scratchy (need constant cleaning), the tuners don't keep it in tune very long, the neck bows easily, the pickups are total crap, the tremolo is very crappy also, I don't think there is anything good about this guitar. Something made from cheap woods and electronics will end up sounding like $hit, and that's how Squier guitars are.

Squier guitars are a joke, you CANNOT be taken as a serious musician if you play a Squier guitar! I've never brought this guitar to a show, but it is coming to my next show to be smashed onstage! A backup for this guitar-I bet someone probably has a cheaper priced backup guitar(s) that is way better than a Squier.

never dealt with them.

I've said pretty much everything I needed to say. I wish someone would have stolen this guitar years ago, so I would have been forced to buy something good and better! I did compare this guitar to others when I was looking 9 or 10 years ago, but I really didn't have the money for anything decent, this was like the only guitar in my price range. Such a sad story that is.

This guitar is the worst and most sorry excuse for a strat copy there ever was.

S/S/S config.
No good tremolo.

The Squier strat doesn't suit ANY style. Not even for the price.
I've played better FirstAct guitars.

I play it on a Peavey Bandit 112.

This guitar is noisy, bad plywood tone.
I hate everything about the guitar.

Kramer Aerostar ZX10 is far superior to this and it's 100$ on ebay usually.

Action feels lumpy and the strings are always unbalanced.
This guitar gets out of tune WAY too much.
Poor quality wood, poorly fit saddle.

This guitar would withstand live playing if it stays in tune long enough.

None.

DO NOT GET THIS GUITAR.
THIS GUITAR IS A WASTE OF MONEY.

You're better off with a vintage Kramer or a new one from MusicYo.
This guitar isn't versatile, it's sound is worse than anything else Ive heard, and you get less than what you pay for.

I wouldn't buy a Squier Strat if it was 50$.

Probably made in 2002 or so. It was after they started making the Squier's in China also. This is different than the other Squier Standard Strats I have seen. It has Squier Strat by Fender on the headstock and a serial number on the back, but it is not the big 70's style headstocks like you find on the Squier Standard and Affinity Strats it is the smaller standard strat headstock. It is also very thick, exactly the same as my Fender Standard (MIM) Strat and my Fender American Standard Strat instead of thin like the Affinity Strats, so I am going to call this a Standard Strat for this and several other reasons, which I will cover later. I bought this for $135.00 in a pawn shop and it looks completely brand new. Has 22 frets, with a standard strat setup with 3 single coil pickups, one volume, two tone controls and a 5 way selector switch. I suppose the pickups are Squier but I honestly cannot tell the difference, side by side between the pickups on this one and my Fender Mexican Strat. My American Standard Strat has a bit more power in the pickups but the tone is not any better at all. A friend of mine who used to work for Fender says the Squiers have exactly the same parts as the Fenders do, and the parts are made here in the USA and sent to Indonesia, China or wherever. I believe him, because other than the fact it says Squier on the headstock, I cannot tell the difference in looks, playability and tone from my Fender Mexican Strat except it was about $200 cheaper. Again, even the tone matches my Fender American Standard Strat, it just isn't as loud, however the neck and quality on the American Strat is quite a bit better. Body of this one is alder, neck is maple with the skunk stripe down it, finish is a nice candy apple red and although I purchased it used from a pawn shop, it has not a scratch on it, so I suspect the guy who owned it before me took very good care of it and hated to have to get rid of it, or he never played it at all. Body is standard strat style, thick and heavy just like my Fender Strats. Tuners are the normal Fender Schaller type tuners and it stays in tune just as well as my other two strats. Neck is C shaped, medium jumbo frets with a rosewood fretboard. If I were to say there is any difference in tone between this strat and my two Fenders, I would say this one sounds a little more rich, especially on distortion, but I've been told that is because it has a rosewood fretboard. Both my other strats have maple fretboards. This didn't come with any accessories at all. For the price I paid for it, and the fact it compares very well to my Fender Standard Strats, I gotta max it out.

Suits my music style very well. I play classic rock, blues and country. I kind of bought this guitar on a whim. I was in the pawn shop just lookin around and saw it, saw how new it looked and asked the guy how much and he said $135.00 and I just shelled out the money, not even knowing if it would work or not because he didn't have an amp for me to test it on. I asked if I could bring it back if it didn't work and he told me, you walk outta here with it, it's yours. No guarantees or warranties. I'm running this through a VOX Pathfinder 15R at home and for gigs run it through a VOX AC30. All I play are strats and tele's, and all I use are VOX amps. I do occasionally use a ZOOM 606 pedal, but usually as a tuner, as I like the crunchy distortion of the VOX amps. You can play anything on this guitar. On the amps straight, it does wonderful classic rock, country, blues, and with the pedal you can crank out some heavy metal sounds too. I like everything about it, especially the fact that I feel like I walked away with a steal for the money.

I don't know what it was like brand new, but it was setup perfectly when I bought it. Everything was flawless.

Seems pretty tough. I've been gigging with it now for over a year, as I like the comfort of having my 3 strats and my tele on stage for gigs so I never have to tune. Hardware is just like the Fender stuff in my opinion, strap buttons are solid, it's a good dependable guitar. I would never gig without a backup.

I've never had a problem with Fender or places where I have bought Fenders. However, the guy at the pawn shop was an asshole, but I'm just gonna leave this N/A because it isn't Fender's fault.

I've been playing about 25 years off and on. I have this Squier Standard Strat, a Sunburst/maple fretboard MIM strat and a Chrome Blue/Maple American Standard Strat as well as a 52 Telecaster that my dad gave me over 25 years ago as my first electric guitar. He bought it brand new in 1952, and it IS NOT for sale. Plays like a dream. I also have several epiphone, takamine and martin acoustic and acoustic electric guitars. If it were stolen or lost, I probably wouldn't be able to find another one like it. I don't like those big 70's style headstocks on the other squier strats. But, I love everything about this one. It's great too for travelling, because I also have a little 10 watt Marshall amp, that I take when I just go out of town or something and this guitar does real well with it.

Not sure when it was made but had to be since Squier started making them in China. This is a Standard Stratocaster with 22 frets, laminated top, one volume, two tone controls, 5 way selector switch and 3 single coil pickups, which I guess are made by Fender. Body is probably Alder, doesn't feel like plywood as it is quite heavy. Neck is maple, with the skunk stripe. I guess I would call this Dakota Red, as it doesn't look like it's Candy Apple Red. Standard Stratocaster bridge, string through body, tuners are grover style, non-locking but it stays in tune quite well. C shaped neck with medium jumbo frets on a rosewood fretboard. Came with a cord, strap and a gig bag.

My music tastes depends on my moods. I write some of my own stuff which would probably be considered alternative country or electric folk, but I also play blues and classic rock. This guitar handles these styles quite well. Not really a vintage sound but more modern, so not so good for rockabilly and late 50's rock. It isn't noisy, even on the single coil settings. Has a nice bright sound at the bridge pickup, but not twangy like the vintage fender strats. Neck pickup is very bluesy on clean and does very well for moderate distortion. This is not your heavy metal guitar. I use this through two amps at home, one being a Marshall MG15RCD and the other being a VOX Pathfinder 15R and the guitar sounds great on both amps. The place where I gig has a Fender Super Reverb Amp and it sounds great on that too. I like the sound of the amps but occasionally use a ZOOM 606II pedal with it. Good variety of sounds and perfect for the type of music I play. Don't dislike anything about it.

It was setup quite well out of the box, but I did adjust the intonation and the strength height a little just for personal tastes. Everything was actually flawless and I was impressed as this was the first Squier I have ever purchased. I used to have an American Standard Strat, but got divorced and had to sell it to pay my lawyer.

I play in a 3 piece band on Wednesday and Friday nites. We play mostly alternative country and classic rock. This guitar does quite well for it and it seems to be durable and tough enough to hang. I can't tell the difference between it and one of the Mexican made strats as far as sound goes. Strap buttons are solid, and I depend on it because it is the only electric guitar I have. No one should gig without a backup, but I do, because I don't have any choice. Looking at buying a Squier Standard Telecaster soon for a backup and a little more sound variety.

I've never dealt with Squier. Ordered the guitar online through american musical. They seem ok.

I've been playing on and off for 35 years. Everything from a street corner musician playing for tips in Nashville to a studio recording guitarist. Now, I just do a small gig, as the divorce wiped me out. The only other guitar I have is an Epiphone Hummingbird Acoustic. The club I play at has a Fender Super Reverb for an amp and that is what I gig with. Great guitar for the money, basically, a Fender Stratocaster that says Squier by Fender on the headstock and costs half as much.

Leo Fender's genius in designing the original Stratocaster is that a Strat is a Strat is a Strat. As long as it's not poorly built, it will do the basic job, and mine is an example. It's a 1990-era Korean-made black Strat with the regular Fender headstock (not a big '70s-style one like Squier has today), a single-ply white pickguard, maple neck (skunk stripe on the back), three adequate stock single-coil pickups, five-position pickup switch, one volume and two tone knobs, and a traditional Strat trem/vibrato arm system. Soon after I bought it (a store demo) in 1990 or '91, I replaced the bridge saddles, nut, and string trees with graphite-coated ones from Graph-Tech. A little while later I had the tremolo blocked and removed the vibrato arm, so while the trem system is still there, the guitar acts like a hard-tail, non-tremolo bridge model. Just this year (2004), I replaced the regular control knobs with chromed knurled aluminum ones, just because I like those. (The old ones worked just fine.)

You get your Strat sounds out of this thing, but the pickups are probably its weakest point: they're not especially beefy-sounding, and are quite prone to hum and noise. Unlike most modern Strats, but like the '50s originals, this model has very traditional electronics. The pickups are not wired reverse polarity, so even when you're in the "in between" settings (neck-and-middle or neck-and-bridge), they do not cancel the hum. Also like the old Strats, the tone knobs control the neck and middle pickups only; there is no tone control over the bridge pickup, which can be very ice-pick bright. The volume knob also rolls off tone, and the tone knobs are almost on/off between muddy and bright.

Over the years I have put heavier strings on it to compensate for the pickups; now that I'm playing .11 through .49 Fender Nickel Bullets, there's quite a nice clangy squawk from this Strat. With .09 or .08 strings, it would probably be too weak sounding. I've considered upping to .12 gauge strings, which I quite liked on one of my bandmates' instruments.

You can get some fine blues tones on the front pickup, nice leads in the middle, and good out-of-phase sounds in the "in between" settings. The bridge pickup is a bit too piercing. Replacing the pickups and re-doing the wiring would probably make this a truly excellent guitar, but I haven't done that. I'm a drummer, after all, so this instrument hasn't seen much stage use since the mid-'90s.

I like guitars to fight me a bit, so the medium frets are lighter than I would probably choose on a new guitar, but they work fine. The fret dressing wasn't perfect when the guitar was new, but it was fine, and has been re-done only once since. The guitar has never been re-fretted. I'm not sure how the action and intonation were, since I had those re-done when the bridge and nut were replaced. The tremolo system tended to throw the guitar out of tune, which is why I blocked it and put in the graphite hardware to start with.

The neck is fabulous. Maybe a little slicker than I like (I prefer the feel of minimally-finished natural wood), but the shape and heft are great. I think the fingerboard radius is 9.5", but it could be closer to the 7+" round of the old '50s Strats--I'm not sure. Other guitarists have commented on how nice the neck is to play, so maybe those medium frets aren't so bad.

The black paint job is nothing special, and has worn and cracked a bit over the years, which is to be expected. Luckily, a Jiffy Marker or Sharpie hides any scrapes just great!

Several of my guitarists used this as their main instrument before getting their own, and it's held up to a lot of shows and quite a bit of throwing around in nearly 15 years of use. All the key components have held up great, and it's never needed anything other than regular guitar maintenance--probably not enough, the way I treat it. Couldn't ask for more. The cable jack did come a bit loose at one point, but I was able to tighten it up with a screwdriver no problem.

No idea. Never contacted Fender. Parts and repairs are, of course, easy to find or do yourself if you want. Nearly any standard Strat part will work in this guitar.

I played classical guitar as a kid, and while I forgot everything in high school, I've been a professional drummer (in the union and everything) for 15 years, and I dabble in guitar and bass too.

But I bought this guitar when I was a poor student. Today I would probably save up for a guitar with Texas Special or Fender Noiseless pickups--and probably a Telecaster. But in the same circumstances this Strat would do nicely.

Bought it in 1986 in France. Price paid 3800 francs ($ 700 equivalent at that time). Silver Squier logo showing black "by Fender" under. serial # E 674311 should testify it's a 1986 model. 21 frets volume + 2 tones controls. Whammy arm.according to heavy weight would call for ash one piece body.
Black finish and maple one piece neck. Fender logo tuners.6 screws "vintage" bridge. Bridge saddles vintage type. Overal look resembles "Eric Clapton Blackie". It was even more difficult to find a strat in 1986 that France was not at the top of the countries list for exporters and Fender's Bill Schultz had serious problems trying to rebuild the Co. I have reckon the finish is absolutely great.
My local dealer delivered a non Fender case for free.

I am now 53 and have been playing for more than 35 years.I mainly play blues and rock. I fell in love with Lightnin' Hopkins music at the age of 15. My late father was american and I grew up in the outskirts of Houston Texas where I met Lightnin but also could see Johnny Winter and many others. I admit the guitar sounded a bit metallic in the beginning but time has given a fantastic bonus and it sounds now the best money can buy. A bit compressed sound when using the neck p.u. Intermediate positions among the 5 by the selector are a bit weak. I also have a 1988 std telecaster US made and a 00028 Martin acoustic which is a rare bird here in France. I play it thru a 1990 Fender 650 performer amp which is an amazing one especially for distorted sounds. I never use any other effect but a Boss delay aged 12. Believe me or not, although I am a Telecaster addict this Squier strat is even more powerful than the tele when using the neck pu.
Deep mellow sound rich harmonics. I have tried US made strats they don't even sound so versatile. Never gets out of tune even after 1 week rest. My guitars are always in the room and they just travel in their case for gigs.

I remember the guitar was OK when first delivered. Action was a bit high and pickups were so new that I didn't change any settings at that time. Have to say I should not be able to do it at that time 'cos I looked at this axe as a precious jewel and wouldn't dare change anything. As time went by I had to readjust action. As I am now an old familiar I now make all my settings by myself and also for my friends.
But anyway, I just had to screw 1/4 turn the trss rod (below pickguard) and lower a bit the saddles on the bridge.
As time made its job pickups are no longer noisy as they used to buzz in the early days. Selector works OK if you just take care of it once a year with W40 use.
Never had a problem with jack connection or any other piece. Maybe I'm lucky. My son is 22 he just got a deluxe Strat Us made and I can say the sttings where awfull.

I have to reiterate that time helped the guitar becoming a great one. All snobbish people who see Squier logo do grumble or smile but when they hear the sound or play the guitar they are just bluffed.
I would even say that I feel more confident in this one than my beloved Tele whose knobs sometimes buzz. I never had to touch straplocks but I have to say the screws on the top pickguard are a bit ternish and the saddles show some coorsion stain. I had to follow Ritchie Flieger's book advices to return to normal conditions. In the contrary it sould have been impossible to adjust the action. But 18 years of daily playing never caused more damage. I can use it without any backup since it's more reliable than my Telly.

Never had to get in touch with Fender.

Guitar suffered some few damages after it was stolen and fortunately police gave it back. The finish had some few cracks and selector was bent. I have to say it was like a kidnapping. I'm not that type of sensitive but I even love it more now. I have been playing many other guitars ranging from Gibson es 335 to PRS and various US made fenders. I will just give it to my son who plays great when I die.
Remember that this is a true FENDER and japanese craftmen are as skilfull as US. I will not chane it for gold.

1989 USA
21 frets
solid top
1 volume 2 tone 5 way selector
s/s/s/ pickup
nec & center picups USA standred,bridge Lace sensor RED
body is alder, neck is maple (62) c shape no trus rood adjustment on the headstock but is placed in the set point of the body like the 1962 Strat
stsndard trim (vintage style)
Fender tuners

This guitar is perfict for all the styles of music I do. I play mainly christian rock but also use it for Blues and some country, ( exclent for the country), Has such a wide range of tone depending on the tone seatings on the guitar and amp combined. I used this guitar in the studio on our first CD and it worked fine. It has abbsolutly no noise in any pickup config. I use several difrent amps depending on where I play, I use a Crate GX 1500 half stack, A Laney 65 hardcore, and a Dean Markley sterio 40.
This guitar has the sweetist action of any guitar I have ever played. Almost everyone that has played it wants to know if it is for sale.

Action was just a little high when I bought it but was very easy to adj.
Everything else was perfict.

I have been giging with this guitar for 4 yrs. and it has never let me down. The finish has a few dings in it mostly put in by me but paint has held up well (Gloss Black)
I usuly cary an Austin Les Paul copy as a backup but only if I berak a string, by then our roadie usuly has another on and tuned.

I called Fender and talked with them about the S# and found out that it was bilt out of older parts that uere stored in there factory in Calf. sent to Mex. to be painted and sent back to the USA to be assembled with Fender USA parts. I was toled it had a 1962 neck and most likly a 57 body.

I have been playing about 12 yrs. I have to much gear to list
Yeah where can I get more of these.
IF THIS GUITAR WAS STOLEN i WOULD SERCH FOR ANOTHER ONE
I love everything about this insterment.
The only thing I wish it had would be an LSR roller nut