Fender Squier Stratocaster

Well, I got this strat as a gift from my grandfather, he played it probably 5 years ago maybe. The year is unknown, probably 1998 as a guess. It was made in Korea, and included: Fender case, two budget cables (which aren't very good), a Fender strap, and a set of extra strings. The equipment is great for starting. The tuners were cheap chrome finish, I assume that they are Fender. The bridge and tremelo are basic Fender, passive electronic 3 single coil budget pickups. There's a 5 way selector which kind of buzzes when you switch. I did like the sunburst finish. I don't know what the body wood is, I think it is Alder. The neck is also Alder, with a mahogany 22-fret fretboard. Over all, it has great beginners' features, but that's almost it.

This guitar can play good country and classic rock, but almost nothing else. It probably can have a different style, but the thing is you have to change the cheap strings to better strings. The ones that you get from the box affect the tone badly, I changed them and they sounded a lot better. Also, the amp I got was HORRIBLE. The tiny Squier amp has very low function. You can only adjust treble, bass, and volume, the most basic parts. Get a new amp if you are going to buy the stratpack. Replacing the pickups with Lace sensor or Seymour Duncan would make this guitar sound a whole lot better! If you don't change the pickups, you get fuzzy chords, and on the bridge pickup, you will get very very high annoying treble sound. Altogether, don't expect good music out of the box.

The nut is very bad, I replaced mine with graphite sounds a whole lot better. The pickups were also very bad, replace those too. The guitar I got was very tough, I give credit to the factory for that, and the wood is good for a cheap guitar. The only problems I had was the tremelo bar making the guitar out of tune quickly, and bending too. The tuning pegs are ok, I thought they were ok, so I didn't mess with those. Also, the tone knobs didn't really change anything, I think they broke when they were made in the factory. Change the nut, and most of the hardware when you buy this guitar.

Great durability! This guitar would probably last a lifetime and a half! I wouldn't need a backup for this IF I brang this to a gig. (I wouldn't bring it to a gig personally, I'd be embarrased.) But if so, no backup required! The strap buttons are almost perfect, they can get loose after a while but just screw it back and you're good. The only bad thing is the nut, which falls out easily. I would've rated this 10, but the nut is not very reliable.

Didn't need any.

This was my first guitar, and so far it has done well. If only the sound and hardware quality was a lot better, this would be one of my favorite guitars! BUT I hope I don't get this same guitar again. Great finish, durability, get this guitar for a good beginners/practice guitar.

Made in indo.2008. Candy apple red. Sweet maple neck. Nice finish . Solid squier tuners . Fretwork is good no sharp edges. The body is solid agthis and its a full size stratcaster like the made in mexico standard strats. The 3 single coil Pick ups are stong and sound great but they have a bit of a hum like most single coil guitars that i have owned. The neck is 22 fret. Nice Bridge with a trem but i blocked the trem i dont use a whammy bar.

Well strats can cover it all kinds of music ,pickup changes can help if you want to play metal with this guitar
Just throw some dimarzios into it and let it rip!! You cant go wrong with a strat good to have at least one in your army of guitars! I use all kinds of solid state amps and tube amps with this strat it sounds really good .Full sounding stock pickups.

This Strat was beautiful right out of the box. Bit of buzzing do to the frets not being level
easy to fix with a fret level. now plays clean, no buzz.

This is a solid stratocaster dont spend you money on a made in mexi when you can have a great strat for less than half the price with your extra cash you can mod if you want to.

I love Squier, I own there teles and strats and 2 squier basses Never had to deal with them.

Ive Been playing way to long to remember. I own alot of guitars. The fender squier line to me
has always been a favorite of mine. You just cant go wrong with the standard series stratocasters and Vintage modified series of telecasters and Basses.

well, it was made in the early 90 - 95s*, Its a Japanese Squier Stratocaster California Series, which i LOVE, yes it is a Squier, but remember that nowadays Squiers are built scarily accurate and better than 10 years ago,21 Jumbo Frets with pearloid inlays, 1 Volume 2 Tone Controls, normal Strat set up, 5 way-selector, S S S pickup configuration, the body is from alder, and it has a rosewood neck, it also has a skunk stripe in the back of the neck, and a BIG C shape headstock, the finish is NICE but this guitar is very VERY RARE! it is in a DARK GREEN with flakes or something color, RARE COLOR, ive never saw a green strat before, atleast not this green!, the tuners are good ! it goes out of tune sometimes when you play like a week without tuning it, and it have the squier logo on the back of each tuner.

yes it suits my style of playing, i play psychedelic indie music, but mainly GRUNGE, well i have a crappy peavey amp, but im playin it on a fender princeton and it blows away! the bright sound is good, but it has a little hum, yes hum, but which single coil does not ?
i have a Boss Ds1 and a Boss superchorus ( yes grunge like effects )
it has a very sounds to go for, come on, it is a strat not a FENDER but is a strat and thats ok with me, i really like it, i will put some seymore duncans later but it is excelent better than a few mexi strats i found.

well this is the BEST PART with this guitar, i know that this is not a regular squier, so duuude this one is well made, the action is good and low, just like i like it!
it does not have any buzz, and the neck and body is REALLY nice to play with it, the pick ups are well made and they have this yellow like color
vintage thing which is cool!, i got this guitar used, but it is like brand new and it has almost 3 years! with the original owner, i would say that the only flaw is the selector swich i dunno, but i feel it weak, but thats an easy replacement.

yes it will stand, i would gig with it, i even done it already, and it has last for me, the straps are ok, and it is my main guitar.

none of them

ive been playing since 2000 and i have a fender mim too, and i prefer this squier, if it were stolen or lost, i would definitely buy another one, squiers are good!, i like very much the feel of the guitar, i hate the pickup selector but i will replace it, this one is like a high end mexi strat really it is, dont discount them, they are really good guitars :)

The Squier Stratocaster Standard black&chrome is a black-painted guitar with an also black painted (matching-) headstock, chrome hardware and pickguard, a 2-point free tremolo, SSS-pickup configuration, tele speed knobs which are very useful for violining and a modified tone circuit. The neck has 22 normal-sized frets and a plastic saddle. The tone circuit is modified to a les-paul-like power-wiring, i removed one tone poti because of the broken pickguard. Now I can produce some wah-like shrieking sounds I love very much because anybody has a strat like mine ^^.

Sounds great but that pickups produce sometimes a annoying humming sound because of the singelecoil construction and I miss the sound of position 1 and 5 in the reverse-positions 2 and 4. Position 3 I nearly never use.
Position 1 sounds a little bit flat I guess, but the fat-rich sound of position 5 is very amazing. If you play solos with heavy overdrive it bawls really cool, also the percussion with a powerful tube amp. NEVER USE IT WITH ANY KIND OF BOSS DISTORTION! It will tear your ears off! I'm using my Strat (black&chrome) with many amps (I've only a homebrew Tube-Amp with a VERY strange sound and a peavey Rage 15), a CRATE 120W, an Peavey classic 20 and, my favourite, a Fender ROC PRO 1000. The ROC PRO produce a very nice sound with it and also the flat, high sound of the first singlecoil became nice. This strat is nothing for a Hendrix sound and for some heavy things it's a bit too weak. But it's ideal for playing a solo which cut through the whole band sound. I think I'll replace the bridge pickup by a DiMarzio Blade or something like that.

A friend of mine bought a very great Squier Strat Deluxe so I choosed also a Squier strat, but compared to his, it's a lot of crap. I don't know why but his neck is more fat but very greater playable. I can't remember the factory settings because I modified nearly everything so there's nothing to say. The finish is suffering from plectrum scrapings, and there's a lack of paint because the guitar had fallen off a chair. The chrome pickguard looks very nice but mine loose a great part with the first tone poti mounted on because it crashed with the ground. So I've a big hole there but I'm too lazy to remove the whole pickguard. By the way, all pickguards of the black&chrome series are VERY sensible against mechanical stress.

Hm, yeah, what to say? The body looks bad after a year, because of the broken paint and pickguard. The frets also loose material during the one year I have it now. I played the Strat only one time live and I was very amazed by the feedback sounds but I went one time too near to the amp and got a nasty microphonic sqweak out. The tremolo unit is a difficult thing because it's system anticipiates a easy tuning because if I tune a string, the tremolo also changes it's positon and the other strings are a little out of tune. This happens also if I'm bending the strings heavily, the saddle clamps the G and the B string, also annoying during tuning. The strap buttons are okay but the screw of the lower one is always unscrewing fastly. I fixed this with a match in the screwhole and two gaskets from beer bottles. But all in all, the guitar is a such solid construction that I don't need another guitar for backup. (exept I need an other sound ^^)

I haven't any contact with the customer store but I was in a music store in Rostock and asked for a new pickguard, for ???30 I can get one. Even the chrome one.

To put it in a nutshell, the Squier Stratocaster Standard Black&Chrome is a nice guitar to get on the Rock, exepting the tuning problem, the fragile pickguard and the crazy neck. I went to Music town in Neubrandenburg where I bought it and let them adjust the neck and the bridge saddle, but it doesn't help very much. I got told the neck is set in in the wrong angle. To fix it, the whole neck has to be removed and set in with a v-notch. An expensive game for an ???260 guitar... If I wasn't so owerwhelmed by the bidding of the store I maybe had coosen an other guitar. But the look said to me "I've to be yours". Most I like the tremolo unit because I don't need the lever, it's very nice for producing chorus like sounds. The tuners are fine, I replaced a part of the high-E -tuner because it broke by hitting the ground. Yes, I would buy another strat if mine is stolen (I won't hope!) but then I've to try it more in store before I'll buy it. If I wish, I'll replace the first pickup because of the too weak sound. At least, the volume poti is noisy because I hit it when using the tremolo lever.

I bought this in 2004, as part of a pack. The thing was simply labelled "Squier Strat", so i cannot work out if it is an affinity, standard or what, it seems to be a mixture of both. It's got a smaller headstock, which isn't on the affinity or the standard, the tuners aren't too bad, it has 22 frets, like the standard (affinity has 21). It innotates well enough though.

The features on it, unsurprisingly, are near identical to the real strats, but it is made with cheaper components and doesn't sound so nice.

First off, i had to ditch that crappy Squier SP-10 amp. it was just too crap to use, I use a Vox AD-30VT now, it works quite well. The bridge and neck pickups on their own are a bit noisy, its frustrating, but it's not intollerable. Positions 2-4 on the selector switch are not so noisy, but these 3 sound near identical (positions 1 and 5 obviously sound quite different). Now that the guitar has settled down, I'm starting to find hidden qualities in the guitar. It hasn't got a bad action, it looks good, and surprisingly it doesn't sound too bad (obviosuly it doesn't have the tone of a les paul) I can get some surprisingly good tones out of it and it has more sustain than i had expected.

For the first month or so, everything kept falling off. The socket fell into the body, and it works its way loose quite frequently, the tuners get loose, the whammy bar broke off in the bridge the first time i tried to use it, i had to get the end of it out with a drill, and it was very loose after that, but stayed in. The bridge is too close to the neck, so to innotate it i have to move some of the screws back as far as they go, i can innotate all but 2 strings perfectly, those simply don't go far enough back. The strap, lead, amp that came in the pack with it needed replacing, the book and CD were useless. It seems to have settled down now, it's playing nice (pun).

I have a theory that Squier guitars are simply fenders that fail quality control, and so have some fender components and are finished off with crap. It seems to be pot luck as to whether a specific guitar is close to a fender or just cheap crap.

I also own a really nice Vox AD-30VT amp and a Digitech GNX1 multieffects processor, as well as the usual bag of goodies (capo, tuner, etc.)
It if were stolen, I'd buy a better guitar, probably an Epi les paul [like everyone with an epi LP, i want a les paul, but im too cheap/poor to get one ;-) ] but so long as this guitar works, i'm not going to replace it, it does have good tone and is easy to play.

In the end, you're only going to buy this as a first guitar; you want something low-budget, but not cheap crap; easy to play; easy to maintain (change strings etc). The Squier strat delivers all of these.

Lots of reviews here seem to say it's crap becuse it's got single coils, it's crap because it's got curved frets, its crap because it doesn't have a floyd rose tremolo. Well to those people, i say this; "You're a bloody moron for buying the wrong sort of guitar, don't blame the guitar becuase it's not the one you like, blame your own unforgivable stupidity." (this also goes for all those folks who buy a marshall amp to play numetal, and then slag it off because it's not a mesa boogie dual recto)

1985 E-series Japan made(the best) strat. Black. 21 frets. Maple neck/fretboard. Basic "features". Small frets

This was my first electric. Bot in 1990. So glad I kept it, these things are worth $ now and with good reason, it's a good quality ax that has gotten better w/age. Neck has yellowed, so have the pickups. I retired it years ago when the frets were getting bad, flattened and dimpled. MY heavy handed fault! Although the frets are those thin ones that kinda suck for bending and chords. I recently bot a fret refinishing kit off ebay(Thomas, Highly recommended!) and brought it back to playable. This thing sounds amazing! Wide range of sounds. No need to change pickups. Sure the bridge pup is a little thin for clean but works great with dist. Cuts well. Neck pos. is FULL. Pos. 2&4 are funky cool. Mid is thick with a nice trebly top. This ax just got better without me knowing it. I will refret and it will become my #1 gtr. And I have some pretty nice axes, too. Pure vintage strat tone, Love it.

All good. Would prefer a unfinished neck like my Ibanez Roadstar but I guess that has it's drawbacks. Excellent workmanship. I am totally sold on the 80's japanese gts. They really made some great stuff. This guitar has NOTHING in common with newer Squier's.

Was my only gig ax for years. Everything is solid. Stays in tune. All stock.Only thing that didn't hold up was the frets. I will take a couple points off for those.

I own lots of guitars from Epiphone, Fernandes, Ibanez, Ovation, Fender and amazingly this Squier that I almost gave away years ago is one of my better axes. Find an old Japanese one like this. You can't get much better. Even if you spend stupid $.

This was my first guitar, a 1987 Japanese-made Strat with 19 frets (I think), 3 single coil, 5-way, black body with white pickguard, rosewood neck - at least, it looks like rosewood, it's probably just some sort of generic black wood - plastic nut, regular Strat-style wang bar, you know.

When I bought this I was a bass player and couldn't afford to buy a guitar amp, so for the first seven or so years I played it through my Vox Venue 30 bass amp. It sounded...I think "thin" and "dull" are the right terms, the "rosewood" fingerboard not helping. Then I got a Pignose, and it sounded scrappy and interesting, especially if you turned it up. Through a cheap Kustom 20W practice amp it acquired more character, and now through my Marshall 20W Valvestate it can sound positively gutbucket, if you put it through a compressor and crank up the volume. Over the past 19 years the pickups have lost a lot of whatever it was they never had much of in the first place, but in return they've acquired a generous amount of rust inside and out, so now switching from one pickup to another sounds like somebody sandpapering a record stylus. It was never very full, but it's now definitely tinny.

Have to say, this guitar was stunningly badly set up. Within hours of owning it I'd had to learn to re-set it up myself, and within a week I was a veteran of the Allen key. The action was way too low and the intonation was all over the place. The first time I changed the strings, the tremelo unit leaned out of its hole in the body as if it was craning to see what was going on; I had to go to the shop and blag extra springs out of them. One day, about three months after purchase, the whammy bar just snapped off in my hand. Getting the remaining nub out of it's hole was no fun. I bought a replacement and that snapped off too, so whenever I wanted to divebomb I took to sticking a screwdriver in the hole. That worked fine until I bent the screwdriver, and the threads in the hole are now too bashed about to fit another proper wang bar. The grooves in the nut were far too low and ever since I've bought it I've had to stick paper shims underneath the strings, being too lazy to get a new nut. The hardware, once immaculate, has rusted beyond recognition. The frets were bent and dented after only a year. The cover on the back of one of the machine heads just fell off, one day. This guitar was a dog from the word go.

If this guitar can take the amount of impatience, maltreatment and general physical violence I've subjected it to over the years and still make any kind of sound at all, it's a small miracle. I wouldn't ever use it in a gig without a backup; in fact, I wouldn't ever use it in a gig, unless I were planning to jam with Sonic Youth. One day I may take it to a shop and have it completely rewired and refitted, but I'll tell them not to fill in the gouges in the body, nor to clean off the bits of old duct tape and faded Black Flag stickers. They're part of its history. Once a piece of crap, always a piece of crap.

I've never tried to have this repaired, being too ashamed to take it into a shop.

I'll never sell this or give it away; it was the guitar I learned to play on and for all its infuriating rubbishness, I love it. It sounds awful, plays horrible and looks like a piece of rubbish. But plugged into a Marshall with a Marshall ED-1 Compressor, a Cry Baby, a Boss Overdrive and the Gain turned up, it will do its best to sing the Star-Spangled Banner. Bless its little Japanese machine heads.

Oh but seriously, I wouldn't ever buy one.

I bought this American made Squier Stratocaster in 1990, and paid the equivalent to 450 Euros at the time. Just as a comparison, a JMP-1 from Marshall at the time cost 510 Euros.
It was not an expensive guitar, but, it wasn't also cheap, and I thought I was buying a quality product at the time, as it was an U.S. made instrument.
It's made of solid wood, unlike the Korean and Japanese made at the time. It has 21 frets on a maple fretboard, 3 Fender standard single coils, black painted body with white pickguard, classic tremolo, passive electronics, non-locking tuners and no extra accessories.

My first bad surprise came with my first chords on my JCM900 amp. I had played with it in the store, but, only mechanicly.
The sound came out too thin and almost no sustain, plenty of feedback, and surprisingly noisy when I was not playing. Not to mention the crackles and scratching produced by the controls. I had played many low quality cheap guitars until that day that sounded almost as bad.
Returning it to the shop was not an alternative for me at the time, so I spent quite a few weeks debugging and improving it after a few months.
I was looking for a Pink Floyd kind of sound at the time, and this was anything but it. I had a Digitech GX-7 processor at the time, which was used for mostly chorus and delays, and with the compressor and equalizer I managed to draw a few acceptable sounds out of position 3 and 4 (middle and middle-neck), but still very short of what I had managed with a strat like Ibanez I used for several months.
Excecive highs almost no mids or basses were the trademark of it.
After I rewired, I added a polarity reverser switch to allow me to have the neck and middle PUs in series, which I used with the bridge PU in parallel, which was the sound I used from there onwards, all the time. Still it was bad.

Mechanicly I have only good things to say about this guitar, with an excelent action, and ease of tune which the tremolo managed to keep despite all the use. But I think this was luck, because the rest doesn't match.
For starters, there was no shielding whatsoever on the pickguard or anywhere else for that matter. Every knob and switch use resulted in noise.
Pickups were not propperly tuned from factory, but, I didn't care about it as I know how to tune them myself, but still, that is not acceptable.
The wiring was not good at all. I found out that the groud wire was loose, and only worked because it got tangled in the tremolo springs, it was otherwise loose from the place it was suposed to be soldered in the spring holder in the back.
At least the neck was exelent.
Had I not known how to fix the electronics and it would have been almost impossible to play with it.
I had to shield the whole control/PU cavity and the pickguard, replace the jack plug and solder the ground wire to where it was suposed to, readjust the tremolo springs and buy new screws as the jack plate holes were too large for ones used in the factory and the jack plate got loosen just from unplugging the cord. A final detail, the upper middle screw hole in the pickguard. It stood right inside the PU cavity, so they glued a piece of wood inside the cavity for the screw to hold.

Despite all the problems I had with this guitar, I have to admit that it withstood quite a lot, without ever failling mechanicly. The action has always been exelent, the paint never cracked and the neck and body are still in great shape. I adjusted a Schaller straplock which never gave me any problems.
The tuners are still very precise after 15 years, but, the bridge rusted as did all the original screws after a few years. Just for reference. I left the guitar unnused for 5 years, between 1998 and 2003, and when I picked it up again, with the old strings still on, they were flawlessly tuned, and played for nearly 3 hours before I decided to change them without loosing tuned, despite the horrible sound :-)

I never dealt with the company, as I had no way to contact them at the time, but, the guys at the store were my victims. There were 2 of them that gave me all the help I needed to solve my problems. Unfortunately they left the store ages ago. And so did I...

I used this guitar for 8 years, and mechanicly it is an exelent instrument, but, electronicly one of the worst I ever came across.
I should have plug it into an amp before buying it :-) which was a huge mistake.
I wouldn't buy another Fender as long as I can remember this one, as I have played with cheaper and better overal instruments.
I bought an Epiphone Les Paul Custom in 2003, which is far better built than the Squire. And considering it cost 350 Euros in 1990, I should have bought it instead at the time.
I also own a Digitech GX-7 and a Boss GT-6, as well as a Marshall JCM900 head with a 2x12 Marshall cab.
The Squier is now being rebuilt by me, with new harware and electronics, because the neck and body are too good to waste. If this baby had lectronics to match the mechanics, and it would have been a 9, as it is, it's a 4.

Made in China. 21 frets, daphne blue, 3 single coils with staggerred magnets, comes with tremolo arm but tremolo is fixed, maple neck, body?? Chinese wood?, I would call thin frets, the edges of the frets are very sharp, not rounded, only allen ranches and tremolo is included

Sounds good as a beginners guitar..I bought it form my 9 y/o daughter..Other option was the small squier stat with short scale which could never be tuned in when I tried at the store..As compared to that one this is 200% better coming with the same price. Bought Marshall MG-10 seperately..Through this amp clean tones are surprisingly good, even you can get some Twang through tail-middle pick-up switching..Single pick-ups are noisy through distortion which is eliminated by switching to two-pickup configuration..Then I put it through my Boss and Zoom pedals and 20 w Peavey amp, well I could create the Pink Floyd Sound (The wall, Animals)..Surprisingly good..

Action was high when it came in. I have to paly with it.. With the treomolo fixed like hard-tail strat, stays in tune even with some abuse..Neck is not comfortable, fret work is cheap and it realy hurts your hand and fingers in the beginning if you are accostomed to American/Japanese Strat or Gibson Les Paul..No flaws in alignment though..Not sure about the wood on the body, neck should be a very cheap maple (almost white) with natural finish. Small cracks on the paint job just around the neck-body connection..

I do not think that this was mede for live playing.. It is a good practice guitar for a beginner to play at home or hanging out with friends.. You will not get mad if it is carcked or crashed or stolen..Definitely better than the small squire strat..I will not gig with it period..I will not depend on it as a back-up..But good for playing at home at low volumes through a small practice amp.. Good for anyone who wants to grow out of it with practice..Still much better than other beginner guitars in the market..

I do not know yet..If something happens, would I try it to be repaired? I am not sure..Well hopefully my daughter will grow out of it and I will get her a higher grade guitar..

I've been plaing for over 20 years..I went through many crap before I owned my Gibson Les Paul and Fender Deluxe Statocaster..This guitar is much better than my guitars I owned at my earlier days of playing..Very good beginners guitar for the money and it does not look like a toy..I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a first electric guitar for their sons/daughters..I think this is better than the guitars in the strat packs although they were also made in China..

White Squier stat bought new Sept 1987 for #240. Only left hander in the shop.
serial No. E6322229 If any one could let me know the country of manufacture and the wood it is made from, I would be grateful. Neck is maple with rosewood fingerboard with 21 frets. standard strat combination bridge/ vibrato block.
White 3 ply scratchplate. Schaller style tuners with Fender Japan
stamped on them. 3 single coil pickups and 5 way selector switch.
2 string trees.The decal on the headstock just reads Squier with the serial No. underneath.

Playing mostly fingerstyle I feel so comfortable with this guitar,
I also tend to grab 3 or 4 strings at one time and pull them up before letting them go, which compiments that bubbly strat sound. I play through a Fender HOT amp which sounds good but it sounds so much better through a larger cabinet. I love the sound of a strat, so most of the time I just use a hint of reverb and sometimes
distortion to blow out the cobwebs.

After 18 years of regular use the frets need attention, which is not bad The finish on the body and neck are still high gloss though the white has faded to cream. there are no signs of tarnish on any of the chrome parts but the guitar rarely goes out of the house and is cleaned every time a new set of strings is put on. The 5 way selector switch needed a squirt of cleaner but that's all.

Never used customer support

I started playing at the age of 10 so I have been playing for 42 years.
I tend to sit down and play so the thing I like about the shape is how it has been sculpured to fit the human body also it balances so nicely
on my lap. I don't get involved in which guitars are best, as every body has different needs to suit the style they play. This Squier suits me fine.

Mine was built in 2004 in Indonesia. Basic same old: 21 frets, 3 single coils, 5-way, vol & tone etc.

I was lucky enough to get a 3-colour burst with maple neck. Rosewood (or at least: it looks like Rosewood... )fingerboard. Aything you'd expect buying a Strat-alike

I still don't believe the quality of the sound on this one! I play it at home through a Vox Cambridge and / or Korg Ampworks. Friend of mine plays the real deal (Standard Strat) and was willing to trade me his for my Squier !!!! Probably a lucky shot, but I'm not ever getting rid of it. Full, rich sound. I bought it, thinking I would replace the pups by USA Fenders, but now I actually think it'll hardly be worth the extra cash. This is already really excellent

The finish is great. Not a single flaw. Neck finish great as well (satin). Starting to sound like a broken record, but action was excellent right out of the box as well. Not kidding: no buzz, smooth fret edges etc. Minor tuning and you're off ...

No dout in my mind this can be played live. It looks solid as a rock. My son has abused it many times and it's probably fallen from the stand more often than I've picked it up to play and not even out of tune.

No real experience with 'em. Bought it from a reputable shop, so should be okay

Have been playing for about 10 years now. Not a pro though and should say that the only real regret in my life was getting rid of my 60's SG when I was short on cash. Now,I just own this Squier and an Ibanez Archtop, which is great as well.

If stolen, would probably buy another one although I doubt whether I would be as lucky with the next one. Honestly, sometimes I think somebody in the factory slapped the wrong logo onto the thing.

Squier Stratocaster 1996 (edicion 50th aniversario, letras squier en dorado y logo dorado detras de la paleta), negra, pickguard negro 3 capas (cambiado, el original era el blanco de 3 capas), mango y diapason de maple de una pieza con la tirita de nogal por el reverso, cuerpo (lo mas probable) de madera terciada (pero no estoy seguro), le cambie las clavijas por unas autolubricadas, pero las originales no eras tan malas...3 capsulas simples, alnico cubierta blanca, y...no se que mas podria agregar. llave 5 posiciones, 3 potes, etc, todo blanco.

Desconectada, la guitarra canta!!! mis amigos siempre se sorprenden lo claro que suena aun sin amplificacion. Amplificada es otra cosa, un sonido limpio y cristalino, sobre todo en las posiciones intermedias. el sustain anda por ahi nomas, pero es algo tipico en las stratos. Distorsionada le falta un poquito mas de "punch" pero lo he solucionado con un procesador de multiefectos. Versatil y confiable, a pesar de una ligera tendencia al zumbido, capaz de sonar como quiera que suene (salvo metal mas extremo, por supuesto). Sonido rico en matices y tono "cantarin" tipico de guitarras de maderas duras.

Ligeramente alta, si la bajo demasiado tiende a trastear, pero es mas tocable que muchas otras...cosa de costumbre. Le pondria unos trastes mas grandecitos.

Pobre guitarra, se ha pegado los mejores golpes, y aun asi, conserva su elegante terminacion bastante dignamente. Lo mas destacable de la guitarra.

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He tenido, y probado muchas otras guitarras, y no se porque siempre encuentro en esta guitarra todo lo que necesito, su sonido, su peso, ergonomia, versatilidad y confiabilidad. Nunca me decepciona, suena y se ve como una stratocaster debe ser.
Le he hecho alguna mejoras con los a?os (cambios en el cableado, clavijas, pickguard, etc.) que a mi juicio no hubieran sido 100% necesarias, pero que en algo han contribuido en mantener a esta guitarra de 10 a?os en su mejor estado.
Es una guitarra bonita, que suena bien y resiste muy bien los usos y abusos que le he dado.

Got my Black Squire Strat by accident, in 1986 i think. Never seen one like it. No pick guard, 3- sepperate mini toggless one for each pickup. Coil taps for the brige humbucker, and two more for each of the single coils. Cable plugs in bottom, not the face like most modles. It says Made in Japan, and has the serial # under that. It's all written on the black head stock. The tuneing keys actually are fantastic, even say Fender on each one. Came with a trem. arm, but christmas day, I unscrewed it, aint seen it since, have no use for them. Got a Gibson Les Paul Standard a year later, guess which fretts have the deepest grooves? Sorry Less old-boy. Everyone who's played it insists its some sort of mistake or promo or first ones out. Maybe American parts assembled in Japan, not the Bahamas or where ever these days. Sounds great thrugh the Fender 67 Prinston Reverb I got back in 1986 also. Amazing products. My favorite guitar. It came home in a trash back cause of rain. My dad was out looking for a rat distortion box and being a player also, called and said how about this black strat copy...........plays fantastic, only fifty bucks more give or take. I took. Got the rat also, birthday right after Christmas. Did pay for all my amps, Gibsons, Flying V also, VOX amp, Peavy amp, even an Ibanez faithful copy of a Gibson Les Paul Custom. Still have them all. Back to the squire strat. It is what it is. Wood type, havn't a clue, neck bolt on, rose wood fret board, can't stand maple. The control knobs are all metal like a Tele but also black. Amazing guitar really. Anybody seen one like it out there? DId you buy it? If not your a fucking idiot. Squire strat over Gibson Les Paul in the final round.

Any sound you want. The new Vox amp added another dimention, for years I was content with a Peavy Renown 400 and Fender Prinston Reverb along with my crybaby, rat box, and new strings every now and then. So versitile, you can control every magnet in the damn thing off on, 1/2 humbucker full or no Humbucker. Who ever made this thing was a stickler for versatility and Tone, lots of Tone. Blinding bright or muddy and every place inbetween.

Got it used at Alph Music in VA Beach VA, they have free life time set-up tuneing. They havn't seen it since it left in the trash bag rain storm. Plug in and play. It actually was used, just bought, and traded the day my dad happend accross it.

Make no mistake, strings break, but its always the high E, I get carried away sometimes. Other than that, and some polish once a decade if it needs it or not, I'd gamble and bring only it to a gig, with two extra High E's. It's not a light guitar either, I think THE WHO way back would have looked like fools trying to break this one.

Alph Music Va Beach Va, authorized fender/Squire dealer, I got a Flying V there a few weeks back thier waiting for me to bring in this mysterius Squire Strat.

Im 36 played since 14, i'd hunt and kill the person who stole it. Would I replace it, only if Fender/Squire called me and explained it's origin besides Japan and had more like it. It's always intune, ready to go, turn-key as they say in the car business. My recent purchases have been a VOX Valvtronix with twin 12's, the GIbson Flying V White with Ebony fret board, a Squire Tele special mystery it was called on musicians frinds web site. Light satin maple, brand new, had action lowered once the day I bought it, plug in the bottom, Humbucker at bridge and single at neck. 3 positon toggle, two big Tele chrome knobs, says crafted in Indonisia, backed by and designed by Fender, fit and finish is awsome. THese guitars cost noting. I'm in the market for an M-80 Bolt on neck Squire and the $149 51' with Tele headstock also, cant pass up a deal like that. Prices really aren't different in my case over a 20 years span of Squiring. This guitar chose me, sight un-seen. Took my dads word for it. Good thing.

I don't know when the fuck it was made, but it was made in China. 21 frets, laminated top, two tone controls, one volume control, 5 way selector switch. It has 3 single coil pickups that I suppose are Yang Tzu Squier or something or other. Passive electronics. Body is probably plywood and the neck is maple, like the reviewer before me, it is red and the finish is ok. Everything else is standard strat features, except cheaper. Tuners are cheap die cast, but it stays in tune. Also like the previous guy, this one does not have the big 70's style strat headstock, but instead has the smaller one like a Fender made in mexico model. I bought this guitar for my son as a strat pack with one of those little worthless 10 watt amps. He never played it so I have it now. This ain't a bad little guitar but it ain't the best in the world either. I'll give it a 6 because for the price, it's ok.

Well, nowadays, I play just about anything. I was a teenager in the mid 60's, so basically everything from the mid 60's to mid 70's is what I like as far as rock is concerned. I like blues and I also like country. I'm not into metal, but I do like hard rock such as Deep Purple and AC/DC. Although I've lived in the Philippines since 1991, I am from the south, so Southern Rock and Outlaw Country have a big influence on my playing style. This guitar does ok for country and blues but it is not really a good rock guitar. I quit my band that I was playing in here about a year ago, so I have only kept two amps and that's a Marshall MG10CD which I keep in the bedroom and a Marshall MG30DFX that I keep in the living room. I've never considered any other amps other than Marshall. I've tried them, but for me, other amps just aren't my cup of tea. This guitar is not noisy at all. Has a very bright twang on the bridge pickup and decent blues sound on the neck pickup. The in the middle pickup is basically worthless. I use the bridge pickup for leads and for country, use in between the middle and neck pickups for blues. This isn't a bad guitar, especially for a beginner or even someone who has been playing a long time but is short of cash.

Setup was fucked up. Everything had to be adjusted.

Fuck no, this guitar won't withstand live playing. Maybe you could beef it up by replacing the cheap chinese bridge and tuners with Fender Stuff and drop some Texas Special Pickups and pots in it and it would do ok. Other than that, keep it at home to practice with.

Never dealt with them.

Ive been playing for close to 50 years. I've got way too much stuff to list here. I wouldn't get another one if it were lost and probably wouldn't even get pissed if it got stolen. I take this guitar with me on trips with the small marshall amp.

Not sure what year this thing was made in, but it was made in China. 22 frets, regular strat features, so no need to be redundant about all that. Torino red with rosewood fretboard, has the small stratocaster style headstock with fairly decent tuners and the skunk stripe down the back. You will see a lot of reviews from people like me, who are retired military and live in the Philippines. We all basically have the same guitars and same amps because that's all we can get here. I bought this for 9,000 Filipine Pesos, which is about $180.00 US. If you buy a Fender Made in Mexico Strat here, it costs about 42,000 pesos, which is about $850.00 US, so you may see why we buy cheaper guitars here and soup them up. I have not hot rodded this guitar yet, but I intend to.

I am mostly a humbucker guy. I am a devoted Grateful Dead fan. I also like and play country, classic rock and blues rock and I have come to like some electric folk, for example Steve Earle and also acoustic folk like Malcomb Holcomb and Tom Waite. I even have moods where I play hard rock and sometimes even metal. This guitar is ok for blues, classic rock and country. Sounds good, but not great. It doesn't give you an orgasm if you know what I mean, but you don't want to throw it away either. It's promising for upgrades. I only have two amps, a VOX AD15VT Valvetronix Amp and a Marshall MG10CD. I use a ZOOM 606 effects pedal with the little Marshall. You'll find most of the Americans here in the Philippines are using basically the same stuff. You can get up to the Marshall MG50DFX and the Big Solid State Peavey's here, the VOX Pathfinders, the VOX AD15 and AD30VT Valvetronix and the Fender Frontmans and Champions here and that's about it. I picked the little Marshall MG10CD for the bedroom and the VOX AD15VT Valvetronix for the living room. The guitar sounds good on both of them and even better with the ZOOM Pedal and the Marshall MG15CD. Can't use the ZOOM on the VOX. I basically bought this guitar because my wife messes around with the keyboards and likes pop and country. The pop ain't my cup of tea, but blues and rock ain't her cup of tea either. We just have fun. This basically sounds just like a regular Fender Standard Strat but the pickups are weaker. A little thinner, but you can compensate for that ok with the eq settings and volume on the amp and guitar. It can be bright and twangy and rich and bluesy. Ok for pop, country, classic rock and blues but definitely not a metal guitar. Might be alright for punk and grunge, but I don't play that. I like the guitar, but I don't love it. I have however ordered a set of Texas Special Pickups for it and after I slap them in, I'll write an update and let ya'll know how it sounds.

Fucked up setup. Glad I learned how to fix that. Finish was flawless, just the setup fucked up.

I am a pretty good guitar player, but I don't gig. Always just did it for fun and also love collecting guitars. I think you would have to change all the hardware to gig night after night with it, but the finish is good and the strap buttons are solid. It would be dependable I think with a few upgrades but not out of the box stock. I have never gigged at all, but it doesn't seem like it would be too smart to gig without a backup in case you break a string or something.

Never dealt with them.

Been playin since I was 5, which is about 41 years I guess. Besides what I mentioned above, I also have the same shit most expats here have. I have a Yamaha Les Paul Copy (lots of them around and it's a damn good guitar), an Ibanez GRG270DX (which is an RG270DX made for export to Asia), a Washburn KC600 (made in Korea - lots of them here too) and a Washburn X-21 (lots of them around). I have two Rockstar Guitars, which I think are made here in the Philippines, one is a Telecaster Copy and the other is a Hollow Body Les Paul Copy and they are pretty damn decent guitars. I came to the Philippines 13 years ago with two guitars, one an old Epiphone Acoustic and the other an old Harmony Acoustic. I play a lot of acoustic and I've never really found a reason to buy another one, as I am happy with both of the acoustics I have. I don't really love anything about this Squier strat, but I like it alright. I don't think I would get another one if I lost it or it were stolen. I wish it had a lot of things, but you get what you pay for and you can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first. Think I've rambled enough.

I bought this for my 13 year old daughter for her birthday in August of 2004, so I figure this was made in 2003 or 2004. It came with a Squier SP10 Amp (piece of shit) and a cheap worthless bag, cord, strap, some picks and a tuner. My daughter never played it, so I got rid of the shitty little amp and kept and upgraded the guitar. This guitar is somewhere between a Squier Affinity Strat and a Squier Standard Strat. I say that because their are differences in both. Both the Squier Affinity and Standard Strats have that ugly assed big headstock on it. This one has the small, normal Fender shaped headstock, with Squier by Fender and Strat written on it. The Affinty has STRAT on it and the Standard has STRATOCASTER in big letters, so this is kind of a hybrid. This guitar is also thick like a standard strat and has the skunk stripe on the back of the neck like a standard strat. The Affinity as I recall, also had those crappy tuners on it, but this one has Schaller type tuners, which are pretty damn good. It's a laminated body, 22 frets (like the Standard), Dakota Red, with a Rosewood Fretboard. Have no fuckin idea what kind of wood it is made from, but the neck is maple. 3 Single coil pickups, which weren't too bad, but I slapped a set of Jeff Beck Noiseless Pickups and American Standard Pots in it and it is much better now. One volume, two tone controls and a 5 way selector switch. Basically a Strat for around $200 US. Not bad, not the greatest thing in the world either as far as features go, but then again, who needs all that shit?

I play 60's and 70's classic rock and blues. Think Hendrix, Zeppelin, Stones, etc. I've got about 5 or 6 different amps, a small Marshall MG10CD, a Peavey Studio Pro 112, a VOX AD15VT, one of those Kustom Tube 12 Amps, a Marshall AVT50 and a Fender Blues Jr. This sounds the best clean on the Fender Blues Jr and sounds the best on the overdrive of the Marshall AVT50. Sounds decent on all of them. I don't use effects, a little reverb, and a boss distortion pedal and a Marshall footswitch. It isn't noisy since I put the Jeff Beck Noiseless pickups on it, but had that single coil hum before. The stock pickups weren't bad, a little weak, but then all strat pickups are - except these Jeff Beck pickups really kick ass. Can have a bright or a rich full sound, your choice. Versatile guitar, very worth the money and the money spent for the upgrade. The guitar costed me $200 and I don't count the amp. The Jeff Beck pickups and Fender pots costed me about $150.00 all together, so for $350, I got a much better guitar than a mexican strat - tone wise.

Setup was fucked up. Had to tweak everything. The only actual flaws were that the screws on the bridge saddles were all different lengths so I put a Fender bridge on it for $10.00 and solved that shit. Piece of shit outta the box, good guitar now.

I used to gig, but I don't now. I just play at home. With the improvements, I think it would handle live playing, but not stock out of the box. Finish is good, but the hardware was cheap and I replaced all that shit. Strap buttons are solid. It's dependable now, but I wouldn't have said that when it came from the factory. I never ever did a show without a backup.

Never dealt with Fender

I'm 55 years old, been playing since 1957. I've got the stuff I mentioned above, about 10 various acoustic guitars, mostly epiphones and gibsons. I've got a Washburn KC600, a Washburn X-21, a Yamaha Les Paul Copy, an Ibanez GRG270DX, an Epiphone Hollow Body Les Paul, and a Fender USA Traditional Telecaster. All have been souped up. I tend to buy less expensive guitars and super charge them, not because I am cheap, but because it's a hobby. This guitar is ok, I play it a few times a week.

Made in 1986? Made in Japan, Olympic White (now faded) with white 8 hole pickguard and white knobs, 21 std frets on solid maple neck (shape?), two piece body--probably alder. Japan made 5 way switch and pickups. Fender stamped schaller non-locking tuners. Vintage style trem but with non-iron trem block. The guitar came with black Fender hard shell case and some accessories. I never paid much attention to its details before and have not been in a music store in over 10 years, but recently I read a book on strats and checked out the latest models at a local store and the model that my Squire closely resembles is a '57 reissue from the screws used on the pickups and pickguard to the tremolo--the only exception I found was the tuners.

This guitar suits me just fine. I play it through a Fender Harvard Reverb amp and several Boss pedals. I always wanted to replace the pickups with DiMarzio vintage VS-1's for that vintage sound, but after recently reading a book on 50 years of the strat, I had a set of vintage noiseless pickups and an American 5 way switch installed. The tone controls were wired like a Fender Eric Johnson signature guitar. The guitar is now much quieter but has not lost its single coil sound. I play pop, rock, country, and folk and it seems to hadle it all well.

The trem bridge was a little to high from the factory and I have since lowered it to Fender specs. The fit and finish was excelent and is what made me choose the Squire over an American made Fender in the 80's as the American Fenders at the store did not seem to be routed correctly--the strings were not aligned properly to the pickups. The action seems OK to me. It is not too low for my strumming or too high for fast finger work.

I have accidently knocked this guitar from its stand several times and with the exception of a few dings, the finish has held up well to ordinary playing. The finish has faded which is OK becuase it matches the aged white pickup covers from the Feder vintage noiseless pickups that I had installed. I also replaced the white knobs with aged white parts. I have never had a problem with any of the hardware, it seems to be solidly built. I never had any problems with the orignal contols.

I have been playing guitar since 1979 and this Squire replaced a Sears plywood body strat that I learned on. If it were stolen or lost, I would preferably try to find a good used vintage style statocaster. I would not buy a new Squire. This guitar was a good value for the money.

-Korean made Squier Strat
-21 medium frets
-1 volume knob, 2 tone knobs, 5-way selector
-3 single coil stock pickups
-red with white pickguard

I must say it's damn bugging to tune the guitar every 5 minutes. AARRRGHH!

Well, this is my first electric guitar, I bought it in February 2004. At that time I couldn't believe how great it was. But now I've noticed some problems and bugs in the guitar. I play it with a Peavey Transtube Blazer 15 watts. You can get a decent sound with it, but it takes a lot of work. Pickups...... Oh the pickups... It's damn hard to play artificial harmonics with the neck pu. But naturals sound better with neck pu. Last month I noticed how much noise it makes, though I don't know if it's the cable ;)

Well, the action at least 3 times higher than the RG I played in the store. Notes ring out clearly, it's sort of a blues sound with that action. As I said above, the pickups aren't that responding. It's almost impossible to play legato licks on low volumes.

I like the red finish, it's traditional, doesn't make people laugh :D and it doesn't bug me. I bought it used, so it had some pickswirls and minor scratches, but it was in OK condition when I purchased it.

I've played it twice on a gig (without back-up). It would be suitable for a back-up guitar if the gigs were longer. The tuning stayed perfect, it must be because of humidity. Or something.....

Hardware? There are no signs of wearing or anything.

Never dealt....

I've been playing for 3 years and this is my only electric guitar at the moment, but I'll buy the RG Prestige when I have the money. I have no effect pedals, no fancy racks, cabs, only my Peavey 15 watt-amp.

I wish it had a locking nut and 24 frets. But it's a Squier, so you can have 24 :(

If it were stolen I'd prolly, be depressed, because this guitar has sentimental value for me and I wouldn't like to lose it.

Solid body, made in korea. 22 frets(I think), has two tone pots, one volume, 5 way selector- pretty basic standard Strat stuff. Floating Bridge with Tremelo bar. Gloss Red with white pickguard. All maple neck with skunk strip in mohagany on back of neck. Fender sealed tuners, passive single coils (3).

I like classic rock, with a five position toggle, it can sound almost acoustic on the neck pickup and twangy on the bridge pickup and darker muddier on the middle 3. Does have slight hum, as three conventional single coils, no noise cancellation or anything special. Very bright sound. Only dislike is sometimes I get low E buzz but not normally. I use a Crate 50 tube drive or a Dean markley k20 solid state amp. I don't really use effects much anymore because the Crate has a nice sound but I used to use a Zoom 505, an Arion Tubulator, and Ibanez sonic distortion, and a Dod American Metal pedal.

Action is nice and low but occasionally get a low E buzz. Pickups are adjusted good. Only flaw is pickguard is warped but it's at bottom so I actually forgot about it until now.

I bought this in 1988 and it's still holding up well, slight fret wear but hey, this is 12 years of playing as hobbyist. Finish must be thick, it's still flawless. Strap buttons solid, I can depend on it for sure. Hardware is all stamped Fender, no offbrand stuff here.

I guess it had a one year warranty but I'm not sure- never had to use it nor did I ever had to call them.

I've been playing since 1987(15yrs old) on this guitar;1984 I started period. Nothing regretted, I still love this guitar, its my favorite. I have played on the American Strats and feel no significant difference to justify 1000 bucks more. I say if you are a beginner or just a fender fan on a budget- BUY one. If you are a rich player or a pessamist, buy an American Deluxe Strat and complain about it in that section, don't try to scare off those novices/beginners who would be more than happy with this little offshoot of the Fender Classic for a killer price.

My Fender Squier Series Standard Stratocaster was made in the early 1980's in Japan. It has 22 frets and I think it is a laminated top. Everything is standard stratocaster features, no sense in going through all that. Mine has 3 single coil pickups, and I am told the early Squiers had standard Fender pickups in them. Passive electronics. Body is alder, neck is maple. White high gloss finish (all my guitars are white except my hollow body les paul clone and my acoustics, strat style body, standard tremelo bridge, strings through the body, standard schaller type machine heads, stays in tune just fine, neck is nice and thin, D shaped with a maple fretboard. This stratocaster looks just like a Fender, with the smaller headstock instead of those ugly big ones like the new Squiers have. Mine is old, it has Fender in big letters on the headstock and Squier Series in small letters. Came with a gig bag, cord and strap. This was my first electric guitar and my father bought it for me when I was 15 years old in 1985 when he was stationed in Japan where we lived for 3 years. I've hung on to it and love it. I've changed nothing from when it came stock. I don't think any guitar deserves a max, so I will give this a 9. Looks like a lot of people don't think much of these Squiers made today, but I can tell you that the Fender Squier Series that were made in Japan were excellent guitars and they weren't cheap either.

Well, play lead guitar in an all Filipina woman band (I'm half Filipina). Mostly what I love is alternative country music, classic rock, blues, punk and some hard rock. Our band has to play quite a bit of soft rock and jazzy numbers because that is what people here in the Philippines want to hear. This guitar does it all very well. At home, I'm running this through a VOX AD15VT Amp that I just bought a couple of months ago. Before that I was (and still do occasionally) using a Peavey Blazer 158. Here in the Philippines, the clubs we play at provide the amps, and we gig 4 times a week at 4 different clubs. One of the places has a Carlsbro GLX100, which is solid state, another place has a Fender Pro Reverb, which is all tube, another place has a VOX AC30 (WOW!!) and the other place has a Peavey Transtube Bandit. It sounds the best on the VOX AD15VT I have at home and on the Fender Pro Reverb and the VOX AC30 in the places I gig. I only use a ZOOM 707II Pedal for effects occasionally, and also use the footswitch for the amps I gig on. It isn't very noisy, just the hum that you expect from the single coils, but no noise in positions 2 and 4. Bridge pickup has that nice bright Fender twang, and in between the bridge and neck pickup you get that great Hendrix/Dire Straits sound, especially with some good reverb and that "quack". Middle pickup sounds great in the acoustic mode of the ZOOM 707II, 4th position is good for rythym classic rock and the neck pickup is great for blues and jazz. This is a very versatile guitar and of all the guitars I have had (including a few Fender Standard Strats) is the only one I have hung on to.

It was flawless when I got it and it still is. I take good care of my guitars.

I have been gigging with this guitar since 1988, so I suppose the answer to the first question is yes. It has never broken down, although several of my Fenders and Gibsons have. Yes to all the questions. I don't gig without a backup. What if I were to break a string?

I have never actually dealt with Squier.

I've been playing guitar since I was 5 years old, so that makes it 30 years, as I'm 35 now. My dad started me at it at an early age. I've also got a Fender American Standard Telecaster, a Yamaha Studio Lord Les Paul Copy as well as a Washburn KC600 and I have a Gibson Hollow Body Les Paul Copy made by a company called Rockstar. I've got an Epiphone Hummingbird and an Epiphone Chet Atkins Acoustic Electric, and several Takamine Acoustic and Acoustic Electric Guitars. I've got about 20 guitars all together, and my husband who is American and lives here has another 25, so we are one guitar family. If this were lost, I would cry. My dad gave it to me and I will never sell it for sentimental reasons. Love everything about it. Hey, I know the new Squiers are pieces of crap, but the old Fender Squier Series Strats and Teles are really good guitars.

-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

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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$.