Fender Squier Telecaster Custom

Just picked this up for a back up guitar to my les paul. Love the two humbucker set up with the three way switch. I'm used to that so it suits me fine. The finish is flawless (black) and the neck is smooth and fast with med/jumbo frets i believe. Tuners seem decent enough as well. I'm personally not crazy about the "cup" style input jack but so far no problems.

i play just about whatever i'm in the mood for. I bought the guitar because right now i'm into some vintage stuff ie: old stones,hendrix, 60's 70's stuff mostly. This guitar seem to satisfy those needs as far as that style goes. The neck pup is really warm and bluesy but i find i cant get what i want from the bridge pup. It seems to get either too muddy or too bright...no middle ground there. I'm currently running it through a Marshall JTM combo and the amp/guitar together make for a really nice vintage sound overall. I would not recomend this axe for hard rock or metal as the pickups just wont cut it. I may upgrade the pups later and i'm sure it will sound even better.

The setup was bad out of the box but nothing major really. I tweaked a bit here and there and it's now playing rather well. The neck really surprised me and the frets feel nice. It's a bit rough on the fret edges but for a $200 axe, you just cant beat it. Finish is black and very sweet...no flaws found. I have to give it a 6 because of the set up out of the box.

Here's where i am most impressed. I was really expecting this guitar to be very light weight and full of rattles but low and behold....it's not! It's built very well and the neck is a bit on the chunky side which makes the whole thing feel really solid on the strap. One thing i am a little nervous about is the input jack. as stated before, i dont trust it and i've read on here that others have had problems with it.

I've been playing for about 18 years and have owned/still own Les pauls, Strats, Jacksons, Esp, and others. I was looking for another mumbucking vintage type guitar for kicking around and as a backup and this fit the bill. I may change the pickups down the road but this cost me only 200 bucks!! I just cant imagine finding something like this for that price. All in all, it's NOT a usa fender but it's pretty close in my opinion.

This guitar is a great deal. Solid body, bolt on neck, separate volume and tone controls, dual humbuckers, and a sweet look. It has one hell of a paint coat on it, i sanded mine down to give it a worn look, and it takes a while to get under the finish, even with a power sander.

Your buying a squier, what do you expect for sound. Great thick body, has a good solid feel to it. The problem lies in the electronics. The stock humbuckers have a low muddy output and the volume pots are set to being either silent or loud with no difference in between. My suggestion is too keep a little money around to buy a new set of humbuckers and pots. I droped a dimebuck in the bridge and it was definitely worth the money i spent. This has become my southern metal beater guitar.

Get rid of the standard 9 gauge strings on it, i'm sure everyone could agree with that. The neck has no finish on it which means that it feels absolutely amazing. The body has a genuine fender coat, thick and hard with no transparency what so ever. the action is very easy to set also.

This thing is a brick, case closed. True, Solid, well made guitar. Everyone knows your not paying for the name with a squier so your getting every cent of what you paid.

haven't had to deal with them.

Great practice, beater, beginner guitar. I personally don't see the point in paying the $650 for the fender version when you can get this one for less than a third of the price. Personally i believe the tone comes mostly from the amp, as long as you have some good electronics in the guitar your good.

No voy a describir, ya conocen todos los detalles. Negra, 2 hb cromados, llave 3 posiciones, ...

Me encanta el color negro q trae, lastima q quedan todos los dedos marcados, pero bueno, es el precio del exito.

Un sonido muy peculiar. Tiene de fondo esos tonos twang de la tipica tele, pero aparejados con los bajos de un hb. Un sonido mas agudo q una lp, tirando a un hibrido entre una sg y una lp, pero con esos agudos tipicos telecasterianos.

El buzz de los hb, se va con un noice reduction como el q tengo en la pedalera. Amplia gama para el rango de distorsiones, desde un fuzz, a un leve OD, y hasta algo de heavy rock.

La probe con un peavey banditt 112 y una pedalera korg toneworks ax1500g.

Podes ir desde el blues hasta el funk, pasando por lo alternativo y lo rockero. La verdad q una variedad de sonidos muy grande.

La guitarra de fabrica, viene con unas cuerdas medias chotas, y la calbiracion estaba bastante mala, pero nada q con un tornillo, un afinador y algo de paciencia no puedas arreglar.

Lo recomendable es tocar la viola un par de semanas, para amoldarla a tu estilo, y recien ahi optar por cambiar cuerdas y calibrarla.

De pinta, la verdad q un ca??o. Muy fachera, el color negro me encanta, y los potes en buen estado. El cuello muy docil y liviando.
En general, una de las mejores violas, en cuanto a facha.

Lo q si, la llave de 3 posiciones, se ve algo fragil, por lo cual ya vengo ahorrando algo de $$$ para su recambio.

Muy durable, las cuido a las violas ademas, asi q espero q no se rompa.

ni idea

Vengo tocando desde hace 12 a??os, tuve pocas violas, pero siempre de calidad, y me gusta cuidarlas, y evitar q se arruinen, ya q seria una pena maltratar un instrumento musical.

Me hubiera gustado q venga con un mango de strato, como la tele deluxe, pero todo no se puede. De todas formas, me encanta el mango de la tele, y esa cabeza tan caracteristica.
Si me la robaran, me compraria otra igual, o en su defecto, la squier 51, q tb suena muy bien.

La compare con otras guitarras squier, y realmente es lo mejor de la gama. Las cuerdas through body es otro valor agregado para el sustain.

Realmente muy recomendable. De hacer modificaciones, le pondria un pushpull en los potes para desfazar ambos hb, y asi ampliar la variedad de sonidos, pero ya seria en un futuro mas lejano, por ahora me encanta este sonido.

ok so i went on a hunt for this tele custom squire made in indonisa..
i thought i would be getting a better or at least as good as my SQUIRE 51 ..that is great by the way...the neck is no where as nice as the SQUIRE 51s neck ....and looks white and is alot like a club in your hand ..not aged looking or low profile like the squire 51...

ok sounds is muddy muddy muddy...i have a epiphone les paul standard that humbuckers sound really good ...i play through a marshall 50 watt amp with distortion and clean...a good amp..and the guitar sounds toyish...why can fender make such a great guitar like the 51 and blow it on this custom...

set was fine low action no buzz ..the guitar looks good on a stand..pick it up and it feels and sounds cheap...nice looks no soul

forget it! id rather hum at a gig that play this...

ive been plaing for 25 years ..i own fender strats, epi les paul..i play punk alt..i really wanted to love this guitar but i rather play the squire 51 anyday of the week over this if your looking a squires play one before you waste your money on a tele squire custom with ha ha humbuckers....the pickups are way way better on the 51...

Mine's a 2005 Indonesian-made model and the specs are pretty much the same as others have listed - twin humbuckers, tone and volume controls for each, one-piece maple neck, ash/alder body (can't really confirm as it's finished in solid black), strung through the body.

In general, a reasonable spec for the price and the hardware is decent enough quality.

With the twin humbuckers, some have commented that there isn't enough variety between them, but I have no complaints. Basically, I've set the tones for each to achieve the maximum separation. The neck pickup is set nicely rounded with just a touch of country twang when played clean. The bridge is set a lot brighter and with a touch of distortion you get a sparkling, shimmery kind of sound. Between the two, it's possible to get a gutsy, slightly dirty 'bark' - think White Stripes v Franz Ferdinand.

I'd say this is definitely an indie-bluesy-punkish kind of wedge. If you're into metal, shop elsewhere.

I bought the guitar used, but in 'as new' condition, so it was pretty much as it left the factory, with plastic over the scratchplate and the original strings which I swapped straight off for some Fender 9s.

So, any faults? Naah not really. The toggle switch was a bit loose so I simply tightened up the locking ring. At the back of the guitar, where the body's been drilled to allow the strings to pass through, it looks as though one of the holes is slightly out of line with the others. Not enough to make any difference though. The 'witch hat' knobs are a bit cheap looking, but hardly worth replacing.

Overall the thing looks the business. The gloss black finish is very smart, it has a good weight to it, and it just feels like a much more expensive guitar. I compared it to a 'genuine' Fender Tele Custom in a store today and it stacked up well in terms of build quality.

As far as the set-up goes, the action was already pretty low, low enough for me as a rhythm player anyway. The truss was set to textbook tolerance. Intonation was slightly out, the worst offender being the G string, but not so bad that it couldn't be rectified.

The neck's a dream to play, quite narrow with low frets. No rough edges, but around the 3rd fret there was a trace of glue or varnish, which will probably polish off.

So far so good. After a few months concentrated playing the finish has a few marks from handling and the scratchplate has a few, well, scratches...

It certainly seems durable enough and I'd happily gig with it.

No need as yet.

I've been playing for less than a year, but I've played drums for over 25 years, I'm very picky about my gear and I know quality when I see it.

What's great about this guitar is that it looks and plays like it should have cost a lot more. I imagine the version with the Seymour Duncans must have a bit more clout, but I'm more than happy with this one.

One other plus point - it has an identity of its own. It's not a sunburst Strat. Not that there's anything wrong with them - I have a Squier Standard Strat too. But this feels a little less like a budget guitar, and, you don't see too many of them around.

My mate, who plays an Epi gold-top Les Paul, absolutely loves this guitar. I virtually had to club him with a mike stand to get him to let go. I've not been playing too long, but I'm sure I'll keep this baby for a good while yet.

Every reviewer has listed the standard features, so I will mention some oddities:

* the volume control is all or nothing. Doing volume swells does not work for me on this guitar - going from 0 to 1 is like going from 0 to 7 on a more gradual scale.

* I keep breaking strings on this guitar, i.e. every ten songs or so. Much more often than on my strat. I play 11's and may go down to 10s to see whether they last longer because they won't be stretched so tense.

* tuners: they feel very solid, but they can be a little unresponsive for minor tweaks.

I love the sound. I wanted something that would give me a jangly, chiming sound like The Sundays, Radiohead and early Rush PLUS decent rock sounds for hard rock/cheap punk.

This guitar gives me all of those. The sound I like most is clean through heavy chorus and delay a la Sundays, Cocteau Twins, Belly. Excellent. With more distortion, you get a great Clash sound like, oooh, say Train In Vain. Or anything off London Calling. Great stuff.

I was particularly pleased with the quality of the top strings, i.e. E and B. Bell-like, chiming and up front without being tinny or diminishing the middle. Great.

My only small gripe about the sound is that it can sound a bit middle-y and nasal for good hard rock leaning to heavy metal. But the lead/solo sound is great.

All of this is coloured by the amp I guess: Marshall Valvestate 100W.

The shop was set up well enough. Perhaps by the factory, perhaps by the shop. No idea. I will get it set up properly sometime, just to lower the action a bit, but it's fine really.

The neck is great. I have only played a strat before. This Tele neck is a bit fatter but very very smooth - that was what struck me the most in the shop, how fast and smooth it felt. Better than guitars I've tried three and four times the price.

I haven't gigged it yet, so can't really say. The frequent string breaking means I wouldn't gig it without a back-up.

not tried.

I've been playing 20 years. I own a 19-year old Squier Strat, Marshall 100W amp, and the usual range of effects: Rat distortion, Boss V-Wah, Boss Hi Band Flanger.

2005? Crafted in Indonesia. H/H. Maple neck. This guitar is basically a Gibson SG in the body of a Fender Telecaster.

I play punk rock and blues and this guitar is perfect for both those styles. The bridge pickup creates a full distorted on my Marshall Valvestate VS100 - ideal for modern punk a la Green Day, Yellowcard etc. The neck pick is full and thick for clean blues. Combine both pickups and it sounds great on a crunchy amp setting - ideal for a garage rock sound a la The Strokes or White Stripes. I don't use any effects, but when I tried this guitar in the shop it sounded awesome with a clean delay on a Line 6 modelling amp. A truly versatile guitar. No dislikes with the sound.

Here is where this guitar falters. It was semi-setup when I bought it, so it played OK in the shop. Not sure if it was a factory or shop setup. First thing I did when I got home was change the strings from the bullets to EB Regular Slinky's, and set the intonation accordingly. Action needed adjusting - it was too high for my taste. The hardware seems solid enough. Bridge is good, but I may replace the tuners further down the line. The neck and headstock were typically squier unfinished maple, so I slapped a coat or two of clear polyurethane on it and it came up nice. Pickups didn't need adjusting. This is probably the first fender I'll own where I don't replace the stock pickups - they sound _that_ good. The input jack was faulty so I had to gut it and sort that out. Turns out a contact wasn't making contact. May replace it.

Guitar is built like a rock.
Sort out the above initial flaws and I am sure this guitar will last a life time.
I don't gig with this guitar because I play bass in my band, but I would take a backup - always take a backup.

Has a 1 year warranty but I probably voided it after gutting the guitar and refinishing the neck and headstock. The shop I bought it from would probably repair it if it was faulty, and if this input jack continues to play up I may just put that to the test.

Been playing for about 7 years. I am a bass player primarily, but bought this guitar to write with. I compared it with the Squier Custom Tele 2 with the P 90s, but this guitar sounded fuller and the finish was better. I also tried the Mexican Fender Tele Custom, and let me tell you, this Squier is a better guitar for the $$. If the Mexican Tele was the same price, yeah I would have bought it, but I wouldn't pay 5 times the price for the only difference is the Fender logo on the headstock. I have owned other squiers in the past (strats maily) but this is easily my favourite. Overall this really is a great guitar and it suits my purpose (writing and recording) nicely. It just needs a little adjusting out of the box and afterwards its a beast. I do recommend refinishing the neck. Aussies, Cabot's Gelclear satin run free polyurethane does the job nicely.

Twin Humbucker tele made in indonesia - see other reviews for features

The humbuckers fitted to this guitar are slightly different to those fitted to thinline teles (the ones on the Squire are standard sized). Both pickups were quiet and I have no hum. I am quite happy with the sound of the stock pups, the bridge can be a bit sharp but gives pleasing jangle on open chords. The neck pickup is a little muddy. I will probably fit a treble Bleed cap on the volume control as the treble gets lost when the volume is turned down.

Whenever I think about buying a guitar I check this web site - so I new what to expect when I tried a couple of these guitars out - e.g they need setting up and screwing together!!. The bridge saddle screws needed grinding down to the right height to stop them cutting into your hand if you rest on the bridge - setting the intonation was quick. I found one of the 5 screws holding the bridge to the body has a stripped thread (will fix with a toothpick in the hole). several of the tuners were loose and the string trees rattled until screwed down. The truss rod adjustment is stiff. Cheap pup switch but works OK. Nut.
is well cut but very shallow fitting in the neck. Fretting is quite good but a fraction uneven at 18,19, 20th fret. Neck is very nice and feels great - controls all work OK. Fit an finish elsewhere is good and overall the guitar looks smart. I threw the old strings away and use 10's

Time will tell - but cant see why it shouldnt last

Dont expect to use customer support

Been playing for over 35 years and own 14 guitars - bought this was a comfort purchase in 2005, just to try something different - at these prices my collection will get bigger!!. The market for sub #200 guitars in the UK has changed in recent years with some great guitars like the Yamaha Pacifica range - taking into account inflation you couldnt get anything like this 20 - 30 years ago. This is a cheap guitar - by all means upgrade but that means spending more money and its not a cheap guitar anymore - its just a pity that a little more time couldnt be spend setting it up or doing a quality check, I didnt see any tags that showed a final factory check. Try more that one before you buy, but I didnt find one that was ready to gig straight off. Be prepared to spend some time setting one up (which is satisfying) or get a tech to do it if you can.

New, made in Indo. 22 frets, solid body mystery wood. Nice maple tele neck. Two humbuckers, 4 knobs, p/u selector switch, fender-style hard tail. Black w/black 70's era custom/deluxe pickguard, mini-rotomatic style tuning machines. Usual tele scale.

The sound is unique to this particular melding of tele and gibson styles. Full humbucker sound with a surprising tele snap left in there. Very nice, and not what I was expecting. Great blues and jazz tones to be had from the neck position. Snappy country licks and good straight up rock n' roll tones from the bridge position. Nice fat blend in the middle. The pickups are generic gibson size humbuckers, not the Fender "high output" pickups. They are about what you'd expect from a budget guitar. They sound much weaker (less output) than those on my Alleykat, although they seem to be well shielded, as no excessive hum was heard. I've heard better and I've heard much worse.

The set-up on this thing was horrible. It seems as though the parts were slapped on at the factory, it was boxed and thrown out the door (which is probably what really happened) but again it's nothing I wouldn't expect from a cheapo budget guitar. It needed some work to get it feeling and sounding good. I had to adjust the action, give the truss rod a little tweak to get rid of the sag in the middle of the neck and file the fret ends on every fret up and down both sides of the neck to avoid slicing my hand open. I then strung it with 13's, adjusted the height of the pickups, fixed the intonation and gave every screw a once over to tighten it all up. For all of its set-up flaws, this guitar turned out to be a really good player. It feels so much like my old tele, only with taller frets. I may file the frets down some, but then again maybe not. The pickguard has a not-very-noticeable flaw in the treble horn area. The bottom layer seems to be missing, but it's a black pickguard on a black body, so it's very hard to see. All of the hardware seems to be of good quality. My biggest beef is with the cheapo knobs, but good quality replacements are inexpensive. This is a great guitar to trick out as the neck and body are probably from the same stock real fenders are made from. For the price I paid for it, it's worth dropping another $200 or so in replacement parts to turn a cheapo into a really good feeling and sounding axe for slaying the foes of the gods of rock.

As mentioned, the body and neck are of surprisingly good quality and finish, as are most of the other components. It stays in tune reasonably well, and has nice secure strap buttons. Always bring a backup.

I have no experience with customer support, as I usually fix most problems myself.

I've been playing punk, blues, jazz, rock, bluegrass, etc. for a long time. I also own a few basses, a few acoustic guitars, a mandolin, and a few electrics. I've played many, many different electric guitars - one of my favorites being the telecaster because of its feel. After a thorough tuneup of this guitar, I have been reconnected with that beloved tele feel. The very low price and good quality of the neck and body make it one of the best guitar bargains I think I've had. If you buy this guitar with the intention of upgrading it with better quality hardware, and you enjoy working on guitars, it really can't be beat. I'm rating it low however, b/c of the work it needed to get it playable. Lots of potential with additional $$ and work invested.

If you've got this far you probably already know. MII, Telecaster Agathis body, Maple one piece neck, Dual Humbuckers. Generic sealed tuners (gotoh style?). Mine is black.

I play through a Fender Blues Jr with the volume set around 9 and the bridge pickup delivers nice well rounded tones with some very pleasent bite, very well suited for punk. Open and barre chords don't get lost in the mud. If your a fan of The Clash guitar sound you would definatley like the custom. For blues lead work the custom falls a bit short in my opinion. It lacks the bite of a tele, nor does it have the balls of a Les Paul, some people compare it to an SG, it sort of reminds me of a lower end PRS. As others have mentioned, there's not a lot of difference between pickups, other then the neck being a bit darker and muddier.

Factory set up was pretty good. Action was where I like it (on the medium high side). Finish is descent. All electrics work properly. The high E was a a bit sharp at the 12th fret, but that was an easy fix. Quite a few of the frets are razor sharp on the treble side. I recieved this guitar as a gift and it was still NIB, I would have picked out one with better fret work, but it's nothing a swiss file won't take care of, but it's something that should have been taken care of. My MIC Affinity Tele has much nicer fret work, and it was even less expensive guitar, so the price thing is not a reasonable excuse. The fretwork is by far the worst I've played on a Squire, Epiphone or other comparable guitars. Hopefully it's not a reflection of the whole line.

Still fairly new, but it all looks solid. Tele's can take a lot of abuse (Ask Pete Townsend). I'm not worried about it breaking or anything.

I've never had to deal with a guitar company for support. I don't think it came with a warranty, but not sure.

I've been playing guitar for 15 years and some change. I've got some studio experience and a few shows under my belt. Over the years I've owned a some really nice guitars, and some better suited for firewood. The Tele Custom is definatley one of the cooler guitars. What it lacks in fit and finish it makes up for in utility. The issue's it has are minor and easy to fix. For the music I play and write nothing sounds as cool as a Tele with buckers.