Fender Squier Telecaster Custom

22 medium jumbo frets on a one peice maple neck/fretboard, bolted onto a agathis body. This guitar has a standard hard tail bridge with two hot humbuckers. Classic Les Paul set up for the electronics. This guitar was made this year in Indonisia (2009 si the year) so she's brand new, and freshly polished in gloss black.

My sound can be best described as alternative. I really like to keep it pretty clean, so not much distortion, but I'm not afraid to use effects. I'm running this guitar straight through a Peavey Vypyr Tube 120, and it is possibly the best sound I've ever heard. For the price this guitar blows me away, it manages to be full and rich but still bright and articulate. It's really smooth and clean, but still sharp and powerful. I'm hugely impressed by the sound from this guitar, and I beleive for the price you can't find better. Sound is of personal preference but for me this guitar is perfect.

I've never bought a guitar that came perfectly set to my liking until now. The action is high which is how I like it, I find low action to be sloppy, and I'm faster with high action and more acurate. The pickups we're set perfect, and it was intonated. There we're a couple scratches that I polished out, but did end up adding my own removing the plastic covering on the pickgaurd.

This guitar is fairly solid. It's a heavey best, comparable to a Gibson Les Paul in weight, and not much else I picked up besides a bass. I've owned other squiers, and most cheap guitars have crappy imput jacks. From expirience I know that the finish will scratch easy and that the pick gaurd does, and that the imput jack will need work over time. This is the same with any guitar though. It feels like it will last, but no matter what the guitar always switch to strap locks! Stock strap buttons will do you no good.

I've delt with Fender customer support before. They're fairly quick to respond and helpful, but they left me feeling like they could care less. I work in customer service and that's always something that's frowned upon. The people I bought it from however are amazing. I buy all my stuff from a local music store, and I love the people there, ever since I got my first guitar from them. They're super helpful, and just treat me really well (which they should because I spent $1500 there this month).

For the price there is no better deal. This guitar is good enough for the studio, and proof that you can get a whole lot of guitar for not a whole lot of cash. It play's as good as an American Standard Tele, and sounds out of this world. Never do you feel like you're playing a cheap instrument. Squier's Vintage Modified series has always seemed to be the companies top of the line series next to the CLassic Vibe. This guitar was love at first sight, and if it were stolen I'd hunt it down and get it back. I think for any guitarist this is a worthy axe.

Normally, I'm not into cheap guitars - you pretty much get what you pay for. However, this guitar really challenged that old maxim for me. It all started when I was looking for a low-cost H/H configured guitar to use as the basis for a project guitar. I came across this nifty model at a music shop in Presque Isle, Maine. I love Fender telecasters and currently own a 1988 American Standard Tele. I previously owned a 1995 Fender Custom Shop Tele Jr. too. I've also had a Squire strat-tele mix thingy back in the day (ca. 1984). Up until this Squire Tele Custom, I've never had a tele had a model with humbuckers. When I first picked up this guitar, it really surprised me. It played and sounded great. I thought about it for a few days and couldn't get this little Squire out of my head. So I went back to the shop & plunked down $200 and took it home. Boy am I glad I bought it!

The guitar was made in Indonesia. It has the standard features: dual humbucker pu's, 2 vol & 2 tone pots, 3-way selector switch, maple bolt-on neck, medium jumbo frets, solid agathis body, black finish, chrome hardware. Nothing particularly special about this tele except that it has humbuckers in a guitar famous for single-coils. So if you're looking for a thicker Gibson-like tone in a Fender package, this guitar might be for you.

One of the tow clinchers for me buying this guitar was the sound. At the guitar shop, I tried it through a fender G-Dec 30 (an amp I also had at home). The guitar sounded full, but not muddy (like some humbucker guitars sometimes sound to me.) I also tried it through a Fender 5-watt Champ retro tube amp. Through this amp, the guitar sounded phenomenal. I love clean sounds and slightly overdriven bluesy tones sounds. This Squire nailed them both.

I am particularly impressed by the variability in sound between the three pick-up positions. The neck pu is clear and crisp, but not thin at all. The middle position is jangly and full. The bridge pu is round and somewhat throaty, but also very clear (In fact, the Squire bridge pu is clearer and a bit more expressive than the stock bridge pu on my 1990 Gibson Les Paul Classic). As a previous review stated, the sound of this Squire tele Custom is really is a meld of tele twang and Gibson fullness. I can get a clean, bright sounds from the neck and rich, thick tone from the bridge. This guitar offers great tonal color and variety.

Again, I had originally purchased this guitar to swap out the pu's with SD P-Rails. But the more I played it, the more I fell in love with the guitar's sound. So I haven't tampered with it. Why mess with something that sounds so great?

About three years ago, I tried out a few Squire teles at a local guitar shop. (I seem to recall that these Squires were made in China.) These guitars struck me as really poorly made (cheap parts, whimpy pu's, finger-slicing fret edges, bad action and intonation, etc.)

In stark contrast, this Indonesian Squire Tele Custom shares absolutely nothing with the very bad Chinese Squire guitars. The factory set-up on mine was perfect. The intonation was spot on, as was action and the pick-up heights. There is no fret buzz and the neck plays fast and smoothly. My neck is unfinished, which I really love. The maple neck on this Squire is every bit as nice as those on my other US Fender guitars. The neck on this Squire was the other main selling point for me. It is a joy to play and my fingers fly across the fretboard with easy on this Squire.

The body is slightly lighter in weight than my American Standard tele, but not by much. Actually, this is kind of nice, since the lower weight of the Squire doesn't fatigue my shoulder as much when playing for long stints.

Overall the guitar has performed flawlessly. One of the pots is a wee bit crackly, but it's not a big deal.

The parts on this guitar just don't feel quite as sturdy as those on my US Fenders. The pu selector switch seems like it could be a bit weak, but so far so good. Also the tuners feel a bit less sturdy than those on my real tele. (I will probably replace these with Sperzel locking tuners like those on my Strat Plus.) I hope this guitar is as study as my real Fenders, which have traveled far and wide with me to hundreds of gigs. I kind of think that the Squire might not hold up quite as good as my +20-year-old US Fenders. Still I'm hoping that this Squire is a real warrior. So far, so good.

I think this guitar comes with a 5-year warranty. I hope I don't have to use it...

I've been playing guitar for over 30 years. I've played in working cover bands, working original bands, and know I am in a very active church praise band. (Yes, my years of gigging are pretty much over...) As listed above, I have many other electric guitars and have owned many, many more over the years. I like quality and never buy junk. I am almost never impressed by cheap, Far Eastern-made guitars that have flooded the US guitar market in the last decade. But this guitar has really impressed me. I'm not sure if I got lucky and they just happened to make a great guitar when they made mine somewhere in Indonesia. Or have production standards and quality control really improved? My old Japanese Squire from the 80s was a good solid guitar (I kind of miss that old axe.) But the (Chinese?) Squires that I had previously tried out a few years ago absolutely stunk! Somewhere in there, Squire/Fender must have gotten their act together because they hit a home run with this baby.

I know this sounds silly, but this guitar is perhaps the best electric I've ever owned when considering the price and quality. I now play this guitar more than my real Tele, real Strat, and real Les Paul combined. The playability and tone are just fantastic.

I know it sounds crazy and I don't want anybody to think that I'm resorting to hyperbole, but this Squire Telecaster Custom is one great guitar. My only concern is long-term endurance - will this guitar still be great 20 years from now, like my real Fenders still are. I sure hope so. If it was stolen, I would look for another. Hopefully Squire is making them consistently good, so I could find another of equally high quality. Good job Squire.

Standard features of the Fender Telecaster Deluxe - 2 humbuckers, 2 tone, 2 volume, 3 position toggle. Hardtail style bridge.

My set-up is a 66 Fender Bassman head with a Avatar 2X12 open back cab. I play rock, pop, soul, blues. It's OK for the harder stuff, but not at all for the subtler sounds/styles.
As is, this guitar is best suited for rock/hard rock.
The pickups are relatively high output, but lack definition/clarity.

Factory set-up was pretty god awful. I replaced the stock bridge with a Gotoh brass hard tail Fender style bridge. This really improved action/playability and to a lesser extent, tone.
Black poly finish is fine. The frets should be considered deadly weapons (fret edges are sharp and over extend the finger board by just enough to pose a modest threat to your health). I filed the fret edges down, adjusted the truss rod, replaced the bridge and lowered the action. It plays pretty damn well now. Next move is to throw a TV Jones TV Classic in the bridge and the clarity problem will be solved and this guitar will be stage/recording ready.
The rest of the electronics are acceptable - I don't waste much time worrying about that kind of stuff. If it works, it's fine.

If you take the time and spend a little money to upgrade the parts you deem lacking, you can save yourself hundreds of dollars on a fender.

Haven't needed it, so N/A.

Been playing 26 years. This is a decent guitar as is, but it can be a very good guitar if you replace the cut-corner parts that made it cheap in the first place. All in all, a little work can save you hundreds of dollars if you're like me and don't care about what it says on the headstock. Not a "main" guitar, though, for an experienced player.
On the wish list for this guitar would be real Fender humbuckers, and a better bridge.

I've been playing since 1976 and have gone through dozens of guitars since that time. On top of that, I am an admitted nit-picking freak when it comes to the sound and design of a guitar. Compared to most I've got a pretty good basis of experience to offer an in-depth review.

My Tele Custom is older - coming out when Fender first started offering this model. I bought it off of a guy who picked it up for his son and then promptly tossed it into his closet. The guitar had maybe 20 minutes playing time so it might as well have been considered new. I think that I paid $120 for the guitar and a hard shell case.

Lately, Fender has started offering the Squier Custom in different finishes. Mine is black. Not exactly the color I'd chose, but it could be worse.

I don't need to tell you the various features offered on the guitar. It's been repeated a hundred times in previous reviews. Instead, let's move onto the other categories...

The Squier Custom isn't going to blow your socks off with craftsmanship or finesse. It's "blocky", heavy-feeling, thick, and very much a "rocker's" guitar. My other Tele's (I own a '66 Tele and a '74 Thinline) feel more dainty by comparison. The overall stoutness doesn't make the Squier less of a guitar. Rather, it actually serves to make me appreciate it more.

The original pickups weren't bad. As a matter of fact, they were FAR above what I expected. Even so, I had a couple of Seymour Duncans lying around so I thought I'd toss them in to see what the guitar might sound like with a pair of quality pickups. I also added a set of 500K pots (since that is the standard to use with humbuckers.)

The difference was surprising. All of a sudden it was as if the guitar had cleared it's throat and was able to speak clearly. I can get warm thick bluesy tones or sharp piercing lead tones that cut through like an audio ice pick. Think of combining a Les Paul with a Tele and that is the range of sounds offered. Again, I know this because I own a few Les Pauls and the two Teles I spoke of earlier.

I have to admit something here. Despite having a terrific sound that easily matched (and often surpassed) my other guitars I felt somewhat hesitant playing a Squier on stage. Yes, the guitar sounded and played absolutely awesome, but that damned "Squier" name made me feel as though I was being judged by everyone who looked to see what I was playing. In a fit of self-absorbed vanity I sanded "Squier" off of the headstock, ordered and installed a couple "Fender" and "Made in the USA" decals off of Ebay, and then covered over the heantire head with a few coats of StewMac polyurethane spray. I even added a "Fender Custom Shop" decal to the back of the headstock, as well.

Now before you being to think that I am pathetic for chaning the name on my guitar, I have no intentions of ever selling to anyone under false pretenses. The crazy thing is that everyone who comes up to check out my guitar cannot seem to get enough of it. They sit down to give it a few strums and 45 minutes later they're still at it. This includes many of the top guitarists in my area!

I'm forever being told, "Man, the Fender Custom Shop really does put out an awesome guitar! I'd love to have one of these!" That's when I tell them that the guitar is nothing more than a slightly modded Squier Custom with a different decal. You should see their eyes. At first they're incredulous and then they begin to realize that they, too, could have something like this for less than $200. I've actually had a few friends go out and buy the same guitar and make the same changes that I did.

One of the most common complaints you'll find in the reviews is the set-up. I can understand people ragging if the finish was bad or if the metal plating pealed off at an early age, but a guitar set-up is an easy thing to perform. Anyone can do it. There's really no reason whatsoever to whine that the intonation is off when it takes 20 minutes, a tuner, and knowledge enough to use a small screwdriver to make things right.

That said, my Custom was in bad shape. The edges of the frets were so sharp that I literally cut my hand when I first tried it out. In some places the hung out over the edge of the fretboard! I bought the guitar anyway, but those fret edges were the worst I've ever seen on a new guitar. It took a few minutes of careful filing before they were just right. Again, not a big deal, but it does make me wonder about the lack of quality control at the Fender factory.

The finish is black and while I first thought it might be thin simply because the guitar is a Squier, I have now come to see that the finish is almost indestructible. I'd love to have the same type of paint on my car. Stray shopping carts and boneheads opening their doors into me would be a laughing matter. Seriously, the finish is amazingly thick on this guitar.

The neck is rather thick which adds to the feeling that it's built like a tank. I've considered shaving the neck slightly so that it is more like a Strat. I may do that if I grow a pair of balls. As it is now, I like the guitar too much to mess with something that is working perfetly well.

I have the action low. It could go lower without buzzing. I don't do this because when I switch guitars on stage I prefer the action to be the same for each guitar.

The bridge is a typical no-nonsense piece of work. The tuners were adequate. I changed them out for a set off of an American Strat neck (that had broken in two due to a drunk falling into it). The knobs are kind of thin and cheesy. My Thinline knobs feel thicker, but knobs are knobs. I'm not going to whine over something as insignificant as a new thousandths of an inch of plastic on a guitar knob.

I did all of the work myself on this guitar. Yes, it's been modded and, yes, no guitar can be 100% reliable all of the time. Still, there is nothing on this guitar that would give me reason to doubt it's reliability.

The neck is a four-screw type so it's not going to go anywhere. The humidity doesn't seem to have much of an effect at all on the tuning of the guitar. I added a couple of roller guide trees to the headstock (replacing the friction type of string tree). I can't say that it made much difference, though, because there were no tuning problems before.

Dunno. I never think about calling them mostly because I expect to talk to some guy in India who can only recite sentences from a pre-ordained fact sheet. I figure that I am better off figuring out the issue myself.

I'll give Fender a "5" on this category.

I have been playing forever it seems. I've opened up for some big name acts and now have settled into doing a few hundred (if not more) studio gigs each year. I certainly wouldn't say that I'm the greatest player in the world - far from it! Even so, I am sought out enough to where I make a pretty damned good living off of the guitar work I do.

I play through a Vox AD120VT that has been reworked (terrible factory workmanship, but a terrific amp once the problems are sorted out). I own 26 guitars including Les Pauls, Strats, an old Dan Armstrong, a '59 ES-345, a very cool '63 Gretsch 6122 Country Gentleman, and even a Kramer aluminum neck prototype model I picked up from their factory in Neptune. On top of that I have a few basses that I've collected over the years.

And yet... it's it's own unique way this silly little Squier Tele Custom is able to keep up with most, if not all, of the other guitars I own.

It'll never be collectable. It'll never be worth more than a couple of hundred bucks. But it plays well and gives me all I could ask for.

How many guitars can make that boast?

Indonesian-made, two humbuckers, four controlknobs and a three-way toggle switch. Many of its features have already been mentioned in other reviews. I have to say that I bought this guitar for its fantastic appearance and its Gibson-like configuration.

I am absolutely thrilled by the power of the clean sound. I drive it through a number of stompboxes into a Marshall JCM2000. Together with the distortion from my amp I also get a true rocksound, very much like the 70s 80s sound (not bad for a 72 custom lookalike). The only drawback is the muddy soloing sound you get in the 'rhythm' position. I prefer the Epi or Gibson guitars, because this one lacks sustain.

Now here is the tricky part: as I unpacked the guitar from the box I immediately noticed that some of the screws in the pickguard were askew. Also, the cupshaped input system was not very tight. After playing three times I pulled this cup and the whole input socket out of the body! Stunned, but not shaken, I decided to repair it myself (I was still pleased with its sound) and noticed that underneath the pickguard were more holes than there were supposed to be! Appearantly some worker at the factory had had problems with getting the pickguard in the right place. I used a bit of woodfiller, drilled new holes and replaced the cupsystem by a regular steady input coverplate. I have never had this experience with a new guitar before in my life! Still, the necks plays smoothly and the guitar still rocks!

I think the initial problems are dealt with and believe I can rely on it. Time will tell. I use it intesively (six times a week) and haven't had any complaints yet.

I haven't dealt with them, so I wouldn't know

I have played guitar for more than 30 years. I have owned guitars on both ends of the price range and this is remarkably cheap for a reasonably great sound. Also, its playability is very good. The looks of this guitar was the reason to buy it and so far I haven't regret it either. The clean sound is magnificent, its overdriven sound has a unique retro rocksound, but in rhythm position it shows that this is not an Epi or Gib. At one point I thought I would make it look like a relic by deliberately damaging it a bit, but then I thought: keep playing it intensively and it will become one in time. The people at the Indonesian factory have done their bit in this relicing process anyway!

Someone gave me a honey colered with black faceplate. It looks like a recent model, perhaps the last 3 to 5 years. Solid Top. Standard Telecaster provisions. Hardshell case. Maple neck. Looks OK. Never played.

Sounds like a Telecaster to me and I've played the real Telecasters. I use a Crate DXJ-112 amp. Excellent bright tone, I find myself constantly pulling the tone down for Rythm and Lead work.
Great for that driving R&R Rythm with a good punch when in Lead mode.

Poor Setup (if any) at factory.

This guitar was never setup ANYWHERE including at the factory. I am dismayed by the hardware used in the bridge. The screws for adjusting the intonation were too long causing them to butt against the string and bending them further and further way for any type of intoation set. Fender put their name on this poor quality crap?

I set the intonation myself after I took a hacksaw to the long screws in the bridge.

Will withstand playing but I had to set it up for my liking. Hardware appears robust but the aforementioned bridge screws should be considered again. I have gigged with this guitar and it performed OK, However, I would not use this axe without a backup.

I can't speak indonesian so customer service is a moot point. Fender put their name on this crap so let them deal with the mediocre reviews that they are getting.

Overall rating 5, and it served me well in rehearsal.

I'm not sure what year mine is,nor do I care.It's Indonesian made,has 2 humbuckers,3 way pup select switch,2 sets of volume and tone controls,made out of Agathis,which I'm told,is almost like a mahoghany type of wood,and has a glossy black finish.Too bad it couldn't have a Sunburst finish,but for $200.00 bucks,you can't be choosey.The pups are passive,which I prefer,and I believe that they're general Squier stock pups.It also has 22 frets,and as far as asscessories go,it came with 2 allen wrenches,one for the truss rod,and the other for the bridge saddles.

First of all,let state right off the back that,unless you're using a effects processor(aka Digitech Rp series)this is not a guitar for Metal.If you're playing this straight through your amp,you'll realize that this guitar is great for Blues,Country,and Classic Rock.I haven't heard any hum at all from the pups,which is grteat.And with the 2 sets of volume and tone controls,you can get a wide variety of tones wiith this guitar.I love playing this clean straight through my amp,but when I kick in the distortion,I noticed that the pups can get a little of a Bassy tone to them.If I use my Digitech RP 50,it screams.All in all,this is a very versatile guitar that can produce a variety of tones.I like it.

Here's where the shit hits the fan.I was told that these were made by Cort for Fender in their Indonesia factory.They should've done a better job.It seems like this was just put together and shoved in a box and shipped off to lord knows where.I had to tighten the tuners,imput jack,3 way switch,and the neck plate.The saddles were very high and needed to be lowered and reset accordingly.I also had to intonate it and put on a new set of strings,which made a big improvement.I didn't see any flaws though like,frets being too sharp,loose wiring,etc.In that aspect,I was lucky.Mine is one solidly made beast.

I believe that I could gig with this and not have to worry about a backup.Once I did a complete set up and intonation on this guitar,it came accross as a very durable instrument that should last me a long time.I see no need at this time to do any modifications to it as far as changing any of the hardware,although I'll probably get some Graph-Tech saddles for it,which I have on my MIM Strat.I don't have any tuning issues with it,and plus there's no fret buzz,which is big for me.

Fender is always great to deal with.No problems there.

I've been playing for over 35 years and I have played some Squiers in the past,and have never been too fond of them.This one puts some credibility to the Squier name.I beieve that this is one of the best guitars that Squier makes today.It's a welcome addition to my set up which also includes a 2006 MIM Fender Sunburst Standard Strat,1997 American made Peavey Studio Pro 112,and a Digitech RP 50 effects processor.

the looks for one, blonde, my faourite tele colour!, the p-90 designed picks were the biggest draw, more so the price ??100 near brand new.

this guitar reflects my playing perfectly, the p-90's are superb, i play alot of pearl jam, rem etc so i can get some real blues or harsh attack, i have found a massive difference between the neck and trem pups.

i play through a combo rig of a jcm 900 4102 and a laney vc 30 and use a DD6-BF2-Moreley wah and dod chorus and it sounds great.

this guitar is better than any standard squier and i can't believe they go for the price they do!

i've had problems with mine, just had to have 12, 13 and 14th frets stone ground down as they were a little lumpy and coked the notes for lead playing

other than that, great finish, quiet (noiseless) pickups, no string buzz and the paint work is great

have noticed a couple of tiny cracks on neck joint, but no concerns

never gigged her yet, but built lika a preverbial house

got my own guy for this :)

a great guitar, better than beginner or budget, a real workshorse, looks the biz, an eye catcher, no a shred machine but cool and chunky blues machine

Two Seymour Duncan pickups, two volume and two tone knobs, three way selector, through body strings, squier standard tuners, 22 slim frets, maple neck. Indonesian built, date uncertain, this century definitely. Beautiful cream body with black scratch plate (going up above the neck for the selector switch like the telecaster deluxe). Rated 9 since there is no cut off without dropping the volume on one pick up.

This sounds fantastic, the bridge pickup is spiky and perfect for squealy lead and chords, cutting through the mayhem with ease. The bridge pickup is deep and rich, dripping with tonal depth. The crossphase selection is beautiful, chords sing and lead seduces. I play through a Fender Princeton 122plus and the combination is fantastic, at low volume for practise and higher volume for live. There is a little noise when distorted from the bridge pickup, but only when it's not playing, when it's going the guitar punches through the crappiest of in-house PA's. I play nu-wave influenced materiel and the chop and skank the tele gives is unsurpassed. I have a Korg Toneworks which I try and use as clean as possible, with only a touch of phase or chorus, or really overload the distorted models for that No Prisoners attack. The tele shines throughout.

I bought this used from a great shop Rockshack in Leeds, England, It was in good shape when I bought it, but had a little trouble getting the intonation perfect so took it back and they did a full set up for free, bringing the strings down as requested. The set up job was perfect, low action really suited it and it is incredibly playable. It just feels right. The neck is thinner than a lot of teles I've played and when a really established gutarist came round for xmas I couldn't get this guitar off him, despite the Strat and Tele standard sitting in the rack.

The pickups are great. The electrics are fine, although I would like to find the reason why when there is distortion selected the guitar buzzes at rest, this might be a cause for pickup upgrade.

The finish is lovely. I heard it is based on the old Olympic White fenders would yellow in the sun and become a gentle cream like this one. The neck is maple, as a tele neck should be, and smooth and dry. The only thing I have changed is that the screws holding the black scratchplate in were silver and I have replaced them with black screws. The guitar is perfect now. Rated nine because of needing a professional set up and dist buzz at rest.

Live I swop between this and my Indonesian Tele standard, which I'll review whe it comes back from a much needed refretting. There would be no need to swop in many cases, but some songs deserve the rishness of this guitar, and some need the fiercer attack and twang of the standard. Live it has held up, occasional gentle retunings, which isn't surprising considering the abuse I give it. I use D'darrio 9s. The hardware is fine for the time being, the finish is thick and durable, never had a strap come off.

I can depend on this guitar, it is a great guitar, and, like most guitarists when they have that lump of wood that warms from their body heat and expresses their creativity as though it is an extension of their souls, I have become firmly attached to it and would rue the day it was stolen or broken beyond repair.

I would use it without backup, but not without a set of spare strings ( you know the score).

Professional set up from the talented boys at Rockshack, Leeds, UK, other than that, perfect.

I have been playing live for 20 years now and owned in my time a wide range of guitars. My current set up is a Strat, a squier tele custom and a tele standard, going through a fender princeton 122plus, via a toneworks, a cry baby and a Boss Loopstation. The two teles are indonesian Squiers.

If I lost my custom I would immediately hunt for another indonesian squier as I have found they are consistently good, while the koreans I have tried have felt like toys.

My custom just feels right, it is hard to explain, but I know there are guitarists who feel the same way. It's MINE, in more than just ownership, it fits me. I know where to attack the strings, where on the fret to slur, where to chop and where to ring: where to make it squeal, growl, slice the air and embrace the audience.

There are some songs I need to cut through the mayhem, and I'll use my tele standard (again squier), and where I need to funk them up (strat, second selector, heavy compressor), but for everything else my custom does it all, beautifully.

Shiny black bowling ball Poly finish, satin maple one piece neck, hardtail bridge with string through body. Made in Indo. 22 Fret (I think). Dual Humbuckers with a LP style wiring setup. Mahogany's long lost cousin Agathis body.

For a long time I thought the pickups sounded the same, just muddier in the neck and more ice pickish in the bridge. But after adjusting the pickup height and finding an overdrive pedal that complimented the sound I'm pretty happy with the pickups. On clean settings the neck pickup is wonderful. The bridge pickup is a bit anemic. With mild overdrive the neck pup gets warm and fat. Think of an SG with the tone rolled off a hair. The bridge pickup isn't great, but it gets the job done. The guitar would really bennifit from better quality pickups and pots.

Out of the box the fret edges were sharp but the intonation was pretty close. After playing it over the last year the sharp edges have been worn smooth and the neck is starting to get a nice broken in feel to it. I probably logged about 400 hours on this guitar in the last year (figuring roughly 1 to 2 hours a night 4 or 5 nights a week). The output jack cap gave me some problems, but I was able to fix it fairly easy. Overall this guitar needs to be tweaked and peaked to get dialed in, but it will reward your efforts.

This guitar takes abuse and smiles. It will ask you if that's all you got and give you the Bruce Lee crazy eye look like he gave in Enter the Dragon. I try to take good care of my gear, but sometimes bad stuff happens, like drunk people at house parties deciding to start slam dancing in the living room. It's worse when you're the drunk that knocked over you're own guitar, and the cymbals etc... Other then the jack cup issue, the guitar still looks and plays as good or better then new.

N/A, haven't needed any customer support.

This is a second review for more of a long term opinion. If you're on the fence about this guitar but think it looks "cool" you might be a bit dissapointed. Even at the paltry sum of $200 there are better playing and sounding guitars out there. If you're a Tele player and want to add a different sound to your line-up this is a great addition. The shortcomings are fairly mild and for a couple hundred dollars you could really make a nice little axe out of it. It's really grown on me and I think it would be worth the investment. Another bonus is that the routing will accomadate Buckers or P-90's (obviously since the Custom II has P-90's).

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.

Made in Indonesia. Solid-body 6-string guitar with two humbuckers, Les Paul-style controls. Telecaster body made from ash-like wood, glossy black with black pickguard. Satin finish bolt-on maple Tele neck with maple fingerboard, steel jumbo-frets. Unbranded chrome hardware including Grover-style tuners, string-through-body non-ashtray bridge. The main differences from a real CBS Tele Custom: the neck is a Tele, not a Strat; the body isn't contoured; the neck bolts on with four bolts instead of three.

Sounds a bit like an Epiphone SG, which is a comparable guitar. I DI straight into a computer (sacrilage, I know) so I'm not sure how it would fare through a proper amp. It's quiet as you'd expect (they're humbuckers), but there's a little bit of noise from the pots when the gain is high. There's a bit of fret-buzz, but that's probably a lot to do with my crappy technique, plus the fact that the guitar needs to be set up by someone who knows what they're doing. It's not capable of awfully varied sounds- not as fat as a Les Paul, not as cutting as a Strat. I attribute this to the average-quality PUPs and poor passive electronics it ships with. One major gripe- the tone controls have little effect on the sound. As is it's OK for bluesy chords and dirty lead sounds.

I got the guitar 2nd hand in as-new condition- I'm not sure if the previous owner fiddled with the set-up, or if it was just awful straight out of the factory. It stays in tune relatively OK, but the action and intonation needs work. Finish is suprisingly good for a Squier, with only a couple of minor blemishes. The scratch-plate screw holes don't align quite right with those in the body, so the screws aren't dead-flush with the plate. Everything else is OK. I really like the feel of the satin-finish neck- your palm won't stick when it gets sweaty. It came with medium-gauge Fender strings which bend really easily, which I like because it allows a lot of expressive playing.

I haven't gigged this guitar, but I lent it to a friend who did once. I think it would easily withstand heavy gigging, although the finish might suffer after a while. In fact, unmodified it's probably better suited to being a gigging guitar or backup than it is to a strictly recording usage.

No opinion.

I'm not much of a guitarist, but I've played nicer guitars than this. My previous guitar was a borrowed Japanese Les Paul copy from the 70s, which was a different-sounding beast with different strengths and weaknesses. I'd have to say the Squier Tele Custom is very good for the price. It would make an excellent candidate for modification. The main things I would modify would be 1. The electronics, 2. Swap the knobs for real CBS Fender ones (instead of the plasticy look-alikes), 3. Upgrade the PUPs. Then I reckon it would stack up well next to a Mexican 72 Custom re-issue. I'm sure mine would also improve with a decent set-up.

Asian made. Essentially a Les Paul style layout. 2 Humbuckers, 3 way selector. You know.....

Good, but standard (but we love it don't we?)

I play mostly alt pop-rock to hard rock (think anywhere between the Dandy Warhols to Shihad to The Darkness) and this is a great guitar.

Not a huge variety of tones but still very nice. I've played this through a Laney VC30, Fender Hotrod Deluxe & 100w Marshall Valvestate (with preamp valve) & sounds great through all. In fact, it sounded even better through my amps than the store's amps!

You can really get a ball-tearing hard rock or heavy alternative tone through the bridge pickup. Not really bright but very thick & Les Paulish with the gain cranked. Pickups seem to have a high output which is great for controlled feedback as well.

More of a "rock" guitar. Probably not fantasic for Jazz or Blues but hell, Jazz/blues guys try it out you may like it!

Does not appear to be quite as well made as my other guitars, which are American made, ie standard of parts a bit lower, but quality was still very acceptible for the price. No real "flaws" in its construction at all, aside from perhaps when I hold a vibrato note for an extended period of time (20-30 seconds) getting & manipulating controlled feedback, the string starts to "scrape" the fretboard, perhaps due to a cheap laquer? This doesn't happen on my Les Paul or strat.

One thing to watch out for is consistency of construction. The shop that I bought it from had several of this model on the shelf. I tried them all and the one I bought was superior in every way to the others, so perhaps test/play throughly before you buy as there may be consistency issues from guitar to guitar.

I use this as my backup to the Les Paul when gigging. When In play seedy places, this becomes the main guitar (I don't take the expensive ones into the jungle). It has always kicked ass. No problems at all. You could play this without a backup even though I don't.
For the price I give it a 10.

Such a good guitar I've never needed to call Fender.

I've been playing for 13 years and would buy this again in a heartbeat if lost or stolen. I had wanted to find the 1970's Fender version of this for a long, long time but they were very hard to find, and then when they started appearing on the 2nd hand market they had become "vintage" and people were asking around AUS$3,000 which was a little out of my range.

When I saw that Squier were releasing a budget veersion of this guitar I jumped at it. They usually retail at about AUS$500 but the shop I got it at had them on sale for AUS$329, which is a true bargain for what I bought. I've never bought such a good value guitar before.

Yeah, it seems that on this website people only ever praise stuff highly, but in this instance I think its deserved. I highly recommend this guitar.

I play heavier louder music, and once set up for .11s this guitar can deliver absolutley brutal sounds while retaining an amazing amount of clarity. The tone controls need no adjusting and I have mine taped down at 8.5 and 10 respectivley. However with a little tweaking this guitar sounds great playing any style. The guitar can make the classic "Tele" sound, while the humbuckers allow much more flexibility and quality of tone. Absolutley fantastic.

While all in working order, the first thing I did with the guitar was lower the action and tighten the truss. One of the saddles was put on UPSIDE DOWN. However, a novice such as myself could fix the problems without so much as breaking a sweat. Room for improvement.

Fender must be devolping forcefield technology. This guitar would outlive cockroaches in a nuclear winter. However, I have broken it- having never owned a guitar with the telecaster lead jack i put it down with the lead still in it ripping all the wiring inside the guitar. That cost me a fair amount in repair bills. Also the plastic covering for the pickup selector has snapped off (I broke this mid-set). However the guitar has never stoped working, never been unplayable. Not only can this guitar withstand gigs, it can withstand MY gigs.

Bought this from a dealer. They were nice.

I have been playing this guitar for 9 months and cannot live without it. I prefer this guitar to my genuine Fender Strat. I wish I'd bought a proper stand for it before putting it down on the floor with a lead in, which led to a painful period of seperation. If it were stolen I'd replace it without delay. The sound of this guitar is mind boggling, somewhere between a classic tele and a Les Paul. The only bad thing I can think about (when pushed) is the classic tele head. The Strat headstock is much more attractive in my opinion. In the shop I played a whole range of more expensive guitars (PRS, Epiphone, Gibson, Ibanez, and other squires) but they couldn't hold a torch to this guitar. Thanks Keef, for attatching your name to this.

Two Humbuckers, threeway switch, agathis body, maple neck, chrome hardware and black finish. They say it's a 7.25 radius but it plays more like a 9.5. Through the body stringing. I've had mine for five months now so I have had time to give it a good evaluation with a variety of amps and effects.

I really agree with the last poster that the Custom really has some nice sounds in her. I have played her with a variety of amps and effects and with a little adjustment on both the amps and guitar, it really sounds good. No noise at all. Pots function very well as does the threeway.

I had to do a setup for intonation, pickup height and string height but other than that she was in good shape. Very tight neck pocket. Finish is very nice. The neck is unfinished maple and is on the thick side with unrounded edges but easy to get used to. Overall, the materials and construction are very good. It's just amazing what's coming out of Asia these days!

Very well made. I replaced the stock strap buttons with Fender/Schaller locks but other than that the hardware seems fine, on a par with the MIM's. Time will tell.

Have not used them.

Very good sound and build quality for the price. An outstanding value and that's why I give it a 10.

2004, Indonesian made, 22 medium jumbo frets, two humbuckers with volume and tone controls for both, three way switch. Agathis body with one piece maple neck, chrome hardware, standard ping tuners and through the body stringing. They come in any color you want as long as it's black! I wanted a Tele type body with something other than single coils. I had looked at both the MIM Tele Deluxe and Custom but really didn't want to spend $700.00 so I started looking the Squire Custom and Custom II

I am really impressed with the overall sound of the Custom with the stock humbuckers. It's a little harsh with everything on 10 but roll the tone down to about 7 and the volumne to 8 and it sounds as good as many high end humbuckers. They don't have the WHAM! in your face power of a Les Paul but have enough umph for good ole rock and roll. Sounds good with all of my setups which range from practice amps (Pathfinder 15, MicroCube) to the big guy's (Bad Cat's) I use a variety of effects ranging from a Eventide rack unit to pedals. Again, overall a very good sound.

Setup was all right out of the box but I always do a complete setup myself with any guitar. Intonation needed adjustment, new stings and a little tweak on the neck. Other than that it was good to go. Finish was excellent. The neck is one piece unfinished maple and does not have the rounded edges like some the higher end Fenders. It's a chunky "C" shape, which I happen to like. Neck pocket is very tight. The nut is all right but sometime down the line I will replace it. Pots are quiet and the three way switch seems to be OK. The little hardware things can be addressed later at very little expense.

Very well made with attention to detail. Strap button are solid.

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If you have noticed, I have not made statements like "For 149.00 or "At this price what can you expect" and the reason is that the Custom is a very well crafted and gigable instrument and I?m talking about stock with no replacement parts. I own some very high end axe's, which of course have better overall materials and fancy inlays, but this Custom holds it?s own in the sound department. It used to be that anything made overseas or at a really low price point was a piece of junk. Well, things have changed! If you can get over having the ?Squier? on the headstock, which I have, then I think you will be pleasantly surprised with the quality and sound of the Custom.