Squier Affinity Telecaster Butterscotch Blond

what can you say its a tele. they were never ment to have the kitchen sink bolted on .

i use a peaveystandard head from back in the day with widow stacks. the pick ups both sound realy good .like a tele .can get a little high thats what tone controle nobe is for .neck is a warm rockish .both together are very bluesy bridge is pearcing for solo use in all it a tele

out of the box spot on did nothing plays very good .low low low action fast fast fast bending butterscotch perfect the only thing i did was kiwi shoe polish brown the neck and fret board .much better look.that is a matter of oppinion though

have not giged it yet. dont see why it wouldnt .built very well and will see the stage shortly you can bet

dont no

been playing about25 years .yes i would buy another if stolen in a heart beat if i could find one the seem to be hard to find .the top hat switch every body complains about seems to do the job .i own 21 other guitars the standards ie strats jags teles us and mexi some from every where i think this guitar stands rite there with those much much more expensive models.if u see one play it play a few if you can many say they are crap maby i got the only awsome one out there but i doubt it look for the one that fits you and your ear the best.please remember if you are playing grung punk death meatel.... a tele is probly not what u are looking for all guitars are disigned for a purpos .for rock blues jazz southern rock some hard rock ie motly crue g n r posion it fits rite

This is my review of the Squier Affinity Telecaster, I bought this guitar very cheap, only about 230 us dollars. before that I read all reviews on them on here and other places that I could possible find. and most of the reviews was good on it so I bought one. but oboy was I disapointed. I bought that georgious looking Butterscotch blond with a maple neck, this guitar is made in China, I think many kids buy these guitars as their first one, then they writes reviews on tham saying they are fabulous, that is probably cus they don't know any better. as my self I am 43 years old and I had plenty of fender copys before and also a "real" fender, and this guitar is so far away even to the copys I had in the days. when I first picked up the guitar at the postal office, went home and opend it up. btw it is really well packaged from the factory, you could have a tank run over the box and it would still be ok, finally I held it in my hands and it really feelt good. to my suprise it also played very good. the factory setup is OK but the strings are set to the maximun height at the bridge, even with that height it played very well, cus it is very low on the nut. it said in the info in the store, alder body and maple neck, that is the same woods as the real ones, and that is why I bought it, but that is not true, I would say this is false info cus I notised the bodys is glued together with another kinda wood, probably aghatis, body is 75% alder and 25% aghatis, the woods have ugly marks in it from branches, I guess they make squiers of the ugly woods that have alot of branch marks in it, the neck is same poor quality as well, infact I have a huge mark right in the middle of the fret board from a branch, I think even this is a low quality guitar that is not acceptable, the pickups is awful, they squeel and are not wax potted, and buzzing all the time, also there is no twang in this Tele, probably cus the body is not all alder and the strings dont go through the body as on real teles, and it is a pain in the *** to re-string it. the neck is not gloss, it is a satin finnish, wich actually feels better, but when you are bending it makes this hisssh sound on the fretboard, anyway the tuners are great, I still didnt have it out of tune even I bend alot on it. if you want to buy a good Tele Copy try to find a 80's Squier made in japan, or other 80's japan copys, I had one before and that is the real thing, it plays and is just as good as a fender, lets see what more can I tell you? well this guitar, even the poor woods and pickups and probably electronics feels really good to play, but sounds awful. the only thing good with it might be the tuners.the body is thinner than a real Tele. it's like a Gibson SG in thickness, wich can be ok if you like light guiitars

likes and dislikes

what is good about it? the tuners, it is nice to look at, and it feels good to play.

what is bad about it? the woods, the pickups, the bridge not through body, dont sound like a tele, the twang factor is low, bad electronics, alot of ugly branch marks.

it seem this guitar have nothing else but flaws

no way! unless you dont mind a poorly sounding guitar with bad buzzy pickups. when I say the pickups ar buzzy I dont mean the singlecoil way, single coils are allways buzzy to some extent just cus they are single coils, but these ones are REALLY BUZZY! OK

I never dealt with the company and I will not even bother

I have been playing for about 25 years, my main amp is a Peavy Delta blues, I have Gibson The Paul, MIJ Tokai Love Rock and a MIJ Takeharu Stratocaster,