Squier Tele Custom 2

Click the link for features and specs. I got the Vintage Blonde.

http://www.squierguitars.com/products/search.php?partno=0327602506

This guitar sounds great! My new found love of P-90s prompted me to buy this guitar. I love Teles too so it was a no brainer. I play mostly blues and classic rock, but I imagine this guitar will suit most any style. My current "apartment setup" is Tele Custom II>BBE Green Screamer>Epiphone Valve Jr Head/Lopo Cab. I use that setup with all my guitars and sometimes I use a Wah pedal. Haven't tried it through my Deluxe Reverb yet, but I'm sure it sounds great. I don't really consider this guitar noisy because P-90s tend to have more hum than regular Fender single coils. If you usually play humbucker equipped guitars, you'll think its noisy. Normally, one of the first things I'll do with a Squier is upgrade the pickups. Not this one. The Duncan Designed P-90s sound completely awesome and they got it right on this one. Fat, warm, dirty, and this thing can growl if you want it too. Oh, and its great for slide work as well.

Lots of surprises here. Usually Squiers require a good setup before playing. Its not often that its pretty much good to go out of the box. To top it all off, I bought this guitar as a scratch-n-dent from AMS for $185. Someone clearly owned this one before I did. You can tell by the scratch and ding on the pickguard. I had to raise/lower the pickups to my liking, and I'll have to raise the high e string a bit, but other than that, the action is perfect. No fret sprout on the neck, and the neck joint is a perfect fit. I did have to make an adjustment to the pickup selector. The 3-way toggle switch was horizontal instead of vertical. Easy fix.

Its been quite a few years since I've played out, but its a Tele so it can take a beating. The hardware seems ok, but to be honest, I'll probably replace the 3-way switch, and the pots. Especially if I begin to play out again. The finish is fine, and would gig it without a backup once the switch and pots were replaced.

If it comes to it, I can do most of the repairs myself. Never dealt with the company, but Squier has come a long way.

I got my first guitar when I was 18. I'm now 30 and I've owned a lot of guitars in that time. In addition to the Tele Custom II, I own an Epiphone Casino, Squier Affinity Stratocaster, Squier '51, and I'm currently building a Telecaster Partscaster. After I finished playing tonight, I really thought the Custom II was the perfect guitar. If it were ever stolen, I would surely replace it. I've even thought about purchasing a second just so I wouldn't have to worry about it. I love everything about this guitar. Like I said, I chose this guitar because of my love for P-90s and Teles. I was pretty excited about my partscaster build, but I'm not in a big rush to finish it now. This guitar completely satisfies all my wants and needs in a guitar.

Body is string through agathis with what I guess you would call a Fender style hardtail bridge with 6 adjustable saddles. One piece maple neck 25 1/2 scale with 22 frets. Frets are on the small side compared to USA Tele. Mine is black presumably with poly coat. The neck has a satin finish that took a while to get used to but now I wouldn't have it any other way. Made in Indonesia bought new in '06. Has two Duncan designed P-90's with 2 volume and 2 tone controls with a 3 way toggle to switch pickups.

I play mostly blues with a bit of swing jazz sometimes straight blues and straight swing but usually I mix the two.
I have a handwired Giller Lightning clone (14 watts pushing a Weber 25w 12A150-O no dope.) and an Epiphone Blues Custom 30 stock.
It sounds fat and dark with the neck pickup through the Giller. Perfect for a sweet clean jazz tone at low volumes. Crank it and you can get monster blues tones on all three pickup settings. Played through the Epi (ceramic speakers) the neck pickup is a lot brighter but by turning down the tone on the guitar a bit you can get a really sweet clear fat jazz and clean blues tone. I don't want to bore you any more with tone babble. If you're reading this you know how many different tones are possible with tube amps and pickup selection. I'll sum it up by saying that I LOVE the P-90's. I have 2 USA fenders (one strat and one tele) and with the maple neck on the Squier combined with the P-90's it's kinda like a Gibson-Fender morph. The tone is by far fatter than stock Fender single coils. I prefer to play this guitar (especially at low practice volumes and clean) to either USA Fender most of the time. I can't get enough.

The setup from the factory was terrible. The neck had a backbow to it and the last 4 frets were dead. I expected as much but one can hope can't one? I sent it out to my favorite tech and got a complete fret recrown and polish, the neck adjusted and the harmonics tuned. It was a different guitar when I got it back. NICE! I played it for a couple weeks but couldn't keep it in tune for more than about 5 minutes so back out it went for Sperzel locking tuners. I didn't expect a USA Fender for what I paid for it but with the above work finished I still feel like I'm stealing it.

This guitar is actually very well made except for some of the hardware and I expect it to last at least as long as I do. Somewhere down the road I may replace the toggle switch as it works loose and also have it totally rewired and a new jack put in. The pots seem ok. I love this guitar. Did I mention I love this guitar?

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I've been playing for 34 years.
If someone steals it they better be able to outrun a madman on a Harley.