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Home > Musical Instruments & Equipment > Guitars, Amplifiers & Effects > Guitars > Fender Guitars > Squier Affinity Strat RW
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For a guy the coming of age is losing your virginity, driving a car, and having your own place and job. But for me it was finding reverb on my mini amp and the extremely pleasurable discovery of... more

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Rating Summary based on 6 reviews

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  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    bipolarmo

    4 Stars Squier Affinity Strat 20/12/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great neck. Real wood. It's a Fender!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Cheap pickups and machine heads.

    The Squier Affinity Strat represents amazing value for money. For about a hundred quid you get a strat endorsed by Fender with a great neck. This is a guitar streets ahead of all those cheap Chinese copies (which you should definitely avoid!)… but it's not all good news, a couple of cheap components let an otherwise great guitar down. There are hundreds of strat clones out there but all they do is form a mountain of plywood trash… forget them. There is only one decent copy of the Fender Strat and that is Fender's own Squier Strat with alder body and maple neck. I bought one recently to ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 thedevilinme

    Member since 13/05/2008

    Reviews written: 1476

    5 Stars Do the splits and drop your Ernie Balls to the floor! Review with images 12/05/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Looks cool

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Heavy

    For a guy the coming of age is losing your virginity, driving a car, and having your own place and job. But for me it was finding reverb on my mini amp and the extremely pleasurable discovery of that euphoric rock guitar sound screeching out around the room, down the stairs and onto the street, only to be greeted by my mum with clear instructions 'to turn that bloody row off', which it was, of course. For once I had found another knob to twiddle in my bedroom that I had no intention of closing my door for! The instructions you get with your first amp and guitar don't tell you how to find the ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Ggd07

    3 Stars Guitar beginners heaven 26/10/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap, reliable and attractive. Perfect for beginners!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sound quality is not the best for these class guitars and the tremolo can unstrung the guitar.

    Features: Squier Affinity Stratocasters body is made from alder. It has a maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard and twenty two frets. They are models with three single-coil Pickups, and models with two single-coil pickups and one humbucker. The controls on the pickguard are Volume Control, Tone Control for the Neck pickup, and another Tone Control for the middle pickup. The pickup switch has five positions. The first position enables the bridge pickup, the second position enables the bridge and middle pickups, the third position enables the middle pickup, the forth position enables the middle and ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    kylehall99

    4 Stars Perfect tool for a novice!!!!!!! 08/08/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap, sounds good, plays well, available in lots of colours

    Disadvantages Disadvantages a direct copy of a more expensive guitar

    In my opinion this guitar is the best choice for beginners that you can buy, simply because it caters for everything a beginner needs very well. You can achieve a surprisingly good tone out of these guitars which is very rare to accomplish on cheaper, highly manufactured guitars. The intonation is also very good and the guitar manages to cope with different string gages very well which is perfect for building up strength in your fingers. I even have a friend who uses his Squier on a professional basis, with upgraded pickup's. He says it's a cheap alternative to achieving great tones like those ... more
  • 6 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    azeroth

    4 Stars Very decent Sounding Guitar 22/06/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Vibrant sound. Parts are easy to find

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Heavy, bulky

    I first started learning on a Squier Affinity Strat. I found at first that mine seemed heavy and sounded dull. After a good clean and plugging into a decent amp it took me a while to put it back down. The affinity gives off a nice vibrant sound when played on an amp with gain. As i am a fan of the strat stylei like the look of the Afinity Strat. Strings, Pick-ups, Tremelo's and all the accessories you may want are relativly easy to get hold of in most music shops and web sites. Things i like about the Affinity; *decent fretboard * Clean sound on the pick-ups * Easy to maintain and change ... more

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Product Details

Long Name Affinity Strat RW, Affinity Strat, Squier Affinity Strat SET MR, Squier Affinity Strat SET MB, Squier Affinity Strat SET, Squier Affinity Strat RWBK Set, Affinity Hello Kitty Strat, Affinity Fat Strat, Affinity Fat Strat RW
Type Guitars, Electric Guitar, Guitar Sets
Genre Electric Guitars
Subgenre Stratocaster; 6 String
Manufacturer Squier, Fender

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