Squier by Fender Standard Stratocaster - Excellent first guitar

Advantages: Great sound. Low price. Good-looking. Reliable. Durable.
Disadvantages: None

...This was my first guitar. When I decided to learn to play the guitar, I asked my guitar teacher to tell me what equipment I should get, and he wrote down on a sheet of paper what I needed and told me to go to a specific music store in Denmark Street, off Tottenham Court Road, and give it to his friend there who would take care of it and give me a discount on everything. I knew nothing about guitars, so I trusted his expertise. I went to the store, and this was the guitar: the Squier by Fender Standard Strat. Fender is one of the world's instrument manufacturing giants, and Squier is its lower priced brand. The Squier instruments are mostly derived from Fender's own line. ************************************************* ************ Features: The Squier Standard Strat has a C-shape maple neck with a 9...

babycougar 29.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fender Squier Standard Strat

Squier Affinity Strat

Advantages: Great neck. Real wood. It's a Fender!
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 experiment on. It was only supposed to be a cheap guitar for me to practice setting up, adjusting the truss rod on etc. but I ended up loving it. The Affinity is thinner than a standard strat and the first thing I noticed was how light it was...

bipolarmo 20.12.2008 (26.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of Squier Affinity Strat RW

The Squier Strat - ideal for beginners

Advantages: Good price for a good guitar
Disadvantages: Not great quality for a more experienced player

...The Squier Strat is an ideal beginners guitar, offering a good price for a fair quality. There are many cheap guitars out there, but buying a Squier will generally ensure that you get something worth playing! History of Fender and Squier ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 'Squier' name actually comes from Fender, one of the earliest and biggest names in the history of the electric guitar. The Fender name began over 60 years ago and has since developed an enormous reputation for quality guitars. As electric guitars grew in popularity, other companies were making copies of the Fender styles, and selling at cheaper prices. This is when Fender began using Squier as the name for their range of affordable guitars, and has grown since then. The first Squiers were produced from 1982. If you have one of these early guitars they are quite high...

drawcabia 21.01.2007 (29.01.2007) · Read review
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Review of Squier Stratocaster Electric Guitar

Fender Strat - The New Standard

Advantages: Great sound, comfortable to play, easy to service
Disadvantages: A little common for some peoples tastes

...It has to be a dream of every young guitarist to own a slice of history by getting their hands on a Fender Stratocaster. From the early days of the Shadows, through to Dire Straits and now the Arctic Monkeys and The Stokes, the Fender 'Strat' has defined the sound of generations of guitar players. having owned a couple before, I decided to pick this one up second hand as a compliment to my Telecaster. It was never exactly going to be first impressions with this guitar as I always knew what to expect, but I do have to say that the build quality on this was exceptionally good. Being that Fender have been in production for so many years, its often the case that their QC can be a bit varied but they seem to be right on the mark with this one, a 2005 model. The finish is very good, a 3 tone sunburst and blending is even throughout...

thebassman75 23.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fender Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar

Vote for the Fat Strat!

Advantages: Amazing price, quality, shape and construction!
Disadvantages: Standard guitar shape (bad if your fussy and stylish?)

...Review on the Fender Fat Strat. Really... what Can I say? This guitar is certainly one of the BEST starters you can hope for. There are many reasons which are explained in Specific Criteria below: How well constructed is it? The layout and construction of the guitar is very, very good. It being a Fat strat, means that it has an extra humbucker pickup to make it sound alot more 'clear' (very difficult to explain, but its deffinatly an advantage) There is a fairly large gap between the strings and fretboard to make the strings ring more efficiently, so its great for begginers. The Fat Strat has a big headstock, which is a good bonus! :) Appearance The Fat strat has many colours on offer, I have a Black and white fat strat with a black fretboard, which looks very good in my opinion, but you can get these almost...

AdrianStewart 26.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Fender Standard Fat Strat Electric Guitar

Guitar beginners heaven

Advantages: Cheap, reliable and attractive. Perfect for beginners!
Disadvantages: Sound quality is not the best for these class guitars and the tremolo can unstrung the guitar.

...guitar tuner, it will be difficult for you to tune it back. The pickguard is white on models. My squier has its time and when I look at it, and look at a new one, my white pickguard has became darker. Other Specifications: Scale Length: (648 mm) 25.5 Width at Nut: (40.9 mm) 1.61 Strings: Fender Super 250L, (.009 to .042) Nickel Plated Steel, P/N 073-0250-003 The guitar was introduced in 2001, and is available in Black, Metallic Red and Metallic blue. Sound and Action: I bought this guitar two years ago and I still play on it. The fact that I am playing in a band, and am still with this guitar, makes me think I should go get a new one, and sell the squier, because I don't think it sounds that great, like some people say. When I started playing the guitar, it sounded great for me, but now as I advance in a more experienced level, I see that...

Ggd07 26.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Squier Affinity Fat Strat

Perfect tool for a novice!!!!!!!

Advantages: Cheap, sounds good, plays well, available in lots of colours
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 far more expensive guitars. Above all though I found the playability of the guitar to be the most impressive thing of all it's features, I was able to effortlessly glide up and down the neck which has a good feel to it. I was also able to learn...

kylehall99 08.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Squier Affinity Strat RW

Good for an amateur but no further.

Advantages: Nice and cheap
Disadvantages: Sounds awful

...Squier produce guitars for Fender while also producing their own versions of quitars. In fact, they make 2 types of guitar. Yuo either have a budget Squier for about 120 quid of a Fender, by Squier for about an extra 50 quid. To be honest, there is not a lot of difference between the 2 and if you want to spend a bit more, you can get much better guitars. Would you like me to explain? Sound. ------ Well, Electric guitars are electric guitars right? Er, Wrong. They all sound different. A Cheap squier sounds like someone strangling an out of tune cat. Fret buzz is a problem to a dodgy neck that stretches and contorts like an emu's neck. It wont stay in tune for very long despite constant fiddling with the tuning heads. Build quality. -------------- Solid enough but it has plenty of rought edges compared to a real strat...

andycharger 12.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of Squier Strat Electric Guitar

It's a Fender!

Advantages: Great sounding and playing guitar by the masters!
Disadvantages: There are none

...Pauls.' It was like entering an Aladdin's cave for me really. Then I saw the Fender?! it was an acoustic and it was hanging there saying 'Play me, Borg, play me.' I slowly walked over and with a shaking hand I touched the strings. Grrrllinnggg! Few boring facts: ****************** No. of Frets - 20 Position Markers - Dot Position Inlays Bridge/Tailpiece - Sonokeling with Compensated Saddle Case - Hardshell Body Type - Fender Style Dreadnought Finish - Polyurethane Neck Wood - Nato Top Wood - Laminated Spruce Back Wood - Laminated Mahogany Side Wood - Laminated Mahogany Machine Heads - Chrome, (Die-Cast) Scale Length - 25.3" Fingerboard - Sonokeling ...and back to the tale... An assistant saw me and asked if I wanted to have a go. I did not need asking twice. He removed it from its place and I put it in my hands. The guitar felt so...

Borg 20.02.2009 (21.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of Fender Acoustic Spruce Top Dreadnought

well build, dynamic and noiseless tone!

Advantages: Well built, noisless pickups, very comfortable
Disadvantages: Tuning stability without LSR (or similar nut)

...The american deluxe series of strats offer great ballance of modern conveniences such as noiseless pickups, a modern C shaped neck and construction techniques that all in all offer an extremely well playing and great sounding instrument. I had personally bought an american deluxe simply as a "blues guitar" however it didn't take me long to fall in love with the instrument. Whilst the samarium cobalt noiseless pickups from Bill Lawrence do not offer the same glassy bite that the traditional (and noisy) pickups do they offer a thick yet very distinctive tone that is rich and dynamic with all but the highest of trebble intact. Whilst in my oppinion t doesn't have the same "twang" as 'non noisless pickups' possess it more than makes up with the ability to use very high gain settings live with no worry about even a hint of a buzz as I...

funky83 17.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fender American Deluxe Strat LH