Put me off this Squier...

darthed1981 · October 2017

This looks a great price and I found myself slightly GASing it at this point...

Tell me it's no good, or tell me it's brilliant, but say something, I'm feeling a bit crap today and will end up buying it if I'm not careful!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00MHW9N2K/ref=s9u_simh_gw_i5?ie=UTF8&fpl=fresh&pd_rd_i=B00MHW9N2K&pd_rd_r=246d5a4d-b7d6-11e7-a008-71ec069f688d&pd_rd_w=5hArK&pd_rd_wg=HgsfT&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=YNA366JJWN014RB1K3N4&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=187bec3b-0822-4044-bbe9-441718232b3f&pf_rd_i=desktop

Jack_ · October 2017

It called your mum a slag.

kt66 · October 2017

had my eye on one for ages, but would really prefer the normal tele bridge pickup. To me these don't sound like Teles

darthed1981 · October 2017

kt66 said:

had my eye on one for ages, but would really prefer the normal tele bridge pickup. To me these don't sound like Teles

I have a Classic Vibe Tele that does Tele sounds really rather nicely.

This one tempts me because a proper Fender one of these is famously what James Dean Bradfield recorded Motorcycle Emptiness with.

mart · October 2017

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/108693/richtone-annoying-the-crap-out-of-me/p1
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/113378/helix-no-richtone-tale-of-woe/p1
You might want to look at buying the guitar somewhere else.

BRISTOL86 · October 2017

mart said:

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/108693/richtone-annoying-the-crap-out-of-me/p1
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/113378/helix-no-richtone-tale-of-woe/p1
You might want to look at buying the guitar somewhere else.

Just to add some balance, I’ve bought two high end (for me at least) acoustics from Rich Tone, unseen, and had a fine experience both times.

stimpsonslostson · October 2017

If you put it down on your laminate floor you might never find it again.

Sesh · October 2017

It's got a pearloid scratch plate.
You'll end up wanting to put proper wide range pickups in.

darthed1981 · October 2017

stimpsonslostson said:

If you put it down on your laminate floor you might never find it again.

Slightly creepily, my laminate floor is roughly that colour....

Sparky · October 2017

Looks like a school woodwork project.

Alnico · October 2017

Stop buying cheap guitars.

paulphoenix · October 2017

f hole = f off

dazzajl · October 2017

That might not be the best price you can get but they are really quite nice.

Did the one I got to play feel like a top end/custom shop model? Nope. Are these pickups anything like the 70s WRH? Nope

All that considered, it was a really nicely put together guitar. Felt ‘right’ in the hand, the frets were finished well and the pickups sound just as good as any HB guitar at that price point, and probably a lot more.

Snobberies and desires for lovely exotica aside, it’s a tele. Two bits of wood bolted together with the same pickups as the fender version I believe. What’s not to like.

paulnb57 · October 2017

If you like it do it, too much headstock logo snobbery sometimes, Squier make some nice instrumemts IMHO.......although to be fair, some are shit, see if you can try one gefore you buy....mind you, you could return it to Amazon if you dont

Jack_ · October 2017

You only have to spend a bit more for a Fender one with proper wide-range pickups, no? I'd do that.

Not snobbery, I love Squiers, I just know that the proper Fender wide-range pups are a lot better.

Adam_MD · October 2017

It'll have a really thin neck like most squiers which is my main criticism.

Funkfingers · October 2017

Try one. Get your hands on its neck. Decide whether you like the way it sounds. If the guitar "as is" satisfies you, buy it. If it does not, don't buy it.

In your position, I would restrict upgrading modifications to the controls, tuners and bridge saddles.

Jack_ said:

You only have to spend a bit more for a Fender one with proper wide-range pickups, no? I'd do that.

The £358.23 being asked by Amazon UK for the entire Squier Thinline Tele might buy you one and a half "proper" FWR humbuckers. No guitar. Just pickups.

steer · October 2017

With any guitar showing its grain, would you not prefer to see it in the flesh first, to ensure the grain is to your liking?

darthed1981 · October 2017

Alnico said:

Stop buying cheap guitars.

This is probably the answer, I really don't need to keep buying guitars, I've got too many anyway...

They are such nice things though!

FX_Munkee · October 2017

Jack_ said:

You only have to spend a bit more for a Fender one with proper wide-range pickups, no? I'd do that.

Not snobbery, I love Squiers, I just know that the proper Fender wide-range pups are a lot better.

Fender haven't made "proper wide-range pickups" for ages unless I'm missing something?
The ones they put in their 72 Custom reissues et al are just re-covered humbuckers AFAIK.

Funkfingers · October 2017

FX_Munkee said:
Fender haven't made "proper wide-range pickups" for ages unless I'm missing something? The ones they put in their 72 Custom reissues et al are just re-covered humbuckers AFAIK.

This is why my local Fender dealership still has an AVRI 72 hanging on the wall. I gave serious consideration to buying it but the modern American-made humbucker sounded too ordinary. It lacked a certain something.

At about the same time, a long-standing eBay search discovered a N.O.S. Wide Range humbucker in France. Vendor wanted about €300 for it. (Approximately £225 at the time!)

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