ryema22 Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 DrummerDude is the Fender marketing department's dream child... A standard american fender strat/tele will cost you about a grand... deluxe and special models even more A top-of-the-line squier (deluxe or vintage series) will cost about $250 (and those do include the string-thru bridge design) There's simply no way that you're getting $750 worth of "improvements" with a Fender. What you get is some name-brand hardware, a closer examination of the setup at the factory, and a boost to your ego. You're getting hung up on a whole lot of voodoo and marketing hype. Fact is, the higher end Squier's come damn close to matching their Fender siblings. If someone was that hung up on the difference, they could always go out and buy genuine fender pickups, tuners, and bridge and replace the stock equipment on the Squier for less than the difference in price between the Squier and Fender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrummerDude Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 DD, the Squier Standard Tele body is agathis. Yeah, this sucks too. It is funny that the Tele bodies from the utterly cheap Squier Affinity series are made of alder and at the same time the more expensive (and supposedly closer to a real Fender) Standard series have agathis bodies. I will have to live with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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