Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: indysmith on November 14, 2007, 09:51:07 AM
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Been looking at squier teles. I don't get it.
The cheaper Affinity series have solid Alder bodies, and the more expensive standard series have nasty agathis bodies? what's the deal?
I'll go and try them both out when i have the time, but it seems a bit of a strange idea. maybe the specs are wrong?
The JHS 'Vintage' line of telecasters (TC200) series would be very tempting, but Poplar as a tonewood? i don't know.
At the moment if those specs are correct I really don't see how everyone doesn't just buy £100 affinity squiers, lol. Maybe they just plain suck.
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When I was looking for new guitars, back before I got my Strat, I went and roadtested a few Teles in town... I can say, hand on heart, that the Squier Affinity I played felt just as sturdy and comfortable as the Mexican 72 Custom which in turn felt as sturdy as the US Standard that I played.
Squier are no longer, in my opinion, living in the Fender shadow - they're breaking out as very, very good guitars for a tiny outlay. Sure, you might wanna swap the pups out but if they're coming with a solid body and neck, you don't mind a little work do you?
You could buy a Squier Affinity, replace the pickups, tuners and bridge - maybe the electrics too if you needed too - and probably spend less than £250.
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hmmm that sounds good! I'll go and have a play tomorrow
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Just to make me look like a right kipper, you'll pick up a duff one now and it'll turn to sawdust in your hand. :lol:
That's why I've never understood why people blindly dismiss the "cheap" brands like with Mexican Fenders. Maybe the hit and miss rate is a little worse off than a US made one (I've never found that, tbh) but there's some gems to be found.
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I bought an Affinity Strat from a guy at work for £35 recently - the cheapest guitar I own! I had some upgrade bits lying around so I threw them on it. OK, it's no Custom Shop contender but it plays and sounds fine.
You can't argue with good cheap guitars!
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The squire Teles are nice and the Mex teles are even niver.
However if the budget can stretch I would suggest looking at the Lite ash (far eastern version) which comes in about 320 quid from thomann and includes a set of duncans (sell them and recover some costs when upgrading).
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I bought an Affinity Strat from a guy at work for £35 recently - the cheapest guitar I own! I had some upgrade bits lying around so I threw them on it. OK, it's no Custom Shop contender but it plays and sounds fine.
You can't argue with good cheap guitars!
£35!!! :o Frigging hell, that's an uber bargain.
The squire Teles are nice and the Mex teles are even niver.
However if the budget can stretch I would suggest looking at the Lite ash (far eastern version) which comes in about 320 quid from thomann and includes a set of duncans (sell them and recover some costs when upgrading).
I love the look of the Lite Ash ones but I just couldn't shake the feeling that something bad would happen. That guitar should cost twice what it does and it makes me very, very suspicious. I wonder if it was assembled by blind dogs?
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I preferred my Baja Tele to the Lite Ash I tried. Just seemed better finished and better quality all round for a very similar price.
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Why not have an Avril Lavigne Signature?
(http://www.squierguitars.com/products/prod_images/guitars/0301010506_md.jpg)
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Eeeeep I posted twice somehow. Ignore this and cast your eyes down a little.
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I love my Mexican tele. In fact both my Fenders are mexi's and play and feel great. You really should upgrade the electrics though, it's their only real weakpoint.
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My Lite Ash Tele was awesome, and the Duncans weren't too bad for a guitar straight out of the box.
I'm still gutted that a GAS attack kicked in and I sold that guitar :(
I need a new Tele myself sometime too
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I actually think that Avril guitar is a nice IDEA but so poorly executed.
Take off the stupid mark on the neck and put some dots on, take her scribble off the headstock and stick a hotter bucker in and I'll bum it's brains out.
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I actually think that Avril guitar is a nice IDEA but so poorly executed.
Take off the stupid mark on the neck and put some dots on, take her scribble off the headstock and stick a hotter bucker in and I'll bum it's brains out.
I like it as is, obviously it needs a Nailbomb though.
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avril plays much cooler guitars than that tele (sorry, couldn't resist)
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Even better... pimp out a Hello Kitty Strat with the hottest humbucker you can find and a Floydy. :D
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Been looking at squier teles. I don't get it.
The cheaper Affinity series have solid Alder bodies, and the more expensive standard series have nasty agathis bodies? what's the deal?
I'll go and try them both out when i have the time, but it seems a bit of a strange idea. maybe the specs are wrong?
The JHS 'Vintage' line of telecasters (TC200) series would be very tempting, but Poplar as a tonewood? i don't know.
At the moment if those specs are correct I really don't see how everyone doesn't just buy £100 affinity squiers, lol. Maybe they just plain suck.
If you check out the Affinity Tele on the GAK website it says: "The Affinity Strat and Affinity Tele have slightly slimmer bodies crafted from solid Alder (U.S. only) or Agathis." Does that mean in the UK they will be agathis?!
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/squier-affinity-tele/9042
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The Lite ash series are brilliant
We pimped out Afghan Dave's lite ash strat with Dunlop 6000 and it is too much fun to play!
Bit of a bargain in many ways
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avril plays much cooler guitars than that tele (sorry, couldn't resist)
Plays?
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avril plays much cooler guitars than that tele (sorry, couldn't resist)
Plays?
Well I'm sure she knows an A chord, possibly a E and she's likely mastered a G chord by now.
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avril plays much cooler guitars than that tele (sorry, couldn't resist)
Plays?
Well I'm sure she knows an A chord, possibly a E and she's likely mastered a G chord by now.
She's still working on that G.
It's a Tough'n
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I'm GASing really BAD for this :
(http://www.squierguitars.com/products/prod_images/guitars/0301230505_md.jpg)
Squier Tele Vintage Modified, red cedar body, it should be interesting :)
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The squire Teles are nice and the Mex teles are even niver.
However if the budget can stretch I would suggest looking at the Lite ash (far eastern version) which comes in about 320 quid from thomann and includes a set of duncans (sell them and recover some costs when upgrading).
I love the look of the Lite Ash ones but I just couldn't shake the feeling that something bad would happen. That guitar should cost twice what it does and it makes me very, very suspicious. I wonder if it was assembled by blind dogs?
Trust me, it wasn't. My Lite Ash Tele is the best £350 I've ever spent. The only thing which needed doing to it when I took it to the local tech for a stright-out-of-the-box set up was a slight tweak on the nut and a lowering of the action to my taste. He said it was some of the best fretwork he'd seen on any guitar, at any price. If one wanted to be critical, the tuners aren't quite as good as you'd fins on US Fenders, and the pickup switch feels a little plasticky in its operation, but that's about all.
In my time Tele hunting I played 7 Lite Ash ones to get an idea of build quality and didn't find one lemon. Highly recommended in my book.
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The Lite Ash Teles (and Strats) are a steal - the only things not to like about them are purely personal preference (the necks are a bit skinny for me and I don't like the abalone dot markers).
I'd upgrade the tuners and electronics, but the same's true with all far-east guitars, pretty much.
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I'm still GAS-ing for that cute white Lite Ash Tele I tried some time ago. But I have no money at the moment and I'm still waiting for news about my amp.
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^ Friend of mine has just taken delivery of one in white, he's delighted with it! Course, I reckon the black looks better, but then I'm biased. :wink:
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avril plays much cooler guitars than that tele (sorry, couldn't resist)
Plays?
Well I'm sure she knows an A chord, possibly a E and she's likely mastered a G chord by now.
She's still working on that G.
It's a Tough'n
Shhhh, not a bad word against Avril!
Shes purdy :)