Squires that you have owned.......

Never owned one, but have played them. Like Epiphones, they are very well made and great value

My son and I share a Squier Jazz bass. It’s at his house now as he’s been doing some recording. It’s a good little bass. Our bass player used it at a rehearsal once at my house and talked about how he loved the feel of the neck and it’s sound. Wishing a month, he went out and bought a Fender Geddy Lee Signature Jazz Bass.

I like bound Teles and I’ve seen 2 Squiers with binding that I fell in love with. One was a ‘62 Tele Custom in sunburst with white binding. I played it at the store and it fit like a glove and sounded incredible. However, I want in the market for a new guitar at the time. The other Squier was a Protone ‘69 Thinline in translucent red with white binding and gold hardware. Ive only seen one of these as they are kinda rare and the one I saw was sitting on the counter at the store and the owner was picking it up after having a setup done, so I couldn’t ask to try it out.

We play a lot of different styles , we have something like 40 program books in circulation with probably 600-700 songs. We started as a dixieland band but moved quickly into international music like polkas, Irish,  Italian,  Latin. Patriotic music is one of our most demanded programs, so much that we expanded to 3 patriotic programs to keep our sanity,  rather than play the same last over and over. Basically we play whatever styles of music I can sell to venues. 

In guitar forums I am probably a bit of an outlier because I rarely play rock and I never solo. I'm more of a banjo style player or big band guitarist who is more part of the percussion section than the front line,  which I always cede to the horns. 

Yeah,  but it is too much for me to learn from memory so I really have to read chords from lead sheets. Nothing we play is a 3 chord Monty and the keys are all over the place. Even terrible keys like Gb and Cb are in there.

Why Cb and not B major,  one may ask? Truth is that I am so used to reading flat keys that when I come across a song in B or F# it really throws me for a loop because I never think of a chord as a G#- I always think of Ab first. 

I've never owned one, but I have played some nice ones.
However when I was looking for a fretless bass to buy, I did try several fretless Squire J Basses, and over along period of time in three cities in two provinces, and in a variety of stores.
Every one had neck issues--every one.
Which is too bad--other stuff about them seemed good.
I've heard they made changes to them since--hopefully that included the neck issues.

I posted something about that on one site and someone took very serious issue, and called me alls arts of names.

And I'm like--hey--if you found a good one, without the neck issues--cool.

but otherwise it has been a mostly positive experience.

Disagree if you wish--even disagree strongly--but leave personal attacks & getting offended out of it.

We're all going to like different gear--which is cool.

that's part of what drives places like this.

I've had good and not-so-good issues with Squiers. For a while, I owned a 1989 Korean-made Squier Strat that was a wonderful guitar.....It was, literally, the only Stratocaster with a tremolo that I could use without the guitar going out of tune - Just a great guitar.

I also owned a new Indonesian-made Squier Fat Telecaster that was a lumpy POS....really heavy body and too-thick neck with ridiculously big jumbo frets. I sold that one just as fast as I could.

I also owned a Classic Vibe Duosonic that was a great guitar. I changed the neck to a 1971 Musicmaster neck simply because I didn't like the heavily-glossed maple neck and wanted rosewood fretboard, and upgraded the tuners (which weren't stellar) to Steinbergers. But, I liked the guitar a lot, and have sellers remorse that it's gone.


My best Squier story though is the MIJ Squier Contemporary Strat neck (24.75" scale)on my partscaster Strat- undoubtedly the best guitar I've ever built and my favourite all-time player.

I haven't gone out of my way to buy complete Squiers as the basis for partscaster builds, but there have been some excellent Squier parts that worked well for me, and I wouldn't hesitate to buy more.