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The most beautiful thing about a telecaster is it's end of neck shape with the body. I consider it the most beautiful looking guitar on the planet. The huge Strat head kind of ruins the beauty.
I purchased this model a week ago. It is my fourth telecaster and second Squier. This is a phenomenal guitar for the price point. Easy to play and has a great feel overall. Consider one of these. I don’t think you will regret it.
Really great vibrato on your hand at end of the demo! I got a black one recently and love it! The tone settings make it have a unique classic fender feel that I really enjoy. I bet a wide range fender bass pickup for the neck would look great on that
I played one of these about a month ago at Dave's Guitar Shop in La Crosse, Wisconsin. I was sort of looking for an HH guitar. But the neck on this guitar was so nice, the decision to get it was obvious! It was a black sparkle finish, not my first choice, but wow, it plays like a dream!
OK dude, excellent video & demo; so much do that I’m just gunna subscribe & watch more videos, when I find the time. If that neck was tinted then I’d be buying one right now. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year everyone!!! 🎉🎸‼️
In my opinion, this guitar is very nice for Squier. This guitar has a pretty good sound for its price point and has interesting features and looks. I think this is a very good option for a budget price.
Much much better than the standard esquire, I had one in the 60s & found that 1single coil in the bridge was not for me, the good thing was I made a trade with a guy for his SG Custom w/ 3 humbuckers-he liked to play hillbilly music 💩
The Fender WR has Fender embossed on the cover and that mess of wires on the backplate. Mine has 2 wires not sure if there is a 4 wire splittable version. Squires have Squire embossed with a regular humbucker back plate. 2 versions, 2 wire and a 4 wire
Im sure the wide range Humbucker pickup here is the same one in my Squire 70s Tele but in the neck position, and ive been blown away by how great it sounds. I had a semi negative perspective on the guitar before your reaction to it. Thx for changing my view in a very positive manner. I was especially impressed by the bypass setting. I wondered if the Chicken Beak selector switch would be a slight hindrance when switching since you have to use 2 or 3 fingers compared to the regular post style toggel switch? Great job and sounded great.
Love this video, thanks! Helped sell me on my own Esquire Deluxe. Sorry if I missed it, but did you detail what the pot values are? I'm wondering if Squier uses 1 meg pots for these.
Not sure why you seem to imply in the beginning that this is an actual WRHB. Its not. In fact you should call out Fender for calling it that on their specs.
The body is not Poplar but Okoume (this is the description on the fender official website) and that’s a real step up in my opinion. This guitar worth every penny.
The mocha version says it is Okoume, the black version says poplar body. It's weird that the Esquire is made in China, yet the Squire Telecaster Deluxe is made in Indonesia.
I bought this guitar recently, but I think its action on the 12th fret is high. Not sure how I can reduce that from the bridge. I’m not very familiar with Fender bridges.
I like your review and I agree this is a great guitar. Unfortunately that the pickup is just an ordinary humbucker in a big case filled out with wax - like all of the reissue WRHB pickups. It is stamped "Squier" not "Fender" in any case and is definitely NOT the CuNiFe pickup that Fender has recently been producing (also - Fender doesn't currently make a CuNiFe pickup with 4 wires, so the real ones can't be split). I have a 72 Thinline with the Alnico reissue pickups and I like them - they seem to be voiced to have their own sound, but quite different to the real ones.
No it's just the reissue with Alnico magnets. 250k pot and .022 cap. There is always a volume drop when you split a humbucker - one coil instead of two - that's why PRS have their partial split.
Very cool video thank you ! I do have a question : is the volume knob good ? I mean, does it has no sound a 0 and then more and more until max... or as I already had with old squier : under 7 you don't have any volume at all ?
I think the wide range pickup sounds like a regular humbucker, because it probably is one under that cover. Put in an actual CuNiFe magnet powered wide range humbucker and it would be a very unique guitar.
You got SO many things wrong in this video! It's really astonishing how sloppy you are. 1. It's Okoume, not Poplar. 2. Fender didn't "recently" start making WRHB's. They did it around 2010. And THESE are the fake WRHB's that they introduced in 2010, rather than the recent needlessly expensive CuNiFe-magner WRHB's Fender has put out. "Squier" has been using the great (but fake) WRHB's since 2015. 3. That's not a "comfort cut," it's a "belly cut." 4. It is not routed for a second WRHB, take a look again. Those two groove areas in the body where the screws go on the bridge WRHB are MISSING from the neck route. You can use a single coil (Tele or Strat), a P90, a mini-humbucker or a humbucker. But if you want a 2nd WRHB, you'll have to route some wood out.
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The most beautiful thing about a telecaster is it's end of neck shape with the body. I consider it the most beautiful looking guitar on the planet. The huge Strat head kind of ruins the beauty.
I purchased this model a week ago. It is my fourth telecaster and second Squier. This is a phenomenal guitar for the price point. Easy to play and has a great feel overall. Consider one of these. I don’t think you will regret it.
How does it hold up after six months? I am thinking about buying one.
Really great vibrato on your hand at end of the demo! I got a black one recently and love it! The tone settings make it have a unique classic fender feel that I really enjoy. I bet a wide range fender bass pickup for the neck would look great on that
I just bought one and I've been playing it every day. Fantastic guitar: simple, minimalistic, great feel and a total rock machine!
Love a tele body with a strat headstock. Deal with it purists! 😂
Agreed!
I got a jazzmaster with strat neck. It’s glorious
Actually this looks more like a JM headstock to me
@@martianmurrayjazz masters have "strat" necks
The only headstock for the Tele. The other one looks like a flaccid penis.
This is my next guitar. I just love the wide range with a strat neck. It speaks to me.
Did you end up getting one?
I played one of these about a month ago at Dave's Guitar Shop in La Crosse, Wisconsin. I was sort of looking for an HH guitar. But the neck on this guitar was so nice, the decision to get it was obvious! It was a black sparkle finish, not my first choice, but wow, it plays like a dream!
Really looks and sounds great.
OK dude, excellent video & demo; so much do that I’m just gunna subscribe & watch more videos, when I find the time. If that neck was tinted then I’d be buying one right now. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year everyone!!! 🎉🎸‼️
I bought one of these Squiers about 6 months ago, it plays and sounds great!
You still have it?
In my opinion, this guitar is very nice for Squier. This guitar has a pretty good sound for its price point and has interesting features and looks. I think this is a very good option for a budget price.
Much much better than the standard esquire, I had one in the 60s & found that 1single coil in the bridge was not for me, the good thing was I made a trade with a guy for his SG Custom w/ 3 humbuckers-he liked to play hillbilly music 💩
The Fender WR has Fender embossed on the cover and that mess of wires on the backplate. Mine has 2 wires not sure if there is a 4 wire splittable version. Squires have Squire embossed with a regular humbucker back plate. 2 versions, 2 wire and a 4 wire
Im sure the wide range Humbucker pickup here is the same one in my Squire 70s Tele but in the neck position, and ive been blown away by how great it sounds. I had a semi negative perspective on the guitar before your reaction to it. Thx for changing my view in a very positive manner. I was especially impressed by the bypass setting. I wondered if the Chicken Beak selector switch would be a slight hindrance when switching since you have to use 2 or 3 fingers compared to the regular post style toggel switch? Great job and sounded great.
I love the whole concept of this.
Love this video, thanks! Helped sell me on my own Esquire Deluxe.
Sorry if I missed it, but did you detail what the pot values are? I'm wondering if Squier uses 1 meg pots for these.
Thoughts on that poly gloss finish on the fret-board?
Cool guitar, and nice playing!
I really dig your playing
Very unique playing style you got there
Not sure why you seem to imply in the beginning that this is an actual WRHB. Its not. In fact you should call out Fender for calling it that on their specs.
I love that guitar. Love the look of it. I would wanna add a neck pickup though.
Was gonna joke that you really should’ve given Justin Pierre his own Signature model
great playing , but the body wood should be Okume (african kind of mahagoni) instead of poplar - or iam wrong ? And how is the neck pocket fit ?
The body is not Poplar but Okoume (this is the description on the fender official website) and that’s a real step up in my opinion. This guitar worth every penny.
The mocha version says it is Okoume, the black version says poplar body. It's weird that the Esquire is made in China, yet the Squire Telecaster Deluxe is made in Indonesia.
@@frankenstein4106 yes but the guitar in the video is the okoume one, just want to clarify.
My next guitar for sure..wow
That body is not poplar, it's okoume. The black model is poplar.
I bought this guitar recently, but I think its action on the 12th fret is high. Not sure how I can reduce that from the bridge. I’m not very familiar with Fender bridges.
I like your review and I agree this is a great guitar. Unfortunately that the pickup is just an ordinary humbucker in a big case filled out with wax - like all of the reissue WRHB pickups. It is stamped "Squier" not "Fender" in any case and is definitely NOT the CuNiFe pickup that Fender has recently been producing (also - Fender doesn't currently make a CuNiFe pickup with 4 wires, so the real ones can't be split).
I have a 72 Thinline with the Alnico reissue pickups and I like them - they seem to be voiced to have their own sound, but quite different to the real ones.
Thanks for this review! Any reason to suspect this wouldn't be able to accept any Fender-spec aftermarket Telecaster neck (like a Warmoth)?
LOVE THE SOUND . BEST VALUE ON THE MARKET .❤😅
At $429.00 (+-) everyone should have one of these...I know I will. Thanks John, great review.
I'm not digging the coil-split tone but otherwise, it's outstanding!!!! I love the look and the sound.
If the pickup doesn’t have the CuNiFe magnets then it’s not a real Wide range pickup😮
Would love if you checked out Cave and Canary guitars.
What’s with the huge volume drop when you split the coil? That doesn’t seem right.
Is it an *actual* Wide Range humbucker with CuNiFe magnets?
No it's just the reissue with Alnico magnets. 250k pot and .022 cap. There is always a volume drop when you split a humbucker - one coil instead of two - that's why PRS have their partial split.
@@SimonCustomGuitars Ok, thanks. I’ve seen other split coil humbucker demos, but never noticed the volume drop that much.
Looks real cool. Wide range are my least favorite pickup.
But that is an easy fix.
Why buy one then?
Damn!!!! 5 beautiful Les Pauls hanging behind you!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍
All that and you dont give the neck radius?
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This freak sounds not so much like a Telecaster, but still pretty sweet.
almost perfect guitar to me, if give it a tin lacquer headstock and neck ,then perfect 👌 👌
La necesito
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Very cool video thank you !
I do have a question : is the volume knob good ? I mean, does it has no sound a 0 and then more and more until max... or as I already had with old squier : under 7 you don't have any volume at all ?
Deryck Whibley brought me here
Why?
@messengercrow he has the same type of guitar
Is that a Jazzmaster or Strat headstock. Either way it’s better than the goofy Tele headstock.
I think the wide range pickup sounds like a regular humbucker, because it probably is one under that cover. Put in an actual CuNiFe magnet powered wide range humbucker and it would be a very unique guitar.
It has an Okoume body not poplar!! 👍
Dude you got basically everything wrong about the guitar...
How so?
You got SO many things wrong in this video! It's really astonishing how sloppy you are.
1. It's Okoume, not Poplar. 2. Fender didn't "recently" start making WRHB's. They did it around 2010. And THESE are the fake WRHB's that they introduced in 2010, rather than the recent needlessly expensive CuNiFe-magner WRHB's Fender has put out. "Squier" has been using the great (but fake) WRHB's since 2015. 3. That's not a "comfort cut," it's a "belly cut." 4. It is not routed for a second WRHB, take a look again. Those two groove areas in the body where the screws go on the bridge WRHB are MISSING from the neck route. You can use a single coil (Tele or Strat), a P90, a mini-humbucker or a humbucker. But if you want a 2nd WRHB, you'll have to route some wood out.
What happened to the ugly green les paul givaway at a 100. Now he is saying a martin. Crazy that they havnt hit it. It seems like its been forever