Classic vibe with modern refinements.
The Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster '50s is an electric guitar with a look to die for and plenty of '50s 'blackguard' Tele vibe. The Vintage Blonde or Butterscotch Blonde over pine body totally resonates and you'll be hard-pressed to tell whether or not you are holding a premium ash body guitar. Of course pine is not a foreign wood to guitar making or to Fender history for that matter. Early single and dual pickup Esquire guitars were made with pine bodies.
Featuring a 21-fret vintage tint gloss maple neck with the modern playability of a 9-1/2" radius and medium jumbo frets, and outfitted with a custom set of Alnico 5 single-coil pickups on the Butterscotch Blonde model and Alnico III on the Vintage Blonde, this Squier Tele has tone that can really hang with the big boys. You get clear note separation even in distorted modes and dynamic response with a strong midrange and high end bite for leads.
Classic Vibe
Back in 1982, the very first Squier by Fender guitars and basses came ringing out of Asia. Known for their excellent vintage-quality look, feel, sound, and construction, those early Squier instruments and their Fender-branded counterparts are now highly sought-after collector's items revered by guitar enthusiasts as models of "getting it right" while aiming at value-conscious players. The Squier Classic Vibe Series reflects that simultaneous commitment to excellence, value, and vibe. Mirroring classic Fender designs, the Classic Vibe offering is not intended to be era or vintage correct-but rather imparting the vibe of a classic Fender design. Each with distinctive feature set combinations-all adding up to one classic-looking instrument.
Resonant pine body just like the early Equires
1-Piece maple, modern "C" shape neck with maple fingerboard
Custom Telecaster pickups
Chrome hardware including vintage-style tuning machines
Vintage-style Tele bridge plate w/brass barrel saddles
| Body: | Pine | |
| Finish: | Polyester | |
| Neck: | 1-Piece Maple, Modern "C" Shape | |
| Fingerboard: | Maple, 9-1/2" (241mm) | |
| Frets: | 21, medium-jumbo | |
| Scale Length: | 25-1/2" (648mm) | |
| Nut Width: | 1.65" (42mm) | |
| Hardware: | Chrome | |
| Tuning Keys: | Vintage-style tuning machines | |
| Bridge: | Vintage-style Tele bridge plate w/brass barrel saddles | |
| Pickguard: | 1-ply black | |
| Neck pickup: | Custom Telecaster pickup (Alnico 5 on Butterscotch Blonde/Alnico III on Vintage Blonde) | |
| Bridge pickup:Vintage Blonde) | Custom Telecaster pickup (Alnico 5 on Butterscotch Blonde/Alnico III on | |
| Pickup switching: | 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck, Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup | |
| Controls: | Volume, Tone | |
| Strings: | (.009-.042) Nickel-plated steel |
Contrary to popular belief, electric guitars are an instrument that requires you to master two very different things. One is, of course, the playing technique, but the other is utilizing the hardware of that guitar and that of the amplifier in order to dial in a great tone.
Finding decent beginners’ entry level electric guitar is not as easy as it looks. As a matter of fact, it is probably harder than finding a top tier model that fits you. The main issue with entry level guitars is the fact that you are getting a compromise of some kind.
Manufacturers are racing to find a way that will allow them to produce these guitars at a lower cost, which in turn makes them cheaper to buy. Because
First things first, the guitar you buy does not defines the genre you play, it’s your music. So it’s a no big deal if you don’t own the guitar which is typically played by rest of the musicians of your music. If you go for something contemporary, you will in fact sound like just another band/musician.
