Any Squier experts out there?

[thebisch]

Squires were not "Billy Squire" models. LOL! Squires came out in '82, but were not marketed and sold in the US until '84. By '84 though the Squires had changed from the JV series to the SQ series which featured a Tele, a '70s reissueish Strat and a P bass, along with the SQ series Squire Bullets. All of these were made in Japan.

[dg]

It's Squier, not Squire.

http://www.squierguitars.com/

It always amazes me that even guys who own the fukkin' things and see the logo on the headstock on a daily basis spell it Squire. It gets my goat almost as bad as people who say "nucular" instead of "nuclear".

According to this, Fender bought the Squier name from a string company in the '60s, but didn't do anything with it until the early '80s. No connection to Billy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squier

Oh, and btw, it's also Billy Squier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier

[24seven]

Oh!

I should not drink beer and surf the web. But this Squire struck my fanny. I think it's an older Korean one and they aren't half bad. Oh well, time for another beer.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1

My word i was reading your post and the word 'fanny' stuck out, i forgot it means ass in America! different in U.K.

[fett]

I always get it wrong. All I know that this particular Squier is sweet. If you see one just get it. WTF, I spelled it right on the title. I could have said "fancy" but that's no fun.:ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF:

[442w30]

I give up, what's a fanny in the UK?
I know I can pop the bonnet on my lorry and be a wanker or hooligan, picking my meals from a dustbin down in Schaffsbury, but I'll be damned if a fanny isn't an arse!

[24seven]

oh dear

I give up, what's a fanny in the UK?
I know I can pop the bonnet on my lorry and be a wanker or hooligan, picking my meals from a dustbin down in Schaffsbury, but I'll be damned if a fanny isn't an arse!

Surely you know what a fanny is in the United Kingdom?????????
please don't make me tell you!

[thebisch]

It's Squier, not Squire.

http://www.squierguitars.com/

It always amazes me that even guys who own the fukkin' things and see the logo on the headstock on a daily basis spell it Squire. It gets my goat almost as bad as people who say "nucular" instead of "nuclear".

According to this, Fender bought the Squier name from a string company in the '60s, but didn't do anything with it until the early '80s. No connection to Billy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squier

Oh, and btw, it's also Billy Squier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier

damn, you have alot of time on your hands. Go do something constructive...

[owlhead]

I purchased my squire in 89' or 90'. I rememebr bouncing around too several music stores looking for one in olympic white or hwatever the finish was called. I was just looking for a cheap beater guitar and all the ones I tried felt pretty crappy. One neck was so bowed if you had set or arrows you could have taken it hunting. the others felt like you would have gotten a sliver if you tried to slide on the neck. But low and behold I hit this one store and there was the exact color and this thing felt nothing like the others and played better than any fender I've owned to date.

From time to time I'll break it out and am amazed at how well it plays. I don't think I even ever tweaked the neck and I'm notorious for making minor adjustments.

[lerxstcat]

Yeah, find the right one and they can be pretty nice. The Affinity Series Strats of 1998 were fairly consistent. I went off on a Strat binge with my new GC credit card and bought one in white and one in red, and only had to play a few to get nice ones in both colors. I actually got a Mexi Fender Standard Stratocaster at the same time, and found the Squiers to play better and even have hotter pickups than the stock Strat. Not that the Mexi-Strat was bad, but the Chinese Squiers were just nicer.

Of course Fender figured that out, and of course, instead of upgrading the Mexis, they downgraded the Affinitys, making them out of plywood instead of solid hardwood.

I probably already said this when the thread started awhile back, but what the heck, someone might not want to read the whole thread!

[GWARGHOUL]

The squire venus was a pretty good guitar. It was courteny loves sig mod.

[fett]

I do like my Squires. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...8959&rd=1&rd=1 It's a solid body. These really are sleepers.