• Better than the deluxe

  
  As reviewed by Cody Bell on 7/3/2009

  I got to GC today looking for a Telecaster. I was set on the Blonde Standard Squier, and right as I was about to check out my dad showed me this. I sat down, hooked into a Line 6 Spider 3 amp and played Crossroads, Layla, Soulshine, Cat Scratch Fever, Psychosocial, you get the idea. It had the perfect tone for any genre. I played it for an hour and a half. We got it for a deal too. It came with a cherry sunburst STAIN, the first ive ever seen on a squier. I rate it 11 out of 5

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• AWESOME STRAT

  
  As reviewed by an awesome person on 1/16/2011

  this was my first electric guitar and i love it. i've been playing for a while but i wrote my first song on this guitar because you can play anything on it.

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• Good guitar for the money.

  
  As reviewed by Michael Gallagher on 2/15/2012

  I have been playing strats since the '70's. Before I pick on some of the reviews, let me simply state. When you hit the "Standard", you have a guitar that is worth working with. I don't own it. I played two at GC and went over them closely. Sounded way better than the cheap ceramic pickups on anybody's level down (Affinity,etc.) Unlike the beginners who jumped to switching pickups out, etc., I will gladly work with single coils until the day I go jam with Jimi and Jerry. On to reviewer errore.. Some posted reviews for the wrong guitar. They don't have the Standard, they have the Affinity. Big difference. Beginners - it's a Strat, not a play-it-yourself hammer-on machine. It's a longer scale guitar. Builds "character". And so on. O.K. Tuning - don't float your bridge. Tighten springs/add, to return to block, but still able to whammy. Squier China is building better guitars than it used to. The finish/final work on the two was better than the price point. I would not hesitate to walk into gigs with any of their good guitars. And my Mexican Strat is really nothing to write home about. Rather have a good Squier. And I own American Fender, but I'll play a Teisco. I will be shopping for one and will gig with it to prove that it is worthy. I bet I don't have to do much at all to get it road ready. The two I checked out were dialed in. I don't work for GC. I'm a Fender fan, and the Stratocaster has magic hidden in it that a lot of guitars don't. I take a single coil or the most original noiseless (humbucking - sometimes you need noiseless pickups) and then get my sound from the amp and my pedals. And it sounds insane. So, give this one a fair shot and ignore comments from people who don't really know what they're talking about in that they call something bad that isn't - it is just their lack of knowledge. And for that matter, if you're a beginner, you're way better off with the Standard than and Affinity of Bullet. It is really a good guitar for the price. So guess what. Now I'm off to shop for one to do an objective review. I think this guitar and Squier's effort to improve the quality of Chinese guitars is worth it. I don't need to be a guitar snob. I can play a string tub.

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