Squier Contemporary Stratocaster Special Roasted Maple Fingerboard Electric Guitar Black

The finish is better in person, the shimmering blue is mesmerizing. The roasted neck is beautiful! Good tuning stability, some string/nut lubrication definitely helps - but overall, stays in tune well. May upgrade the tuners to locking, but works fine as is. The tremolo is very smooth, pickups are decent. Single coils, so they're a little noisy but nothing that is unusable. Personally, I love the fact that this guitar is swimming pool routed, so it could made into an HH, HSH, HSS - whichever configuration is available. The neck feels phenomenal & very comfortable, no sharp fret ends & 12" radius is superb. Very happy with the guitar, definitely would buy again.

Such a great instrument. Very easy to play & sounds superb. 12" radius & jumbo frets makes this guitar amazing

Think of this as the alternative to Stat/Tele single coil world. Looks cool and roasted neck is nice (wide frets, deeper neck) though mine had sharps. Lightweight, similar quality to ClassicVibe. Pickups are alnico and very unlike typ Stat pickups, def modern sounding. 4 of the 5 positions are unique (aside from neck pickup solo), including all 3-on, and middle "tele" combo (which you never get in a standard strat). The "middle" pickup solo is weird as its near the bridge. Its got lead sounds in 1 and 5 + 3 essentially rhythm options. Its all rather interesting and you will find yourself trying to compare these positions to standard Strat sounds, but its a unique beast.