- #SQUIRE AFFINITY TELECASTER FULL#
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While the tone in the Fender Squier certainly is no replica of the guitar’s more expensive big brother, it gets the job done for a budget guitar (and then some).
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Read our full Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster Review. This combines wonderfully with the natural tone of the alder body and the choice of single-coil pickups to provide the Tele classic vibe that is so sought after.
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A scale length of 25.5” provides the Squier Affinity series a bold, powerful tone with clear, precise lows and beefy mids. ScaleĬonsistent with Leo Fender’s original designs, the Affinity Tele has a 25.5” scale length. Surprisingly, the tuners are pretty solid and don’t beg to be replaced right away. Overall, the hardware is fine, but it’s definitely not great. The knobs feel pretty cheap and often get loose, and the jack could be fortified a bit better. The Tele comes with a master tone knob and master volume knob, as well as a 3-way pickup selector switch. The hardware seems to be the area that Fender Squier went cheap on more than anything else, very different from the Classic Telecaster-which is kind of good because cheap hardware is better than cheap tonewoods. A common complaint is that the pickups give a bit more hum than their Fender alternatives, but for a beginner, they’re plenty good. Since the Affinity Tele is, after all, a budget guitar, the pickups are not going to be legendary, but they certainly deliver some solid, twangy Tele tone. This provides more electric basses response on the lower strings and more treble glimmer on the higher strings, which helps in giving the Tele its classic vibe. Although both pickups are the same mechanically, the bridge pickup is set at an angle. The Affinity Telecaster comes with two vintage style single coil pickups in neck and bridge positions. Consistent with the original Fender design, the Fender Squier Affinity has a bolt-on neck, giving the guitar a little bit more of a twangy bite than its set-neck counterparts. You simply can’t resist slamming your first fat chord or busting out blues riff up to the 21 st fret and back when you first pick it up.
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A maple neck with maple fretboard and matte finish, plus a pleasant handful of “C”-shaped curvature, the neck feels powerful to the touch. The Tele neck in the Fender Affinity is marvelous. The Squier guitars finish is quite thin though, so small chips or scrapes will likely go all the way through to the wood. The body in the Squier Affinity Series is a slightly thinner version of the Fender Telecaster, but it does come in all of your favorite Fender finishes, including solid race green and race red, butterscotch blonde, two-tone sunburst, and more. The highs have a slight shimmer to them, but not so much that they become abrasive. The Affinity Series Telecaster (often incorrectly referred to as the squire affinity telecaster) has an iconic body shaped out of a single piece of alder wood, a tonewood that lends itself to clear, well-rounded tone with highly responsive lows and thick mids. Read on to learn about the Squier Affinity Telecaster! Squier Affinity Series Telecaster Specifications Body But after being confronted with some copyright issues, the guitar was manufactured with only “Fender” on the headstock (and no “Broadcaster” anywhere), which cleverly became known as the Nocaster.įinally, in the summer of 1951, the design of the classic Telecaster was finalized, the copyright issues were sorted out, and the famous Telecaster was released-a guitar that would change the face of the guitar and music industries alike.įortunately, Fender’s child-company, Squier, produces a more affordable version of the Fender Telecaster, bringing the revolutionary axe to both beginners and starving artists. Only 50 Esquires were produced before Fender changed gears and began producing a similar guitar with a dual single coil called the Broadcaster. It only had one pick-up, for example, which was promptly changed, and the makers left out a truss rod, meaning bent necks were a strikingly common occurrence. Leo Fender and his team of innovators and luthiers spent about 15 years planning and perfecting this Telecaster special electric guitar design they called the Fender Esquire, which launched in 1950 and had… well, some issues.
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