p.s.a l/h Fender classic vibe strat bargain

mark123

free postage i have no affiliation with the seller

Fender-Squier-Classic-Vibe-Stratocaster-60s-Final-Reduction-/323384790550?itemId=323384790550&du=1

mark123

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Left-Handed-Fender-Squier-Classic-Vibe-Stratocaster-60s-Final-Reduction-/323384790550?itemId=323384790550&du=1

thegummy

Fender?

mark123

yup click the link

thegummy

What am I looking for in the link? Looks like a normal Squier to me.

prowla

thegummy said:

What am I looking for in the link? Looks like a normal Squier to me.

Apparently these days, the "by Fender" on a Squier means Fender.

steer

Volkswagen own Lamborghini, therefore I own a Lamborghini.

thegummy

steer said:

Volkswagen own Lamborghini, therefore I own a Lamborghini.

Wasn't sure whether to click lol or wisdom cause it's funny but it really is the same thing as calling a Squier a Fender.

mark123

????w.t.f ???sorry its a squier classic vibe strat l/h at a bargain price .
just trying to help one of our leftys get a bargain
i will keep my gob shut next tome !!

rico

mark123 said:

????w.t.f ???sorry its a squier classic vibe strat l/h at a bargain price .
just trying to help one of our leftys get a bargain
i will keep my gob shut next tome !!

Good on you mate. If it was the other way round and telecaster shaped i'd have it in a shot.

Calum13

If only I was a lefty 

robgilmo

Cv Squier, way better than most lower end Fenders. Seriously though, I had a standard , bought it new at the beginning of last year, build quality was phenomenal, I seem to remember the neck pocket being lovely and tight, most Fenders Ive seen you could drive a bus into the neck pocket gaps. It was just the frets that felt like railway tracks than I couldn't get on with, they were huge.

thegummy

robgilmo said:

Cv Squier, way better than most lower end Fenders. Seriously though, I had a standard , bought it new at the beginning of last year, build quality was phenomenal, I seem to remember the neck pocket being lovely and tight, most Fenders Ive seen you could drive a bus into the neck pocket gaps. It was just the frets that felt like railway tracks than I couldn't get on with, they were huge.

How many fenders have you actually compared?

robgilmo

Just the one, and that was made in 1994.

thegummy

robgilmo said:

Just the one, and that was made in 1994.

Lol not much of a basis for comparison.

There's a lot of internet hype about upper end squiers but I think people are getting carried away saying they're better than fenders.

mikeyrob73

thegummy said:

robgilmo said:

Cv Squier, way better than most lower end Fenders. Seriously though, I had a standard , bought it new at the beginning of last year, build quality was phenomenal, I seem to remember the neck pocket being lovely and tight, most Fenders Ive seen you could drive a bus into the neck pocket gaps. It was just the frets that felt like railway tracks than I couldn't get on with, they were huge.

How many fenders have you actually compared?

I have owned 5 Fenders, never bonded with them, but still have my CV Squier. Is that enough basis for you? 
They are cracking guitars and imho better than most Mexican strats 

thegummy

mikeyrob73 said:

thegummy said:

robgilmo said:

Cv Squier, way better than most lower end Fenders. Seriously though, I had a standard , bought it new at the beginning of last year, build quality was phenomenal, I seem to remember the neck pocket being lovely and tight, most Fenders Ive seen you could drive a bus into the neck pocket gaps. It was just the frets that felt like railway tracks than I couldn't get on with, they were huge.

How many fenders have you actually compared?

I have owned 5 Fenders, never bonded with them, but still have my CV Squier. Is that enough basis for you? 
They are cracking guitars and imho better than most Mexican strats 

Depends if you're just saying you bonded with a Squier or actually claiming there's something superior about them?

It's better than a single model from 25 years ago but not a huge sample set. What was the issue with the fenders?

mikeyrob73

Preferred the neck on the Squier, I’m not saying that my opinion is the be all and end all, but I have 2 CV a strat and a Tele and adore them both. The Tele has seen off various other Tele’s and is one of the few guitars I would never sell. For me it’s pretty much perfect. It’s seen off Mexican standards , Baja. It’s just a better guitar if you can handle it not having Fender on the headstock, more ££££ doesn’t always mean better. 

darthed1981

thegummy said:

There's a lot of internet hype about upper end squiers but I think people are getting carried away saying they're better than fenders.

Depends which ones...?

There is no particular reason a Squier CANNOT be better than a Fender surely?  Especially for a given individual?

dazzajl

The number of squires that have impressed me over the years is definitely higher than the number of fenders too. They have almost all been good, honest, no nonsense guitars that simply do the job at hand. 

Fender can sell on the brand name alone to some degree and Squier don’t have that to fall back on. 

They might not have the nice appointments
or luxury touches but any guitarist worth their salt could take one out of the box and perform a great gig with all the Squiers I’ve played. 

thegummy

darthed1981 said:

thegummy said:

There's a lot of internet hype about upper end squiers but I think people are getting carried away saying they're better than fenders.

Depends which ones...?

There is no particular reason a Squier CANNOT be better than a Fender surely?  Especially for a given individual?

The fact they're both owned by the same company and part of the same price range makes it unlikely the cheaper ones would be consistently better quality than the more expensive ones, just like it would be unlikely a 600 quid fender would be consistently better than a 900.

I'm only talking about objective quality like the comment that the neck pocket doesn't match up properly. For personal preference then by all means someone might prefer a classic vibe to a standard. 

Personal preference could prefer anything though, could prefer a 80 quid Argos effort to a 5 grand boutique.

I'm only talking about objective quality problems. I think it's a bit of internet mythology that if you took a large batch of 400 quid Squiers and 600 quid fenders, there would be fewer quality problems on the squiers.

Could be a kind of conspiracy angle where fender take what should be 300 quid guitars and badge them as fender to con people.

Or the other angle where people like to think they've discovered a secret where they can get more for less.