What's The Deal With Squier?! - 8 Awesome Facts You (Probably) Didn't Know About Squier Guitars!
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- Why are Squier Guitars so awesome? How can a company go from making Violins & Strings in the 1800's to be one of the biggest music companies on the planet?! And wait, what's this about the name retiring in the 80's?
Find out 8 interesting facts about Squier Guitars as Dagan take a deep dive into the history of this iconic brand. Did you know they started out making violins? They were one of the biggest names in the strings business?! Or how about how Squier can make guitars that Fender can't! Find out all this and more!
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0:00 Intro & Whats Coming Up!
0:54 Squier Fact #1 - That Started In 1890 As A String Manufacturing Company
2:03 Squier Fact #2 - In The 1950's They Started Making Strings For.......
2:56 Squier Fact #3 - The First Squier Guitars Were Released In 1982
4:18 Squier Fact #4 - Some Squier Guitars Ended Up As Fenders
5:26 Squier Fact #5 - Some Squier Guitars Are Now Quite Rare & Collectable
6:12 Squier Fact #6 - Squier Can Do Stuff That Fender Can't
7:24 Squier Fact #7 - They're The Best Way For Anyone To Get A 'Vintage' Instrument
8:31 Squier Fact #8 - They're The Ultimate Mod Platform
9:50 Final Thoughts & SHARE YOUR COOL SQUIER FACTS!
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As a bedroom rockstar, I absolutely love my two Squier guitars. Looks, sound, and quality for a very reasonable price.
My Squier Bass sounds better than my EB Music Man and my Fender Precision combined.
Fact # 9 Squier is the most misspelled name in the guitar world.
Autocorrect is wrong. That doesn’t help
Did you mean, Squire is the most misspelled name in the guitar world.
Plus ' Gilmour' , 'Rhoads' and 'Hendrix'.
You mean gremtcshch?
I have toured a Squier 72 thinline (Indonesia) for 8 years and it has held up fantastically. It paid for itself a dozen times over.
I have one as well....and of the dozens of guitars and basses I have owned( us old geezers have had plenty of time to play and/or
own everything ever made: Ricks, Guilds, Gibsons, Fender and Fender like objects, crazy Japanese fantasies...) it is absolutely the gunner girl in my collection! Beautifully made, plays like a monster, crazy versatile, lovely finish.
I am going to do absolutely no mods until I wear out the nut.....what a prize. And cheap!!!
I have a 89 Korean made Squier II Strat (back routed HSS) and it's one of my best guitars. The flame on the maple neck is custom shop quality. I put Fender player series pick ups, CTS pots and Switchcraft switch/Jack in it and it sounds/plays great ! Best part is I found it in a thrift store for $100 w/ a gig bag and it had a early 80s Duncan JB in it that is worth the $100 I paid for the guitar. Score !
I bought the Squire Jaguar 70s Classic vibe, put a DiMarzio Superdistortion on the bridge and the DiMarzio 36th Anniversary humbucker on the neck, turning it into Kurt Cobains Jaguar. Sounds absolutely awesome and it’s incredibly versatile. I don’t think I will ever need the real Fender version because it makes the tones and sounds I want
I also have a DiMarzio Super distortion (vintage early 80's) in the bridge position of my Squier Bullet Strat. It's a great pickup that has aged well.
But it has lost some of it's bite due to age.
Compared to the newer Super Distortion pickups the newer ones have more punch and higher fidelity sound. But the vintage pickups have a smoother sound with less bass and excessive treble. I recommend installing a tone potentiometer for the bridge if you don't have one. Or piggybacking another pickup's tone pot. As this can cut some treble off and help tame the tone on a bridge pickup.
And the Classic Vibe series is excellent.
I got a Squier CV 50's Stratocaster and it's the nicest made guitar I've ever owned.
Enjoy your Squier CV 70's Jaguar. 😎👍
My favorite Squiers are the ones made in Japan in the eighties. I have two MIJ Squier strats from that era, one red, I call my Andy Summers guitar, and one Lake Placid Blue. I have a mother of pearl pick guard with Lace Sensors in the blue strat and vintage-looking regular pickups in the red strat. Both look and feel great. Can't believe they're already considered vintage.
Yes Spencer! I have a JV tele and a JV Strat, both from 1983. Unbeatable sound and playability they outperformed the fender's of the era etc.
I bought a first year issue of a Jap Strat (the only mention of Japan was the "Made in Japan" (in small print) under the Fender headstock logo). A 50's style in Olympic White. Just lovely.
Classic Vibe is easily among the best guitars you can get. Out of the box, you don't need to modify or replace anything. It is perfect out of the box.
These are really great guitars for the money, and I have played a bunch now. They aren't giant slayers. They are good value. They are not on the level of a high end guitar from Fender or any of the quality clone makers. That's an internet rumor that needs broken.
I have a tele standard and a VM strat that are awesome
Totally agree
No they aren't. Musicman, Fender CS, LSL, Suhr, all make guitars that are far superior than the Classic Vibe. They're great for the money, but they're not really objectively comparable to guitars 10x the price.
Just get a Bullet series model and put Fender Vintage or whatever pickups on it lole
In 1983, inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan, I went into my local musical instrument shop to find a guitar. As a 15 year old kid Working weekends washing trucks, I didn’t have a pile of cash to spend.
I was handed a white SQ series Squier Strat. Then I was handed a silver anniversary Fender Strat that happened to be on the wall, and the salesman asked me if I could tell the difference.
I couldn’t see any advantage to spending double the money and I took the Squier home. I have never regretted that choice.
Last year a friend mentioned that a Squier Telecaster had been left in his care by someone who left the country a few years previous. The fellow gave my friend permission to sell it for him.
He pulled a dusty and grimy rather road worn ‘84-87 Tele that I’ve read may be a 52 reissue. After some TLC, I’m in love all over again. Plays like butter and sounds as good as any Tele I’ve heard.
Squier has produced some cheap feeling instruments, but they have marketed some guitars that would make you reconsider buying a Fender!
Fact #7 applies to my acquisition of a Squier CV Jaguar in sunburst. I needed a Jaguar with the appearance of a 1964 product. The Squire was an available option at an affordable price. Yes, I had to improve its setup but it plays well and looks the part.
I recently bought the contemporary Jaguar and I cannot believe a guitar this good with such broad character costs that little.
I love my squier Tele and play it quite regularly,it has some of the lowest action around and is so easy to play...I intend to get a strat soon...maybe a fender player series or possibly a squier of some type
I am a piano player, that recently bought a Squire Telecaster in order to try and learn guitar. Could you please explain the main difference between a Tele and a Strat?
I have Fenders and they’re great but I don’t mess with them. All my Squiers I’ve found for dirt cheap, modded them and it’s great fun. I’ve got a ‘51 with an Area 52 chrome pickup set, an Affinity Strat loaded with Vintera 60’s Mod electronics, and a Bullet Mustang that’s gotten the Jag Stang treatment. The fit and finish and necks were all great out the box. Thanks for some history on the brand, didn’t know a lot of that! Cheers and rock on 🤘
I gigged 5 nights a week with a Vintage Modified natural Jazz bass for many years in the early 2010’s and it was fantastic! I’m really sad I sold it off after that band ran its course. Nice video!
Great vid, certainly didnt know Squier were that old!
Fantastic video! Informative and entertaining.
Have a pair of squires, one from the 80's and a modern strat that swapped all usa parts onto and added a set of hendrix pickups. It has a bunch of artist autographs on it and I have it still today.
I bought myself a red 1990 squier 2 strat out of basic training. I put a seymour duncan screamin demon hot rails pickup in the bridge. I still play it quite a bit. The neck feels incredible.
Squier HSS strat was my first electric guitar, and I still love it.
Great video Dagan, thank you.
I had an 1987 Squire Strat which I put some DiMarzio Pickups and some fancy hardware on! The best Guitar I've ever had!
I really love these guitars! Very impressive clip! Thx
Yup. I bought an 80's Indonesian used for $80 and modded the pickups and internals. It's my go-to guitar now.
Hells yeah, I have a 1989 vintage white E-Series MIK Squier Stratocaster with maple/maple fretboard. Best Strat neck I've ever played, by a good shot. Full-sized body is hardwood laminate (alder I think) not solid or "plywood" but that's somewhat controversial. But in any case it's still a keeper for me. Nice to see them get some proper respect.
The story I heard is that when Fender started making guitars in Japan, overseas distributors wanted a branding separating the American and Japanese lines. I've heard the original Squires starting in 82 were as good as anything Fender was making at the time. Maybe better given the well documented issues the American factory was having at the time. I also chatted with Scott Zimmerman a few times in online forums - he's a treasure trove of info. He was there at the beginning of Fender Japan. He knew Leo and his boss I think, for a while, was Freddy. Anyway I have 3 of the earliest - 2 Strats and 1 Tele (the tele is actually Fender branded) and they are amazing.
I am not sure but I heard that the Japanese fenders were stopped from exporting out of Japan because they were better quality and it was affecting American expots.
@@jamespinder6465 the early Squiers were as good or better than anything Fender was making at the time. Heck even Ron Thorn, Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilder, said in an interview you can see somewhere here on CZcams that his number 1 is an Eighties MIJ Squier. I think he said his 2 and 3 after that were Gretsch custom builds lol.
I have a 2001 double fat tele deluxe which is awesome! All mahogany and a set neck. I dropped in emg 81/85 and its great other than a very narrow neck. I think this model became the fender special edition custom tele fmt. Pretty close to same thing but with binding, abalone inlays and a chrome logo. My fmt is a bit lighter than the squier.
I had an '82 Squier just like the "Blackie" you are holding. Was a great guitar and I gigged with it happily until it was stolen out of my car... 😥
BTW, I bought it in Canada and as I recall it was $499...
Long and McQuade?
I modded my 2000’s Squier Strat with a new pick guard, all new pots, wiring , and SRV pickups and it’s a whole new guitar.
I've never owned a Squier but, I've played a few Squier Strats and... I loved 'em
Good vid mate! I own a made in India Vintage Modified Strat and Mikey Way Mustang bass. Owned and played both
Fenders and Squiers. I prefer the Squiers. Another thing about Squiers if they do limited editions they truly are limited. Try finding the two I've listed for sell.
Early on you say that Victor moved back to Battle Creek in 1980 ? I think you meant 1890.And 1890 is in the nineteenth century, not the eighteenth.
holy, you like to pick. bet ur fun at parties
I'm a history nut but this is just kinda prickish
@@Robyn_iz_Here same
Modding my Squire Tele is what turned me to luthiery as a hobby. Now it looks how I (actually my son picked the colour) would design a ritzy Fender Custom build
Dagan please make a video on the Fender Nashville Tele player plus. I am still debating if its the right guitar for me . Please do give your opinion since you did help me a lot on the previous guitars I own
I have a couple of early 80's JV serial Squiers that are amazing. One of them is my #1.
With my squier strat, I've painted on it, swapped out the pickguard and knobs, and attached a lapis cab to the headstock completely guilt free. But with my new fender, I'm waffling over putting a sticker on it. I feel so stupid for worrying about it, then I think of more mods for the squier. Pickups next! Something nice. I don't even care if it's "only a squier" so not worth nice pickups. It's my fun mod guitar. (And I'll get over my hesitation to decorate my fender.)
I had an early 80s (82-84?) Squier Bullet. Basically a strat body with a Tele headstock and the SMOOTHEST maple neck I've ever played! Apparently were made as students guitars but were pretty high quality and didn't get produced for too long. My (ex) gf at the time had a new American Fender strat and I honestly liked the feel of my Bullet better! It still Haunts me that I sold it. Been considering looking for another and maybe a Classic Vibe. Recently got a Tagima T-635 Strat Style guitar which is def a solid guitar But MAN do I miss that Bullet.
100% agree with squire being the ultimate mod platform. Iv got my own weird mash up of a Tom delonge and Jim root strat. Nd I fukn love it
😆 I must definitely be vintage then, 1970, I have just bought a squire comptempory strat with floydrose, I love it, shell pink
WOW!!!!!! Being a "Michigander" didn't know Squire started in Battle Creek Michigan just a stones throw from Kalamazoo Michigan where Gibson started.
I own 3 Squier Teles(Stnadard, CV 50sButterscotch, CV 70's Deluxe) and love them. I've played the Fender equivalents, and I don't think they play that much better. Certainly not 3 to 4 times the price play better! I'll keep playing my Squiers and enjoy the extra cash I saved.
I played the Squier classic vibe in store and couldnt justify to buy a MIM Fender. Ended up buying non of those haha
hmmmm, 20th Anniversary Fat Tele (think Andy Summers) and Vista series JagMaster. This saved by a rec from The Guitologist,,,,whole guitar was neglected but cleaned up as a gift to me.
In Love twice..
My Robben Ford axe for a while then after a move....
Deoxit Fader F5..
This after a Realistic TunerCleaer lube,,,,got three years for a toggle switch on another guitar..
Here, scatter shot. Worked !!
I'm so thankful....
It's funny because I always gravitate more towards my modded Squier standard strat than any of my other guitars. Maybe it's the feel that I'm used to since I started playing 17 years ago on a Squier affinity strat or the time and effort I put in it 🤣. My iron label 26,5 " Ibanez rgd or whatever the complicated name is has a super sweet neck that's also has a wider string spacing that's more comfortable for my hands. But I always pickup the modded Squier.
I have a ‘85 Squier Strat in Olympic white…now Olympic cream color. It’s fantastic!!
My buddy had a anniversary edition black squire strat but when he was messing around with some people accidentally broke a bus window and got expelled and accidentally left his guitar its been three years and Im still trying to get it back to him even though its missing the high e string and saddle because some kid broke it
Was born 1981 so im retro chic
I planned on modifying the 3 Squiers (Jazzmaster, Jaguar, CV Tele Custom) I have when I bought them, but I didn't need or want to. I have about 60 other guitars.
cool video bro100%
Dagan always talks about how angus young and Eddie van Halen are the reasons he plays guitar. I always say a British CZcamsr named Dagan is the reason I play guitar
You know how depressing that sounds?
Proud owner of a Squier Bass VI and a 90s Mexican Fender Precision Bass Squier Series
I put Fender and Duncan pickups on three Squiers and they're awesome.
I have 4 of them at home in Malaysia. Planning to get more just to be satisfied.
I have an early 80's American Squire Strat,.... some were even made with left over parts,... from the early Standards,... mine has original saddles,... 250k ohm pot's,... and a early "62" neck,.... in 1985,... I paided $599.95 for mine,... and played it for years,...still looks new,... it the closest early Fender "feel" guitar I got,... it's a good axe..........
Great guitars. Set aside where they're made and you have a nice instrument. The CV models are exceptionally good and playability is up there with the fender players I've owned over the years.
Love my 2008 60s CV !
I have a new Toronado and i love it
For squire will definitely go with classic vibe.
Man, that maple neck is pretty as heck.
You look cooler without the black fingernail paint! Thats was so 90s Goth I can believe people still do it lol
Love my Squier M80 !!!
Squiers are great now.Same as many other brands that are available.
The Fenders have that quality and feel you expect for the extra money.
I really love the look of the super sonic but I can’t hang with the shorter scale length. I would love to see a baritone version.
I totally agree!!!! I almost bought one because they look so good and they sound great, they’re just too small for me.
this dude makes me wanna buy everything
I believe that in the early 80s the squire factory in japan could not make enough guitars to meet demand and the usa fender factory had to make them so as well as made in japan squires there are also made in usa squires out there.
Squier Strats are great. A good way to find out if the Strat shape and set up is or isn't for you without losing too much cash if it isn't. The Strat is definitely a different beast. I'm not a good enough guitar player to not go for a guitar that is as easy as possible for me to play. A lot of my favorite players play Strats or custom Strat copies, but I'd rather just do everything I can to make my limited skills sound the best they can.
BTW The 1800s was the 19th century. We're in the 21st century.
You've got all the moves to star in the next pirates of the carribean
In the 90’s Squier put out the Venus which was a stolen body shape from a very small company called Mercury, and I think it was the only time Fender ever blatantly ripped a guitar off. They are great guitars though.
The one sided tuner headstock was stolen too.
I have an early Korean Squier Strat. The body is much thinner and it’s made of plywood
I love my Squire Jag and its pushed my Starcaster, Strat and Tele back into the rack. - its 3 moths old - but it was a complete bag of spanners out-of-the-box. To list the problems: nut had to be filled and re-cut as two strings buzzed like FuzzBox: several frets were way high: intonation all over the place; strings hitting the bridge pickup; vibration through the trem bar: lose bridge: shorts in the jack socket . Otherwise, perfect. Ha Ha .All easily fixable but how this left the factory like this is a disgrace, so be warned ! I gather this is not typical but this was definitely knocked out on a Friday afternoon during"wine time". I didn't get it from PMT - maybe that's the problem?
Crazy !
I wouldnt call them facts more like tidbits of information from both a UK and US prospective, the reason for not having Squier branded musical instruments sold in the US as well as their homegrown Fender product was due to sales, if the US customers saw a cheaper instrument of a better grade quality in comparison to the US models, they would choose that cheaper one instead crippling their Fender sales.
The UK side lead back to the second world war, after the war there were trade embargoes meaning all US products shipped to the UK were heavily taxed, the result of this meant the UK customer by default would opt for the asian equivalent due to how much cheaper (and in most cases) better made instrument. As Squiers were Japanese made (in the 1980s) they weren't subject to this levee meaning Fender could get more customers back through the Squir brand instead
JV Squier's fetch as much as vintage same era Strats. Jeff Healey and RL Burnside among others played Squiers.
Squier should make Violin , Viola ,Cellos and Basses with all technology to make the at reasonably priced for people who cannot afford that type of instruments
Dagan, Dagan, Dagan. I could watch Dagan all day. Dagan can just hold a guitar and stroke the neck a little. Dagan could tell me about anything. Dagan could be wrong too but it's ok, it's Dagan.
they make great basses too
I have fender squire Japan. Late 80s
I have 3 MIK Squier II's. They'll outplay any modern fender.
Good lord, how tall are you, Dagan? That Strat looks **tiny** on you! Lol 🤣
One great fact is that most squier players play them on cheap amps so to think squier is not so good.
I totally agree
You should work as music history teacher 🎉🎉
I'm curious about the Korean made Squires. Does anybody know which factory they came out of? Cort, Samick,....?
@@crocketgsxr6 okay thanks!
Go for it Damon your a brilliant guitarist aways good to see your vids
*Dagan
@@HigzyTeflon Maybe he based this on the common mis-spelling of Squier, in a well-crafted and subtle joke...
@@ParaBellum2024 Yes! That must be it!
I own a Squier II and the neck on that thing is as good or better than any American necks I’ve ever played, IMHO. Previous owner through a JB in the bridge and now it’s a bitchin guitar.
Please let it be good .. i own 3 of em
Best 130 I have ever spent!
Btw, born in 1992, your not vintage, you are a child. I graduated high school in the 90s
Pretty cool that you graduated high school in the 90s.
So when are you going to learn the difference between "you're" and "your" ?
30 year old guitars are being considered vintage.
LOL speaking of Vintage 1972 here!!!! I have one squier and the fret edges just tear up my hands. Maybe the newer ones are better?
That is one thing I always hated about the older (mid 90's - 00's) Squires. One thing you can do is take some high grit sandpaper and a small file and smooth the fret ends/edges of the fretboard. You can make it feel like a much nicer guitar. If you don't trust yourself to do it most luthiers will do it for around 50 to 75 bucks
I collect the 20th ann sqiuers there 20 years old now
You never mentioned the JV series.
If Dagan is vintage, then I'm positive an antique.
is there much difference other than price, compared to the affinity series fenders,mine were made in china,,sy****** serial numbers?
The Super Sonic looks like it was designed by Salvador Dali.
Nice video... but you have your centuries all mixed up 😉
1865 (not 1965 like you said) is the 19th century, not the 18th 😁
WARNING....MODDING A SQUIER MAKE SURE IT HAS A FULL WIDTH BODY!!! and the bridge mods are tough sometimes, like the 2 pin bridge the fender is wider than the squier! NO fitty!
What?? Vintage? You were born in 1992 you say.. I think you mean to say 'Matured' because to qualify as 'Vintage' it has to be in the circa early 70s California skinny skateboards,tube socks,roller skates,surfboard factory/warehouse,high shorts and printed tshirts era for it to be bonafide vintage. I'm the definer of word meanings and phrases of this quarterly
btw I was starting my senior year of high school in 92 so I technically am old enough to be your dad when I thought you were old enough to at least of played a Nintendo,,. or heard of one. It's a shame you weren't alive when the band 'In Living Colour' became known,because they were revolutionary and bad ass
80's Japan Squires are the best
The 1800s are the 19th century! Come on meow
The history is nice but it's light years removed from whatever they are today.
Dude moves like Captain Jack Sparrow.
Ha... My main axe is a 93 Korean squire strat
Squire fact: You never know what you get. They differ in quality. You don't know what wood they use. Some bodies are one piece some not.