Still delighted beyond belief with my Squire Esprit.
You gotta try one!
You may just gain new respect for Squires.
Still delighted beyond belief with my Squire Esprit.
You gotta try one!
You may just gain new respect for Squires.
FB,
Boy, I'm glad to hear you say that. I checked one out at HOG last week and thought it was a pretty nice guitar.
Of course, I'm a drummer and wouldn't really know enough to say that but i do alright.
Squires can be inconsistent but I'm be luckey because the two that I have are pretty darn good considering the price.
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
Yeah. This guitar is special.Originally Posted by Mikey
It's even got that characteristic Fender "quack" in the middle position. Sounds very similar in that way to my 63 Jazzmaster....and it's light as a feather with the chambered body.
I just may add it to my avatar along with Rita and Loretta.
High praise indeed.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
I strummed one on my lunch break today. Didn't plug it in, but man, was it a really NICE guitar. Simply beautiful. Great neck, excellent frets. I was very impressed.
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Isn't that basically a Robben Ford?
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Yeah, man. Dig it. I wasn't kidding.
The Robben Ford had different pups...black humbuckers, maybe, maybe not Duncans, from what I've seen.
The headstock is also different.
Apart from that...it's pretty damn close to an RF.
Here's what mine looks like.
http://www.squierguitars.com/product...3000537_md.jpg
There MAY have been more than one type of RF Fender...but here's a pic of the one I'm comparing mine to.
http://www.garthwebber.com/images/fender_black.jpg
Nice guitar!
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"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
I had a similar guitar, a Nightbird with spruce top. Really nice guitar, but I never played it. Not enough snap for rock and roll. I sold it for a tidy profit.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
I certainly agree that's it's a nice piece.
What I don't really understand is why for the most part this axe isn't in music stores.
There's at least 8 stores in this area that carry Fender and Squire and only ONE had an Esprit for me to try.
I ended up ordering it from another store that gave me the better deal.
At the store where I ordered it from, the store manager saw it when it arrived and remarked, "Why don't we have any of those?"
Good question.
...even one local Fender rep hadn't seen one till he saw mine.
Somethin' odd about the way Fender and/or store owners provide for the discerning player?
Maybe not.
We are in the minority as far as I can tell.
Glad to read your positive Squire feedback FenderBoy. Have had a Jones for an Esprit and diggin' your feedback here clinches it. Same issue up in my neck of the woods though, scant selecection to audition out in the stores. Going to have to have a store owner order one in the same fashion as you.
I live with fear every day and on the weekends she lets me go racing..
I saw two this weekend. Black ones. Very sexy.
The neck is sweet, the frets smooth as silk.
On one the bridge was cranked way down near the body and was buzzing like crazy. The potential of that neck was still evident.
The other was set up really well.
2 different stores. Well, slightly different. ;)
Resisted the urge to plug in.
I don't want to like any guitars at the moment
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
The HOG had a couple in when the JAM crew arrived. I looked at it but didn't do more than that.
I'm kind of liking the looks of the M-80. Just something about that odd shape that's luring me. Anybody seen any of those yet?
Here's a thought.
I wonder if these new Squires have come about from the same factory that made the now, pretty much defunct Series 24 stuff. You know, the ones that started life as DeArmonds. They have the same sort of quality and the Duncan-designed hummers in them with set-neck and all. Hmmmm, makes you kind of wonder.
Also, in the M-80 choices, there's the set neck version and the bolt on version. Which one would you choose and why? Everything other than the neck attachment seems to be the same. I'm thinking the set neck is the better of the choices only because i remember the DeArmonds had set necks coming from Korea and the bolt ons coming from the Phillipines or China and that the Korean ones were held in higher regard. I know my M-75T and 73 both had great necks and a super fine attachment.
Your thoughts?
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
Set neck or bolt-on makes little difference to me...except that with a bolt-on you MIGHT need to tighten it up once in a while...althought I never tightened the bolts on my 63 Jazzmaster in all the years I've owned it....just never needed to do that.
Neck feel is what's important to me. Not how it's attached.
BTW...STILL delighted with the Esprit.
It hangs, when not in use, between my JV Strat and my AM Dlx V-neck, when they're not in use.
Everything else has been hermetically sealed for winter.
These three guitars I'll be playing through snow and sleet.
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