Yes, it's whammy time, as an early 1990s monster of rock pops its three-tone sunburst above the parapet for a heavily overdriven trip...

If ever you find yourself staring at a seemingly bog-standard Korean Squier Telecaster with a CN5 or CN6 serial number, you may not realis...

THE CONTENDERS A vintage Gibson ES-355 . A lavish, high-spend product, made in 1972, and sitting at the top end of Gibson’s range of thi...

The aesthetically-pleasing Fender Contemporary Stratocaster, introduced in 1994, sat at the epicentre of Mexico’s bid to capture the Japane...

Daphne Blue was one of three finishes available on the first Squier Affinity Teles to hit the UK market – the other two being Black, and wh...

"Don't touch it Mr Di Bergi... And don't point... No, don't even look at it!..." You may be surprised, given my sham...

It’s a really good question. Why does a budget guitar cost so little, whilst a range-topper, which may well ostensibly look the same, cost s...

If you know this site, you’ll be aware that there’s lots of stuff about the Squier Strats of the ‘80s and ‘90s (if not, you'll find it a...

There must have been some pretty frantic soul-searching at Fender in the mid 1990s, especially in relation to the low and mid point areas of...

Well, my endless habit of thumbing through old books, papers and magazines has once again unearthed a really interesting Fender Squier Strat...

The System I model in Olympic White ( which was not the same as original Olympic White - see here ). One of the most interesting things a...

The Squier Wayne’s World Strat was one of the quirks of guitar history, in which a good, value-for-money instrument, was stripped of its cre...

One of the lessons Fender had learned by 1995 was: if you want to make a cheap Strat, you can put in microphonic pickups, fit grim tuners, a...

Ah, whatever happened to the good old Japanese Squier Telecaster of the mid to late 1980s?… Well actually, not an awful lot. Far from dying ...

Here’s a truly fascinating full-page Fender ad from summer 1991, which I almost flicked straight past when looking through an old mag for ot...

Lake Placid Blue was one of just four colours in which the original Korean Squier Strats were available. Perhaps one of the biggest talkin...

The first Squier Silver Series Strats did not have a 'Silver Series' identifier on the headstock. This Sonic Blue colour, prone to...

There’s no shortage of guitar brands which have made Fender seethe over the years, but this one takes some beating. Fenix can be thought of ...

I thought for this piece it would be worth exploring the reality of the Squier Stratocaster of the 1980s – just as a guide for anyone who’s...

The guitar after some modification, sporting a nitro-cellulose refinished sea foam green body, and some replacement parts. I must formall...