Fender Squier
Fender Squier
Why are Fender Squier Affinity Telecaster's go for such a low price?
My friend just bought a Fender Squier Affinity Telecaster from ebay for $171.80 and i thought that was prety good for a fender....
There are a few reasons:
- The materials used on an Affinity are less expensive. They use zinc instead of steel for the bridge blocks. The wood is usually a less expensive wood than American ash or alder used by Fender (Squiers are often agathis.)
- They use less material - the body of a regular Telecaster is thicker than the affinity, which gives you better sustain. But it costs more.
- Assembly, neck bolting, and setup of a Squier is completely automatic. At the Corona and Ensenada Fender plants, some of this is done by hand.
- Shortcuts are taken on the finish. The careful satin finish on the neck of a Fender Telecaster is only roughly duplicated on the Affinity. Fret filing is done on a machine, and not checked by hand. Cheaper finish is used on the body. The body is often assembled out of more and smaller scraps of wood than the two or three piece laminated Fender bodies.
- There are shortcuts on the hardware. The truss rod doesn't sit in a plated truss cavity. The tuners are inexpensive "will wear from use" prone devices on an Affinity, where they are at minimum sealed Ping tuners on a Fender (and maybe better than that, depending on the model.) The pickups are completely machine wound and not hand checked, and are not as carefully designed as the Alnico or ceramic magnet pickups on a real Fender.
- The wiring and electronics are not great on an Affinity. They are really good at worst on a Fender, and the higher the model, the more fancy stuff goes into the electronics, like the Greasebucket tone circuit and S1 switching.
- The assembly of the guitar is just better on a Fender. Care is put into it, as a real Fender employee supervised it. Squiers are mostly automated assembly by a contracted-out Indonesia manufacturer.
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