Squier Vintage Modified Stratocaster Electric Guitar For Sale (2023 Update)

Purchased this Telecaster Deluxe in December of 2016 thinking I was going to have to modify and update it. I was wrong! The only thing I had to change was the input jack which is pretty standard on Telecasters. It did that "giggle loose" thing and quickly and cheaply replaced it. After putting my preferred gauge strings and a nice set up…it plays amazing. Just as well, if not better then a guitar three times this price. Pick ups sound really good. They cut through really well in a band situation with ease…makes my Marshall really sing. I really love this guitar…very pleasantly surprised. I'm a Gibson guy and wanted to try something different but with a humbucker and fixed tail piece and this fits the bill. In my experience with guitars in this price range is that over time the switches, and volume pots tend to fail quicker with normal wear and tear. This is wear the $ is saved by the company producing it. This is by no means a reason to shy away from this awesome guitar! Plus….it looks really cool!kingadrock23

I decided to pick this guitar up during a sale. I’ve read many places how great the quality is lately of Squire instruments. For the money, we’ll worth it, but don’t expect it to be any kind of playable condition when it arrives, if your experiences are similar to mine: Price and shipping? Can’t be beat! Quality of workmanship? Uneven at best. While the paint finish is nice, the neck pocket looks very uneven at the edges, I would normally think of this as a factory second. The trimplate around the upper switches wasn’t flat and the screws were at a slight angle. I removed it to find that the drilled holes were never cleaned, the tops of the holes raised slightly and the screws put in at a slight angle because of this. It was easy to remedy by filling, sanding and redrilling the holes, but to me that’s a little extreme even at this price point! The action was terribly high, the intonation totally off and there was string buzz around the bridge. After watching a few Jag specific videos, I shimmed the neck pocket slightly with two small cut business cards to increase the break at the neck. Did a complete readjustment of the bridge and strung it with 11’s (per most articles I read). Now it’s a beautiful, beautifully playing instrument! So beware! P.S. no case or gig bag, I know these aren’t mentioned as being included but I was still surprised that it came “naked”. P.P.S. Surprising good tuners, I thought this would have the cheaply stamped crap you usually find on cheaper guitars, these are a decent facimily of vintage fender tuners!Drewfuss

Squier guitars have often been underestimated by many guitar players – myself included. I've always wanted a Jag but didn't want to pay the high price for a Fender American so I decided to try it out. Happily to my surprise this guitar, for the price, is a fantastic deal. It plays very well, feels good, and sounds great through my Fender Champion 100. It's well made and has all the hallmarks that made the Fender brand famous. As someone who owns a Fender Stratocaster, Gibson SG, and Gibson Les Paul Standard, I can honestly say this guitar appropriately joins the ranks of those favorites in my collection. I tweaked the setup to my liking and it's pretty easy to do. (There are plenty of online tutorials for doing this). Bottom line – if you've ever wanted a Jaguar and want a great looking, great playing, great sounding guitar at a great price – then you need to pickup this Squier Jaguar!minnesodamac

Overall its a cool looking Strat and a great sounding Strat even with the bad that I pointed out…many of the bad are things you would have to look very closely at to see and the other things can be corrected with a good setup. I played this thru my Bugera Vintage 22 Amp and My Heartbreaker Little Giant Amp/cab and it sounded great!! I would have no problem buying another one of these…maybe the red one! I own many of the latest Squires and I find they are great guitars that will last a lifetime Its your good Old Stratocaster with Lip Stick Pickups With cool Surf Green Paint! Lets start whats bad about this Strat…I'm a big fan of Fender and Squire Guitars and own many. First I pull this out of the carton and notice the frets were a little Sharpe and the rosewood fingerboard had file marks on the edge of the board. And the fingerboard had a little spot that looked to be filled in. As I inspected the paint I notice sand marks and small imperfections in the paint. And the Bridge as one reviewer pointed out needs to be set up. Mine had the bridge screw tighten against the body and the screws for the spring claw was tighten as far as you can go…even the mighty Hecules couldn't use this tremolo. Also the bridge saddles were out of alignment. As I was finishing setting this Strat up I was wiping it down with a soft micro cloth with nothing on it, I looked down and notice smuge mark on the volume knob, the gold paint was wiping off the volume knob…now I have a white volume knob with no gold paint. Anyway these are minor things for me as I will change the knobs to a chrome with pearloid tops. This is the bad…now the good! Great tone from the Semour Duncan (Designed) Pickups. These pickups have great balance between the bass and treble and they sound warm with clarity…if you like a Strat with Quack! dont pass this up!! The notes seem to jump off the board..guitar has a nice weight and overall is a wonderful Strat. For the money its a great Strat and you cant beat the Semour Duncan Designed Lipstick Pickups.Electrixblu

Like most, I was drawn to the surf green color and the unusual pickups. Why Fender does not offer this very popular color in their American models is beyond me. It is only available in the Jeff Beck signature models or the 50's Strat model. First, let me get the minor gripes out of the way. The guitar arrived dirty as if it had been in an Indonesian dust storm. I basically had to dismantle it and vacuum the dust out of the pickup cavities as well as give it a complete wipe down. Also, there were a few paint chips around the neck place but no big deal. There was also a slight bulge on the finish of the back of the neck but I've grown to appreciate it since it's exactly at the 7th fret and helps me find my way around the neck without looking at the fretboard. The good stuff… Aesthetically, the guitar is overall beautiful. Both the pickguard and the backplate are pearloid. The rosewood fretboard has a smooth grain with decent fretwork. The "Duncan Designed" lipstick pickups are a bit weak but manageable and sound great through a tube amp. If you want to replace them with the real Seymour Duncan lipsticks, look for the Duncan SLS-1 pickups. I have already worn the logo off the neck and middle pickups from how much I've played this guitar.GeetarMan

A lot of the reviews posted here are for Strats, so I'm not sure what's going on. Anyway, I bought the red sparkle Squier Bullet Tele. The finish is gorgeous and that's what prompted me to do a spontaneous purchase. I have only experienced owning USA Teles, but I've played some Squiers that really impressed me. This one? Not so much. I don't detect any finish on the back of the neck although I'm sure it has a sealer of some sort. The body finish is nice, but the bridge hardware is cheaply made and I'll be replacing that for sure. Same goes for the tuners. I'm pretty sure it has some high frets because it goes dead starting at the 10th fret, but some of that was back bow. I loosened the truss and got rid if it, but now when I sight down the neck the forward bow is pretty obvious. I don't notice the frets being sharp on the ends. It now plays plays pretty good after sitting long enough for the truss Rod to settle, but I may need to tighten it just a little to get rid of some of the forward bow. The neck has a very comfortable profile. The body is thinner than my American Teles, but it doesn't bother me – in fact it's lighter which I enjoy. The body is Poplar and that's fine by me. I may leave the back of the neck alone for now because it actually feels pretty good, aesthetics are certainly lacking, but the body makes up for that. I'm sure with a little patience and help from my friends I'll have a nice instrument. All the basics are there. As is, it's not all that great, but still better than my first electric guitar! -!an old Kalamazoo single pickup thing with a bolt on neck back in the mid sixties. Like the title says, this thing has potential. I probably couldn't buy a finished body for what I paid.Ronnie

I bought my black metallic Squier Bullet eight years ago when GC was having a Columbus Day sale. I was looking for a guitar to which I could permanently mount my Roland GR-33 guitar synth's GK2a pickup. Previously I had the pickup mounted on my '96 Strat, and I didn't like this fit because I couldn't close my Strat's case with the pickup installed. I have a gig bag for this Squier, and it fits fine in the bag with pickup installed. Anyway, about the guitar. Right out of the box, it played great, requiring only a minimal amount of action adjustment. I was surprised at how good the pickups sounded, it being a Bullet and all. But the humbucker sounds especially nice when playing the guitar through my Marshall. The neck pickup has a decent sound, but not quite up to the snuff of a good alnico pickup. Still, for what the guitar cost, I really can't complain. If I want to, at some later date, I can always change out the neck pickup to a better alnico model. One thing I especially like about this black Bullet is its looks. The photos here at GC don't show it off all that well, but the guitar body's finish is metallic and the pickguard is a heavy metal flake. It looks spectacular under the lights. And the black hardware does a great job of completing that black look. The Bullet's body is thinner than a typical Strat or Squier Affinity or Classic Vibe body. The result is a light weight guitar, but there is no sacrifice in tone.Michael

I would first like to begin with- I normally would be giving a 5 star rating of this unit/Squier, as I have typically never had problems prior to the recent/earlier this year upset regarding shipping containers/etc being paused/sitting in the ocean/etc, delaying container delivery. PLEASE READ ON FOR FULL EXPLANATION. Two imperative points- 1. The fret ends were so sharp, when I say it was not playable (both sides/neck in its entirety), I mean, it was not playable (THE DATE OF INSPECTION WAS EARLIER THIS YEAR, AND I IMMEDIATELY ASSOCIATED THE FRET ENDS PROBLEM BEING DUE TO THE SHIPS BEING DELAYED/SITTING IN THE OCEAN/ETC- It looked to me like maybe between March and July of this year, although, I couldn't quite make out the stamped month). As well, the serial # of the guitar, of course, was of this year/'22. I maintain/work on most all my guitars, and I normally would've tightened up the fret ends myself, however, there was a hairline crack on the red sparkle finish at the bass side neck joint (which i just couldn't accept, visually), as well as a small tooling gash along the top edge of the headstock. The replacement/reordered guitar arrives tomorrow. 2. THE NEWER UNITS (AS, ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS A 2022-BUILT UNIT) ARE TOP-MOUNT/STRING THROUGH THE BACK OF THE BRIDGE, NOT "STRING-THRU" as the description indicates (and, with Squier bridge mounting, these are 5-screw mount plates, which, if ever you want to upgrade your hardware, particularly, w/the bridge, you must find an aftermarket unit that is "string through the back", along w/the correct string spacing (with Squier, they're 54mm, typically), and you'll typically need to redrill given it's rare to find plates that have Squier mounting dimensions that provided string through the back holes. I'm upgrading to a Babicz, given the results found. Also, there are two string trees (the second being a tree for both the D and G strings), and it looks great, actually, with both. Overall, I was impressed with the finish, as it was nearly flawless (aside from the hairline finish crack mentioned previously). The fretwire/fretwork, felt great….I found maybe two or so "slight" dead spots, which weren't enough of a "ping", or string buzz to be of concern, or critiquing the fretwork negatively. Rather, I was impressed with the fretwork. As well, it's important to note that the mounting of the bridge, along with the neck positioning/etc, was spot-on. No misalignment of the bridge mount/etc (and the same goes for the nut spacing). I've always been impressed with what Fender/Squier/Jackson are putting out. The quality is typically quite high…as for this unit, the quality is high, but the results of the environmental dilemma with either being stuck in a container offshore, or, sitting in a facility for weeks/months/etc, have had quite the impact on this guitar. As an important example, I had purchased a Bullet Tele last year (the unit in Burst color offered here through MF), and it was/is flawless, and I completely upgraded every part. As I own approx'ly 53 guitars ranging primarily from ESP to Jackson (some of which in the better than $2K range), I love to take what's titled as a "beginner" guitar, and totally hotrod it with high end parts (such is the case w/this guitar). As mentioned above, I've reordered the guitar, as MusiciansFriend provided me a generous discount (without having to ask) to accommodate me. Upgrades- 1. Babicz Full Contact Tele "Ashtray" bridge Gold, 2. Genuine Fender Gold control plate, 3. Fender Infinity Gold strap locks, 4. Gold input jack Ferrule, 5. Custom built Gold Sparkle w/star cut-outs Tele pickguard, 6. Philadelphia Luthier Tools "Fat" neck plate/Gold w/gold neck mounting screws, 7. Earvana compensated nut (Ivory), 8. Philadelphia Luthier Tools Gold string trees, 9. Fender locking tuners, Gold, 10. EMG T-52 set (black), or, EMG T-set, Red., 11. EMG Gold Telecaster knobs. 12. Powder coated Red pickguard screws, 13. Gold pickup mounting screws. Beginner guitar?……no more (ha).Dave

I was initially a little disappointed, the neck seemed really “dry” and not pleasant to use, the frets were really rough and scratchy and there was an audible “ping” every time I bent the the 1st and second strings. I oiled the neck, polished the frets and eventually replaced the nut (after much filing). Now it plays really nicely but before that was not great. For an experienced player it is no problem to have to do a bit of work to get a guitar playing well but for a beginner it could have been off putting and demotivated them from playing this instrument.Phil C.

I bought the Squier Classic Vibe '70s Stratocaster Electric Guitar Natural. The fretboard is rough and extremely dry. Frets seem too tall, or something?? — my fingers seem to be pushing to hard, doesn't feel good. Strings were rusty. I've spent a couple hundred at luthier trying to get it right, and it's still not quite there. I had pickup switch replaced. I've been using Fender Super 250 10s. I'll try 9's. NOT impressed with fretboard at all. The trim where neck goes into body was loose and dangling. OTHER THAN THAT — It's a beautiful guitar. Sounds nice. I'll figure it out eventually. The quality control people were asleep on this one.Michael

A very good guitar, especially for the cost. It doesn't have a perfectly flawless exterior that you would expect from a fancy fender… which is why this one is priced lower. Functions perfectly, sounds great like a normal strat, good quality pickups and…. VERY comfortable neck. I love that the most. My hands are small-ish and I'm playing chords cleanly, fretting the low E with my thumb. Could not do that with a Les Paul. And it's really a beautiful guitar, if you admire David Gilmour's strat, it's just about perfect. I haven't tested the tremolo yet but I'm sure it will be fine but will require a proper setupKen

I got this for a practice Guitar. But it is two nice for that. The neck finish was so glossy on the fret board it just blew me away. Much nicer than My Limited edition Mex Strat. Setup and action were good out of the box. I did change The Strings with a new set, of the same strings that came on it, and adjust the G String saddle And B String Saddle positions were just slightly off to my liking. Pups were slightly tangy on Rhythm, But amp settings took care of that. But the lead sound was awesome on this thing. It just blew me away. The only flaw I could find on it was a small paint chip But for the Price after coupon I'm not complaining. I would buy another. I'm Not Giving it a five Star Rating, because of the paint chip. And that is the only reason I didn't give it a five. Great Bang for the buck.Bar

I was looking for a MIM Fender Strat on the used market and my friend who works at a small music store told me to look at the Squier. I was against it 100%. I tried maybe 40 Fender MIM and Korean (Koa) used Strats. I wanted a rosewood neck and anything but a Squier. After getting frustrated and trying about 5 shops, I finally tried this one as he recommended – I was blown away! Was not what I was looking for but took less than a minute of playing to know it was the one and all along it was what I was looking for in terms of tone, feel, and playability. This guitar does not feel cheap, does not sound cheap, does not play cheap – it feels like a $700 Strat, I know, I have one. I play it to this day and have upgraded nothing. The bridge and trem probably need to be upgraded for really serious players (I am but this is not my main guitar), but is fine for probably 99% of most hobbyist or budget guitarists out there. Pulls of David Gilmore tones in spades with the right amp – a nice clean Fender or Vox would do, I prefer solid states for my clean amps and only play vintage Lab Series amps the the clean side of my rig and they sound amazing. I highly recoommend this guitar to anybody wanting a Strat but is on a budget. The Duncan pups rip on these things, no need to replace them at all!Bri-Fi

This is a fun to play great little guitar for the money. With just a little tinkering with the bridge, it plays smooth and fast thanks to the neck finish. Buy one and enjoy.foreverknight_mw

Well put together, single and humbucker pickups offer a lot of tonal options…..Plus being able to split the humbucker is a super plus.nuclearjimmy

Very nice budget guitar. Great fit n finish. Decent hardware. Neck & string spacing seems a little more narrow than a mim/mia stratocaster or Tele. It's a long term keeper.chihuahuapack

This is my first electric guitar (I've played around with an acoustic for years but never seriously until now). For the price it sure feels and sounds nice. I wanted something that wasn't a toy but also wouldn't break the bank. I especially like the HSS pickup configuration because it offers a really broad range of sounds. It's beautiful, well-constructed, and sounds great on my little amp. A really excellent deal and the Customer Service folks were extraordinarily helpful. This was my second major purchase from Musicians Friend and in both cases I've been very happy with the product as well as the service.Packers Fan

I have played guitar to amuse myself, my friends, family, and sometimes my patients for about 50 years. About 10 years ago, I became interested in getting an electric guitar. After a cheap electric disappointment, I purchased the Vintage Modified Strat. Back then there were a lot of "Jerry Barton" types (see his review from 5/19/12) positively reviewing this guitar. Experienced players like that get my attention. They judge a guitar on its feel and sound, not on its name and price. For years I tried to replace my Squier with Mexican and American variants–I thought I needed Fender on the headstock. I finally found a good Mexican strat that worked well after I swapped pickups with the Squier. The Vint Mod Duncan Designed single coils are "stacked" and work similar to a humbucker to cancel out the noise typical of this type of pickup. Now pickup preference is very subjective, but I love these hum-free vintage-sounding single coils; especially since you can pump them up by adding in the moderately hot humbucker: Great tone combinations. The sound and feel of this guitar has colored all my subsequent electric guitar experiences. Not only do I recommend this guitar, I actually bought one and gave it to a friend.Dr. G

bought this to learn and practice on…. wasn't real sure about buying it from the open box sale… scratch and dent… I can't find a mark on it anywhere ! The only thing i noticed, it didn't come with a trem arm…. MF says that is one of the things that make it "open box special"….. no problem…. Very happy with what I got for a discounted price…jcv

This is a fun to play great little guitar for the money. With just a little tinkering with the bridge, it plays smooth and fast thanks to the neck finish. Buy one and enjoy.foreverknight_mw

Well put together, single and humbucker pickups offer a lot of tonal options…..Plus being able to split the humbucker is a super plus.nuclearjimmy

Very nice budget guitar. Great fit n finish. Decent hardware. Neck & string spacing seems a little more narrow than a mim/mia stratocaster or Tele. It's a long term keeper.chihuahuapack

For the many guitarists who have long hankered for a Jazzmaster this is a dream come true. In fact when, back in 2012 rumors and 'spy' photos of these started appearing on the web many thought that the story had to be bogus and the pix Photoshop creations. But no, they appeared on the market just as we dreamed about and more than lived up to — no, make that *much* more than lived up to — expectations. Newbies and guitar novices have to know something about the Jazzmaster (and its stablemate, the Jaguar) before jumping into the pool however. These are not (and never were) just 'pick up and play' guitars like Leo Fender's early designs — the Telecaster and the Stratocaster. They are sophisticated musical tools that take careful and knowledgeable setup so that they play right. I'll share some details… The Jazzmaster is centered around what Leo Fender called a "floating Tremolo" system. Basically it balances the tension of the tuned-to-pitch strings against a spring and "floats" in this sea of tension. The guitar's bridge is a separate piece, but it too "floats" in the sense that it is not rigidly affixed to the instrument's body. When the trem arm is moved to raise or lower pitch the bridge rocks back and forth. The above freaks some players out as you 'll see in some reviews — they think their guitar is either broken and poorly made. Neither is the case. That is how it was designed to work, and work it does. Beautifully. When the Jazzmaster was designed back in 1958 — It was then viewed by Fender as the company's top of the line guitar — guitarists used much heavier strings than they commonly do today. Playing styles were different then too. -String bending was not commonly done. And thus a Jazzmaster works best when heavier strings are put on it today. Indeed most all the complaints about "bridge buzzing" and strings popping out of the bridge's shallow grooves simply disappear with heavier strings. (I replaced the .9s that oddly came on the guitar with more appropriate .11s before I even played it!) This guitar says "Squier" on the headstock, not Fender. Squier is the moniker for Fender's lesser priced imported guitars. The Vintage Modified series is actually made by Cort in Indonesia. Cort's factory is fully modern, using computer-driven routing and shaping equipment. Their guitars are in this reviewer's opinion as good as any made anyplace, foreign or domestic. There was a time when Fender's "Squier" line meant "good for the price." No longer. Today better Cort-built Squiers are the equal to their "Fender" branded brothers and sisters. The Jazzmaster has a sound and feel all its own. Though designed for "jazz" it became more popular among early rock, and then "surf", instrumentalists. Its heyday was the heyday of such music. Since then the Jazzmaster has gone on to fame in other styles of rock music but often those guitars have been highly modified with a different (although sometimes similar appearing) pickup design. Some even do without the things that made a "Jazzmaster" a Jazzmaster – the floating tremolo and the 2nd, "rhythm," circuit. There is nothing wrong with that, but Squier's Vintage Modified Jazzmaster is much closer to the "real" thing — its modifications being basically an updated fingerboard shape (which allows for deeper string bending) and the eliminating of two feature — the "mute" and the trem lock — that players found not to their liking and often either ignored or removed from their guitars. So, if having a REAL Jazzmaster is has long been YOUR dream, here is your dream come true. The Squier Vintage Modified Jazzmaster is truly deserving of the five stars I gave it. It is a total and absolute winner!Duckman

I have been wanting a Jazzmaster for years, so when I saw the Squier prices starting to increase, I took the plunge. Mine is Sonic Blue, but it appears slightly lighter in color than Fender's original color. It arrived with a decent setup, requiring only a slight truss rod adjustment and floating bridge adjustment. The intonation was good, and all the electronics functioned properly. I like the somewhat beefy neck profile, and the frets were level and smooth, with no sharp edges. I was happy to see that the strings were properly aligned on the neck, and centered over the pickup pole pieces. There were a couple of cosmetic issues with the paint, such as a paint run resulting in a bubble, a couple of small spots near the neck pocket devoid of paint, and a small split in the paint on the edge of the body. I considered sending it back for a replacement, but I was afraid that the next one might have string alignment problems that are common on Squiers (high "E" string too close to the fretboard edge) or other issues. This guitar just sounds good! It has a chimey ring when played clean, through my Fender Deluxe Reverb. I have had no problems with the bridge or saddles, but I use 11's for strings. The only other issue is that the tone and volume rollers on the rhythm circuit are barely accessable, being flush with the pickguard. I took a look under the hood, and there is no room for adjustment. The vibrato bar keeps falling out whenever it wants to, but the system works smoothly and sounds good. The floating bridge and threaded saddles take some getting used to, but they are true to the original design and are just fine by me, if used with heavy strings. These guitars are not for everybody, but they produce a sound that you just can't get with any other Fender. The bodies are made from basswood, which is not my first choice due to the soft nature of the wood and the weight. But these Jazzmasters are a lot of bang for your buck, and are a blast!Jimmy J

Hey Jazzmasters are a different beast. Plain and simple. I first tried one because I love Magic Slim (RIP) and the Teardrops. Great blues band for 30 something years. When I first heard him it was like "Where is that cool sound coming from?". Nice different with PU switching and just a bite to his sound. So once I stated playing I realized it was the Jazzmaster with Slim's aggressive pick/finger approach. Nothing like it. I had a chance to ask him once how he kept the strings in the bridge and his reply was "Mustang". Not Mustang Sally but Mustang bridge. Try it as you may like it. If you don't you have not hurt anything. Before I put one on my '59 every time somebody sat in who popped strings or thought they were Albert Collins would knock the strings out of the grooves or off of the bridge entirely. I remember one guy who fashions himself as a local legend looking at my guitar afterwards and telling me it was broken. No, you just need to know what you are doing. Granted the grooves on that nearly 60 year old axe were fairly shallow. Anyway, with a Mustang bridge on it, no problemo. Almost bought a custom shop JM with a roller bridge and Bigsby on it that sounded pretty good but at 2k I just did not have the scratch. It sounded good too. And yes I have tried just about all of the other "solutions" mentioned here and of course you all have a point. But try the easy thing first, you may be perfectly happy. It will be interesting to see if the hardtail JM sounds like the tremolo one. That may solve a lot of problems for non-tremolo players. It is a cool guitar.Brindle

I'm not a great player but enjoy guitars and have a few. The box says, "Everything you need to start playing." That's true! Here's some detail: It's made in Indonesia, not China. The guitar is a beautiful candy apple red (limited edition – though "bullet Stratocasters" are available in other colors too) with a great paint job. Like most Stratocasters it has a contoured body, very comfortable unlike most squared off Telecaster bodies. The neck appears to have little to no finish on it but is very smooth and quite playable. The fret ends I'd describe as normal on a budget guitar, no sharp ends, but some weren't very smooth either. I noticed no high frets, and after fingering every fret on every string, no fret buzzing. It comes with a spare tremolo spring, tremolo arm, and two Allen wrenches one to adjust the truss rod, one for adjusting string height. Even came with 2 owner's manuals and 3 months of Fender Play online guitar lessons – which are great! The only thing I had to do was tune the guitar and it stays in tune pretty good during practice sessions. The pickup switch, tone and volume controls, and input jack were all fine. It came with what appeared to be a cheap Fender strap, but upon further inspection it's made of sturdy nylon with leather ends that were easy to install on the guitar. It's rather short, so I extended it as far as it would go, which was good enough for me, but if you're tall of play with a guitar hanging way down, it will be too short. It came with 3 Fender tortoise-shell-colored medium picks. Also came with a 10' (9' 10" is what I measured) Fender brand guitar cord. I think the cord is high quality. The amp is a Squier 10G which is the same as a Fender 10G, just with a different logo (I have a Fender 10G also). The amp cord is about 5' long, which is nice and better than the short cords on my Marshall MG15FX amps. The amp has a 6" speaker and provides 10 watts of power into 4 ohms. Most guitar speakers are 8 or 16 ohms, so it really is a small solid-state amp (would have 5 watts into an 8-ohm load). The size of the amp is amazingly small. It will take up less space than a pair of shoes in your closet, fit under your bed easily, in a backpack, school locker, etc. You'd think it wouldn't be able to produce any good sound because it's so small, but it's quite surprising. I own two to of these amps and smile/giggle every time I play them. I know one professional music school that uses only these amps for numerous students – it's all they need to learn to play in a small classroom. If I put the amp on volume 5 and the guitar on 5, it's plenty loud in a bedroom for practice (actually I prefer "4" on the guitar). If I put the amp volume on 8 and the guitar on 10 its way too loud and uncomfortable in a bedroom environment. The tone controls on the guitar when set from 1 to about 4 or 5 sound bad, horribly muddy. But from 5 up (mostly 8 to 10) it sounds good. Want to play "Sunshine of Your Love" and need a little "crunch?" Put the gain on 7 and push in the button to select the gain channel (it has clean and gain channels – it's so small you have to be careful not to knock the amp over when you push the button in) and voila' it has crunch and sounds better than you'd think! Will it sound like a Traditional Gibson Les Paul with Gibson "57" pups through a Marshall Origin 50 cranked or an American Fender Strat Ultra through a Fender Deluxe Reverb (tube one)? No, it won't, don't expect it too, but you won't be paying thousands for it either! Look at the price! All I can say is, WOW! For the money if you don't own any guitars at all, or if you're a curious collector like I am, I think it's an amazing value. The Affinity Strat packs are nice too!Nigel

I haven't had an electric guitar since I was a teenager and wanted an inexpensive one just to get back in the game. After reading many positive reviews and watching several videos on YouTube, I thought I would give it a chance, although I had very low expectations given the price point. Boy, was I right. This thing is junk! It will not hold tune even during the tuning process. By the time you get all 6 strings "tuned"…the first string is already flat. And don't even think about actually playing it in tune. It ain't happening. I hate that they call this a "beginner's" guitar. I'm sure many kids have completely given up on the guitar, as I did, because the lousy Chinese piece of wood with strings was just too frustrating to enjoy learning. Now, you could do what all the bloggers and Youtubers suggest and put another $300 worth of upgraded parts in this piece of junk to make it close to playable. Or, you could save yourself, and/or your child, the frustration and just pony up the money for a good guitar. Also, the amp in this kit is about as good as the backseat speaker in your grandmother's car. If there is anything good I can say about this guitar, it is a nice color and seems to be painted well. I wanted a white guitar to offset my black Yamaha APX600 acoustic. Which, by the way, is a much better guitar.GSW1

Played bass and electric guitar in high school, I recently retired, and got back into playing with an acoustic guitar about 4 years ago, and I wanted a electric guitar just for playing around. Strings were dirty, and some minor adjustments needed to be made, but overall a good guitar. As long as you remember it's not a $800.00 guitar and don't have any unrealistic expectations, and know how to do minor work on it, you'll be just fine with this, you can't beat the price.Anthony