Squier acoustic guitar (Fender Squier SA100 Acoustic Guitar)

Member Name: Spellbinder4

Product:	Fender Squier SA100 Acoustic Guitar
Date:	19/10/09 (66 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Price, good quality

Disadvantages: None for the price.

Bought myself an acoustic guitar. I was always an incompetent bass player, though I looked good in front of the mirror - I had all the gear but never practiced, so what else could I expect.

After years of my bass and amplifier languishing in a cupboard I sold it all. With the money I decided to get a cheap acoustic guitar, really just to keep my 'hand in' and maybe learn the guitar a bit just as I always wanted, it'd be nice to strum a few chords. I'd always found in the past that the guitar and those terrifying chord things were way beyond me.

So after getting lots of money for my bass, which had now become a collectors item, I could easily afford a little guitar to put in the cupboard instead. So the (Fender) Squier acoustic came my way.

It looks the part, it's well put together, nothing on it looks cheap and it comes with a teach yourself book, strap, picks, tuning pipes and a soft cover.
So I set about having a go of it, of course, I'm rubbish but this time I was determined to be able to knock out a few Woody Guthrie numbers eventually.
To my surprise I found myself practising daily, and here I am three years later and a reasonably accomplished guitarist. I only wanted to know three or four chords but to my constant amazement I moved on to bar chords, jazz, blues scales, pentatonic this and pentatonic that, modal scales, country picking style - all stuff I never thought was in me. But practice really does make perfect that's all there is to it. And I can read music reasonably well. And I started with the little book that came with this guitar.

Three years on and the guitar still looks like brand new, great quality varnish, untarnished metalware and it stays in tune. Now I know a bit about guitars I can honestly say it has a perfectly good sound, not the best in the world, but way, way above it's price.
I plan and dream of the dozens of guitars I'm going to own one day. And this Squier will be sitting right among them.

Summary: Excellent machine.