Check out this poll!!! Epiphone or squire?

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Epiphone or Squire

  • Epiphone

    Votes: 178 77.1%

  • Squire

    Votes: 53 22.9%
  • Total voters
    231
squire?

Squire definitely makes guitars that were intended to be smashed into pieces after your set and lit on fire... so that you don't have to destroy a GOOD guitar.
 
i wouldnt have either of them i dont like them :cool:
And the Yamaha Pacifica dominates the sub £200 market
 
I like both!

I have both a Squier Strat and an Epiphone SG Special. Within a couple of bucks, they cost about the same.

Out of the box, the Squier played more easily and the neck "feel" was just better. The original pickups weren't so bad either. The tuning keys were good enough not to need immediate replacement.

The Epiphone SG needed to be "setup" - i.e. neck/bridge adjusted and the nut filed to play decently - that didn't cost anything. The tuning keys needed to be replaced, and the pickups were sort of on the edge of sounding good so I replaced them.

The end product of both guitars play and sound good. I doubt either compares to the high end of either Gibson or Fender; but they are both just fine for a guy like me for whom music is a hobby rather than a paying profession.

I personally prefer the Squier it's just something about the feel - but I can't tell you what it is - so I suspect that other folks with the same instruments could just as easily like the Epiphone for the same reason. Both guitars are nice for the money.
 
on the fence

Things that are different are not the same. Apples, oranges, grapefruits, Epis, Squires etc.
Why do some prefer Gibson over Fender? For years I wouldn't even think of buying anything but a Gibson but I never could get that Strat sound on some of the old Skynard songs with my LP. I found a MIJ Squire Strat that plays and sounds good and gets that Strat sound! I don't own an Epi but I'm sure its tone is more like the Gibson.
To me it's the difference in sound that makes them unique and I like the way they both sound.
 
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This is really a silly poll. For the most part, both are entry level versions of Gibsons and Fenders. There are different models and different levels within these brands.

Find the style and type of guitar you want and pick the one you can afford. Squire does not make a Les Paul or set-neck Gibson style guitar. And Epiphone does not really do too many Fender style bolt ons.
 
cheap guitars

they both suck! sorry to all who like them but they all seem to play like crap! least in the bass world
 
What the hell is this doing on the front page?

For the record, although I've never owned either, Squier, on the basis that any Epi I've played (and I've played quite a few) has annoyed me.

Give me a cheap Yamaha any day, and I'd be happy.
 
IMHO
Epiphone is the lesser of the two evils(cheapo's)
Unless you get back to the earliest years, where some can be good.
No offense meant to any that choose these to play.
Instruments are very subjectively chosen.
 
treidm said:
Instruments are very subjectively chosen.
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Hell yeah. Depending on how I feel, I can be delighted with a plank and a pick-up.
 
EpiSGpl8r said:
If you know what i mean then dont make a reply about how you know but you just want to bitch about it.
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Seriously, EpiSG, I know what you mean - "apples to oranges" is the most overused phrase on this site - enough already - it should be banned from ever being used here again - obviously, this is a matter of opinion, for fun, just like it was when I posted the "Taylors vs. Martins" thread...SO, just answer the damned question, all you snobby knobs! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Personally, I like Epiphones better, they seem to be built better in most ways and my Epiphone Nuclear Extreme Les Paul will stand up with best of 'em and was only $249 used.
http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2001/mar15a.html
I was lucky enough to have the Firebird style, too, ( the Slasher, which I got from Guitar Center for $199!!!) but it got traded when I needed something else more...EpiSG, check out the "pierced SG" with it's "radical x shaped tone hole"...You know you want it!!!! Check out the Moderne E Series, too - I've heard that Gibson made only 4 of those in the 50's, and that of those, one is owned privately, one was lost in a fire, one is in the Smithsonian(!!!) and the other is who knows where, thus making it a Holy Grail $$$$ for guitar collectors...

I had to take the nasty green/yellow crackled finish off my Extreme( yes, my bassist ground it off, with a Dremel, heavy grit paper, etc, and then it was hand rubbed with shoe polish to give it a very interesting look, almost like a pencil drawing...)The hardware and trim were also swapped from cream/chrome to black, so it's very uniquely MINE. The pups are a special hot rodded humbucker that screams, and the action is just crazy low and very smooth.
The only problem I've noticed with Epi's is the toggle switches suck ass. They never stay tight and they never stay working for very long. I've had four Epi's, ( the list is: Epi E series Nuclear Extreme, Epi E series Slasher, Epi Les Paul, Epi Dot Deluxe...) all had this problem. It was very frustrating...

That being said, there are many, many guitars out there that are bought cheap and with a little attention can be serious. The only Squier I've owned was a Tele reissue thing that was $200 new, and it fed back like mad, didn't stay in tune for crap, and the knobs were always loosening up...All of which I could have fixed, but so what...I still love the Epi's I've had and my Nuclear Extreme will go with me to the grave.
 
tomato,tamaaato....

I have a cpl Epi's and one Squire....it's one of the `51 models.......got it from M F for $99.......ok,it's not a high quality axe,but it plays nice after you adjust everything.......look's good. I got the creame with the black pickguard. It sounded ok.......but then I put a real tele neck pickup in,and a gibson bucker,and BLAM.........it's a hit...........I'd recomend both Epi,and Squire,do a little upgrading,and ya have a very playable instrument......I would recomend staying away from the Epi SG with the bolt on neck....I looked :) thru 11 at a local store,and didn't find one where the neck was right. So I went with the set neck,,,,,,
 
gibson59neck said:
Seriously, EpiSG, I know what you mean - "apples to oranges" is the most overused phrase on this site - enough already - it should be banned from ever being used here again - obviously, this is a matter of opinion, for fun, just like it was when I posted the "Taylors vs. Martins" thread...SO, just answer the damned question, all you snobby knobs! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Personally, I like Epiphones better, they seem to be built better in most ways and my Epiphone Nuclear Extreme Les Paul will stand up with best of 'em and was only $249 used.
http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2001/mar15a.html
I was lucky enough to have the Firebird style, too, ( the Slasher, which I got from Guitar Center for $199!!!) but it got traded when I needed something else more...EpiSG, check out the "pierced SG" with it's "radical x shaped tone hole"...You know you want it!!!! Check out the Moderne E Series, too - I've heard that Gibson made only 4 of those in the 50's, and that of those, one is owned privately, one was lost in a fire, one is in the Smithsonian(!!!) and the other is who knows where, thus making it a Holy Grail $$$$ for guitar collectors...

I had to take the nasty green/yellow crackled finish off my Extreme( yes, my bassist ground it off, with a Dremel, heavy grit paper, etc, and then it was hand rubbed with shoe polish to give it a very interesting look, almost like a pencil drawing...)The hardware and trim were also swapped from cream/chrome to black, so it's very uniquely MINE. The pups are a special hot rodded humbucker that screams, and the action is just crazy low and very smooth.
The only problem I've noticed with Epi's is the toggle switches suck ass. They never stay tight and they never stay working for very long. I've had four Epi's, ( the list is: Epi E series Nuclear Extreme, Epi E series Slasher, Epi Les Paul, Epi Dot Deluxe...) all had this problem. It was very frustrating...

That being said, there are many, many guitars out there that are bought cheap and with a little attention can be serious. The only Squier I've owned was a Tele reissue thing that was $200 new, and it fed back like mad, didn't stay in tune for crap, and the knobs were always loosening up...All of which I could have fixed, but so what...I still love the Epi's I've had and my Nuclear Extreme will go with me to the grave.
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I would like to point out to you that you responded to someone who posted that a couple of years ago. :D

And Taylor V Martin is still apples and oranges too. ;)
 
Damn. and theres that f**ing phrase again. Damn again! How can anyone keep up????? I sit here and try to chekc out some uncharted waters, and...oh hell. :o
 
Did you at least look at my crazy Epiphone page????
 
"Squire" is a cheap brand name and only implies a strat copy. "Epiphone" can be anything from a cheap ass guitar to an ultra-classy 1950's original!

I stick with Epiphone by the only choices listed above. Classier.
 
It's got to be epi...unless its a squier jaggmaster...or the old vista series super-sonic those kick ass
 
I have a 2002 Squier Standard Tele and a 1978 Fender USA Strat - and 90% of the time I play the Tele.

Seriously, Squiers are very much down to the individual instrument - I played loads of Teles, from Squier to USA, the day I got mine - and this was the one that suited me.

If anything, Epi's are more consistent. Not any better than the best Squier, but consistent. You won't get the odd really bad one in a bunch - and that certainly used to happen with Squier 5 years ago - though to be fair the recent ones I've seen are very decent guitars indeed, esp. the "Vintage Modified" ones like the '51 and the Jagmaster.
 
PVTele said:
though to be fair the recent ones I've seen are very decent guitars indeed, esp. the "Vintage Modified" ones like the '51 and the Jagmaster.
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Man, I've seen some '51s that were great, and some that were unplayable.
 
I thought about getting one of those 51's but I've got enough cheap guitars as is. :D I could use something with a humbucker every once in a while though.
 
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