Solid video, thanks! I picked up the Shoreline Gold version on Black Friday for $199. For that price the guitar could come without a bridge at all and I would be happy. Mine doesn’t make any offensive ground noise, maybe I got lucky.

Thank you for the information I really appreciate it. I've had mine for about a month now I bought the gold one and I have no problem with any humming so maybe I just got lucky with the one I bought. It plays beautiful the action is amazing the pickups are great wouldn't change a thing. That's just my opinion.

Judging by my experience and a few of the commenters, I think maybe you just ended up with a poorly ground example. Although your video is - at the time of writing this comment - a year old, I bought one of the contemporary Squiers in the same finish and I've had no humming issues with it. I'm glad you've sorted the issue out - these guitars have wonderful necks to play with. All the best and Happy Christmas!

Thanks for pointing out this issue, thinking about picking one of these up- you’re the first person I’ve seen who has pointed this out! Thanks!

Picked mine yesterday before watching your video unfortunately and guess what? I have the same problem. It is not a cheap guitar for the squier brand. Unfortunately I do not have brushed metal sadles to make this fix possible. The guitar is beautiful but the hum is driving me crazy. I will try to fix this on my own. Thank you for raising this issue.

Will be getting it this weekend. My local store has it as a B-stock in their inventory. To me I always like to tear apart and give lil upgrades to it with the switch, pots and rewiring. Honestly, the playing time has become so less when you always do hands on work to guitars but it's also fun to do like experiments.

I have this guitar but there seemed to have been a bit of tha finish missing where the ground wire contacts. Bigger issue with this guitar for the kind of player it is marketed toward is that there is very limited intonation adjustment with regard to thicker strings, due to the placement of the string ferrules relative to the saddles and nut. I replaced my bridge with a Babicz FCH Original Series bridge and actually had the body redrilled for new ferrules (using a brass ferrule block, so routed for that) and now I can use big strings, 12-60. With the factory bridge the fattest you could use is a 54. I didn't need to drill new ferrules (the Babicz can be strung as a top loader) but I wanted it string-through. Great guitar now, the neck is great.

Man, thank you, I was going crazy with the fucking noise the guitar makes..... Now I understand why. Genius

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You can get them for 400 all day at GC, 360 on sale

That's a bummer I own one and love it even thinking about buying another maybe I got lucky but those are awesome guitars take care stay safe my wicked brother

Thank you very much for this critical information you have shared. I just picked up a shoreline gold during the Black Friday sale. I have yet to plug it into a real amp because I have been using the mustang micro headphone amp for practice. I have not experienced any noise or hum. I if I experience any noise or hum when plugging into a real amp, I will know what to do. Thanks a bunch.

My bridge is grounded just fine. No issues at all!

No problem with mine . I tested it in a shop . It’s always risky to buy guitars on line

Might go down in history is one of the best choir Telly's ever made! Then again it might not. The only thing I'm not really happy with is that they went to a 12-in radius on the neck still having trouble getting used to it. And I don't think it's going to be an easy neck change so I'm not going to bother. But I'm wondering can you take a pickguard for a telecaster with a humbucker at the neck and put it on this thing? At least it'll keep the finish pretty and it would make it look awesome. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for pointing this out! I still wanna get one.. such a nice lookin axe. I love Tele's and Humbuckers

Gotta say, had mine for coming on a year and a half. It’s silent, no hum.

Got one the other day and on my amp it buzzes like heck.. Thanks for this upload. I now know what I have to do.

Mine did this intermittently when I got it, once I realized what the problem was, I fixed it. It is pretty crazy that they would let luck, dictate whether you have a problem or not.

Just to let you know I have one of these, there is nothing wrong with the guitar it's the nut doing this article for the price it's amazing you can play this guitar anywhere in the world.

I was gonna buy a used one today for 225 Im skipping on that purchase Thanks

you made it perform as nice as it looks! I don't know why some guitar manufactures do the crap they do.

Haha. I thought RH meant right handed. 😂

And still it is stunning

Just curious Ive watched a dozen different reviews of this guitar. I have never heard about the problem with the ground. Is it possible that yours is a defect? I have seen others bought with various defects. In which case Fenders guarentee would allow you to return it.

Hey, thanks for this video. I was looking at one of these to make a Franken-caster. I wanna drop a boutique single coil in the bridge and a PRS humbucker in the neck. Is the routing suitable for this in your opinion? Just wanted info from someone who has operated on one of these. They are very good looking guitars

Should have done a before and after comparison.

Thank you for the heads up! Of course mine's already in transit. May I ask- does the paint just stop the humbucking, or is it actually worse than single coil?

Thanks for your videos. Mines in transit was it shielded inside?

Thanks for the video, I have the same problem, but I didn't understood how you made the little screws on the saddles made contact with the plate, dou you removed the paint under the saddles too? or only the paint in the downside of the plate?

Hey im pretty new to guitar and im wondering whats the difference between this and a normal squier telecaster? I dont know any fancy terminology or parts would you mind shedding some light on this please? Just like dumbed down whats the main differences? Are are they better or worse?

Nice Crocs.

Also humming on my Telecaster. I notice that the screws that hold the pickups in place it does complete the ground. Touching the intonation screws on the bridge increases (?) the humm. Could it still be the problem with the paint on the back of the bridge? Do I need to solder it to fix this issue? Thank you for your response!

Would changing the bridge and saddle do the work?

Maybe I missed it or it maybe a stupid question, no disrespect..but where is the hum in this demo?

Weird I don't have this issue on mine

😟 Please tell me, have I lost my mind? Or has this upload been shortened a bit? I was so sure there had been a new strap lock or quick-release system mentioned, and I came back hoping to check it out... now I'm thinking maybe it was a dream 🤦‍♂️

This is the nitpickiest guitar “flaw” video I’ve ever seen. It actually bothered me. Compared to the REAL flaws in guitar manufacturing in the last few years, this is nothing. Instead of being a negative Nancy, this could have been a great opportunity to be a “Make Your Guitar Sound Better”, not Don’t Buy.

Nope. Mine no hum. Me have gold un'. Just play it.

I snagged the storm trooper from BF on pro audio star for 209