When Squiers became 500 dollars

Inflation. Everyone wants $15 an hour to flip burgers. Gas prices go up, everything goes up.

For perspective, I bought my first MIM standard in 2003 for $350. I bought a used MIM Fender Player around 2010 or so for $450 ($750 new at the time) and an American Standard new in 2011 for $850.

@@heavyjacktv it's like, it's like... "y'all" read from the same book. 🙄

@@friedrudibega6384 Mexican employees don't make 15 an hour...they are lucky to make a couple hundred a week. these are made with slave labor.

Makes me think of gibson. Id rather see an open coil in that posish

@@Ottophil I agree with you to an extent. It depends on the guitar. So far, all my Fenders have the open coil humbuckers, and I really like them. I don't mind having "One" with a Chrome Humbucker for the Totally Friggin' Awesome Colors available in Player Plus versions. Like you, I'd prefer it to be open coil, but I think can live with one Chrome Humbucker. Your comment prompts me to ask, I wonder how many will "Opt Out" from purchasing an HSS version of the new Player Plus for that reason? The Chrome Humbucker.

Mine comes in any day now. I also have a lot of Strats and other Fenders with open coil humbuckers. I'm thrilled this one will be covered. You just need one like this.

@@Tigershark-qy2gq Thank you for the comment. I'm leaning toward purchasing one as well.

Exactly why I loved my Blacktop Strats! This does seem more versatile now.

can confirm, I'm still playing a 95 MIM that I got back in 97 or 98, traded an Ibanez RG for it. I've done some upgrades and mods to it and its still one of my most played guitars

Hahaha! 😂

the ones made in America are made by Americans.

@@beerbilly If you look at pictures of the American Fender factory, many of the workers there appear to be of hispanic descent.

@@The_God_of_Sexual_Intercourse Of course they are, but here in this country, If you have a right to be here, you are AMERICAN. Buy a guitar from the Corona factory here in So Cal, you have a guitar made by American people. If you buy a guitar made across the border in mexico, you are getting a guitar made by mexicans. ...doesnt matter what there "descent" is.

Ditto. I bought one. Grab one up if you can.

Just ordered mine, the colour and spec just had me 😍

@@eddycerb - I am quite envious of you... but I hope you enjoy it.

i also have a 99 mim. put pure vintage 65 pickups in it. it is a great guitar.

How about checking out the Slick guitars from guitar fetish

me too

That’s a beautiful color! I want that in HSS but I’m not sure about the noiseless coils? I’ve heard them compared on KZfaq and I like the original Alnico pickups I think. Not sure if I like the noiseless yet. I’ve heard the SSS and HSS player series and the SSS has better breakup and range if that makes sense? I really want the new HSS player plus as a do it all but I love the finish you got in SSS and being I don’t own a strat maybe getting the one you got would be better? I don’t gig so there’s that also Edit: Gotta love those locking tuners as a new guitarist for me also IMO… but that Olympic Candy Apple Red finish though 😍

@@greg6162 personally, I like the noiseless single coils. You do lose a bit of tone, but if you have a good amp, or good amp modeller, you can make up for it. I actually ended up removing the bridge position single coil and I replaced it with a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail, which is a single coil-sized humbucker and now I think it's perfect. I also changed my pickguard to a plain black pickguard because I already have another guitar with a tortoiseshell pickguard. I really love it now. It's my favorite guitar. I've always loved Olympic white strats with black pickguards, and since mine is Olympic pearl, I think it's even cooler. In my opinion, the noiseless single coils still sound like Strat pickups, and it's awesome not having to deal with the 60 cycle hum. I especially like the SSS version of the player plus because one of the tone knobs can be pulled up, allowing me to have the neck and bridge pickups on together like a telecaster, and I can also have all 3 pickups on simultaneously. I think the HSS player plus also has a pull knob, but I'm pretty sure it just splits the humbucker into a single coil. So it's really all about preference. Do you prefer to get Tele and Strat tones, or do you prefer to have a full sized humbucker that can be split? In my case, I wanted to be able to have more pickup combinations, but I also wanted a humbucker, and I'm really happy with the hot rail. It's very high output with a lot of mids, but if you're not into that, Seymour Duncan has other single coil-sized humbucker options that are less hot.

@@Casey3-P-O So I bought the Olympic pearl SSS Strat and I love it. The only thing as a new player and the fretboard being 12' I'm thinking of doing what you mentioned about putting 10's on it. I haven't had it setup yet but it plays very well out of the box and I have EB 9's and 10's sitting here, but I know you said you had issues putting 10's on and I'm not comfortable working on guitars yet. String change would be easy but the action is so low (not a bad thing just the lowest I've ever played on a guitar) and I think putting 10's on might make it possibly unplayable without a setup? I wish I had the confidence and technical ability because I would just slap 10's on right now. It stays in tune and I've been playing the factory strings so far. Was your action really low too.? Also, what did putting 10's on change setup wise... is the action setup specifically for 9's? Because it seems like it was setup from the factory specifically for 9's, but it was setup very well IMO but I feel like this would be so much better with 10's especially with the fretboard having that 12' radius. I started jamming with guys at work as a full band we have a drummer, bass and two guitar players now as a 4/pc. Bought an Alpine white Epiphone Les Paul Custom and that's a fantastic guitar but I got it from a certain 3/letter co that sold it new from a return. They gave me 100 refund back and I took it to a master luthier in my area just a few days ago and he's going to put grover rotomatic 3x3 locking tuners in so I can change the 10's if I need to myself. I love both, but something about the LP seems more my style. It could be because I only played it for 3/days before I dropped it off or the fretboard seems easier to play because of the strings and it being smaller than my Strat. I played a Tele at GC that felt so smooth so I think the smaller fretboard is appealing to a beginner like me. I feel that the Strat makes me a better player because it seems harder to play, and it seems slightly heavier (Strat is just longer I think) than my Epipohone LP... but it might play totally different once I put 10's on the Strat? But I will say even though Epiphone Les Paul's quality has gone up drastically, I still think the Fender Player Plus Strat is built way better, it's not even close IMO. The Epi will be nice after I get it back but it has fret buzz on low-E (1st-3rd) but that Strat quality if you didn't know better looks built to American standards and the finish is probably my favorite next to silverburst that Fender has. But I'm a sucker for white guitars and that pearl just glistens in the sun at band practice outside. I'm glad I got a SSS and humbuckers though, I'm pretty much set for any tone. I get compliments from my band on how good my Strat sounds and I really like the noiseless pups that came with it and I think they're underrated for what they are

Any problems?

Not at all! It's a great playing guitar with a comfortable neck.

The offset guitars have the worst color selection. It sucks.

It is.

Everything costs more than it should these days! The new Fender Player Plus?? Not so overpriced really.

Lets hope. I'd buy them too. I've already purchased a green pearl pickguard and backplate for my guitar when it arrives this week.

Agree! It’s THE guitar! Better than a Stratocaster!

I wanted to dislike it before I played one, but it's honestly as good as any American Strat I've ever played. It challenges our self awareness to let go of preconceived ideas, and develop an unbiased opinion, and it certainly helps to have hands on experience with one too, so we're not talking out our ass, which is something that seems to be trending these days :\

In the 90s and early 2000s they were pretty bad