I was looking for a cheap guitar to take up and down the motorway as I'm playing in a band about 200 miles from home. (At our works head office, got together with a group of lads), and didn't want to risk the Bluesbird every week in the car.
I played all of the guitars at our local centre and the best playing one off the blocks was a Squire custom Tele with a single coil on the bridge and a humbucker on the neck.
A couple of hours in the shed with a fret level and polish, cut the nut right, found the wiring already in for a single coil tap so just added a switch and its brilliant.
You have to, say, that the source for all the hardware is gonna be the same wherever they make the guitar, the machinery for the woodwork is the same, the choice of woods is what it is, so as long as the neck is stable, , wherever they are made they are going to be similar. Does the chinese guy go into work saying, today I'll make a worse guitar than the mexicans?
My advice is to get in and play them, the good ones will come to the surface.
