Squier Mini Jazzmaster HH Electric Guitar - Surf Green with Maple Fingerboard Reviews

... if you can get it setup with some elbow grease. If you ever wanted a Music Man Albert Lee/Axis spec'd neck. This is pretty much as close as you can get for the price. I paid about $ for it. Frets needed some serious love and care and action reset yada yada... it plays f'ing great. Could probably use better tuners and various other parts if you want, but it's awesome even with what it has. The one issue everyone points out is that it can go out of tune fairly frequently because of the scale. Put on thicker strings and it isn't an issue. I might try throwing on some really high gauge strings on it to see how that plays out on it. It would be amusing to install a Evertune on it.... thinking about it, or might buy a second one to try that.

If you're having troubles stretching for those chords this is the answer. The action on the neck is amazing. Big bang for your buck.

About three weeks ago, I told my daughter she had a choice. We could either get her the equipment to set up the keyboard that she inherited from her grandmother or she could have a new guitar. She of course chose the guitar. Doing quite a bit of shopping around, I finally settled on this particular model, and she chose the color. Now I am constantly being asked to give her lessons. Being a beginner myself, I have pretty much exhausted what I know and have been reliant on other sources to teach her. The guitar has very good tone. The frets are not sharp on the edge of the board and it just plays well. It's one drawback is that it does tend to go out of tune frequently, but my understanding is that this is normal with a shorter length guitar, so I am not going to penalize it for that.

Quite literally my only complaint is that it doesn't have PAF humbuckers. Amazing guitar for the pricepoint, feels good, feels fast, and the set up out of the box is... usable, I'm too lazy to set the action and stuff at the moment but I've still had a great time with this one.

Very well built guitar, especially for the money. It fits my daughter perfectly. It's easy to play and sounds good.

Only complaint is that it seems Squier completely skipped polishing the frets on any way. Out of the box they were very rough and grinded on the strings. Having the frets fixed is a definite must and should be considered in overall cost.

First off, the setup on this guitar upon receipt was pretty good... intonation was slightly off. However, the action was actually spot on. I bought the guitar for my grandson to use while he learns to play guitar. After unpackaging, we tuned the guitar together, checked the setup, made a few adjustments, plugged it into the amp, strummed a D chord, and I said outloud "...oh no!" It was so out of tune with the pressure of my grownup fingers it sounded just absolutely awful. The string gauges are 9-42. The fret edges on the neck are rough. The neck backside is not polished and is semi-rough. Other than that, it is a cool looking guitar. And sometimes this is all it takes to get a kid playing. If he sticks with it, I will definitely be buying him a much better guitar. But for now, I think it will do.