To me squier's are decent, but in my opinion if you got talent and can play it don't even matter if you're playing on a 2X4 with rubberband strings. I hear a lot of people say that a high end guitar will make you sound like a god, that ain't so. In my opinion,what you do with what you have is what makes you you. Yo what i'm saying is that a fresh faced kid ain't gonna pick up a guitar for the first time and sound like Clapton just because they have a $1200 fender strat. And i feel having cheaper guitars really makes you appreciate all the time and practice and how good you have gotten and how you have progressed on the road to getting that expensive guitar. Can yall dig what i'm saying