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Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster in Butterscotch Blonde Review — Landon Media Inc.

Guitars · Jan 21, 2020 · Written By Landon Bailey

The Fender Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster in Butterscotch Blonde is a Dream!

Squier Classic Vibe 50s Telecaster Butterscotch Blonde review — Landon Bailey

🎸 The Guitar That Keeps Winning

There's a reason the Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster keeps coming up in every "best value guitar" conversation. With 408K views and over 1,000 comments — many from long-time owners who still love their guitar years later — this is clearly a guitar that resonates.

Landon takes the Butterscotch Blonde version apart, walks through every spec and component, plays it clean and driven through a Vox AC15 with the TS Mini, and records it in a mix context too. Then he gives his honest pros and cons.

The verdict? "This is one of my favourite things I have ever reviewed."

        📊 The Numbers
        408K views · 5,800 likes · 1,010 comments — and the comments are overwhelmingly from long-time owners who bought one and never looked back. One commenter put it perfectly: "I own over 250 guitars, many high end, and this is one of my favourites."
      

        🎵 Fun Fact
        The original Fender Telecasters were made of pine — the same wood used in the Classic Vibe '50s body. So in some ways, this guitar is more historically accurate than many modern Fenders.
      

🔬 Full Specifications

Body	Pine with Gloss Polyurethane Finish
Neck	Maple, "C"-shaped profile
Fingerboard	Maple, 9.5" radius
Frets	21 Narrow Tall Frets
Scale Length	25.5" (648mm)
Nut Width	1.650" (42mm)
Pickups	Fender-Designed Alnico Single-Coils (neck + bridge)
Controls	Master Volume, Master Tone
Switching	3-Position Blade
Bridge	3-Saddle Vintage-Style, Strings-Thru
Tuners	Vintage-Style
Hardware Finish	Nickel/Chrome
Neck Finish	Vintage-Tint Gloss
Made In	China
Street Price	~$429 USD

🎧 Sound Samples

🎸 Guitar Only — Vox AC15 + TS Mini (7:06)

Landon runs the Classic Vibe through a Vox AC15 with a TS Mini overdrive. Each pickup position is demonstrated clearly and deliberately — no flashy playing, just letting you hear the guitar. Clean tones are glassy and full with genuine Tele snap. Driven tones bloom beautifully through the AC15 and have that warm, harmonically rich mid-range that classic Telecasters are known for.

🎵 Playing in a Mix (11:08)

The in-mix demo is where the Classic Vibe really shines. Telecasters are famously "mix-friendly" guitars — they cut through without fighting other instruments — and the CV '50s proves exactly that. The bridge pickup in a mix context is one of those sounds that makes you want to write a song immediately.