Squier Contemp Jaguar HH LNSBM

I'm a hobby guitarist who plays sometimes before small crowds. My first "professional" guitare that I bought was a fender Telecaster made in MX. I had a few problems with this guitare that I managed to solve on my own. The output jack screw was loose and had to be tighten, and the plastic knob on the pickup switch was loose and felt out was I was playing. I had to glue it on! But other than that, the guitare sounds great, so I didn't sent it back.
Then I wanted another electric guitars with a smaller neck to be able to play more easily as I have small hands. Also I wanted a guitare that sounded different than the Tele. This left me two options : a mustang or a jaguar.
Since I've been a kind of guitare snob, I alway wanted a "real" Fender guitare, however made in Mexico (nobody sees that you play on an MX instead of an US when you're on stage). So I found a Fender Mustand made in MX that had very good reviews and that according to videos on YouTube sounded amazing. However, when the guitare arrived, it was simply hell. The guitare felt like a toy, and most importantly there was a lot of fret buzz. Nothing too uncommon right? You just have to tighten the truss rod a bit and that is cleared. Well, I tried to do that, bit by bit, very slowly. And nothing happened. The neck didn't bend at all and it felt like I was rotating into butter. No resistance at all. And after a while, the adjusting nut of the truss rod fall off!!! I've never seen that in my life. So I sent it back to Thomann (thank you for your very good customer services), and then I didn't know. Would I buy the same guitare again, hoping to have a better pick this time, or would I buy a completely different guitare?
I searched "mustang" and "jaguar" on Thomann search engine, and I ended up on that marvelous guitare, that sounded also really great according to Reviews on YouTube. The problem was that it was a Squier. I feared that I would be mocked on stage for playing a Squier instead of a "real" fender. But I read a lot of comments online saying that Squier really improved the quality of their guitares over the years, and that now they make better guitares than the Fenders made in Mx. So I thought "ok, screw it. The brand written on the neck of the guitare doesn't matter. Better have a Squier that sounds amazing than a Fender that is terrible". And oh god I was not disappointed.
This guitare is absolutely TOP NOTCH. No default. Everything is screwed correctly, everything feels solid. And after just a quarter of a turn of the truss rod, I hold in my hands one of the best guitare I've ever played. It is so versatile. The sound is amazing. The built quality is amazing. And the look of it is just "wow".
The conclusion of this comment is this : when I started playing the guitare some 15 years ago, you couldn't get a decent guitare for less than 800-900 euros. Nowadays, you can get this awesome guitare for half the price. And yes it's a Squier, but it sounds amazing, the playability is awesome, and It looks super great. So don't hesitate, and buy this awesome guitare! You'll not be disappointed :)

A week before I ordered this guitar, I had my eye on the SQ CV 70-ies Jaguar. I ordered that. Very nice guitar made with the classic Jaguar specs. I liked that guitar so much (Squiers have sometimes been of much lesser quality) that I also wanted to try this 'contemporary' or modern version. The guitar arrived excellently packaged. It is indeed a very different guitar than the CV but in the form of the classic Jaguar. 2 humbuckers this time. A little Jaguar sauce on the sound settings because the well-known sliders at the top provide the possibility to generate sound in series and parallel and to switch the humbuckers to single coil, in fact just a slightly less fat sound. Left below the trhee-way switch for the pickup choices. The body has the shape of a Jaguar and feels just as nice as the CV. The toasted maple neck is very nice and feels great in the hand. It is a so-called shortscale (24") neck. The color of the body corresponds to the pictures on the Thomann website. What also struck me is that the guitar stays in tune incredibly well. This modern version made in China has no tremolo so it doesn't throw a spanner in the works. I don't have to/hardly adjust. Even after hours of playing. I've set it so that the action is super low, which plays great. Despite the shorter neck, I see no reason to increase the string gauge and when the stock strings run out I'm just going to put the Ernie Balls Primo Slinky's 0.95 on it This guitar weighs about 4 ounces lighter than the SQ CV 70-ies Jaguar which weighs 3.8 pounds it's a guitar of excellent quality for a low price I am very happy that this alternative Jag is now part of my collection.

After two months: the pickups started to sound a bit dull to my ears so I changed them to 2 TV Jones Filtertron style pickups. I also changed the option to switch on coil-split and parallel. Got a telecaster 4 way switch in it. Wow, the guitar looks too crazy and the sound is unique!