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The Squier Super-Sonic is an electric guitar manufactured by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, originally marketed under their Squier brand. The design, conceived by former Squier marketing manager Joe Carducci, is said to have been inspired by a photograph in which Jimi Hendrix is pictured playing a Fender Jazzmaster upside down.
The electric guitars in this range were manufactured in East Asia, and typically sold as part of a starter package along with a Squier SP-10 practice amplifier (e.g. "Starcaster Strat Pack"). [1] In 2006–2007 the Fender website identified them as being sold through Best Buy, Target, Sam's Club and Costco outlets. Different finishes were ...
The Squier '51 originally sold for around US$150 through most large music retailers and catalog outlets, although various incentives and sales further reduced the sale price at times. In late 2004, several large music chains were selling the '51 for US $99.99, and even as low as $69.99 in Guitar Center and Sam Ash Music stores, as recently as ...
Before the Squier line of guitars was introduced in 1982, Fender was making lower priced guitars such as the Fender Lead series at its Fullerton, California plant. Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced lower priced guitars based on its main Stratocaster and Telecaster models and had always used different model designs for its lower priced guitars.
In 1986, Fender Japan began producing an Esquire model for export to the US, based on the 1954 version, under the brand name "Squier by Fender". The guitar featured threaded saddles and a white pickguard, with either butterscotch blonde or metallic red finish.
There was a lower priced Fender Contemporary Squier model produced as well. Many of Fender Contemporary Stratocaster and Telecaster models had Fender Japan E serial number prefix at the beginning of their serial numbers but in fact, Fender never produced a line of guitars named the "E series".