The Bullet features a laminated body, a 21-fret maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard and chrome covered tuners. 3 single-coil pickups, a non-tremolo hardtail bridge and 5-way switching make this a good choice for a first guitar.
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Darthax, on september 05, 2005 5 of 5 people found this review helpful
Purchased from: Musikland
Features: 21 jumbo frets, made in Indonesia, laminated top, black finish that does not chip easily, light body, 5-way selector, two tone and 1 volume controls, 3 single coil pickups. // 8
Sound: This guitar is a dream to play as a beginner and I can't believe I considered anything else for my first guitar! It suits any kind of playing really and I mostly use it for hard/punk rock and some quieter rock music. I'm using it with a Marshall MG30 amp and together they sound like a dream. The amp comes with effects so I mostly use light distortion or heavy chorus. Full, bright sound. There is no end to the variety of sounds you can make with this guitar. // 10
Action, Fit & Finish: When the guitar came from the factory, everything was set up exceptionally well, with great action and great strings. Everything was in its place and after a few days, everything was running smoothly. // 8
Reliability & Durability: This guitar will withstand and has withstood live playing extremely well thusfar. Some of the hardware is dodgey, for example, the input comes loose very easily, causing some problems and the bridge pickup makes a bit of noise but otherwise everything works well. Strap buttons sho no sign of ever coming loose. Having a backup guitar for a gig is a good idea but in my opinion, that is a good idea for whatever guitar you are using! The finish lasts really long as well. // 8
Impression: This guitar really matches the punk rock music I play and is a great choice for beginners like me. I've only been playing for a year and the strings lasted really long before they needed changing, giving Fender another tick in my book. If it was stolen or lost I think I would get it again due to my budget and fondness for it, but if I was a bit richer, I think I would look around a bit more before I replaced it. I love the variety of sounds it lets me make and can't find anything to hate about it. I compared it to a really cheap SX (don't know what I was thinking) but there was no contest there. It's a great guitar with all the features a beginner needs. I recommend it to beginners. // 10
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wylde-dre, on february 15, 2008 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 76
Purchased from: local store
Features: This has a 5-way selector, 2 tone and volume controls. It's a Strat style body and is dark blue. It came in a plastic wrapping that got stuck under the screws, but is impossible to see unless you're within half a metre of it. It has 21 frets (I think jumbo) and a whammy bar. The neck is really fast and the body is light, so it's easy to swing around and is comfortable to play. it also came with some piks! // 7
Sound: I play all kinds of stuff but focus mostly on heavy metal and rock (Metallica, Zeppelin etc) and it handles these styles well. I run it through a DigiTech RP80 and mainly use it for its noise gate which stops that really annoying humming that the pickups make. The humming is more noticeable on positions 1, 3 and 5 and this humming was giving me nightmares at a gig a cuple of months ago. when I used it with a Marshall stack the sound was great. Ok sustain but the high gain powerchords were what sounded the best. The pickups offer tones from very bright to really warm. Good all round guitar which will suit most styles (not great for Lamb Of God style metal tho). great sound, annoying humming. I'd recommend a noise gate. // 7
Action, Fit & Finish: Factory setup was good and I could start playing straight away without needing to change anything. Whammy bar and thrashing bends altered the tuning (not sure if it's a setup issue tho). It is extremely easy to play. I've been playing it for two years now and it's really really really easy to vibrato and bend the shit out of the strings it came with. // 8
Reliability & Durability: I've only played Live a cuple of times and there haven't been any major problems with reliability. I've only chipped the paint in 2 little spots but besides that it looks the same as the day I bought it. Thing is when you really thrash it and go wild with the bends the strings can lose their tuning pretty quickly. Same thing happens with the whammy bar (maybe it's not properly set up) would I use it at a gig without a backup only because I don't have another guitar. I would not feel confident that it would keep it's tuning after a few long solos. Apart from the tuning problem, it's a fairly tough cookie. // 6
Impression: Overall it's a great, well priced, easy-to-play guitar for a beginner. It offers tones for most styles of music. If it were stolen then the burglar would be pretty disapponted when they take it to a cash converters and I would get a Les Paul. But overall: good tone, light, has an annoying buzzing, easy to play, flexibility for diffrent styles of music, bit of a tuning problem and could have better sustain. // 7
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Heaviest Thing, on august 09, 2005 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 110
Purchased from: Guitar Center
Features: // 6
Sound: I play a lot of Nirvana and it works really well with that and has a really sludgey heavy bridge pickup (atleast mine does I've seen a few different versions of this guitar from thin to thick badied and small to large). The sound is deffentley different, I wouldn't call it bad because its sounds pretty good on certain asspects. But I do have to say unless your begining this is not worth it. But it is defentley perfect for a begginner. // 6
Action, Fit & Finish: This is actually one of the most comftorable guitars I've ever played! The neck is perfect size for me and I am a big 6" guy that just got this cause I was begining and a teen low on budget (still a teen) still works I fit around the guitar nice (it's just comfortbale). The flaw is the tuners are dead bad and can't stay in tune but that's normall on a low budget guitar. The pickups have massive amouts of feedback, I actually like that due to the crunchy music I play. The only troubles I've had on this guitar is losse buttons constintlet and the input jack has come loose around 3 times know. // 8
Reliability & Durability: This gitar is decent if you were out of your mind or just a begginer but I would deffintley not let one of my friends get this for a second guitar at all but for a begging guitarist this is absoulutley perfect. This is the most comfortable guitar I've ever played in my days as a guatarist. But this is not good for live performance unless you put new pickups on it and tuners. Oh bye the way way you can put put put humbuckers at the bridge and neck. // 6
Impression: It's an okay guitar I sugest it to begginers reading. // 6
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s0x, on january 03, 2006 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 129.2
Purchased from: Music Mart
Features: I previously had an Squier Affinity, but I broke it so I replaced it with a Bullet because they were the cheapest one I could find and I'm only a beginner so it seemed like the logical choice. // 7
Sound: It's not bad despite what people say, it gets the job done I guess, but the pickups have this buzzing sound all the time. I'm currently using a Behringer GMX212 with an AM100 acoustic pedal (sometimes) and it plays fine. I can play all the music I'm into without any problem, but it's mostly due to the flexibility of my amp. I play punk (Blink 182, Sum 41 etc), little bit of heavy metal (Metallica, Iron Maiden) and some standard rock (RHCP) and it handles them all just fine. // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: When I got it, it was fine and I couldn't see any problems with it. All the pickups where fine and it didn't contain any flaws, but it does have a habit of the paint chipping off when you hit things, but I duno if that counts. // 6
Reliability & Durability: I have yet to play a gig with this guitar, but I feel it could withstand a little bit of rocking. The hardware isn't bad and seems like it could aleast last a year or two. The strap buttons are of of the only things I've never had a problem with, which is a very good thing. The finish kinda chips off easily, but it should last. // 8
Impression: I thought it was okay for the pricing and it's not as bad as people think. I've only been playing for a year and I've previously had an Affinity Squier, but this is pretty good. If it were stolen, I'd buy a better guitar 'cause I only got it 'cause I needed one right away. I like the finish (Dark Blue), but it's a pretty standard guitar with no special features besides the tremolo. I was thinking about getting new pickups for it to solve the noise problem, with the price of the EMGs I could get a better guitar all together. // 7
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MetalMania30, on april 05, 2004 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Purchased from: Guitar Center
Features: Well this guitar was made in hold on let me check......INDONESIA!!! I didn't even know. This guitar has 22 jumbo frets. It has a 5-way selector. A volume and 2 tone nobs.I bought it and I came with an amp, a strap, gig bag, cord, tuner, pics, and a video. This was cool cuz it was my first guitar. // 10
Sound: Well this guitar is a great starter guitar. Somtimes I like playing some Blink-182 and some days I feel like jammnig some Metallica. I am still using the same amp the pack came with a Crate 10w. I got a Boss Distortion pedal hook on there. There is some unwanted noise when the volume is all the way up. Other than that every thing is cool. // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: The only problems are the input is a little lose and the volume nob is too but its only minor everything else is great. // 8
Reliability & Durability: This guitar would withstand live playing because its a great guitar! It almost never needs tuning and I haven't busted any string or nothing and I have had it for about 10 months now! Theres some scratches cuz I have dropped it but that's my fault. // 10
Impression: If I were to lose is or been robbed of it I would not buy another one cuz I have been trying to save up for a Gibson Flying V. But if I wasn't saving yes I would buy it again. The only thing that I wish it had was a wammy bar. // 10
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gunslinger1, on march 31, 2008 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Purchased from: St.Johns Music
Features: The Bullet Strat comes with a bridge with a whammy bar. I reccomend that you don't use it because a whammy bar will eventually crack it because it is not designed for it. The tuners are non lockers. Mine was made in 2008. It has 21 frets. There is a non laminated neck which I like. My body is basswood the color is brown sunburst, with a black pick guard. The bride is string thru body. It's a 5-way selector. The guitar has a slim body profile. The fingerboard is rosewood. The pickups are single coil Strats. The guitar was made in China. // 8
Sound: The guitar suits my music style excellent( I've been playing for 5 years). I play country, honky tonk, speed metal, death metal, chicken pickin, blues and rhythm. It works best for for country on the clean channel, because it pick ups well on it. I have a Traynor Guitar Mate, it works on clean because my distortion is broken but when I plugged it into my guitar mate 15 it sounded great on distrtion. It has a bright sound depending on what setting. It sounds the greatset for chicken picken when you put to the bridge pick up. The whammy on mine is loose so it doent effect the sound as much. The guitar has a variety of sounds any where from twang to deepness. // 9
Action, Fit & Finish: The guitar was freshfrom the factory. The fret board was smooth compared to my Epiphone Les Paul. The pick ups were designed so when you strum you don't hit the centre one. The bridge was properly routed. I am going to upgrade mine to better quality so it will last longer and be gold. The only thing that was a faulty was a loose screw on the pickguard. The tone knob was loose but I got that fixed. I am going to slowly up grade it's quality to be mor like a Fender but with a creative look. One thing I like is how I can move fast on the neck for soloing. // 8
Reliability & Durability: I bought this guitar as a back up but then I started to like it more than my other back up. This guitar withstood all my shows I have had (mostly small audiences of 50) it has with stood the concert. Nothing wrong with the strap locks. I would use a back up because it is a Squier. I use this as a back up to my Epiphone Casino which is my primary guitar. It with stood my Live show where I performed Free Bird, Cowgirl In The Sand, Down By The River and Blackened. It so far very reliable. // 8
Impression: My playing is mostly country and rock songs but none of this new country music my own song(I am trying to get my MP3 on my profile.)It is a excellent match.I have been playing for 5 years. I own a Epiphone Casino, Epiphone Les Paul Special 2, Jackson Dinky and a old Fender acoustic.There aare no questions to be asked. If it was stolen I would talk to the criminal and try to get it back. If I couldnt then I wopuld buy one. The only thing I wish I had was gold color hardware.I am going to get different pick ups maybe some duncans or EMGS or fenders. I compered it to a Squier Telecaster(I was pressed for money though) so I got this one because of money I had and I couldnt find a Telecaster. I wish I had a Fender american made Telecaster or Stratocaster. // 8
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unregistered, on april 21, 2008 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 100
Features: Arctic white bolt-on neck. The colour gives the guitar a nice old school feel that give the guitar a nice look to it, which is nice wen you want to be deferent. Standard 21 fret medium-jumbo frets. not quite shure what neck. although I think it's rosewood. 5-way switch single coil-single coil-single coil config. Volume tone and tone knobs, although I don't really see the use of the last nob, as it does nothing really. The lead plug in is a bit doggy as is unplugs quite easily. But I fixed that by buying a little more expensive 6" cable. // 8
Sound: I usually play heavy metal like all shall perish or All That Remains and Killswitch Engage. The guitar has more of a clean sound on it and for that reason it's not really suited for my style of playing. I am looking for a humbucker for that reason but if your into old school clean music this is the guitar for you! I play it through a 60watt Roland Cube amp and a Zoom gx2 which almost makes the guitar sound like it has humbuckers. The only down side is the hum which can be deafening at times although you do come to love it after a few mounths. // 6
Action, Fit & Finish: The guitar was set up nicely at the factory although the wammy bar is completely useless if you want to keep your guitar in tune. The tunes is also really sensitive wen tuning and as I change a lot from A# B C D and E tunings it can become a real pain. The pickups can be optimized a bit to get better sound out of it and the volume button is to close to the strings and you find yourself turning down the volume as you plam-mute. Although this is easily fixable by removing the volume knob and just turning the volume down with the little metal thingy that's left. // 6
Reliability & Durability: If your a metal head, or just drunk most of the time while playing guitar this guitar is for you. It's really durable and the finish doesn't fade of chip easily at all. The strap buttons are absolutely rubbish and I have found myself wondering were my guitar had gone to many times after the strap had slipped off. I fixed that by wiring my strap onto the guitar. Would I use it in a gig? Well with a change in pickups and maybe better tuners yes. It fits right into the stage and can make quite a stand wen your playing amongst Jacksons and B.C. Richs with it's old school look. // 8
Impression: This guitar doesn't realy suite the music I play and is intended for more of a clean sound, but for the price Who can complain? If been playing for 2 years and now own a Ibanez. I wish I had done some more research about single coils and the tipe of music a Fender is intend for. If it was stolen I would cry for a day and move on. The thing I love about my Fender is the smoothness of it's neck and obviously it's looks. I wish it had a 24 fret neck with descent bridge and wammy bar with tuning knuts that actually work. But hey, this guitar is cheap and if your a beginer this is the perfect guitar for you if you play punk or clean stuff. // 7
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Dio10101, on november 06, 2008 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 50
Purchased from: JBR Guitars
Features: It was made prior to 2003, the store didn't know because it was used. It has 3 single coil pickups, a 5 way toggle, one volume and two tone knobs. it's a Strat style. it's a typical Strat bridge. it has 21 usable frets, and interestingly, if you push down on the string enough so it hits the pickups it makes a note. // 7
Sound: It gets perfect sound for when I'm playing rock, but when I try to go heavy it doesn't really give me the heavy sound I'm looking for, except during solos. I use it with a crappy Fender G Dec and this might be the problem though. The Guitar gets most styles well, from Light, Clean jazz, to heavy rock. // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: The guitar felt well set up and all the pickups and the bridge were in order. I got the guitar with a dent in it and proceeded to make another one when it hit my door(I am very clumsy) the guitars sound was unaffected but it can withstand a beating. The looks however can be easily manipulated. It fit well with me whether I was standing up or sitting down. It was the creamy Hendrix looking model with the ebony frets. It had a little buzz when I bought it, but changing the strings to some D'addario XLs made everything better. The strings should definitely be changed right out of the factory. The neck was the thig that really drew me to the guitar. I can do anything on that neck. It lets me play quick passages it let me stick to one general area or move around easy. The fretboard is easy to play on and is like most strats fretboards. // 8
Reliability & Durability: The guitar would most likely last Live. But if you haven't changed the pickups to something else if you play Metal it won't go over well. The hardware is long lasting, it's been used since at least 2003 and still packs a kick. I would definitely pack a backups at a gig for a really heavy distorted song, if your accustomed to the Strat already, a Dean ML would be suitable. It can stand my 2-4 hour sessions so I guess it lasts. // 9
Impression: I play everything from the blues to thrash metal and suits me for everything but Heavy Metal. If this had been stolen, I would probably first look for it, and If I couldn't find it I would get a new one after my next guitar for customization. I love it's neck, I am absolutely in love with it, it's my favorite feature. I compare it with a Les Paul Ultra my friend has (Great Guitar). I wish It had better heavy sound. // 9
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unregistered, on november 19, 2007 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 114
Purchased from: Mall Music Sydney
Features: My Bullet Strat is new-ish (2005-6)model I think but I'm not exacly sure. I got the black one. It has a laminated body (not sure what kind of wood), 22 medium frets, and a rosewood fingerboard. It also features three single coil pickups, just like the much more expensive Fender model. It has a trem at the bridge too. // 7
Sound: For a guitar of this price, the sound is pretty good. I'm using mine with the 15-watt sqier amp that came in the package with this guitar, which sucks alot, but gets the job done. The three pickups give some variety; the neck pickup is very warm, while at the bridge the sound is bright and peaky. Clean, this guitar actually sounds really good, but it is more lacking on the distortion front. Surprisingly however, The Bridge pickup is very good at picking up pinch and natural harmonics, better even than many guitars of a higher price. All the pickups do give off a lot of excess noise, so be warned! // 6
Action, Fit & Finish: Because I got this in a kit, It was extremely out of tune when I got it. Other than that, I have few other complaints. Everything on the guitar works, and there were no dings or scratches anywhere. It is worth pointiing out however that this guitar will go out of tune very easily, which is why I never use the tremolo. // 7
Reliability & Durability: I've had It for about a year now, and played almost every day, and it shows no signs of wearing out. I've never played with it Live, and I wouldn't count on it for the reason that the lead input is quite dodgy. That aside, this guitar is robust, and could definitely take a beating. // 9
Impression: Unfortunately for me, my preferred genre is heavy metal, and I often play in the styles of Metallica, Lamb Of God, and Trivium. This guitar really doesn't suit me in this respect, and to even get close to the sounds I want I have to keep all the tone and distortion knobs up full, else it sounds more like AC/DC. Palm muting is very bad too. If you have this guitar and want to play metal, I would suggest getting an overdrive pedal, else, get a new guitar. I chose this guitar simply because I was a beginner and it was by far the cheapest guitar around, and In that respect, I don't regret my decision at all. For the money it was a great buy. A simple thing to have made this guitar better (in my opinion) would be having two humbuckers, instead of the three singles. The thing I love about this guitar is it's supreme affordability (just about anyone can learn electric guitar now), but I hate the way it goes out of tune so easily. Another thing I dislike is the lead jack: the lead can dislodge itself very easily, meaning halfway through a song you just end up with feedback and can't continue until you've pushed the lead back into place. I am currenty saving for a much better guitar (and ESP eclipse, or maybe even a randy rhoads) as a replacement for this guitar. All considered, this guitar gets the job done, and as A beginner that is what I cared about the most. // 7
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Clements06, on march 27, 2007 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 152
Purchased from: World of Music Mackay
Features: My 2005 black Squier (by Fender) Bullet Strat was made in Japan. It has 21 frets on a 24" rosewood fretboard, a bolt-on neck, a hardword body, and a Vintage Stratocaster Tremolo bridge. It has 3 single-coil pickups, a 5-way selector, 2 tone and a volume knobs. I don't know what brand of tuners are on my guitar but the one on my g-string (no joke) kept sliping while I was playing, with or without using the whammy-bar, but I chucked some glue (Clag pasta to be exact) on the tuner and that works fine after 3 string changes. It came with a strap and a half dozen plectrums. // 7
Sound: I'm into rock n roll, nu-metal, blues and a bit of pop (The Beatles, Robbie Williams etc). This guitar works wonders with my Legend 40watt amp (with overdrive) to get some wacked sounds. I can get similar sounds to AC/DC, Avenged Sevenfold, Pantara, Iron Maiden, and Twisted Sister with the overdrive on; and without the overdrive I can get The Beatles, Chuck Berry, a bit of Hendrix, and some BB King. This guitar hums on all the pickup settings put just touching the bridge gets rid of it. The sound it pretty bad without tone on 10, it just loses it's body, but the Natural harmonics on it a preety good (don't ask about others I don't know how to play them). // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: The action on this guitar is ok, not too high but not too low (I want it lower though), and the strings buzz quite often while playing. The Bridge tremelo wasn't set-up, but I don't know whose fault that is. Other than that it was put together, in my opinion, like a version it was based on (Fender Stratocaster for thos who don't know). // 9
Reliability & Durability: I think this guitar would be reasonable for bar or small club shows but anything bigger would proberly destroy it. The neck pickup has already rusted, less than a year after purchase with proper cleaning and maintainance done on it, but the other two pickups look like they could be straight out of the box new. The finish is thick as all hell, about 1-1.5 mm thick (chipped the paint near the saddle and it took a small piece of paint off and I could see how thick the paint was. And as for going into a gig without a backup, definetly not, no guitarist would go into a gig with only one guitar, even if it is just sharing with another guitarists. // 6
Impression: Again I play rock, nu-metal, blues and pop, and this guitar takes all of them without a second look. I have been playing seriously for about a year and a half (at time of publication) and apart from my fathers twelve-string Seagull acoustic this is the guitar I played the most. If this guitar was stolen and I had to get either a new one or something else I would get something else, maybe a Epiphone SG or Les Paul because they're cheap but reliable (I know a guy Who perfected Guns N Roses Sweet Child o' Mine in the shop on a Epiphone LP Ultra). I choose this guitar becuase it was cheap, and I knew nothing about guitars at the time. Any guitars I wished I had, hmm, lets see. Gibson SG, Gibson LP, Gibson Firebird, Fender Starcaster, Gibson ES-335 Dot, Gretsch White Falcon, Gretsch Double Jet Electromatic, Ibanaz S520, ESP Ninja, Rickenbacher 360/12, Gibson Twin necked SG; to name a few. // 8
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unregistered, on november 18, 2004 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Purchased from: Friend
Features: It has 21 frets, a blue black color, 5 way selector, Strat body, 1 volume and 2 tone knobs. It is a great guitar to bombard with stickers, in my opinion, which is exactly what I did. // 8
Sound: It sounds great. Very trebly, though. Not great distortion. Good sounding whithout disortion. I play it through 3 amps. 2 at the same time via Y chord. A Silvertone Practice and an Ibanez Practice (I'm only 13, I haven't really gotten anything big yet). The 3rd is my dad's Carvin/Peavey/Alesis full stack sound system. I also picked up a Vox Wah pedal. It's great. For a cool sound feature I recommend changing the channel with the remote by the pickup. // 10
Action, Fit & Finish: It's all right besides a little loose strap buttons and noisy pickup selector. // 10
Reliability & Durability: This guitar can probably withstand live playing, like any Stratocaster of Squier or Fender. The hardware will last. I can depend on it for things like dorky school talent shows and crap, but not things like warped tour. Won't go without a backup. The finish is all-right, and if it comes off just slap a sticker over it or something(You can tell I play Punk with it). // 8
Impression: I play Blink 182, SOTY, crap like that. It does the job perfectly. Especially for the early Blink records when Tom used a Strat. SOTY uses PRS, though. Great guitar brand. I would buy it again if it was lost or stolen cause its a great beginner guitar. // 10
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unregistered, on november 25, 2003 1 of 2 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 274.5
Purchased from: The internet
Features: My Guitar was made in Taiwan, it has 21 medium jumbo frets, it has a laminated hardwood body, rosewood fingerboard and a maple neck.
It came with a Squier sp10 amp, gig bag, Fender tuition video and various plecktrums. // 8
Sound: It would sound a lot better with a humbucker and a single instead of 3 single coils but for the a few songs that I like to play like sum 41 and blink 182 it is perfect. It does create quite a lot of unwanted noise but it still makes a reasonable sound for a cheap guitar. The main problem is that even with the best amps there is still a lot of excess noise. // 6
Action, Fit & Finish: When new the guitar was set up perfectly and tuned well, the only problem I had was one slightly loose machine head, other than that though it was perfect. // 8
Reliability & Durability: This guitar is extremely durable, after 3 years of playing it is still in perfect condition and none of the finish has worn off. It has been dropped on a few occasions and i have never had to have it repaired or even retune it. // 10
Impression: I enjoy playing punk rock music and this guitar is brilliant for that, I have been playing for 3 years and I also have a Yamaha Pacifica 012, the Yamaha is a good guitar but I would choose this every time. Only one thing it could do with; a tremolo arm or atleast a place to put one.
So Squier if you read this please add a tremolo arm to your guitar. // 8
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super7am, on october 16, 2006 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 128.44
Purchased from: Music Place
Features: Made in 2005. Made in Indonesia. 23 frets. Arctic white (cream) finish (well that was my finish, anyway) Strat style body. String-thru body bridge with tremolo arm. Controls: volume, 2 tome, 5-way pickup switch. 3 single coil pickups. Allens key included. // 9
Sound: My musical style is metal and hardcore, with some grunge and punk. This guitar suits my style pretty well. A little tinny though, definitely a beginners guitar. On one of the pickup selections, it creates a bright, glassy tone. On the opposite pickup setting, and with the tone knob that is closest to the bridge turned to zero, a very bassy sound can be heard. The tone knob furthest from the bridge doesnt't seem to make much difference. There is a lot of pickup buzzing noise. I am using a Zoom effects pedal with this, and with the sound bypass feature, it gets rid of the buzzing noise. // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: I have already mentioned the buzzing pickups, that is the only flaw I can think of. The rest of the guitar is pretty good. The guitar was perfectly set up at the factory, with long lasting strings and everything. The neck is a little grainy, so a little uncomfotable. // 9
Reliability & Durability: This guitar will perfectly stand live playing, it can be bashed around a bit with minimal scars on the finish. The only thing is if youwould want to play it live. If you did want to, you wouldn't even need a backup. It hold it's tuning really well, even in alternate tunings like drop C. // 9
Impression: This is a great beginners guitar! I have been playing for about a yearthrough a Fender Fromtman 15G amp and a Zoom G2 pedal, and they are great all together. I only wish it had a humbucker-single coil-single coil configuration, but other wise is great. If this was stolen, I'd bash the theif over the head with it, and thered be be hardly to none finish loss! If you are just starting out I strongly reccomend this guitar. // 10
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bturville, on april 18, 2005 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 151.24
Purchased from: Nepean Music, Mornington
Features: This guitar is a baretones, basic begginners/learners guitar. It was made in 2002 and is a 20th Anniversary Model. It has a nice black finish which doesnt chip easily. It has 21 frets, rosewood fretboard, string-through body bridge with the standard Fender 5 way selector Switch, 2 tones, 1 volume dials. It came with a 15w Squier amp, gig-bag, leads, strap etc. // 6
Sound: I play every style from jazz to heavy stuff and it plays surprisingly well. It doesn't give the greatest distortion but the clean sound is good, even through my practice amp. I run it through a Behringer X V-AMP and can get some great tones from it. With any distortion, the bridge pickup will give a fair bit of noise, but not too bad for cheap single coils. // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: The action was setup at the shop and pretty good. It's not the lowest ever but there is no fret buzz or any problems. I had to adjust the intonation a little though. All the electronics were good, no noise there. The high e tuning peg is a bit shaky though. // 8
Reliability & Durability: The hardware has lasted fine. None of the knobs have come off, nothings wobbly. I have dropped it onto solid concrete and it didn't affect it at all. Strap buttons are solid as a rock. // 10
Impression: I have been playing for 1 year now, and for all the genres I play, this guitar is quite good. I'm getting a Epiphone Les Paul Custom soon, but for the time I've been playing, it's been a good guitar, especially for its price. // 6
Andy Gorgadore
: I'm going to get one to! is $200 to much? POSTED: 06/23/2006 - 07:33 am / quote|
OttovanZanten
: hm.. for the quality, yes,
get an ibanez, much more value for the money :P
(but 200 is a normnal price for a bullet, i think) POSTED: 08/18/2006 - 12:03 pm / quote|
OttovanZanten
: "I'm using it with a Marshall MG30 amp and together they sound like a dream."
er... train ur ears, i have never heard some1 say that amp rules be4, the MG series suck so badly, it only has 1 kind of sound wich sucks, to my (and most other opinion). POSTED: 09/27/2006 - 04:16 pm / quote|
RustNeverSleeps
: how can a squier bullet strat got same valoration as a fender american standard strat? or a deluxe strat?
canīt understand you! if i compare a standard american fender strat and rate it with lets saz 8,5 cause itīs not a perfect guitar but a real good one i think, how can you rate a bullet strat the same? in comparation i would give it a 1,8 i think, and this onlz because there are behringer strats and cheap imitations...
i think players who did these ratings never ever before held a original fender strat in their hands... i played both, a bullet, an standard strat by squier, a malmsteen strat by fender, a deluxe strat and a standard strat... and well... you canīt compare these guitars... you canīt compare a behringer gmx110 to a mesa boogie dual rectifier... itīs impossible...
and i think these ratings wonīt help any beginner... sorry
by the way... iīm not saying, buy a fender strat for 1500 bucks to begin guitar playing POSTED: 10/04/2006 - 02:04 pm / quote|
OttovanZanten
: hm... the comparisation between price and quality? you're right, everybody loves their guitar, so do I, so everybody over-rates them.. POSTED: 10/13/2006 - 02:47 pm / quote|
super7am
: Actually, I have held a true strat in my hands, my best friend has one, feels friggin excellent, but were asked to rate the GUITAR, not in comparison to other guitars! Of course the true strat is better! POSTED: 10/17/2006 - 05:17 am / quote|
bgarnham
: really good guitar to start it sounds more harmonic than a squier california (the model that is replacing the bullet strato) and is economy is one of the best guitars for beguiners and you can transform it changing the pickups to anothers of $300 and it sound like a profesional guitar POSTED: 12/13/2006 - 08:56 am / quote|
Masteract
: yea ive always had a problem with the imput but its a great beginners guitar! POSTED: 10/17/2007 - 02:25 am / quote|
spug2guitarist
: is this or SX's package better? POSTED: 10/18/2007 - 08:35 am / quote|
MAXA_BG
: In late September 2007, Squier reintroduced the Squier Bullet as the "Squier Bullet Strat." The new Bullet model features a tremolo, along with a standard rosewood fretboard and 3 single-coil pickups. To refute previous criticisms of modern Bullets being made using mystery plywood, the guitar is now being made using solid Basswood. POSTED: 11/05/2007 - 04:31 am / quote|
MP93
: 200 for Squier? I bought Bullet Strat and Fender Frontman 15G amp for that money, but both had 50% lower price. POSTED: 01/08/2008 - 03:31 pm / quote|
Devil Biscuit
: i got 1 4 crimbo and it is great to start with but sooner or l8er the single coils do get a weak and u wanna get somw humbuckers, i now got an epiphone g-400 SG custom 3 pick up, theres not a sound it cant make ! ! ! ! ! ! POSTED: 01/09/2008 - 04:53 pm / quote|
Devil Biscuit
: PS i got da 1 wid a tremelo, "bullet strat" POSTED: 01/09/2008 - 04:55 pm / quote|
The Squier Strats I tried out at Guitar Center suck tone and wiring wise, but the finish is quite good and I also tried an American Strat, 2 Mex-Strats, and a Highway one that day... The American and Highway 1 both sound awesome, although the hwy1 has a slightly country tone into it and the US has an awesome clean tone and this nice fuzzy tone into it, I tried an FSR strat and it sounds pretty sweet but the tone knobs are quite badly soldered (or I just tried a bad one) maybe a pro wiring job and custom shop pickups would do it good. I tried the standard mex and well it's similar to the FSR with more crunch. POSTED: 01/24/2008 - 07:38 pm / quote|
Krzychuzokecia
: My Squier Bullet Strat (made in 2007) were made in... China! Who know why Bullet from 2006 is Indonesian? POSTED: 01/26/2008 - 10:10 am / quote|
nitromaniac
: squires are good starter guitars but if your wanting something around the same price go for a cheap Cort. POSTED: 02/01/2008 - 01:19 pm / quote|
Folch1801
: I've been playing blues and progressive rock for some years now, and my bullet strat suits my needs perfectly and, using a good amp (I use Fender), sounds way more expensive than it actually is. When playing live, sound technicians have been surprised to find it needs neither equalization nor processing of any kind - one even thought it was a real strat. Sure, the hardware is not magnificent, the sound is less clear and a bit more noisy than in a real Fender, and the neck is not as comfortable, but once you get acquainted with the guitar and learn all its tricks, it will perform far, far better than any other guitar available for this price. This, though, does not apply for styles such as metal or shred - i find the guitar to be designed more for tone than for speed. Also, be warned that it will not produce the thick sound you hear in present-day rock - single-coil pickups do not work for that. If, however, you play general rock, blues, grunge, etc., non-guitarists (that is, the general public) will never know the difference between this and a real Fender. POSTED: 02/16/2008 - 02:04 am / quote|
maximus69er
: only clean the single coil pick ups are shit house, do nothing but feed back. HOW CAN YOU SAY IT SOUNDS GOOD!!! it really dosent, for a beginner guitar spend an extra 70 dollars and get an ibanez or somthign and a guitar that sounds half decent and dosent go out of tune quicker than an SG i mena really more than half the people here do not know what they are talking about... POSTED: 03/16/2008 - 01:42 am / quote|
GaryStack
: Two problems with these reviews the comments... A) Snobbery... I've been playing professionally for 35 years, teaching for 25 and been a recording engineer for 20. I have both owned & recorded "REAL" American Strats, Vintage models, Squire's, Bullets and cheap imitations. Many people will automatically dismiss anything with "Squire" on the headstock as useless simply because it's not a "real" Fender... not true... I used a carefully chosen and properly set-up Squier Tele as my main guitar on stage for 10 years!! ...which brings us to our 2nd problem...
INCONSISTENCY... Essentially what we're seeing from the varied reviews is that some of these guitars were properly setup and well constructed, some were well constructed but never setup right, and some were poorly put together in the first place. THIS is the real key to the Squier... You have to pick and choose from several to find a good one, and have it set up properly by someone who knows what they're doing (not your buddy who says "hell, it looks easy enough... let ME do it") As for how you could rate a Bullet in the same range as an American Standard... I believe "bang-for-the-buck" is being taken into account! As for me, I've already chosen a new Bullet as the 99-dollar starting point for the "Franken-caster" I'm putting together. Among other things, I'm replacing the 3 stock Fender Single Coils with single-coil P-90 Soapbars (like you see in a Les Paul Gold-Top or Epiphone Casino like the Beatles all used), dressing the frets on the already-pretty-good neck, shielding the control/pickup cavity with foil tape to lessen the ever-present single-coil hum, and "vintage-ing" the finish with a sander. All of this will cost me around another hundred bucks... meaning for around 2-bills, I'll have a very unique, very playable, thick-sounding tone-beast that will be the envy of my friends and enemies! I've built this kind of custom guitar before and I always end up having to sell it because someone falls in love and offers me about 4 times what I paid to build it!! POSTED: 04/23/2008 - 11:04 am / quote|
My Squier Bullet Strat (made in 2007) were made in... China! Who know why Bullet from 2006 is Indonesian?
Just about EVERYTHING is now made in China mate Lol.
I'm stuck between a squier bullet and a behringer V tone POSTED: 04/24/2008 - 02:39 pm / quote|
sarlox
: I want to begin to learn guitar. I am stuck between the Squier Bullet, Dean EVO XM, and Dean Vendetta XM. Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated POSTED: 05/26/2008 - 07:30 pm / quote|
lilboyineblue22
: i got mine for 99.99 and its awesome its really nice for the price and hooked in to a 65wt crate its pretty sweet POSTED: 07/11/2008 - 08:18 pm / quote|
Wild_Rose
: by 90% I'm getting this one on September. Can anyone tell me if the guitar includes the wire which connects to the amp and some other tools for adjusting the bridge etc? POSTED: 07/28/2008 - 05:23 am / quote|
oneblackened
: it doesn't come with a lead, wild rose. it does come with two allen/hex keys for adjustment. POSTED: 08/28/2008 - 07:23 pm / quote|
Krzychuzokecia
: Hey, sorry. Mine is from 2006 but it's the same like Bullet from 9/2007. I've bought it in 06/2007, serial number is CY06065577 name on the headstock is Squier (by Fender) Bullet Strat (like those from 09/2007) and it has tremolo bridge. Someone on this page wrote that Bullet from 2006 was built in Indonesia and had bridge without tremolo. And the name on the headstock was Squier (by Fender) Bullet (without Strat). So why mine Bullet is from 2006 and it is identical like those from 2007? POSTED: 10/04/2008 - 12:22 pm / quote|
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