Fender Bullets!
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Fender Bullets!
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I have had to sale alot, but I managed to get an original bullet. This one is made in the US and A, most of the bodies are plywood, infact I have another body and pickguard (plywood), yet this guitar has a solid wood body and it's thinner. I don't see alot of the first issue bullets with the tele body sporting a maple neck. The body is like 7/8 of the tele, like a shortscale type body with a 25.5" scale. Any one play these or own one before?
They have serious bite to them, the bridge is strange as its connected to the pickguard, all one metal piece.
I have had to sale alot, but I managed to get an original bullet. This one is made in the US and A, most of the bodies are plywood, infact I have another body and pickguard (plywood), yet this guitar has a solid wood body and it's thinner. I don't see alot of the first issue bullets with the tele body sporting a maple neck. The body is like 7/8 of the tele, like a shortscale type body with a 25.5" scale. Any one play these or own one before?
They have serious bite to them, the bridge is strange as its connected to the pickguard, all one metal piece.
-Joe
I've got a couple of the Strat style ones in the project stage. One is a Squier ply body the other is a Fender solid wood body. I'm still looking for a deal on a tele style one. If you ever want to get rid of the ply one w/pickguard I might be interested. Kinda low on cash at the moment though. Anyway, they look great and sound just as good. Cool guitars and still slightly under the radar with collectors. Nice score.
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Smells like Rock n' Roll
I used to have one of these! A black MIA model with a white pickguard - didn't have a rail p'up at the bridge though, had one like the neck pickup. I bought the guitar (with case), an 80's Rat II, a Pearl copy of a Fender twin and a WEM vertical 4x12 for £120 from some metaller who'd just bought a hideous metaller guitar. Ultra-bargain (although this was 1991). Saying that, I didn't like it that much - traded it in for an Antoria a few years later. Still have the case, on the slim chance that any UK Shortscalers need a Fender fitted hardcase for a Bullet.
I agree about the neck being a little skinny. I had just the neck for a while on my MIM standard tele, and it was cool, but like you siad, a bit skinny. I was playing 4 string tunings exclusively, so the crooks of my fingers got really sore from squeezing down on the edge of the skinny neck. I imagine if I played one these days with a 6 strign tuning Id like it more.
I sold it for a bunch of money on TDPRI.
Then once upon a time, I had a show coming up, and 1 of 2 guitars I needed. I stopped at the pawn shops and found a squier bullet, like the good ones that just say Squier but they still kick as much ass as, and look just like, the Fenders fro $100!!! Like a big fat idiot, I went home to ask permission, and when i got said permission the next day, the BUllet was GONE
I sold it for a bunch of money on TDPRI.
Then once upon a time, I had a show coming up, and 1 of 2 guitars I needed. I stopped at the pawn shops and found a squier bullet, like the good ones that just say Squier but they still kick as much ass as, and look just like, the Fenders fro $100!!! Like a big fat idiot, I went home to ask permission, and when i got said permission the next day, the BUllet was GONE
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