Squier Bullet Strat

This 21 fret chinese made strat has typical strat pickup and control layout. Slimmer body thickness than USA and Japanese strats. Tremolo came with three springs. Good typical strat features.

The pots have good taper. The pickups suck - cheap and noisy. Acoustically, it sounds very good. The guitar rings like a bell. I give it only an 8, because the pickups suck.

The finish on mine (two tone) is very good. No flaws I can find. Not the most beautiful top ever, but decent. From 3 or 4 feet away, you can't tell it from the USA 57 reissue strat I used to own. This one sounds better than the re, believe it or not. New, the tremolo claw springs needed to be tightened, and two more springs were necessary to get the tremolo action right. Surprisingly, intonation was fairly good, right out of the box. Now, the action is outstanding, after having cut the nut to lower string heights at the first fret. The neck is excellent, though a few frets needed to be tapped down a tiny bit. Smooth and fast neck. Nice light weight (7.46lbs, with tremolo arm). Crappy tuners, which will need replacing along with the pickups, but with those mods, and the aforementioned adjustments, this thing will play like a much more expensive USA start. My luthier put me on to these, and he was right. He also warned me to buy one in the early runs, because quality tends to go down as more batches of guitars are made. Good call, the newer ones aren't as nice as this one (fall of 08). I bought a few. One needed a neck-shim (no big deal). Great value.

I'd use it live, once tuners and pickups are changed. Don't hit the finish - my friend's cat knocked his over, and pieces of finish chipped off like glass, in round chunks. He sanded it, so his is reliced, haha.

I don't know if it has any warranty. For the $100 price tag, who cares.

Colors (504) Daphne Blue,
(506) Black,
(532) Brown Sunburst,
(540) Fiesta Red,
(570) Pink,
(580) Arctic White,
(Polyurethane Finish)
Body Basswood (42mm)
Neck Maple
Fingerboard Rosewood 9.5" Radius (241mm)
No. of Frets 21 Medium Jumbo
Pickups 3 Single-Coil Strat Pickups
Controls Master Volume, Tone, Tone
Pickup Switching 5-Position Blade:
Position 1. Bridge Pickup
Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
Position 3. Middle Pickup
Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup
Position 5. Neck Pickup
Bridge Synchronous Tremolo with Cast Saddles
Machine Heads Covered Tuners
Hardware Chrome
Pickguard 1-Ply White
Scale Length 25.5??? (648 mm)
Width at Nut 1.650??? (42 mm)
Unique Features Slim (42mm) Body Profile,
Traditional Strat?? Headstock Shape,
White Dot Position Inlays
Strings Fender Super 250L, (.009 to .042) Nickel Plated Steel p/n 073-0250-003
Accessories None

The sound is okay. It does suit my music style, blues, rock, and metal. It sounds good in the Ibanez IBZ-10 amp. I has a little bit of a hum to it, but really not that much. For what a beginning guitarist needs, it is very good.

Everything was set-up okay, but the worst part of this guitar is the pickguard. Seriously, it feels and looks like cheap plastic. My friend who owns this guitar told me it didn't contain any flaws. Pick-ups are okay. I am giving this a 6 because it was made decently.

My friend told me that he really depends on it, but if I owned this guitar, I would not really depend on this guitar.

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I have to say, this guitar is okay. Great for beginning guitarists. I have been playing for 3 years and I own a Fender Squier Stratocaster Vibe 60 that is pretty much better then this guitar, but who cares. For the money, this guitar is awesome! I do not own the Fender Squier bullet Strat, my freind just let me try it out for a while.

This Chinese guitar is worth the price i paid for it. It's built on the style of a strat; having the three basic single pick ups and a three way switch. It's got a gloss finish and it's red.

There's a little bit of hum but that's just normal for any single coil pick up guitar. it has a nice twang to it that resembles any strat out there. It's missing a little low end but it screams in a solo. it comes alive when playing blues and classic rock.

very smooth action!! my hands glide up and down the neck. it is however a smaller neck than i would prefer.

i haven't had any problems with it.

dealt with long and mcquade when i bought it. they were amazing in explaining the details.

good points:
very nice neck assembly
nice pups /switches/pots

bad points:
mediocre screw on top tuners...looks and feels cheap
bad pickguard design
mediocre to bad paint finish
mis-alligned screws on pickguard

I'll get straight to the point. This guitar is best for blues or bluesy rock. It has a mid boosted characteristic tone. That's why it somehow makes the sound clearer. pushing the volume way up, the pickup will give you a bit boosted natural OD which is very nice. But expecting this for distortion hype of music with a well balanced mid is different. Not versatile enough

nice fret/neck and headstock

paint finish though is mediocre

one issue though is the
bad pick guard design...

actually you will see that the other variant color models has the same design flaw, the pick guard did not fit well enough against the guitars body, so does with it's screws.

:/

I am a church mucisian playing LIVE weekly. This guitar acts very good for blues genre. but if your looking for that well balanced mid tone- this is not it

2008 Squier Bullet Strat (Daphne blue), made in China (not always a bad thing), Basswood slim body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, 21 medium jumbo frets, single ply white pickguard, 3 single coil Strat pickups (staggered poles), 5 way selector switch, 2 tone + 1 volume controls, traditional Strat wiring with 500K pots, vintage style tremolo, covered tuners and vintage Fender style headstock.

A typical Strat setup!!!

Unplugged - nothing out of the ordinary, as expected for a budget Strat.

Plugged in - Oh my! Totally unexpected! Pickups sound great! Sweet Strat tones with plenty of that bright Fender sparkle. Think Hendrix and SRV. Pickups are very quiet and humcancel in the middle positions. Add overdrive and distortion and these pickups handle blues to rock tones very nicely, not too muddy.

Great build quality! No sharp fret edges, tight neck joint and thin paint finish is flawless inside and out. Good factory setup straight out of the box. A quick action and pickup height adjustment and perfect! Low action with minimal fret buzz and the trem comes back to tune every time.

The only slight negative are the machine heads. These cheap sealed tuners don't tune or hold tune very accurately. These will be swapped for some Kluson style ones very soon.

Besides the tuners, the guitar quality is fantastic.

Its a Strat, use it and abuse it! However, always remember to never gig without a backup.

1 year Fender warranty. Never actually dealt with Fender directly so unable to comment.

I have heard that these Bullet Strats can be hits or misses, so I recommend that you inspect and try out a few prior to purchasing. However, its not just a beginners guitar, would suit even an advance guitarist as a second or backup guitar.

I have compared this with my 62' reissue Japan Strat with Texas Specials and my classic series 70's Strat with Texas specials and must say this Bullet Strat is right up there with them. For around $100 brand new, I have to rate this as fantastic value....go and get one!!!

Squier Bullet Strat, built in China in 2008. Solid pink polyurethane finish, same electronic features as a standard Stratocaster, basswood slim body (42mm), maple neck with rosewood fretboard 9.5" Radius (241mm), 21 medium jumbo frets, chrome hardware, synchronous tremolo with cast saddles, covered tuners, 1-ply white pickguard. It came with two wrenches for truss rod and bridge adjustments, and Fender Super 250L (.009 to .042) nickel plated steel strings.

Pretty decent and indeed surprising for a 100 Euro guitar manufactured in China. Not particularly noisy, it sounds exactly how you would expect a budged Strat to sound: not the real thing but still versatile, still clear, still nice. Suitable for practically every music genre you may think of. I was never very much of a Strat-guy but I have to admit that a Strat is always a Strat: a hell of an instrument.

First impression was definitely not good. A huge disappointment regarding Squier (by Fender) Quality Control. Setup right out of the box was just terrible, the bridge was randomly calibrated, the action was too high, pickups and neck were well positioned and adjusted, though. The bridge was poorly placed on the body, the position was good (strings looked perfectly centered over the scale and pickups) but some of the screws were in an angled, non perpendicular position and not totally screwed. Body and neck finish was flawless. Switch and pots were surprisingly silent. The neck felt surprisingly good. The stock pickguard is made of low quality plastic and looks pretty tacky.

Tuners are worthless, bridge is tolerable, electronics are way better than expected, strap buttons are solid. Right out of the box, I would never depend on this guitar; but with the right upgrades, I would surely gig with it and even use it in the studio, in case of an emergency! Read the whole story on the Overall Rating section.

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Why am I giving this guitar a 9, after having rated it as a mediocre instrument? Read the entire story below:

I'm a musician and a music producer for nearly ten years now. My girlfriend wanted to buy a guitar, a really cheap one just to give it a try, and asked me for advice. I was initially thinking about a small shaped guitar, like a Les Paul, in order to fit a girl's body elegantly, and ended up suggesting a cheap Epiphone or Ibanez. She was more into dreadful stuff from brands like Jack & Danny, Rockson or Harley Benton but when she saw the pink Squier Strat she immediately made her choice. I was ok about it, I heard many stories in the past about some Squiers sounding better than some Fenders so it seemed like the perfect bargain. And, of course, it's always nice to buy budget stuff with Fender officially printed on it.

My first impression on the guitar was definitely negative but after playing it for a few minutes I started realizing that it was mostly due to a negligent setup and started recognizing its potential. I grabbed my tool-box and began teaking, fixed the bridge issue, lowered the action, tuned the scaled and believe it or not, I ended up with an incredibly comfortable, easy to play, instrument. Great touch and feel, extra-low action, very fast and smooth neck. Decent, noiseless sound. Absolutely perfect for a beginner and still pretty usable in live/studio environments. Not the best instrument right out of the box but a very interesting option if you consider upgrading.

Assuming you spend 50??? more on a set of tuners, and 100??? in a decent set of single coils, you'll end up with a 250??? instrument with a quality level of a 600??? axe. A respectable backup instrument for a ridiculous price.