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Post subject: Squier Bullet Tele - First Impressions
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 1:53 pm
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Hi,
I bought a Squier S/S Bullet on line from Best Buy Canada as a modding platform. I have a number of guitars, nothing fancy, (MiM Strat, Chinese Schecter, Hagstrom Viking etc..) and not one is original. ;)

So... out of the box...
Positives:
-Decent Paint (black)
-Decent Thick One-Ply pick-guard
-Decent "Bones" (A full width body & decent but a bit chunky neck)
-Pickups that curiously sound like half decent Tele pickups.
-Price

Negatives:
-Mind blowingly hand slicing and dicing fret ends - an hour with a fret file and the risk of stitches has been reduced. I pity the beginner that gets one of these. They were bad, I mean REALLY REALLY bad.

-Nut isn't centered which is visually annoying but not so off-center as to effect play.

-Set up (or lack there of) was brutal. Truss rod was cranked to the point of back-bow, saddles to set so high I could almost use them as step stools - not your typical F style set up... ;) Once again, I pity the beginner that gets one of these.

So... good bones in need of TLC.


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Post subject: Re: Squier Bullet Tele - First Impressions
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 2:49 pm
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jruddy wrote:
Negatives:
-Mind blowingly hand slicing and dicing fret ends - an hour with a fret file and the risk of stitches has been reduced. I pity the beginner that gets one of these. They were bad, I mean REALLY REALLY bad.


How sharp were they good enough for a blood cut or paper cut sized cut that hurts a ton but you can't see any blood.

I recently returned my Bullet Strat which has sharp frets near the 10th to 16th frets. It looked smooth but ended up cutting myself. I'm now wondering if most Squires have sharp frets.


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Post subject: Re: Squier Bullet Tele - First Impressions
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:27 pm
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I wonder if that's fairly common. A friend went through 10 - 12 Squire Teles before he found one with overall good construction and finish. Even then though, he had to have the frets worked on before he took it home. He was telling me that not single one (over two days of trying them out) had frets you could really play on as arrived.


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