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Post subject: Squire bullet Sea Foam/Rosewood
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:40 pm
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I just picked up a $120.00 Bullet at my local dealer. It's Sea Foam with Rosewood.
I loved it the minuite I picked it up. Great action and finish. The sound is quite different than my MIM Standard. The string tension on my Bullet is much less than a Standard. It plays more like a Gibson 335 Very easy to fret. I cannot figure out why there is such a difference. It's in standard tuning. No complains though. The Bullet has a more mellow Jazzie sound than the shaper twangy rock sound of the MIM Standard. Sea Foam green as an option on the Squire website. It's a new guitar, and no, I am not mistaking Dauphine for Sea Foam, its definately Sea Foam. I wish Betty Page was still young and living in my town. Just need a "57 Chevy" thanks Fender for a neat inexpensive treat!!


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Post subject: Re: Squire bullet Sea Foam/Rosewood
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:25 pm
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I just picked up a $120.00 Bullet at my local dealer. It's Sea Foam with Rosewood.
I loved it the minuite I picked it up. Great action and finish. The sound is quite different than my MIM Standard. The string tension on my Bullet is much less than a Standard. It plays more like a Gibson 335 Very easy to fret. I cannot figure out why there is such a difference. It's in standard tuning. No complains though. The Bullet has a more mellow Jazzie sound than the shaper twangy rock sound of the MIM Standard. Sea Foam green as an option on the Squire website. It's a new guitar, and no, I am not mistaking Dauphine for Sea Foam, its definately Sea Foam. I wish Betty Page was still young and living in my town. Just need a "57 Chevy" thanks Fender for a neat inexpensive treat!!


Congrats! Maybe the MIM needs a setup or at least trussrod adjustment?

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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:49 pm
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Congrats on the new guitar. Post pics if you can. Sounds like a lovely guitar.

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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:43 am
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Correction: I don't know why I said "Sea Foam", the color is called "Surf Green" by Fender. Curious enough I was in a Guitar Center in Jackson Miss. this weekend and there was a Bullet Strat there in what I take to be "Vintage White" with rosewood. I see neither of these colors, surf green nor vintage white" on the Squirer chart. I did not buy the "Vintage White" but wish now I had. It looks much like Ritchie Blackmore's "Vintage White" rosewood 70's Strat that he has played since the early 1970's.

I bought some standard fender black knobs and pickup covers to replace the white ones on my squire, but alas, the standard fender pickup covers do not fit the squire pattern. The metal pegs that protude out of the pickup are seated in a wider pattern that the squire pattern. The knobs fit and the black really sets off the surf green.


My MIM is supposed to have been set up from the dealer, at least that what he told me. I have reason to doubt him though. when I opened the back cover of the MIM one of the screws on the "claw" was turned down about a 3/4 inch more than the other, leaving the whole mechanism crossed. I cannot imagine it leaving the factory this way but thats the way it came.


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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:12 pm
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I bought a Bullet at my local store last year that's Surf Green with a very dark wood almost black fretboard. Looks a lot like the color and grain of ebony like Gibson has used on their Les Pauls. I put some 57/62 pickups in it and now I'm looking for a maple fretboard for this baby. To me this is one of the best colors ever painted on a Strat body.

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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:24 am
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I love the color also. I wish Fender made the MIM standard in surf green.

Your going to change the fretboard to maple or change the whole neck?

I was pondering a heavier more substantial bridge and bridge block. The one installed is so limp and thin. someone told me the bullets are made to metric specs and MIM bridge will not fit.


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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:53 am
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Good to know about the pickup covers.I was going to make the same changes on my affinity strat. I will just take the guitar to GC with me to make sure anything I get will fit.$Money$ is tight these day's and no good getting something that you can't work with now.I am so glad that there is Squier guitars to go to in this time of "hard times" for allot of us.And being able to own more guitars is just great.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:44 am
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It might be hard to get squire parts. Probably a special order as most of them usually: 1. leave the store. 2. are given to or bought by a aspiring player. 3. Player finds out it becoming a "guitar hero" takes more work that he estimated. 4 guitar goes to closet, under the bed or the nearest pawn shop.

Not much call for parts.

I am going to change the tuning pegs on my squire and put some black covered "lace sensors" on the guitar. change all of the guts . should be a nice player when done.


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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:41 am
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I have a Bullet Strat. I would post some pictures if I knew how. Anyway, awsome guitar once set up. Even with the stock pickups. Especially the neck pickup. I love it.


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am i the only one having problems finding any proof that squier produced any green squiers in the current bullet line?

i would have one already if they did.

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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:39 am
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hotrodperlmutter wrote:
am i the only one having problems finding any proof that squier produced any green squiers in the current bullet line?

i would have one already if they did.


I have arctic white, and I love the colour. As far as I know there is no green Bullet, but Daphne Blue, which is something in between blue and green. To me anyway.

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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:43 pm
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surf green:
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daphne blue:
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squier's closest bullet:
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looks like a pale/iced daphne, but sure as $@!& doesn't look like a green.

post pics and prove me wrong.

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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:15 am
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I've got your back on this one...i almost bought a Surf Green bullet yesterday, had it been left handed....i ended up buying a 2 tone affinity instead....Surf green is out there though...

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go back and take pictures, because i'm not buying it. i've searched pretty hard, and have come up with dick, so if you've seen one, prove me wrong.

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No need to go back.....a few minutes on Google...it was last years model//




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