Squier Bullet

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Squier Bullet

Manufacturer	Squier
Period	1980-present
Construction
Body type	Solid
Neck joint	Bolt-on
Woods
Body	Agathis
Neck	Maple
Fretboard	Rosewood
Hardware
Bridge	Hardtail
Pickup(s)	3 single-coils
Colors available
Baltic Blue

The Squier Bullet is an electric guitar that emulates the Fender Stratocaster and Squier Stratocaster, but with modifications to reduce cost and increase affordability. Like the Squier Stratocaster, it is not considered a strat copy as it is manufactured by Squier, a subsidiary of Fender and therefore still retained under the Fender brand name.

1 Construction
2 Special Edition
3 The original Squier Bullet (1980s)
4 External links

[edit] Construction

The solid body of a Squier Bullet is made of agathis, a relatively inexpensive tonewood. Its shape is similar to that of a Stratocaster with the characteristic mid-body contour and staggered double cut-outs, but is made slightly thinner. The fingerboard is exclusively made from rosewood. It also does not come with a tremolo as most Stratocasters do, the bridge instead being replaced by a hardtail. The pickups are three machine-wound single-coil pickups.

[edit] Special Edition

A special edition of the Squier Bullet comes with a blue metallic instead of baltic blue finish, a black instead of white pickguard, and a single humbucker pickup located in the bridge position instead of three single-coil pickups. It also replaces the volume knob, two tone knobs and five-way switch with a single black volume knob.

[edit] The original Squier Bullet (1980s)

Squier Bullet (original style), made in Japan circa 1983.

The current Stratocaster-based Bullet is not to be confused with this unique model, made throughout the 1980s in Japan. While the overall look was vaguely reminiscent of the Strat, and it similarly featured three single-coil pickups, the '80s Bullet had a smaller body without any contouring (somewhat like a Musicmaster/Duosonic but with more pronounced cutaway horns), a Telecaster-style neck, and simplified wiring. Another Bullet variation featured humbucking pickups and no pickguard for an ersatz superstrat look.