Poll: Squier Bullet Mustang worth its price?
- somanytoys
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Re: Poll: Squier Bullet Mustang worth its price?
You should do some research to see which guitars will fit around those pickups properly, and then make a specific choice.
Kind of like buying a car to fit on tires that you already have, but hey, these are weird times.
And I bet you’ll enjoy it.
Kind of like buying a car to fit on tires that you already have, but hey, these are weird times.
And I bet you’ll enjoy it.
-David
It's a boost booster, to boost your boost - it makes your tone much muchier.
It's a boost booster, to boost your boost - it makes your tone much muchier.
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These have a swimming pool route, literally anything fits, just have to cut a pickguard for them.
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The only thing that fits is a pickguard made for them. There is no other Mustang with the same outline and screwhole placement. FWIW the bridges are in different places slightly on every one, or at least, that's what it seems like. The screwholes have moved ever so-slightly on the newer ones as well, but a guard made for an older one will fit newer ones.Pepe Silvia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:43 pmWhat pickguards fit these? I want to swap in regular Mustang pickups when mine arrives and was getting a parts order together now.
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Here is mine - "LPB" competition. The colour is more of a light blue sparkle than LPB. The comp stripes are painted on and under the clear coat - is that how they are on real ones, I'd always imagined they were stickers...?
Well worth the £139 I paid. The body is immaculate - no faults at all. The neck was a real mixed bag. Fret ends were *perfect* but the actual fret surface really rough and needed a good wire wool polish. Some people have had flaming on their necks - not me - it's a pretty ugly grain, but seems perfectly stable. The neck is as skinny and bendy as people have said, and on mine a bit dinged from transport.
I bought it with the intention off modding it a bit for no money - I sanded the dings out of the neck and the rest of the finish on the back (which was really thin) and waxed it with Briwax to give it some colour. I was going to Briwax the headstock face and keep the Squier logo, but the toluene in the wax started to strip the text, so I sanded it, tinted it with aniline dye, and Tru-Oiled it. The Fender transfer was the cheapest suitable one I could get quickly.
I really didn't like the machine heads and found a direct replacement of some Korean Gotoh copies (that had been in a box under the eaves for 15 years) which work much better, and I find the buttons more comfortable.
I swapped the cast saddles for some from my CIJ Strat (that now has a Calaham on). They needed a bit of grinding to fit the tighter spacing, but seem a real improvement.
Apart from the logo, I haven't spent anything beyond the purchase price on it. But I have a diMarzio EJ Custom with no home that I might put in the neck. That will mean I'll feel the need to buy a pickup for the bridge...
Well worth the £139 I paid. The body is immaculate - no faults at all. The neck was a real mixed bag. Fret ends were *perfect* but the actual fret surface really rough and needed a good wire wool polish. Some people have had flaming on their necks - not me - it's a pretty ugly grain, but seems perfectly stable. The neck is as skinny and bendy as people have said, and on mine a bit dinged from transport.
I bought it with the intention off modding it a bit for no money - I sanded the dings out of the neck and the rest of the finish on the back (which was really thin) and waxed it with Briwax to give it some colour. I was going to Briwax the headstock face and keep the Squier logo, but the toluene in the wax started to strip the text, so I sanded it, tinted it with aniline dye, and Tru-Oiled it. The Fender transfer was the cheapest suitable one I could get quickly.
I really didn't like the machine heads and found a direct replacement of some Korean Gotoh copies (that had been in a box under the eaves for 15 years) which work much better, and I find the buttons more comfortable.
I swapped the cast saddles for some from my CIJ Strat (that now has a Calaham on). They needed a bit of grinding to fit the tighter spacing, but seem a real improvement.
Apart from the logo, I haven't spent anything beyond the purchase price on it. But I have a diMarzio EJ Custom with no home that I might put in the neck. That will mean I'll feel the need to buy a pickup for the bridge...
All the cheeses....
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Well FUCK
I'd put a sonic grey one in my shopping basket @ the MusicStore site yesterday but wanted to get paid another guitar first, so I didn't hit the buy button.
And now today it seems they're all sold out and/or off the market all of a sudden WTF?!
I'd put a sonic grey one in my shopping basket @ the MusicStore site yesterday but wanted to get paid another guitar first, so I didn't hit the buy button.
And now today it seems they're all sold out and/or off the market all of a sudden WTF?!
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
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No wait, it seeeems I might have been able to get their last one! *knock on wood*
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
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I just bought a surf green one yesterday. My plan is to play with it stock for a bit and after it gets old pull the neck off. Give it a fret end filing and polish then sell it to someone who likes stock necks and replace it with a vintage spec on from Warmoth. And possibly replace the pickguard/pickups. I'm pumped!!!
I finally finish building a guitar, go to play it, and then remember, "oh yeah, that's right. I suck at playing... Why did I build another guitar again?"
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GOT IT!!! and I must confess I am VERY pleasantly surprised by it. Overall great workmanship and the pickups don't really suck, even!
Oiling the fretboard right now, then putting some decent strings on it.
I was planning on dropping in some old Univox/Maxon buckers j have here but
...not right now!
With my €10 coupon I got 2 pairs of stings for free, basically.
So far, VERY well worth it. And the gray color is dreamy!
Oiling the fretboard right now, then putting some decent strings on it.
I was planning on dropping in some old Univox/Maxon buckers j have here but
...not right now!
With my €10 coupon I got 2 pairs of stings for free, basically.
So far, VERY well worth it. And the gray color is dreamy!
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
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...so 2 hours after unpacking this is now a pretty damn good and solid guitar.
Oiled the neck, polished the frets, lowered the action (saddles and a 1/4 turn of the truss rod), 11-52 strings.
Ready to go!
i love delay SO much ...that i procrastinate all the time.
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The Squier-Talk forum has a 33 page thread devoted to mods for these. Worth perusing.
http://www.squier-talk.com/threads/bull ... ds.120709/
http://www.squier-talk.com/threads/bull ... ds.120709/
I'm sure some Fender dealer in '64 looked at the new Duo-Sonic II and thought, "That's not a Duo-Sonic. That's a Mustang".
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That's a beaut!
I've never put 11's on mine - do you find the neck "bendy"? With the stock 9's, and even 10's, I find i can get a bit of a whammy effect by accident while playing just by putting pressure on the neck. I wonder if the extra string tension stabilizes that?
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nice vid cheers for sharing. but please people stop reminding me about these.......... sorely tempted, looks like a fun instrument to own
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The way I would justify getting one to myself would be that.....I want one.
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Re: Poll: Squier Bullet Mustang worth its price?
Glad you finally got yours and that you're happy with it, Pat!mbene085 wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 9:57 amThat's a beaut!
I've never put 11's on mine - do you find the neck "bendy"? With the stock 9's, and even 10's, I find i can get a bit of a whammy effect by accident while playing just by putting pressure on the neck. I wonder if the extra string tension stabilizes that?
Finally had the opportunity to play my niece's one again yesterday! It's such fun! Instant Ty Segall/Garage-Surf-Punk Vibes! I miss a trem bar - but somehow it really makes something with my playing/attitude... And Sonic Grey is such a cool color! I wish there was a Squier CV 70s Jaguar in that exact color.
My observation was that it went pretty sharp (like half to full step) probably due to the temperature rise and presumably it has not been played at all since the last time I checked - which was about a month or two ago. But it also still has 9s on it. So maybe there is even too little tension on this specific one? Haven't checked for neck-vibrato-effect. Will do next time!