Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Mechanical Birds » Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:45 pm

mbene085 wrote:
Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:35 pm
jdr1014 wrote:
Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:26 pm
These are kinda cool - especially for the price, but an offset with humbuckers and no trem is not exactly for me. Might be a fun little "project guitar" though. I'm sure many folks will really like them!
The great thing about them is that they've got swimming pool routs.

It makes it easy to take certain liberties with mods.

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Wucan » Fri Aug 06, 2021 9:12 pm

jdr1014 wrote:
Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:26 pm
These are kinda cool - especially for the price, but an offset with humbuckers and no trem is not exactly for me. Might be a fun little "project guitar" though. I'm sure many folks will really like them!

I love Sherwood Green but Squier's shade of it seems too light to my eye (just like the CV Strats with matching headstocks they had a few years back). Also, there seems to be a difference in stripe width and spacing between the green and yellow ones posted above.
Mockups can lie sometimes. The Contemporary Jag looked teal in promotion materials, yet IRL it's unambiguously blue...

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So the guitar could well be darker, or maybe it'll have that bluish "DuPont" tinge.

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Stephen_42 » Sat Aug 07, 2021 3:06 am

mbene085 wrote:
Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:35 pm
jdr1014 wrote:
Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:26 pm
These are kinda cool - especially for the price, but an offset with humbuckers and no trem is not exactly for me. Might be a fun little "project guitar" though. I'm sure many folks will really like them!
The great thing about them is that they've got swimming pool routs.

It makes it easy to take certain liberties with mods.

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How did the neck swap work? I thought the bullet Mustangs were 24.75 scale, and presumably the Jaguar neck is the usual 24.00?

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Logrinn » Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:10 am

Bullet Mustangs are 24” scale as well

https://www.fender.com/en-US/squier-ele ... 20548.html

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Stephen_42 » Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:18 am

Logrinn wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:10 am
Bullet Mustangs are 24” scale as well

https://www.fender.com/en-US/squier-ele ... 20548.html
Huh, I had it in my head that they were 24.75 since they first came out. I wonder where I got that idea from.

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by sal paradise » Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:34 am

Stephen_42 wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:18 am
Logrinn wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 4:10 am
Bullet Mustangs are 24” scale as well

https://www.fender.com/en-US/squier-ele ... 20548.html
Huh, I had it in my head that they were 24.75 since they first came out. I wonder where I got that idea from.
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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Futuron » Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:48 pm

or Cyclone

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by sal paradise » Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:22 am

Futuron wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:48 pm
or Cyclone
I didn’t know the cyclone was 24.75!

What do those Gibson scale fender necks feel like compared to 24 & 25.5?

Not that it matters to me being left handed :'(
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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Tarquin » Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:32 am

sal paradise wrote:
Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:22 am
Futuron wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:48 pm
or Cyclone
I didn’t know the cyclone was 24.75!

What do those Gibson scale fender necks feel like compared to 24 & 25.5?

I can't speak for the current models, but I had a Squier Vintage Modified Thinline Telecaster that was 24.75 scale and it was great, really easy to play but probably a little less 'snappy' and more 'slinky' feeling than a normal Telecaster. Tone was a little darker than a full length Tele as well. Still felt very much like a Fender/Squier neck to play as it had the common Squier modern C profile, which always feels familiar whatever the scale length.

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Wucan » Thu Aug 12, 2021 7:04 pm

If anyone in NA is interested, I shot Fender an email asking about the availability of this model in our side of the world... will share the response when I get it.

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Mervynskidmore » Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:56 am

I doubt they will be available in USA. I asked Thomann if they would be stocking them and they said they wouldn't. This looks like a UK exclusive only.

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Futuron » Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:38 am

Mervynskidmore wrote:
Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:56 am
I doubt they will be available in USA. I asked Thomann if they would be stocking them and they said they wouldn't. This looks like a UK exclusive only.
Andertons & CME now have some kind of 'thing' going with Fender, so it will very likely be available there too

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Mervynskidmore » Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:22 am

It's available in a number of UK stores so it doesn't seem to be a part of the Andertons/CME partnership. The stripes aren't really to my liking but I'm just tempted by anything Sherwood Green. Thinking about buying this and sticking an aged pearloid pickguard on it and kiwi the neck.

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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Wucan » Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:21 pm

Mervynskidmore wrote:
Fri Aug 13, 2021 12:56 am
I doubt they will be available in USA. I asked Thomann if they would be stocking them and they said they wouldn't. This looks like a UK exclusive only.
That's a huge bummer. The "greener" Sherwood finish is by far my favorite one, and this is legitimately the first Mustang that has it.
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Re: Competition Bullet Mustang in Sherwood Green

Post by Wucan » Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:05 pm

Heard back from Fender support, they confirmed it's an Europe-only run. Saaaaaaad :(

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