SLOANcastar

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:28 am

i found this on offset, figured i should post it here. this guy claims 2006 was the only year they made hardtail squier bullet strats (i'm not saying they don't, but how the fuck do you verify that?)

shit says SLOAN right on it. get some.

tomin8r · Post by **tomin8r** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:34 am

needs moar puke.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:40 am

I've definitely seen the hardtail bullet strats before. no idea what the years were though. the thing I really like about the new bullet strats though is the body edge routing is really well done and nice and rounded, not all boxy like most squiers, including these older bullets.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:50 am

Sloancastrated tremoloez.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:00 am

mage wrote:I've definitely seen the hardtail bullet strats before. no idea what the years were though. the thing I really like about the new bullet strats though is the body edge routing is really well done and nice and rounded, not all boxy like most squiers, including these older bullets.

typically what i've seen (and owned) are hardtail squier bullets (not labeled as strats) that were hardtailed with bridge humbuckers. basically a squier delonge without string thru and some bullshit humbucker, and a little headstock.

i never saw a hardtailed bullet strat, as they're now known, in my years of fancying a pink one.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:38 am

yeah, I know the ones you're talking about. they came in orange and, um.... another color that was pretty cool... and they had the black pickguards. yeah, those were cool.

these other ones came in really ugly colors though. that combined with the fact that the edges are almost like a tele made them pretty undesirable in my opinion.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:40 am

see what I mean? could you have possibly picked more boring color choices.

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:19 am

My first guitar was a squire strat and it had a hardtail. It must have been in 2003.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:28 am

mage wrote:yeah, I know the ones you're talking about. they came in orange and, um.... another color that was pretty cool... and they had the black pickguards. yeah, those were cool.

these other ones came in really ugly colors though. that combined with the fact that the edges are almost like a tele made them pretty undesirable in my opinion.

gash. what's with the half ass pickguards on those? they don't even wrap around the top of the bridge! weak sauce. in fact, they look almost like mini-bodied strats. look how big the bridge plate is compared to the rest of the guitar, and look how close together the knobs are! they're supposed to be made by Indonesian kids, not for them!

i've had these:

still have ^

and i also have an all black one. really not fantastic guitars, except the orange "20th anniversary" model. neck was bad ass, and the tuners were fantastic. pickup was meh, but really nice finish.

i tore up the green/blue one and put a delonge pg on it with a duncan invader. the downfall was the shit plastic/wood neck. i ended up taking the neck off and put a delonge squier neck on it, but then later sold that neck, and so now i have the body with loaded pg just layin' round.

i need to sell all this shit.

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:57 am

i spent an hour playing one of those blue bullet strats in a shop today, but they had no price on it, and couldn't find it in the system
they would not take 60 cash as a final sale price on it though

but i dig that its kinda like a strat / bronco cross but with a humbucker

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:58 pm

this thing sucks until he pays robOG/MoRawka to build him a custom two pickguard with 2 pickup routes and no slider switch route.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:19 pm

serfx wrote:but i dig that its kinda like a strat / bronco cross but with a humbucker

how is it anywhere near a bronco?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:43 pm

I had one of those. The neck was trash so i put a MIK neck on it and scalloped the fretboard.

I eventually fitted a Duncan Custom and it was a nice guitar by the time i'd finished.

gpselmer · Post by **gpselmer** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:00 pm

I always wondered how a scalopped neck feels like... got to try one...