NGD: Squier Bullet Strat

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:16 am

Nigged! Found this Bullet for sale locally for Â£60, I loved the colour and thought it could make a good basis for a mini project.

I sold the neck before taking pics...

The colour is officially 'Daphne Blue' but looks a lot more like this:

New mint pickguard and aged bits:

I'm just waiting on the new neck arriving. These Bullets are great guitars for the money

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:49 pm

that looks delicious. i love daphne blue strats, and i hate strats on principle.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:54 pm

nice looking especially with the new guard

cur · Post by **cur** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:24 pm

Favorite color combo: daphne blue with mint guard

. Maple or rosewood neck. Some day I am going to do a similar project.

Get extra rough with it so it gets beaten up quick.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:12 pm

It's amazing how much better it looks with the new plastic on it.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:26 pm

this generation of bullets has really nicely contoured edges. they're much more rounded than most squiers and even japanese fenders.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:55 pm

that seems like a lot for a loaded squier bullet body. those guitars are $120 new.

looks great with the mint, however.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:01 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:that seems like a lot for a loaded squier bullet body. those guitars are $120 new.

I thought the same then saw that he'd put

TheBurbz wrote:I sold the neck before taking pics...

Easy to miss amongst the pics, though.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:08 pm

oh nice. missed that bit.

what're the plans for a neck, burble?

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:11 pm

that is my favorite strat colour, i wish that mine hadn't split in two
when you get the neck rock the fuck out of it.

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:26 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:oh nice. missed that bit.

what're the plans for a neck, burble?

Going for the vintage tint + rosewood combo, I'm thinking of buying this:

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I sold the old neck for Â£35 so I can put the money towards the new one. Seeing how well this has turned out makes me want to buy more Bullets, I think the red one would look pretty cool with the same pickguard + knob combo. The pink one would certainly be cool with a mint guard.

For some reason the neck pickup had really narrow pole spacing and the covers would not fit so I swapped it for another Squier pickup that I had in my parts bin.

markleton · Post by **markleton** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:45 pm

What's the pickup routing like? If there's space for a bridge humbucker I'm mighty tempted to find a cheap one to use as a backup.

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:05 pm

It's HSS config and you can already buy it with HSS pickups, although they are a lot more scarce than the SSS models.

Our US friends get this Bullet HH hardtail:

and trem model:

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:04 am

here's mine!!!

duocaster III

difference between squier daphne blue and fender daphne blue

drBenway · Post by **drBenway** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:03 am

That looks great. The shell pink one was on sale on thomann for quite a while, too bad I didn't pick one up.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:17 pm

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Lucamo · Post by **Lucamo** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:34 pm

Man I wanna make a duocaster

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:14 am

That's a brilliant idea. When I replace the Hello Kitty Strat neck with the Duo-Sonic neck, I'm going to have a maple 25.5" neck with pink dots on it. If I got a pink bullet and made it into a Duo-Caster, it'd be an amazing little axe. Can someone tell me what the routing under the pickguard looks like? Would it take an angled neck pickup?

weed_killer · Post by **weed_killer** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:29 pm

excuse the size of the pic. It seems like you can get an angled neck pickup to fit in the existing routes: