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Squier: Bullet Strat reviews

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Review by a visitor on 5.5.2007




I bought it at Mitros Music in Belgrade for 100e. Its realy a great guitar fot that kind of money. Ive heard some positive comments on it so i checked it out, liked it and bought it.

 
 
  Features  
 
Pickups are good, but could have been better. Easy to change wires. Its very editabile when it comes to new parts.The rest of the electronic parts are preety cheap and lack in quality. The tremolo is useless becouse it gets out of tune realy fast.

 
 
 
  Playability  
 
It has a preety bright tone, and becouse of a thin neck its very easy to play.For example, a friend of mine has a Gibson Les Paul copy with 2 Humbuckers, and my Bullet Strat Beats his sustain, level and tone posabilities. However, when it comes to serious sound it can never be compared with the original fender guitars or, for that matter, any other more expensive original guitar.
 
 
 
  Quality  
 
In my county, there is a saying: "How much money you give, that much music you get". If you run into a bullet strat with solid wood body (a lot of these guitars are laminated) but it. I know i did.
 
 
 
  Durability  
 
Its preety good and reliable for gigs, and it sounds powerfull ona a 100w amp. In combination with a good distortion or an Amp overdrive it can sound preety good, but nothing spectacular.
 
 
 
  Overall  
 
I truly recomend this guitar to all beginers, as well as to all the professionals that need a good guitar to practice on. It can last very long if you take proper care of it. If youre looking to spicing up this guitar i recomend:

1. New pickups (3 Mighty Mite Singlecoil - 40$ or an EMG Humbucker- About 100$)

2. Wilkinson Tremolo Bridge (About 40$)

3. Dunlop fat frets (when original frets expire)
 
 

Review by a visitor on 15.9.2006




Purchased from local music/guitar shop for $99 in 2002. I used to play electic in younger days and wanted to try it again, but didnnullt want ot commit to much money. Bought a $100 VOX beginners amp with it.

 
 
  Features  
 
A barebones Strat style made on the cheap. Pickups, selector switch, volume and tone pots, bridge and tuners are LOW cost parts and are not Fender quality. Only barebones shielding inside.

Neck is nice quality for the price. Fit and finish are acceptable.
 
 
 
  Playability  
 
The action is satisfactory. Impressive for a $99 guitar, actually.
 
 
 
  Quality  
 
Sounds fine, a bit thin, weaker than a real Strat, of course. Inullve had no problem with hum.

I recently replaced the pickups with a set of overstocks from Reverand Guitars. Wow, what a sound punch up!
 
 
 
  Durability  
 
Seems perfectly durable for a beginner/cheap-o guitar. Donnullt know why anyone good enough to be on the road would use this unless itnulls meant for a final "Pete Townshead Smashup" at the end of the show.

It stays in tune well enough.
 
 
 
  Overall  
 
I give this guitar a "Good" rating, not because itnulls a good guitar compaired to a "real" guitar (ie: one that costs over $400-$500), but because the quality for the price is amazing. I remember when a hundred dollar electric guitar meant a bowed neck with the twelfth fret a half inch below the strings. The bottom line is that manufacturing quality control for a low end guitar like the Bullet is so much higher than it use to be. With the Squire Bullet, a beginner guitarist (or one without much cash) can for very little money play something that is a lot closer in playability and sound to a professional gutar than to the beginning guitars of the past.
 
 

Review by subzero3009 on 22.5.2006




Played it in a Guitar shop. Didnnullt buy it though.

 
 
  Features  
 
The only strong point of this is that it looks kinda nice. Nicer then some others but thats about it. Major weak point is the pick-up switch is bad, the pickups dont really do much. And the Sound has way 2 much feedback with distortion pedals.
 
 
 
  Playability  
 
It is hard to play in alot of ways. I play really hardcore metal, the fretboard on this thing sucks. Its not smooth and its hard to fret on.
 
 
 
  Quality  
 
Sound quality isnt good, too much feedback. Effects are BAD, it gives way to much feedback where u cannullt hear it well. It Generates really bad buzzing noise.
 
 
 
  Durability  
 
These things wont stay in-tune to save ur life, the pickups and wires go bad really easily.
 
 
 
  Overall  
 
Not worth a buy. Just buy it if you want to look professional but the sound is crap.
 
 

Review by a visitor on 23.11.2005




My brother purchased it at Billy Hyde. Cost about $250 Inullm pretty sure. He got it for me because I didnnullt know what to get (I was a beginner) and it is a pretty good guitar for the money I paid.

 
 
  Features  
 
Looks pretty alright. It has got a whammy bar and comes with good quality Fender strings
 
 
 
  Playability  
 
Yeah it plays pretty well although i have played more playable guitars (that are more expensive though)but it definately does the job.
 
 
 
  Quality  
 
Souds pretty good. Might be a bit of a feed back problem. Not completely even paint work though...
 
 
 
  Durability  
 
Doesnnullt go out of tune heaps. Taken a couple of small hits but is still great
 
 
 
  Overall  
 
I will get a better guitar sometime but this definately does the job reasonably well for the money you pay for it.
 
 

Review by a visitor on 14.11.2005




I bought my bullet at music depot for under 200 i think, its got the usual 2 tone, 1 volume knobs. It was my first electric.

 
 
  Features  
 
Nothing special here, standard guitar you get exactly what you paid for.
It bends great, great for powerd cord music.
 
 
 
  Playability  
 
this is a good guitar to play, becuase the neck style is pefect, its simular to alot of other fenders. skinny neck. when i got mine i had to adjust the neck so the strings wouldnt vibrate against the frets for a better sound.
 
 
 
  Quality  
 
the quality isnnullt that good, i think this is a laminated guitar. but i dont care what its made out of cause it plays great for the price. the nect is maple and the fret board is rosewood (im pretty sure)
 
 
 
  Durability  
 
this is a very reliable guitar, ive droped mine hundreds of times, and hasnt broken yet. stays in tune good, and is easy to tune and, it only takes about 10 minutes to change the strings.
 
 
 
  Overall  
 
this is a great guitar, i like the stratocaster styling, but it is clearly a squire.
 
 

Review by mldhippy on 21.7.2005




I bought it at Sound Vibrations on Valentines Day of 2004, and I paid $100 for it.

 
 
  Features  
 
It is a mid 2000 Baltic Blue Squire Bullet, with 21 frets,white pickgaurd,2 tone
knobs,one volume knob,3 pickups,and a pickup switch to control where the sound gets picked up from.Itnulls very strong or sturdy guitar because it has fallen over too many times and has barely any dents,dings, or scratches on it.It doesnnullt have a whammy bar which I donnullt mind.Itnulls weak spot is that it falls over alot,which kinda has nothing to do with the guitar itnulls a matter of where I put it.
 
 
 
  Playability  
 
you can reach your disered expectations with it. Itnulls easier to play than an acoustic but thats how it is with electric guitars.It works very well compared to other electric guitars as well.
 
 
 
  Quality  
 
The sound quality is great along with performance quality. The only performance problem is that I cannullt manuever around with it but that is my experience not really the design of the guitar.
 
 
 
  Durability  
 
Itnulls very reliable, the only adjusting it has needed is the strings either tuning or changing them which is normal for every guitar. I have played it at every live gig Inullve done and it has never failed.
 
 
 
  Overall  
 
I really like this guitar overall. I chose this one because it was the shape of guitar Jimi Hendrix used to play. It has lived up to my expectations. I am considering getting a better guitar because this is my only electric guitar.
 
 

Review by xfridgex on 3.1.2005




I bought it at A&A Music in England about 2 years ago and i paid exactly ?99.00 for it.

 
 
  Features  
 

Donnullt know what wood itnulls made out of .
No tremolo bar.
1 volume control , 2 tone controls.
18 frets.
Black body with a white fretboard.
6 strings.
 
 
 
  Playability  
 
With this guitar , the missing tremolo bar is replaced with an incredibly easy use for string bending. You can either bend it up to higher the note by about 2 notes or you can flip it over the bottom of the neck to reach up to 6 notes higher.
It tunes up really fast and if ever you are about to play a gig and the terrible happens IE , your guitars out of tune. You donnullt have to worry because you can tune it up in about 30 seconds without the aid of any type of tuning gear at all.
 
 
 
  Quality  
 
It is a very quiet guitar if it isnnullt plugged into an amplifier so it is good to pay if you donnullt want to wake people up in the middle of the night !!!!!
Doesnnullt have any built-in effects.
It has a great toen to it , not to much treble and not to much bass , just right.
It is an alright guitar for lead players but i have played better ones.
 
 
 
  Durability  
 
After a while the strings will go way out of tune and it is an impossible job trying to tune them back up without buying now strings but my strings havnnullt been changed for ages so you could probably ignore that.
Definatly playable at a gig , doesnnullt break that easily ( believe me , i have got angry and tried !!! ).
It looks like a normal stratocaster but is definatly lighter.
You would in no doubt look really cool playing live with it.
I have accidently dropped it before now and it still sounds brilliant.
I know that some things are not all excellent but this is really a topper in the durabilaty rating.
 
 
 
  Overall  
 

A very good and easy playable guitar. Great for beginners and experts.
It could be better. I wouldnnullt sell it for he world but i do have a dream as every guitar player does and it is to own a Gibson Les Paul but i suppose this one will do in the mean time !!!!!
I would recommend it to you and i would recommend you recommend it your friends etc.
Overall , pretty decent !!!

I will write more reviews on other stuff soon.