Customer Reviews

Squier by Fender BulletStrat w/Trem, Fiesta Red

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Bought this guitar for my son to learn on. Arrived in good condition, and a great looking guitar - hard to believe it was just over $100. At first the fret ends were terribly sharp (as mentioned in other reviews online) but after about 2 weeks it was actually playable and pretty comfortable on the fingers. I assume it is because I live in a humid climate and the wood expanded over time to 'fit' the frets and/or perhaps it shipped from a very dry climate?

It arrived decently setup, action is high but playable, neck is good, and pickups are decent. All in all, a great bargain for the money and a great choice for the beginner, but give it time to acclimatize and consider getting it set up professionally to make it more comfortable to play.

I bought this a month ago, and let me tell you, I don't regret anything. I honestly don't know how they are selling this for only $120, and to be exact, I only paid $119.00 with free 2-day shipping. It arrived quickly. It doesn't come with any accessories besides the tremolo arm (whammy bar) and tools for adjusting the truss rod and a wrench for adjusting the screws on the saddles for string height.

The finish on this thing is beautiful. The neck feels great, and I've heard some complaints about the frets being too sharp, which might be true for some of these, but I didn't have that problem. I didn't need to set the action or anything, though the intonation was wonky -- an easy thing to fix. Even if you ordered a USA Strat, you might have to set it up a little bit since guitars tend to get dinked up in the box during transit, so they often won't be in the same setup as they were in the factory conditions. The sound you can get out of this thing is just incredible. The only real upgrade I would suggest would be some locking tuners of your choice, but of course, the tuners are always the one part that is cheapest made on guitars in this price range, so if you do that, you're pretty much good to go. It stays in tune even when you use the trem arm for a bit.

The finish was flawless save for one small little area on the side of the lower horn; it's so tiny that you literally have to try to see it to notice it being there. The neck has a nice little coat of polyurethane on it, so no fancy vintage tint gloss or anything, but it still feels smooth enough to be really comfortable to play. The pickguard is a simple 1-ply one, which used to be an issue back in the 50's since they were prone to bowing, but due to modern better plastics being used, it's not an issue with today's guitars.

The pickups aren't any $100 Texas Specials or anything, but they still sound full and warm. You can get the same classic Strat tones as intended with the stock pickups. You can expect the typical 60-cycle hum which is synonymous with most single coils when playing in an area with fluorescent lighting and monitors of some sort, but the middle pickup is reverse-wound/reverse-polarity so when you switch to pickup switch positions 2 and 4, you get a hum-canceling effect.

I don't care if you're a beginner or someone who's been playing for decades, this is one damn good axe. Like I said, my mind is blown that such a fine-quality instrument is priced like this. Pick this up for your friend, your spouse, your dad, your kid, doesn't matter, this is top quality here. Squier has been stepping their game up in recent times. Even their "low-end" axes are beast.

I have alot of really expensive guitars, and I play every style, so I knew not to expect too much from these guitars, but they are not as bad as they look. Then again they are for kids under the age of ten. For starting out on guitar, they are decent and of the several I bought for my kids there were no problems other than they do not stay in tune well. The red is not not a deep red, more of an orange red, the arctic white is not white it is a yellow cream color and the Daphne blue is more of a sea green. But the black is actually black. So just keep the whammy bar off and you are all set.