With the Squier Bullet Telecaster LRL, Fender subsidiary Squier offers the popular guitar model in a classic black finish. Built to an authentic Fender recipe with a poplar body and bolt-on C-profile maple neck, the instrument delivers that old-school feel, while two in-house standard single coils in the neck and bridge positions produce the full spectrum of the famous Telecaster, from the coveted powerful Tele twang to warm and mellow lead sounds and
The Squire Bullet Telecaster arrived within 4 days so quick turnaround by dv247 (many thanks).
It sounds excellent and 'rings' like a tele.
The action and intonation are very good out of the box. Perhaps needs top and bottom strings raising very slightly but will wait till it is played in and has settled down before further set up. It is good enough to gig immediately.
Who needs to pay a fortune for a straight forward guitar when there are gems like this available.
The fingerboard will need to be oiled but this is true of any hardwood fingerboard.
The tone control could be a bit more responsive, but that is just splitting hairs as there are many other ways to vary the tone (on the amp and other equalisation).
For GBP 135 it's no-brainer an I'm looking forward to having lots of fun playing it.
Bit of a clickbait title, but I genuinely sold my Gibson SG to downsize buy a cheap guitar + a load of other bits and pieces.
Do I regret it? Not in the slightest.
Now obviously build quality and sound aren't to the standards of the Gibson, but this cost a fraction of the price and honestly; I've not really lost anything. 15 years ago when I started playing instruments, buying a guitar at this price was a stop gap, and generally had more faults than positives... what has changed in that time!? Squires bottom of the range guitars are infinitely better than any other guitar i have played at the same price point, and this guitar holds up against mid range guitars.
So, bad points? There's a couple of minors.
The neck has a single rough spot that was fixed in less than 10 seconds with a fine sand down, but that was it in terms of looks and feel.
The frets are perfect, the setup out of the box literally needed a quarter of a clockwise screwdriving to sort the intonation on the low E - I've never had so little to setup on any guitar I've ever owned (Maybe I got lucky, but to think this is possible on such a cheap guitar is magical).
The only 'issue' I'd say this guitar has is, the pick ups aren't very hot. They're more than reasonable, especially at the price point, but dont expect to fill out an arena with the sound. Important to point out: this guitar costs about the same as a good set of pick ups... so this actually just makes this a great project guitar as well.
Lovely smooth matt neck, which i'm a huge fan of, tight neck joint, well finished frets and reasonable tuners that are better than yesteryears tuning pegs.
If you're looking for a starter guitar, a project guitar, a guitar for some home studio recording, a back up guitar or something you can chuck about and have a bit of fun with, this is the one.