GreenKnee wrote:Just had a quick play on the Bullet Mustang. First thoughts are; it is really light, the fretboard is very flat, fit and finish is fine, toploading bridge is an interesting surprise.
It feels good to play. I can't help but compare it to my first electric, an affinity strat. The minimal varnish on the neck feels like an oiled snooker cue, not the most amazing feeling neck but totally ok. No sharp fret ends, as much buzz as you'd expect from 9s on the short scale length, and the plastic dots are slightly yellow.
I measured from nut to string saddle and it was bang on 24". Unsure how to tell if it is a conversion neck, but I think the length of the first fret is larger than on my true 24" Jaguar, but I would have to check to be sure.
Plugged in it is very loud, and the humbuckers, again, are totally ok. This is my only humbucker guitar and I am biased towards single coils, but the middle position sounds very useable, while the bridge and neck don't seem to have much spark to them.
For £115 I am honestly chuffed with how good the guitar is. If needed I could take this out with me for a month or so of gigs and would have no worries about it packing in on me.
Pics? Is the back flat or with a cut?
Also, to get a good scale measurement, measure from the end of the nut to the middle (top) of the 12th fret. Should be 12" exactly.
The body is exactly 1 3/8", so for a jag trem route I shall have to go all the way through and then use a back plate. There is a tummy cut
My access to the long steel rule has been taken away for the day as it is being used for manly work but I will measure again with Fakir Mustache's tips when I am able to do so
It's got some metallic sparkle to it that I forgot to mention. I got the blue purely on robroe's comment saying that it's a proper squier colour. Black's fine, but full, right?
GreenKnee wrote:J measured from nut to string saddle and it was bang on 24". Unsure how to tell if it is a conversion neck, but I think the length of the first fret is larger than on my true 24" Jaguar, but I would have to check to be sure.
These are up on Fender's website now but they seem to have ballsed up the specs:
NECK
Neck Material 1-Piece Maple
Neck Finish Satin
Neck Shape "C" Shape
Scale Length 24.75" (628 mm)
Fingerboard Material Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius 12" (305 mm)
Fret Size Medium Jumbo
Nut Material Plastic
Nut Width 1.650" (42 mm)
Position Inlays White Dot
Truss Rod Vintage-Style
Truss Rod Nut Hex
Fran wrote:I love how this place is basic as fuck.
ekwatts wrote:I'm just going to smash it in with a hammer and hope it works. Tone is all in the fingers anyway.
sunshiner wrote:Also, Mustang body is too thin to put a Jag tremolo
Which also reminds me...I'm curious if Bilinda's custom jobbie was made from Fender-sanctioned parts.
The bilinda stang is custom build from the ground up afaik. Full scale as well I think.
Also re: the bullet stang, looks way nicer on its own than next to other guitars, think a jag trem would look really cool on it as well as making it 24" would fix both of the things that I don't particularly like about it
GreenKnee wrote:
Looking at the pickguard and bridge pickup there may not be enough room to move the bridge forward 3/4" to accommodate my '65 neck...
No, most of the scale length is on the neck, so the difference would only be about 1/4". You can measure the correct distance if you have an extra Mustang or Jag, just measure that exactly.
24" is a full scale 25.5" neck without the first fret. I always thought why Fender didn't make it the easier way where you can load all the different bodies with two types of interchangable necks - a 24" neck with 20 frets(+1 on the tail a la 22 frets strat neck) and a 25.5" neck with 21 fret
^ Pretty sure they did that with the newest short scale Strats / Teles. (Except those also have smaller bodies.) But I for one think it's nice have 22 frets instead of 20.
So, 24.75" and 12" radius...recycled Squier Cyclone necks perhaps?
i thought the squier cyclone necks were conversion necks.... i have one that has been kicking around the shop for about 7 years. I really need to do something with is since its not a bad neck at all, and a decent finish would be worth it.
sunshiner wrote:Also, Mustang body is too thin to put a Jag tremolo
Which also reminds me...I'm curious if Bilinda's custom jobbie was made from Fender-sanctioned parts.
The bilinda stang is custom build from the ground up afaik. Full scale as well I think.
Also re: the bullet stang, looks way nicer on its own than next to other guitars, think a jag trem would look really cool on it as well as making it 24" would fix both of the things that I don't particularly like about it
I saw a white HH Jazzmaster for $200 on ebay and couldn't resist. With the guitars I have let go the past couple weeks, I had enough for the bills and to pick up one of these. I wonder why all the others were almost $500? What is the MSRP for these?
