Fender Bullet
FROM US FENDER BULLETS TO SQUIER BULLETS

So, Fender decided not to have the Bullets made entirely in Korea, and they were assembled in the States using Korean-manufactured parts.
Unfortunately, even this did not produce guitars of a high enough standard, and by late 1981 the Bullets shifted to full American production. The first two models, the Bullet (known as “Standard Bullet”) and the Bullet Deluxe, remained in production until mid-1982. These guitars were also called “Bullet One” by US dealers and retailers but never marketed as such. It’s important to keep in mind that at that time, the Bullets were not a type of Stratocaster, but rather, they were a model of their own — similar to the Stratocaster, the Telecaster, the Precision bass, and so on. |
The Deluxe model was equipped with a plastic pickguard with a separate, strings-through body hard-tail bridge, while the Standard model featured a powder-coated white or black steel pickguard-bridge-tailpiece combo that had a small lip raised at a 90% angle to anchor the strings, along with separate saddles featuring offset string grooves and height screws.
All Standard pickguards had a “PATENT APPLIED FOR” sticker to protect the design of the pickguard-bridge-tailpiece combo until the patent was granted. |
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