Just scored an '85 Squier Bullet HST

[Chopperdog45]

Hey, y'all! I'm new to the forum, not new to guitars, though. When I was a kid, I started learning to play guitar on my (at the time) stepfather's old electric guitar that I believe he had gotten from Sears many years before that. When I was around 12 or so, I finally got my own first guitar, a black Squier Bullet HST. I played it for a couple of years and sold it to buy a Charvel, which I also ended up selling.

For many years after, I kicked myself for selling my first guitar. So much so that I don't sell any of my guitars anymore, but that is another story. Last week, I was checking out used guitars on GC's website and came across an 85 black Squier Bullet HST. It only had one picture, but from that pic, it looked to be in good shape. I bought it. It arrived here today.

It is in really good shape for as old of a guitar as it is. I still need to clean it and restring it, but I tuned it and played it for a bit and it sounds pretty good. I am thrilled with my purchase. It's not my actual first guitar, but it is the same and felt so familiar when I first picked it up out of the box. I'll have to take some better pics...

 

[Eddie]

Welcome.

Yep, the majority of us all feel remorse for selling our first guitars. We never appreciated what we had until it was gone.

 

[Michael7]

Welcome to the group, you came to the right place! Yours looks like a very nice example. I'm sure you have seen the crazy prices that people ask for these on Reverb.com.

I have 2 and a half of these guitars! Not everyone is a fan of the "melted Tele" look and the heavy body, but these always put a smile on my face.

 

[Chopperdog45]

Welcome.

Yep, the majority of us all feel remorse for selling our first guitars. We never appreciated what we had until it was gone.

Yeah, I was always more focused on a different guitar that I wanted and I guess I didn't appreciate what I had. I just don't sell any of my guitars anymore. Luckily, my wife is cool with it lol.

 

[Chopperdog45]

Welcome to the group, you came to the right place! Yours looks like a very nice example. I'm sure you have seen the crazy prices that people ask for these on Reverb.com.

I have 2 and a half of these guitars! Not everyone is a fan of the "melted Tele" look and the heavy body, but these always put a smile on my face.

Yeah, I have seen people asking all kinds of crazy prices for these guitars. I paid $399 at GC for mine and think that was a little on the high side, but it is in really good shape, so I am ok with it.

Yours look mint by the looks of the pics!

 

[Loin Lover]

Welcome to ST & HNGD!

 

[SoCalJim]

Welcome aboard, @Chopperdog45! Great looking Squier Bullet!

 

[porkpie]

Welcome, HNGD!

 

[stratmanshow]

E6 serial I presume. Most or all of these do not have the word "Japan" on them anywhere for an unknown reason. I had a couple of white ones and have always suspected they are a hybrid of Japan and Korea. My theory was that they may have been partially complete necks shaped, fretted and finished in Korea. They have the wide 12th fret dot spacing and the necks on them are shaped very similarly to the 87 E10 guitars but they have a heel truss adjuster.
Not really important where it's made but interesting for some (like me).
Something that's sort of confirmed in this thread from a couple of years back
https://www.squier-talk.com/threads/is-this-mij-squier-actually-a-mik.169355/post-890822

 

[Robb]

Howdy and welcome to Squier talk, congrats !!!

 

[Lonn]

Are those Dimarzio single coils?

 

[Michael7]

Upon enlargement, the singles on the OP's guitar do look like they may have pole pieces with the internal hex. Good catch! The bridge HB trim ring has also been drilled to accept a modern pickup with 2 central mounting ears, but then a different pickup using a double mounting ear at the bass side has been refitted to that pickup ring, probably the original Squier pickup.

If DiMarzio singles are used, then the body cavities would probably have been enlarged a bit to accomodate them. The stock singles have hot dog shaped bobbins, not the convention bobbin with the extra plastic area where the coil ends are soldered.