Squier Squier Bullet® Strat® HH with Tremolo Electric Guitar  

It's got a whammy bar. That's the best part about this thing.

The low e tuning knob is a bit cranky, and it feels like it's going to crack off anytime soon. 

Made pretty well, although it feels a bit cheap. I'm an absolute beginner and even I knew that this thing was light as hell. But they didn't call this the Bullet for nothing.

You can't go wrong at a hundred and twenty bucks. Awesome little thing, but you do get what you pay for.

Overall a great purchase. However, if you really want to make this thing scream, upgrades are necessary and a bit setup required. 

At first,  I couldn't make a chord ring out in tune anywhere on the neck.  Had muted notes rattles and buzzes and strange semitones.  After I set the truss rod, the action and the intonation,  still out of intonaion with saddle maxed back,   so I then noticed the nut was cut at the wrong angle towards the headstock.  After gently filing the slots on the D  and B strings,  I was able to move the saddles back forward to properly intonate  and adjust saddles to the fretboard radius.  Then I adjusted the humbuckers evenly up to spec.  Then it played like a dream after that.  I even ordered some locking tuners to replace the cheapos on it and eliminate them sticky string trees.   Great light little rocker it is now

So,  if you give it a proper setup,  it is a nice guitar.   If you know nothing and expect  an American Fat strat  out of the box.....not the case here

   The double humbuckers is what got my attention, On a Strat? Got to check this one out. At one time I had a Bullet Special with one humbucker and, It kicked butt but, it really didn't fit my style of music so when I saw this one with one more humbucker and, more tone options plus a trem it was what I missed in the Special and, I was definately right. The guitar I have is just exactly like this one but in a 2 tone sunburst it was described as an FSR which means factory special run. This instrument still retains the Strat sound but just a little thicker and darker with the humbuckers but, using the bridge humbucker it will definately wail! I have an American Strat with the single coils and, I was looking for something a little different and I have certainly found it.

I rated this guitar under 10 just mainly because obviously for the $ it's just not quite as fancy as the high dollar strats but, I can assure you it is not a super cheapie piece of junk like you'll find at Walmart or stores like this. I was very impressed with looks,fit, and, sound of this instrument. I own several high quality guitars that I paid at least 5 to 7 times the amount that I paid for this one and, it will hang right in there with any of them. I had to do very little setup on this guitar, the neck was straight, I lowered the action to suit my playing style, checked the intonation, it was spot on good, tuned the strings to pitch and stretched them 3 times and retuned them. Into my amp and gave it a good 1hr. workout. I bent and stretched notes all over the neck and, it held tune perefectly! Several years ago I wouldn't have considered purchasing a Squier but, about a year ago I came across a Squier Tele Vintage modified SSH and, I was blown away with quality and, sound of that instrument. I am a changed man.

  For the money this guitar is Fantastic!

   I am extremely pleased with this instrument in every aspect and, I am very particular about my gear. If it doesn't give me what I want it's GONE! I am quite sure that I will have this guitar for a long while, I absolutely love the 2 tone sunburst finish with black white laminate pickguard. I have been musician for over 40 yrs. and I can definately tell you that it's not the guitar that makes the musician it's the musician that knows how to play and makes the guitar do what he or she wants. I would definately purchase another Squier instrument and, I would definately reccommend this guitar to anyone looking to purchase a guitar.

This guitar isn't bad, but I would only recommend it to beginners and someone who needs a cheap, expendable instrument. I bought this guitar about two years ago from a guitar center mostly because it looked sweet with the black finish. I tried it out in the store on a Line 6 Spider III amp and it sounded pretty good. I get a kind of sharp, shallow  tone with it and I mostly just needed it for experimentation. NEVER gig with this guitar, if anyone sees you, it will be hard for them to take you seriously unless you ABSOLUTELY know what you're doing. I tried playing a gig in a house party and afterwards I had like six people come up to me and ask why I use that piece of crap when I have an epiphone SG special at home. The body is extremely light and so is the neck, it feels like it will shatter into a million little peices if I drop it from three feet up on to something solid, but its actually not too bad because you can get a decent sound from it if you tune it a step or step and a half down from standard E tuning. The fingerboard is crazy flat and is a bit difficult to play on if you are used to more expensive, better quality instruments. Overall I think I would only buy it as a gift to a twelve year old or as something to play and smash but still not feel too bad about it. If you want a cheap guitar that isn't absolute complete crap, go out and get this one.