Fender Bullet Owners Club

[CrazyCanuk]

I just sold 16 of my Fender Bullet USA, all different models. I can’t wait to see to see some of them pop up in this thread. I kept my favorite 2.

16!?!? I would love just one!

 

[mojo_max]

16!?!? I would love just one

16!?!? I would love just one!

I kept my favorite ones…a 1983 H2 model with red bobbins and a 1982 S2 model Tele style with the white integrated bridge/pickguard…the necks are phenomenal.

 

[CrazyCanuk]

am going to make one like the 82 H2, but I need a decent drawing of the size so I can make a template for the body

 

[Santiago]

I kept my favorite ones…a 1983 H2 model with red bobbins and a 1982 S2 model Tele style with the white integrated bridge/pickguard…the necks are phenomenal.

How do the humbucker pickups sound? I'm pretty intrigued by them, having only played single coil Bullets.

 

[CrazyCanuk]

I loved teh humbuckers on my H2, one of the reasons I wish I still had it.

 

[mojo_max]

How do the humbucker pickups sound? I'm pretty intrigued by them, having only played single coil Bullets.

They are just 2 single coils wrapped up together and wired to a coil splitter to go back and forth from humbucker sound to single coil.

 

[CrazyCanuk]

Yes, but all humbuckers are 2 single coils put together.

I actually don't remember my H2 have the coil split switch.

 

[BabyByrd]

That’s not entirely accurate either. Leo Fender was a frugal man and Fender did have a period when they had some “piles of misc parts” tucked aside. After CBS purchased Fender, the bean counters found a few stashes of parts and told the guys to use them up.

I think it was Gabe(?) Virtiglio who put together the Fender Swinger, and another guy in the factory designed another guitar.

Estimates of 250 to 500 of the swinger were made 1969. Never advertised or put into official literature. Some sources indicate that it “sold poorly” as a reason do few were made but the reality was it was never intended to be a production guitar, it was ONLY to make some money from all the spare parts.

Some interesting info out there about them. One of the rarest fenders ever built. Re-issued in Japan a few years ago, in limited numbers and two pickups.

I’ll have to take a picture of mine and post it here. It’s been mine since 1977, but my family loaned it out to a younger cousin when I was in the military. It was not treated well in his possession, but I eventually got it back.

 

[BabyByrd]

I have a 1982 Made in the USA Fender Bullet S-1, Ivory, maple neck and fretboard, a dot in the 21st fret, metal pickguard with the tab turned up to anchor the strings like an S-1, an E1 serial number, with the S-2 double cutaway body, 2 single coil pickups arranged Tele style having one of the pick ups at the bridge and the other one that it’s at the top and slanted, Fender-branded Tuning keys. From my research all I can figure out is that it was a transitional model from 1982 where they use the parts from the S1 and the S2.

 

[BabyByrd]

16!?!? I would love just one!

I have an ivory 1982 Bullet S2 with the metal pickguard/bridge combo found typically on the S1. Has an E1 serial number. I am selling it. Make an offer

 

[CrazyCanuk]

I can't afford to buy one.