Show Off Your Affinity/Bullet

Silence Kid

Silence Kid

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I cannot participate in this thread - but I'm sure there are plenty of people who have niced-up Affinity & Bullet Squiers. I love my US/MIJ guitars, but I enjoy cheapos too; there's something to be said for a guitar I don't need to care about at all, can swap pickups at-will etc.

I think nothing looks/screams 'cheap' more than a stock Affinity - plasticky/garish primary color finishes, bright white plastic, neck more pallid/rough than a Scotsman - But I can't help thinking a CAR or Surf Green one could look really good with a three ply guard, a dose of tinted ReRanch on the neck, etc. I know it sounds dumb but I'm trolling Craigslist/eBay to find in particular the later Affinity models that have the old-school side dot inlays (half in the rosewood/laurel, half in the maple.)

I've played a few more recent Affinities and (unlike they were in the late nineties or so) they really are nice, playable instruments for dirt cheap. I know there are drawbacks around the hardware that can be used (blocks etc.) Anyone use the bones of an Affinity and done something awesome?
 
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^I think they are, even if in today's pricing they're more 'for rich people' than a Bullet/Affinity ;) IIRC a 'Squier II' was the Affinity of its day, so please post!
 
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What about partscaster build from Affinity body & cheapo 90's Peavey Raptor neck?
 
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Yeah I can't play in the Squier round, but I could throw in my '81 Fender Bullet pic which used to show in my sig slideshow.
 
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Mine's stock after years of playing it as backup, vacation/travel/expendable axe, or alternate tuning dealy. Mods... I dunno. The thinner body precludes some stuff like a full size bridge block, full sized switch, or taller than average pickups. The only thing really garbage on it is the tuners and they're just really hard to turn, they hold tune fine.
lololol i got the pink one. It's bubblegum, not "shell" pink. Pretty horrible really but it was $90 and played well, and at the time, I was kinda broke and had just sold an american strat to pay rent. It made the strat sounds so... it came home.
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My daphne blue bullet
Kinda yellowed to a seafoam green

Blacked out the hardware
Put locking tuners and a roller nut
Roller bridge saddles on a wilkerson bridge
And a prewired pickguard from Ammonn
Off Amazon
 
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FuseG4 said:
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Funny that the pink/green pic really illustrates how much of a difference aged hardware & a tinted neck make in the perception of how much a guitar costs - the green one just looks hundreds more expensive (which it is anyway) - but it's in the small details appearance-wise.

I'm pretty sure no recent Squiers have been plywood either (even the cheapest models) are plywood either; IIRC that stopped in the early '90s?
 
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ehdwuld said:
My daphne blue bullet
Kinda yellowed to a seafoam green

Blacked out the hardware
Put locking tuners and a roller nut
Roller bridge saddles on a wilkerson bridge
And a prewired pickguard from Ammonn
Off Amazon
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How did you find a roller nut that fits?
 
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Like I posted in the roller nut thread it's the Mighty Mite version
Much cheaper on Aliexpress. I paid $14 for the Mighty Mite version from WD parts
Aliexpress is around 5 bucks

Two strings per roller
Works fine
 
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Oh and I did have to hack a shelf into the fretboard
And remove 3mm from the end of the board to make it break in the same spot as the regular nut
 
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O do not have a dog in this hunt - and it makes me sad!
 
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2008 affinity, it was a sunburst. The only stock parts remaining are the single coils because I don't use them and they're still the right color to blend with the parchment guard.

Used it as my first attempt at a refinish, I think it came out alright.
 
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ehdwuld said:
My daphne blue bullet
Kinda yellowed to a seafoam green

Blacked out the hardware
Put locking tuners and a roller nut
Roller bridge saddles on a wilkerson bridge
And a prewired pickguard from Ammonn
Off Amazon
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My Vintage Modified Jazzmaster was supposed to be sonic blue but had that greenish tint to it from day one, though not as strong cuz sonic is more washed looking than daphne anyways. Definitely a green-grey tint. I'm half done refinishing it cuz it got to be kinda ugly to me, but cold weather and etc came up...

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2008 affinity, it was a sunburst. The only stock parts remaining are the single coils because I don't use them and they're still the right color to blend with the parchment guard.

Used it as my first attempt at a refinish, I think it came out alright.
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I like it!!
 
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Not a Squier, but it is a Bullet.

My 1981 Fender Bullet S-3, which was a $225.00 guitar back in those days. The Kahler went on and a Custom (DCJ) went into the bridge slot in early 1984. A Vintage Stack Tele went in the neck slot in the late '90s. I swapped the P-Rails in for the Custom as soon as the P-Rails were shipping. It is still the original factory pup in the middle, which sounds fine.

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