Show Off Your Affinity/Bullet

[Chistopher]

Re: Show Off Your Affinity/Bullet

It took a lot of digging to find this:



It's a 90s plywood Bullet Strat that I pickup up at Goodwill for $25. $100 bucks at GFS got me a new nut, locking tuners, an aluminum shield (which I supplemented with shielding paint I have on hand), "Jimi" pickups, and a new bridge.

When I originally painted it I got the idea to use crappy paint applied thinner than usual so that I could give it to my nephew for an accelerated, yet natural relic. The black stripes are thinner than the white undercoat for a potentially cool effect later on down the line.

It is wired similar to a Tele except that the second tone control blends the middle pickup into the circuit. The Jimi's have a reverse stagger, but I got better results installing them upside down.

 

[justFred]

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Very nice...especially like the amp...pure class...

 

[Mr. B]

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My big gripe with low end guitars like the Affinity line is that they usually need MORE work by a tech to get them playable than guitars that cost a hundred or so dollars more. Fret-levels, fret end finishing so they don't chew into your palm, Nut-work, neck shims, you know, the bigger jobs that most people are not equipped to do themselves. Standard line Squiers and the like usually have those big jobs done to a better degree, and only require a good set-up. My other gripe is that I have seen too many of them with twisted necks and uneven frets that continue to get worse with time. They are disposable guitars.

 

[ehdwuld]

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My big gripe with low end guitars like the Affinity line is that they usually need MORE work by a tech to get them playable than guitars that cost a hundred or so dollars more. Fret-levels, fret end finishing so they don't chew into your palm, Nut-work, neck shims, you know, the bigger jobs that most people are not equipped to do themselves. Standard line Squiers and the like usually have those big jobs done to a better degree, and only require a good set-up. My other gripe is that I have seen too many of them with twisted necks and uneven frets that continue to get worse with time. They are disposable guitars.

This has not been my experience at all

But I value your experience

 

[FuseG4]

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I agree but if you can play it in person before you buy you can check out the degree to which the specimen needs these fixes. Mind didn't "need" any fret work to be comfortable, it was pick it up and play it mostly, the shop I bought it from deals more boutique stuff and sets up all their guitars and I think they would have been embarrassed to sell a bad guitar but need something in that price range to offer so i assume they gave it some tlc beforehand.
They offered a free basic setup with i took it home but I said naw it's fine!

So if you do big box retail I say you roll the dice but if you can play in person you greatly reduced your chances of needing a ton of work. I

My big gripe with low end guitars like the Affinity line is that they usually need MORE work by a tech to get them playable than guitars that cost a hundred or so dollars more. Fret-levels, fret end finishing so they don't chew into your palm, Nut-work, neck shims, you know, the bigger jobs that most people are not equipped to do themselves. Standard line Squiers and the like usually have those big jobs done to a better degree, and only require a good set-up. My other gripe is that I have seen too many of them with twisted necks and uneven frets that continue to get worse with time. They are disposable guitars.

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[Silence Kid]

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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...

My VM Jazzmaster is nothing like ReRanch Sonic Blue at least; it is a much lighter/faded color (even considering how initially lighter/faded Sonic is.) I don't hate the color, but it's impossible to touch up with standard Sonic Blue paint; I'm glad someone else dealt with matching the headstock. If I refinished it, it would be Seafoam; I might do that, as you can see the previous owner drilled some holes in it (that I tried to touch up,) bumped it around etc.

The Mustang in front of it is Daphne which is a brighter color to begin with of course; but the difference usually isn't that drastic.

 

[FuseG4]

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My VM Jazzmaster is nothing like ReRanch Sonic Blue at least; it is a much lighter/faded color (even considering how initially lighter/faded Sonic is.) I don't hate the color, but it's impossible to touch up with standard Sonic Blue paint; I'm glad someone else dealt with matching the headstock. If I refinished it, it would be Seafoam; I might do that, as you can see the previous owner drilled some holes in it (that I tried to touch up,) bumped it around etc.

The Mustang in front of it is Daphne which is a brighter color to begin with of course; but the difference usually isn't that drastic.

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Is that a red jag next to them

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[Silence Kid]

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Yeah it is. '96 MIJ with SJAG-1s, vintage bridge, and AVRI vibrato:

 

[FuseG4]

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Yeah it is. '96 MIJ with SJAG-1s, vintage bridge, and AVRI vibrato:

That's freaking awesome
To me jags look so good in red, my preferred color for them by far. And I don't always see a need for headstock matching but it just looks perfect in this case.

 

[Mark Cearlock]

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Are cheap as dirt beat up mik squier 2's allowed on this thread?

Changed pots/switch/knobs to us spec parts, and replaced bridge pickup at least temp for a ddhb103 a5 mag swapped.

Future plans are: better pickups, tuners (crap) and bridge (block is broken where trem arm goes in). otherwise actually plays great and sounds descent enough..
And the price with a really good gigbag was a freakin steal..(fb market place find)

 

[A_Cold_1]

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My pride and joy. New (trash) satin job from a rattle can, stained the fretbaord, (again, trashy) and put in completely new hardware and electronics. GFS Locking Tuners, Duncan Cool Rails in the neck, Vintage Rails in the middle, and an EVH Frankenstein Humbucker in the bridge. Also I got a Floyd Rose Rail Tail on the bridge.

Probably not the smartest to put this in all this work into an Affinity, but there’s nothing quite like it out there