Fender Bullet Standard Ivory, 1981

Built from 1981 to 1982, Fender Bullet Standard and Deluxe models were designed by John Page and built at the Fullerton plant as replacements for the Mustang and Duo-Sonic.

This Fender Bullet Standard dates to 1981 at Fullerton, California. It’s in overall good condition with finish wear and patina expected from a 41 year old guitar. Fretwear is light to moderate and the Indian Rosewood fingerboard is in good condition. This is a nice guitar to play! It is full scale, with a body like a thinner Telecaster.
Positioned as entry level models, the Fender Bullet Standard and Deluxe had large similarities, pairing the same single-cutaway Ash body with a Rosewood-fingerboard Maple neck. The differed mostly in hardware, particularly the pickguard and bridge. The Standard has a one-piece metal pickguard with an integrated bridge formed by a lip at the back edge of the pickguard, drilled for saddle adjustment screws and strings. The Deluxe carried a more conventional three-layer pickguard with a separate hard-tail bridge that allowed the strings to travel through the body.

Notably, the body on these models as with older Mustang and Duo-Sonics, are thinner at 1.691 inches (42.9mm) than ‘Pro-Line’ Fenders like the Telecaster – 1.803 inches (45.80mm) or Stratocaster at 1.780 inches or 45.22mm.

While these differences seem small, they reduced production costs a worthwhile amount. They also make it impossible to add a Strat-type tremolo to the body! This is still the case on some lower-end Fender models. Many owners have started to plan upgrades including trems, only to find that it’s not possible.

Sold with a non-original, teardrop shaped hard shell case.