View All WOODSTAX - Shop Tonewood by the Pieceįender Classic Series 60s Telecaster Body, BlackĬrafted at Fender's Ensenada, Mexico, manufacturing facility, this genuine Fender Telecaster guitar body is routed for a traditional two single coil pickup configuration is pre-drilled with four screw holes for vintage-style bridge mounting.

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Whether it's the outgoing CY serial or the newer CS serial, either is the best thing going for a Squier under $250 at the moment. In sub-$250 Squier territory, Affinity Telecaster is far and away the one to get. And that's almost double the price of the Affinity Telecaster. However, to get up to par with the Affinity Telecaster in Stratocaster form, you have to bump all the way up to a Classic Vibe Stratocaster just to get it. The Bullet Strat, while inferior, genuinely looks like a better Strat.

It just looks plain goofy, always has, and still does. Everybody, including me, hates the headstock logo treatment on the Affinity Strat. It is absolutely worth spending the extra 50 bucks to get the Affinity Tele over the Bullet Strat.ĭoes this mean if you want a better Strat, get the Affinity Stratocaster? No. the Affinity Telecaster absolutely obliterates the Bullet Stratocaster in every way.

Now as far as which is the better guitar. New models with serials starting with CS (as opposed to CY) rear-load strings, and the neck pickup finally gets pickguard mounted adjustment screws (as opposed to having to take off the guard to adjust the neck pickup height). I believe the tuners are all metal now on the Bullet Strat, at least for the HT model.Īs for the Affinity Telecaster, there has barely been anything that has changed about it for 10 years or possibly longer - with the exception of two things. They used to use tuners that were mostly plastic and secured to the headstock with a ferrule. The only thing that's really changed is that the Bullet Stratocaster series is now slightly better with the tuners being changed to screw-down with the securing nut on top. I have owned Bullet Strats and an Affinity Telecaster before.

No vibrato system, which Fender calls tremolo, meaning no vibrato arm, which everybody calls a whammy bar. I'm writing this after having played a Squier Affinity Telecaster and Squier Bullet Stratocaster HT (which by the way has a Shell Pink HSS version available.) The HT means 'hardtail', which means the strings are top-loaded.

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