Project Mustang: Turning Squier’s cheapest guitar into something great

As I wrote previously, I picked up a second-hand Squier Bullet Mustang guitar for £65 via Gumtree. It had a lot of promise, but it wasn’t achieving its potential. The fretwork was terrible (not level, sharp ends), the nut was too high, and the bright white single ply pickguard looked cheap and nasty. The bridge was too far back and not straight. The pickups were fine, but not stellar. So I improved it.

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@threedaymonk Looks great, nice little success story -- happy playing!
@threedaymonk really beautiful work Paul, looks like a lovely guitar to play.
@threedaymonk That came out great and I’m impressed at the budget you managed to hit!
@threedaymonk cracking job. Funnily enough, our son’s first electric (which he’s had for a year) is a Squire Bullet Mustang, and I was / am continually surprised at how good as guitar it is at that price level. But will now take your post, and we can look at it together with this in mind.