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I just came across this post and thought I would chime in with the few details I know about Series A guitars. From what I have read, they were manufactured in Korea in the late 80’s to early 90’s. In Canada, they were distributed by Kief Music LTD in Surrey, BC. I didn’t know that they were affiliated with Fender, but now that I know that, maybe I’ll hang onto mine.
I have a Series A bass. It has a body, neck, and headstock identical to a Fender Precision, but it also has what looks like a dual Jazz Bass pickup at the bridge position.
Mine is missing the pickguard and the split P bass pickups and controls that would mount in the pickguard. I will be making a new pickguard for it shortly, if I can’t find one online. I would post a picture of it here, but I don’t see an attachment icon, so maybe later.
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Dear MetalMathh,
I would love to buy that guitar from you, if you were interested in selling.
Please let me know. I can be reached at 216-633-6708.
Best,
Marc
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If you still have it, I would love to buy the Series A Bullet from you…
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the first I bought was the Super Strat in a pawn shop almost 6 years ago and the second one i think 1 year and a half, the Bullet Deluxe. The luthier was amazed at how these guitar had good action and a very well made neck, The Fender Bullet Deluxe SeriesA 1985 has a really straight neck and head, it’s a really comfortable feeling never seen apart from bullet guitar, these were student guitar ou budget and they stopped making these model because the competition of these guitar/quality (body and neck) / used to steal Fender/Gibson sales so here’s the story!
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I’ll take some more pictures later when I’m back home. Thanks for the info so far on these! I’ve been casually searching for information for 10 years on this guitar with no luck. Google let me down ;). All I knew about it before is I loved playing it from the first time I picked it up and the action was perfect to the extent I don’t really have to think about what my left hand is doing. My other guitars all have different action’s and unique sounds to them, but I still always come back to the Series A when I just want to play.
The paint job on my guitar was actually the first paint work I ever did, even before I painted a sheet of drywall. It was a summer project when I was 21. After I sanded it down, it was many, many light and thin layers of the dark green flecked automotive spray paint followed by probably 15-20 very thin and lights layers of the clear-coat. I was pretty happy with the outcome, especially from less than $50 in automotive spray paint and spray clear coat 😉
Where did you come across both of your Series A’s?
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These guitar’s were made by Fender in Korea with a different label, it’s like under the table guitar but with the same part, not even the worst parts or something like that no!! Some were really high quality and exactly made with the same neck and or body as fender, exactly the same without any doubt, body is as hard as rock and neck is really amazing, just a different name than Fender, so you don’t pay for a name and have the real piece of fender. Tuners are the weakness and pickups sound great on the bullet… and the superstrat, i changed all pickups, Jb, Cool Rails, Hot rails… really own high priced guitar, but be carefull some are dump and some are really amazing as hell.
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I have one of the strat style and have never been able to find any info. Your post here is the first pics of seen in my searches. I know my Series A was bought used out of a pawnshop by my old friend and room-mate out of high school around 1997-1999. I think he paid $100 for it. I bought it off him for $150 a couple around 2000.
It’s my favourite guitar to play in terms of action. The sound on the stock pickups is decent. Very light action, no buzz. It was originally black in colour. In 2002 I sanded the paint off and repainted it in a dark metallic green-fleck paint. It’s taken a lot of dings and scratches since then. If I ever want to take a guitar with me when I go camping, this is the one. Anytime I randomly pickup one of my guitars to play, this is the one 9 times out of 10.
Colin
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