Fender Bullet mods

 As I mentioned, the "raw" switch does very little that a 1M tone pot doesn't already do.  It's mainly useful just for making sure that your tone never gets turned down inadvertently. The phase switch is quite interesting on this guitar.  Since the pickups are so far apart, it doesn't really produce the expected out-of-phase tone, i.e., extremely thin and hollow.  The signals from the two pickups are quite different from each other, so subtracting one from the other doesn't result in anything close to complete cancellation; instead, it's just a different tonal mix, certainly a bit thinner than the in-phase tone, but if you heard it by itself, you might not recognize it as out-of-phase.  This is true for both the parallel and series modes; so, you get four usefully different mixed-pickup tones.  I guess this might not have been surprising to me, if I had kept in mind how much the regular position-2 parallel sound, *doesn't* sound like a Strat position 2...

 Just in case all the details weren't clear in my verbal description...

https://youtu.be/PprM6ZBAHHs My Fender Bullet is a fascinating guitar.  Roughly speaking, it's a mix of Telecaster and Stratocaster, but it has a soul and a sound all its own.  The maple neck is very similar to a Tele (at least in appearance; I haven't played many Teles, to judge the feel, but my guess would be that Fender used the same neck).  The body is suggestive of a Strat, but it's actually rather different: it is smaller, yet a bit thicker I believe, and it lacks the "comfort carves".  So technically, though the shape suggests "Strat", it's actually more like a Tele body which they rounded and shaped for better comfort, while keeping the "thick slab" aspect.  The bridge is a string-through hard-tail assembly with six saddles.  The pickups are fairly low impedance, 5.5k and 5.6k.  The smooth plastic pickup covers are unique to the Bullet (carryovers from the Bullet's ancestors I'd guess), but the shape and readings of the pick...