Hey those jacks are new to me... 5-pk is already in my cart! And nice string trees. I'm collecting parts to fix up a few new Amazon guitars, realizing I havent played since moving five years ago and all my guitars are in parts and the parts are in boxes. Just discovering the new era of budget guitars.
Awesome, thanks so much for using the link and for commenting, I'm glad this video was helpful. Yes those jacks are great, and considering they cost about the same as Switchcraft there's no reason not to use them. It's a lot of fun mixing and matching parts to create a new guitar.
you gotta be careful modding cause most the time you will end up spending more in combination with the mods and the guitar itself versus just buying a better guitar from the get go
Why not use the staggered locking tuners eliminating the need for a 3 string.... string tree for the 3'd string? Hipshot staggered locking tuners $60.00.
They are the staggered tuners. The short answer is not every neck is the same. Sometimes staggered tuners work perfectly with no string tree, other times they don't. Long answer is It has to do with variations in the thickness of the neck, who cut it, moisture content when cut, whether or not the face of the headstock warps a little due to being cut thinner than the rest of the piece of lumber, and other factors like which era (50s fat, slim 60s) neck is being replicated. I have installed around 25 sets of the Hipshot staggered tuners in cases where the player wanted to have no string trees, and in about half the cases they still needed at least one string tree. That's true of the cheapest Squiers and the American and vintage instruments I have worked on. Thanks for checking it out.
I like the cutaway zinc block - lighter weight still does the job. On nuts I think that square bottom grooves are best , with the sides slightly oversized width , you never know when you might want to up your string gages , and depth the only issue when relaxing the string angle in favor of free movement those being deeper so’s the strings don’t fall out esp in drop tuning . The saddles yes potmetal is non-conductive bent steel is best . The locking feature on locking tuners is irrelevant to me what’s better on them is the lack of excess post jiggling . Re : CNC it’s a shame that they’re busy ape - ing the Stratocaster warts and all .
The zinc block is great, especially if you do heavy dive bombs and such as it gives you a larger range of movement. My only reason for doing the brass block is because this guitar was a bit neck heavy on account of the oversized headstock and the added weight of the upgraded tuners. The brass blanced it out nicely. Thanks for sharing your knowledge here.
I'm pretty sure I got a bridge with a thicker block, but shorter for the affinity squier from guitar fetish. Needed a black bridge & put graphtech string saver saddles on it.
@@larryyork1146 well to be honest it was only about $150 in upgrades, so far, but it’s definitely a time tested and effective approach. I will be building out a loaded pickguard for it in the next video. Don’t think that’s ever been done before. 😂
@@pfg_pedals Do it like me and my 2 Squier Affinity strats which I just bought last month. Put in a Fender Tex-Mex Pre-wired SSS black (or cream white) pickguard. It is the best sound you can get from your guitar. In one of the Affinity´s I changed the bridge pickup for a Seymor-Duncan SH-4 JB humbucker and re-wired the pots to have a 500K poti and new wiring. The tremolo is good and so are the saddles, what you really need is the Musiclily brass 36mm block. I also have them. Change the guitar string retainers to have 2 Gotoh RG15/RG30 String retainer. You will thank me later. For the same price as a GraphTech nut, you can also install a musiclily brass 42mm nut. This does wonders for your sound and tone. Eddie Van Halen also used them on his first White Strat with black stripes. As for locking tuners, there are many around. Musiclily also makes a very nice set which costs half the money but you will have to widen the holes on the headstock to fit 10mm. Put in some Ernie Ball´s Super-Slinky 09 - 42 gauge strings and you will have a great guitar that even David Gilmour, Eddie Van Halen or Eric Clapton would have been very happy to play with !
@@patrickkeenan6331 There are reasons to wrap differently, especially when using a trem, even with locking keys. I can dive bomb to the body or pull up a minor third and everything falls right back in tune, and it’s because I treat each string differently depending on its gauge and break angle. You know who I learned about it from? Eric Johnson, in one of his many gear interviews, he explains why he wraps some of his strings all the way down the post to get the proper pressure on the nut. Now, of course the difference is he is using vintage style tuners, however the only part that matters is the angle from the nut to the post, hence why there are times when you want to wrap a string lower on the post. Now if you observe the fifth and sixth strings, A and E, they are wrapped up the post, again because of break angle except in this case it was too steep going straight through, so I wrapped them up and it works beautifully. Learned that from Dan Erlewine directly. This prevents them from hanging in the nut while dicking with the wang bar. Actually now that I have the triple tree I won’t be needing to wrap the G,B, or E at all, but it will be fine until the next string change. The take away from all of this is that there is no single rule about changing strings that applies to every player and every guitar, in every situation.
You don’t Need any upgrades to Gig you just need to know how to setup correctly. What you propose are nice to haves but not a hard requirement.
Those Kaish switches are really great, I use them in all my scratch builds.
Great video,
And mind the nut!
i love the necks of this squiers!
Hey those jacks are new to me... 5-pk is already in my cart! And nice string trees.
I'm collecting parts to fix up a few new Amazon guitars, realizing I havent played since moving five years ago and all my guitars are in parts and the parts are in boxes. Just discovering the new era of budget guitars.
Awesome, thanks so much for using the link and for commenting, I'm glad this video was helpful. Yes those jacks are great, and considering they cost about the same as Switchcraft there's no reason not to use them. It's a lot of fun mixing and matching parts to create a new guitar.
Really cool brother! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for checking it out.
you gotta be careful modding cause most the time you will end up spending more in combination with the mods and the guitar itself versus just buying a better guitar from the get go
Had to get 1 put graphtec saddel junk&new pickups in it and its like a different axe!
this is fun...the mods are really cheap, too, which is a plus
Yeah you don't have to spend a lot to have a nice playing guitar.
Why not use the staggered locking tuners eliminating the need for a 3 string.... string tree for the 3'd string? Hipshot staggered locking tuners $60.00.
They are the staggered tuners. The short answer is not every neck is the same. Sometimes staggered tuners work perfectly with no string tree, other times they don't. Long answer is It has to do with variations in the thickness of the neck, who cut it, moisture content when cut, whether or not the face of the headstock warps a little due to being cut thinner than the rest of the piece of lumber, and other factors like which era (50s fat, slim 60s) neck is being replicated. I have installed around 25 sets of the Hipshot staggered tuners in cases where the player wanted to have no string trees, and in about half the cases they still needed at least one string tree. That's true of the cheapest Squiers and the American and vintage instruments I have worked on. Thanks for checking it out.
I like the cutaway zinc block - lighter weight still does the job. On nuts I think that square bottom grooves are best , with the sides slightly oversized width , you never know when you might want to up your string gages , and depth the only issue when relaxing the string angle in favor of free movement those being deeper so’s the strings don’t fall out esp in drop tuning . The saddles yes potmetal is non-conductive bent steel is best . The locking feature on locking tuners is irrelevant to me what’s better on them is the lack of excess post jiggling . Re : CNC it’s a shame that they’re busy ape - ing the Stratocaster warts and all .
The zinc block is great, especially if you do heavy dive bombs and such as it gives you a larger range of movement. My only reason for doing the brass block is because this guitar was a bit neck heavy on account of the oversized headstock and the added weight of the upgraded tuners. The brass blanced it out nicely. Thanks for sharing your knowledge here.
I'm pretty sure I got a bridge with a thicker block, but shorter for the affinity squier from guitar fetish.
Needed a black bridge & put graphtech string saver saddles on it.
Fun fact, guitars don't have input jacks, they have OUTPUT jacks
Just buy a real Fender Strat to begin with, unless you’re a beginner.
Sounds like the kind of thing a beginner would say.
I have owned real fenders and my two Squires are amazing guitars for the money.
nothing new here, take a $400 squire add $250 in upgrades and play.
@@larryyork1146 well to be honest it was only about $150 in upgrades, so far, but it’s definitely a time tested and effective approach. I will be building out a loaded pickguard for it in the next video. Don’t think that’s ever been done before. 😂
@@pfg_pedals Do it like me and my 2 Squier Affinity strats which I just bought last month. Put in a Fender Tex-Mex Pre-wired SSS black (or cream white) pickguard.
It is the best sound you can get from your guitar. In one of the Affinity´s I changed the bridge pickup for a Seymor-Duncan SH-4 JB humbucker and re-wired
the pots to have a 500K poti and new wiring. The tremolo is good and so are the saddles, what you really need is the Musiclily brass 36mm block. I also have them.
Change the guitar string retainers to have 2 Gotoh RG15/RG30 String retainer. You will thank me later.
For the same price as a GraphTech nut, you can also install a musiclily brass 42mm nut. This does wonders for your sound and tone. Eddie Van Halen also used
them on his first White Strat with black stripes.
As for locking tuners, there are many around. Musiclily also makes a very nice set which costs half the money but you will have to widen the holes on
the headstock to fit 10mm. Put in some Ernie Ball´s Super-Slinky 09 - 42 gauge strings and you will have a great guitar that even David Gilmour, Eddie Van Halen
or Eric Clapton would have been very happy to play with !
What's a Squire?
WAY too many wraps for a locking tuner. Are you sure you know what you're doing?
@@patrickkeenan6331 There are reasons to wrap differently, especially when using a trem, even with locking keys. I can dive bomb to the body or pull up a minor third and everything falls right back in tune, and it’s because I treat each string differently depending on its gauge and break angle. You know who I learned about it from? Eric Johnson, in one of his many gear interviews, he explains why he wraps some of his strings all the way down the post to get the proper pressure on the nut. Now, of course the difference is he is using vintage style tuners, however the only part that matters is the angle from the nut to the post, hence why there are times when you want to wrap a string lower on the post. Now if you observe the fifth and sixth strings, A and E, they are wrapped up the post, again because of break angle except in this case it was too steep going straight through, so I wrapped them up and it works beautifully. Learned that from Dan Erlewine directly. This prevents them from hanging in the nut while dicking with the wang bar. Actually now that I have the triple tree I won’t be needing to wrap the G,B, or E at all, but it will be fine until the next string change. The take away from all of this is that there is no single rule about changing strings that applies to every player and every guitar, in every situation.