Squier Tele Mods: Don't Pay $41 For Plastic
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- I decided to start modding my Tele and the first thing to go is the pickgaurd. It's just not my personal taste. The brand I found on Amazon is cheap to buy, fits perfectly and is available in a bazillion colours. I'm NOT SELLING, OR AFFILIATED WITH THEM IN ANY WAY. Pay attention to the video for the brand name, and share it in the comments if you wish;-)
What were you thinking when you decided a mint green pickguard went with a burgundy guitar? It was black all the way man.
That's the thing.. when you buy your one, you can order the same cheap pickgaurd and put on the colour you personally like;-) Some people think I'm crazy for taking away the tortoise. No win;-)
I have a Mexican one in Daphne blue with the mint green pickguard. I like that combo but I guess to others it may look horrible ;-D
Your guitar, your choice, your style, your OCD, Your wallet, your labor and you can change it out anytime you wish. If it is past on, the next owner can decide if it stays or goes. It is all good and the way you want it. It's yours, I like it by the way. I shuttered when your buddy refinished the Clapper Shabby Chic Black but I felt inspired for him too. To each he own! It didn't cost me anything.
david williams I don't agree. I think mint green looks good on the dark burst. Black would've been too dark.
To each his own, but that's got to be the worst color selection ever made for a pickguard on a guitar that color. I'd hate to see your house.
currently that copper is acting like an antenna rather than a shield. for it to be effective it has to be grounded
but Fender has tone impregnated plastic, it's all about the tone man
BS
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roger smith birdbrain
i guess I'm kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good website to watch new series online ?
@Christian Xander I would suggest flixzone. Just search on google for it :)
Lime pickguard, OCD and colorblind, eh?
Early to mid 60s. They were made of nitrate, that is why they turned green. A chemical reaction took place between the layers of the pickguard and the black middle layer reacted with the top layer.
My comment had nothing to do with the color's history or hue, it was all about the choice to put that color pickguard on that color guitar. it's like gold knobs on any les paul that isn't a goldtop, why???
I agree.....it looks utterly hideous with a mint green pickguard. Black would have been my choice.
Mike Mixer I Have Gold knobs on my Fugly beat up LP...hideous indeed!
the guitar body colour is hideous
I've never seen anyone remove the strings on a Tele to change a guard
Bryan Spacek ditto
That new pickguard is Accounting General Ledger green. If the tortoise shell didn't work, mint green has gotta be the next choice that doesn't work either.
ikr!?...
That tortise pickguard would look cool on a black Tele.
Craig Parse Yeah what's wrong with the tortoise shell? I think this is way too unimportant to make a video of. And $41 for a Pick guard is just the price it is. Don't complain. If you want to modify your guitar be ready to pay the price.
@@jonathanhandsmusic to gain money to actually pay 41$ for a pickguard. Oh btw tortoise pickguar look go on sunburst strat though not a big fan on tele.
Tortise goes with all. Surf green hell yeah!
You didn't seem to make an actual connection between the copper foil and ground (earth). In which case it won't be effective.
Wouldn't the foil shielding work better if it was actually grounded?
the cavity is via conductive paint
This guitar looks much better with the tortoise picguard. In any case, I would only change it for a black 3 ply.
I did in my Tele Standard, it got pretty!
That sunburst looks hideous . I would chip the poly off with a heat gun and sand the
body off . Just the wood grain with the tortoise pickguard would look awsome ..
I love torty pickguards. Goes all the way back to my first Fender bass--a 62 Precision.I have since been known to buy guitars purely because of the torty guard. Each to his own.
Mint green and red ,? Ouch
Merry Christmas
Ugly as fuck
The amount of videos of the antique burst tele I see people commenting something along the lines of 'mint green pick guard would look great with this'. Why??it looks ugly as sin!
@@LHoriginal i agree
i bought the real mint green fender pickguard for mine... mine is a 2010 squier standard telecaster the pickquard was only 23 dollars some other places had them for 18 dollars free shipping so not very expensive squier standard tele's from 2004 up will fit real american standard/deluxe pickguards.................mine is also sunburst and you can not see the join lines in the body so can't see how many pieces of wood it is
Stratosphere online store has $10 pickguards that are excellent quality.
Pretty dramatic for a pick gaurd?
Hey, woodesos guitar mods here. Back to just complain and talk slightly slower than normal with a deep monotone pitch.
The tortoise shell pickgaurd looked so badass.
I wonder if Fender used a veneer on the back of that guitar to hide the joint.? It might be a single piece, but on a squire I wonder if they'd do that.
Greg's Garage not on mine. I bought a second hand candy apple red and cos I hated the colour I stripped it. 4 piece body no veneer
Fender use veneers on tons of their models. I had MIM sunburst that had a front and back veneer. There's even a bunch of forums of folks talking about stripping U.S fenders and it being 4/5/6 different pieces of wood. While it's nicer to give the illusion through clear finishes of one piece, some say composites makes stronger bodies as it's less likely to split or warp, but then there's the cork sniffers who claim they can 'hear the wood'. Who knows. Even 60's fenders were 2 and 3 piece.
Guaranteed veneer over a 3-4 piece body.
Thumbs down for being such a smarty pants
Tortoiseshell pickguard go great w/the sunburst and the rosewood fingerboard perfectly
you must be blind then
@@hollow.444 you must don't like that combo
@@b.rodclark7349 because it looks like shit, doesn’t match at all
That's good info to know. There's no pickguard that's harder to fit than a Tele, due to the fact that it has to match the horn, neck pocket, pickup, bridge plate and control plate.
You should ground that PG to the control plate with shielding tape (just place a strip of tape where it will make contact with both the shielding on the PG and the underside of the control plate). Tele pickguards are notorious for static electricity build-up, and it can get crackly when your fingers drag across the plastic while strumming. Drives me nucking futs!
Can i buy the pick guard I need it for my butterscotch tele bullet squire
I would've done a black gaurd.
stick with the drawing dude..
I understand lol... I bought a 2005 Fender Mustang that is Vintage white with a tortoise shell pickguard UGLY!!! I replaced it with a white one, looks much better
I would go for the white guard.
I find it very disturbing to hear man keep saying "like butter".
Thanks for the tip. Like you, I can't see spending the HUGE dollars for Fender branded parts.
But can you play
Sucks
MIM Teles are just like this one, routed for a humbucker in the neck even though it has a single coil.
Jshortca1 maybe it makes it easier to mod? In case you want a humbucker cause the single coil is mounted to the scratchplate anyways (if I'm not mistaken). Better just getting the appropriate plate than routing out the body
Im pretty sure its so they don't have to rout out each body differently in the factory so they don't end up with too much or not enough of a tele body routed for certain pickups.
The main reason is to save money.
All MIM Teles&Strats are swimming pool routed for universal usage. Paint changes the way they look. Then people put clownish parts on them.
Can personally vouch for musiclily, my black p bass got a new black pearloid guard. It fit in just right and looks stunning.
Puke ! The original pick guard was sweet . WTF ? Mint ?
That's funny Nelson! Haven't heard "Shadetree Mechanic" for along time! Ya, you are such an "old timer" , ha, ha! I'm a little surprised you didn't make a scratch plate yourself. You did an awesome job on the truss cover! Great video! Thankz
Dave Bowman and Sam Memmolo. Always working on that damn 1988 Ranger.
Lmao 😂 yep your right
Cool vid Nelson. Ive tried quite a few parts from Musicilly... it's hit and miss imo. Their knobs are VERY hit and miss (out of a package of 4, 2 might fit and the other 2 might not). Still, it's an affordable and convenient source for cheap parts for us Canadians who don't have ready access to GFS, Stewmac, Warmth etc. :) (I do find a lot of cheap fender parts for sale on Kijiji from time to time though, bought a few fender pickguards for $15 a piece)
You'll be needing more copper tape if you were trying to do a Faraday Cage.
awesome videos !
greets from Holland !!
Greetings from Canada. Awesome comment:-)
Fakka milan jij ook hier
yikes.....kind of hard to make ANY color work with a "burst", particularly a darkish one......plain black would prob have looked best...
I just did the opposite pickguard mod to my TeleMex ...seven years later....and the family consensus was that the pearloid look was much preferred. The fit was perfect....ordered more pearloids for 3 other Teles with black or white pickguards...too boring.
Dude shade tree was how I grew up every Saturday mourning instead of cartoons
Wow, Musiclily pickguard! Thank you for your support. - Nina
Make a jig for a guard then make your own guards and sell them. I hope that's not $41US or else you got it up the azz real good.
Nice pickguard I'm going to put one of them on mine
I just got myself a 60s vibe classic Sunburst and needs a mint green pickguard
Thumbs up from Geelong Australia 👍🇦🇺👍
Lime green pickguard= Good
Sunburst body= Great
Lime green pickguard combined with Sunburst body= Ugly ass combo
You strike me as the type of person who would sprinkle black pepper on vanilla ice cream.
I paid $38 for Tortis Shell Mustang pickguard for a toggle switch and 2 humbuckers and it was Squire. The cheaper pickguards don't have that route.
As a broke highschooler who likes to fuck around modifying guitars, i personally find Musiclily products to he a godsend. Cheap and relatively high quality for price point. Especially the Wilkinson M series (their colab with wilkinson) pickups.
And the Wind cry's Mary. Jimmy H 1968. Not sure about the date. Can't find the date on the LP cover.But I do remember me and a girl and a big fat one. oh yea. Funny, It's all full of Purple Haze.
Ahh did you put spring between the pickguard & pickup to stop movement & poss. rattle...Shadetree was Sam Memmolo & Big Goofy Dave Bowman .. been tryin to get hold of this Squire & sold out everywhere
Thanks for the Musiclily lead. I found some oddball gold tuners for old ‘70s LP copy I am fixing up.
Fender are scam artists. You would think that the quality build of the squire would be as well made as all there Fender products, to the same QC as the usa and mexican. Its as if the the squire branding gives them licence to not give a fuck and that the poor quality means they sell more of there expensive ones. I mean i get charging more for quality components but general build should all be identical. It just justifies them chargin 2 grand for fnder USA as opposed to 800.00 or 900.00
had no idea about the neck humbucker route - I'ld consider a Fender Wide Range H/B with an angled humbucker at the bridge - Hot Rail, stacked coils or mini-bucker - maybe a Gibson H/B in between
I dare not say that the appearance of the instrument somehow won from such a mod. Bad taste is not included in the list of 7 deadly sins.
The end result is quite close to those absurd copies that the socialist countries made in the 70s.
For that price you can get a PG that fits right down to the placement of the screw holes. You just have to ask for exactly what you need! I am completely satisfied with my 3-layer scratchplate.
You drilled the pickup holes out so the screw threads pass through the holes without catching... then you didn't put a spring on either pickup screw between the pick guard and the matching screw hole on the pickup. So what is keeping that pickup from sliding such that it's distance from the strings changes constantly? How can you adjust the pickup height and have it stay in place without a spring given that you reamed out the holes in the pick guard?
Got one word for you Nelson ALIEXPRESS. hate being scammed by these companies especially for small parts that they also buy from China.
you didn't do the guitar any favors... the original p/guard looked great. concentrate on your scale studies-not the p/guard..
I ordered a pickguard for a Japanese jaguar from them and it didn’t fit at all. But it was only 14 bucks so oh well.
I could see 20 for a fender pickgaurd to be reasonable but I got a pre wired 3ply pickgaurd with 3hot rail humbuckers just for that price of 40 so I agree with you man from the same company that you ordered from
Would a neck somebody decides to sell from an American Tele fit a Squier pretty well? Outside maybe a difference if there's neck tilt option.
Massive improvement. I hate those faux torts Squier use as standard. It's only a print behind plastic, how hard is it to print a decent looking tort.
This rendition of the “Smarty Pants Song” was simply incredible!!
I love mint green pick guards but not on that color tele which actually had the proper color pickguard on it..snore fest too. wow.
Kmise has great pickguards
bought a mint green one for my HH strat. $10 on amazon. Color is a bit off from Fender mint green but not a big deal as its the only mint green piece on the guitar. holes line up perfect too
Sweet, post a link if you have one for other people trolling the comments section:-)
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VL860ZE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
They don't do Tele pickguards.
nothing wrong with the original scratchplate..but Black or white would be better..
Yeah no doubt. I got locking tuners n I got taken. Not as bad as your buddy Richard hahahaha.
I'm about to buy new pickguard for my mim Tele, had reservations about musiclily product, but you've just convinced me to go ahead and save some cash, cheers!
i remember shade tree! always seemed as though his side-kick did all the work while the main guy just talked and talked hahaha
I just bought a players series tele and the tuners were extremely loose. All but one were finger tight.
I order about 80% of my parts from them. I just ordered for my strat hot rails and kills on the sound. Not once had a problem musiclily. And probably have 100 picks in a cup that they give you on every order, I can probably make a pickguard out of all the free picks I got from them. Keep up the good work.
I've been watching for a couple months now, great videos in learning a lot. I just have to say over the months your playing has improved a lot!
Hey, Shadetree Mechanic came and did a seminar at our Factory (Automotive Parts) for all the Sales Reps. Sam Memmolo and Dave something were really nice guys.
JamCave Studio
Dave Bowman. I worked midnights for years and would watch Shadetree Mechanics when I got home from work.
Is there a particular part # for this pickguard? Or are they all the same fit?
"My OCD won't allow this." Brilliant! I buy my pickguards from China because they are cheap but very high quality! It's funny it has 22 frets and the fingerboard goes over the heel like the US Teles. I'm about to buy one in CAR.
I've gotten Kmise and musiclilly guitar parts from eBay and Amazon and they're really good..... also Chinese
I have the Squier Tele Deluxe with the dual humbuckers and big strat headstock....great guitar for the $$.. The Fender version is double the price and I didn't see a or hear a reason to spend 400$ more.
I agree with you.... I owned Squier Classic Vibe 50s and 60s Strats and a Classic Vibe 50s Tele as well as a Squier Standard Tele and Strat. I like the Squier Standard line a lot for the dry gloss and the good pickups and fatter neck and much lower prices ... lightly used!
The pickups of a made in USA Fender Tele are measurably better: more copper wire windings, thus a higher resistance (I'm talking about ±7.5 KOhms for the neck pickup for instance !), thus a higher output.
So there are quality and sound (output) differences that can be compensated with a few aftermarket Fender USA pickups. They cost definitely much less than 400 bucks.
Without these mods Squiers still sound pretty OK, just not as loud as the Fenders. You can also put your amp on a higher volume and/or use a compressor or a booster.
does anyone have experience with kmise necks? how are they?
Nelson: OT, but...were those strings old and in need of changing anyway? If not, wondering why you simply wouldn't re-use them after the pickguard install? On Floyds, OK, maybe some issues with re-using old strings in a similar situation. But for a bone simple machine like a Tele? It seems quite wasteful to ditch strings unless they really need it.
I only ask because I have done exactly that kind of thing quite often historically, rightly or wrongly, for a very long time - originally starting when I was a kid because I was poor. lol
But seriously, I'd like to know some honest views on that kind of thing from pros and other players...I'm curious.
cheers and Happy 2017
+Dean: Yep, that sure can happen sometimes. :)
But back in my poor teen years, again, rightly or wrongly, I learned to leave a bit more slack for each string, which left some more winds around the tuning peg. Yes, I know...too many winds can lead to slippage, but as a poor kid, what the hell did I know? lol
Actually, I still kind of string my guitars the same way, especially with my Floyd axes. Overkill on double-locking guitars, sure, but I still do leave a bit more winding around the pegs for each string. Since most breakages, especially on Floyds, occur at the bridge, for my non-professional needs, when I am feeling cheap, I can often re-use a snapped string because I have that additional slack. And also because I string the ball ends on the tuner side [yeah, I know some folks think that may be bad for the posts as well, but I have never had a problem across tons of Floyd guitars I have owned].
I was just curious about Nelson's specific case here :)
cheers and thanks!
At their site, looks like amazon doesn't have that issue. I've been wanting to check out a Kimsie replacement necks
I remember shade tree mechanic, used to watch it all the time, I myself am a journeyman mechanic
How about a FAT neck? I'm sick of this skinny neck, I have big hands and long fingers
so the standard SUCKS. I need 1-3/4 or 1-13/16 @ the nut. Who does that?
do you mean fat as width or more of a c shape? I think theres quite a few teles with real thick c shape necks. I know i played one, but it may have been custom, but it can defo be done
Send me the tortise pick guard please 😍😊
nevermind the scratchplate...
How does the copper shielding get earthed?
What's the aluminum tape for?
I actually quite like the min green pickguard , its pretty cool
I used to love shadetree
What is the nut width of this model? #deydreams
Mono...........tone.
Just letting you know you doxed someone for 100K people. Cover up addresses on packaging.
He doxxed himself lmao that's just the Amazon address, his own is the one he needs to worry about 😂😂
You sound like Adam driver
Damn nice one Nelson. The only Squier I have is a 2011 vintage modified telecaster custom in black on black. If I could only get a mint green guard for one of them I'd love it. Unfortunately the Squier guard is different to the MIM which is different again to the MIA on these. :(
2011, might be okay on that Squier. I think the Tele's are all the same size and shape.
Woodeso's Guitar Mods id be fine if it was the standard Tele pickguard but this one is the full face guard that has the same control layout as a les Paul, selector switch up top with 2 volumes and 2 tones down bottom. These types seem to be all different
920D Telecaster 3 Ply Pickguard for Fender '72 Tele Deluxe CNC Cut, White Pearl www.amazon.com/dp/B012U270WG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_le8CybJ3NNH3T
Mint green was also the wrong choice.
I have musiclilly pickups in my squier strat and they sound amazing for what they charge, everyone on amazon say they sound amazing.
Peripheral Vision I have them in my Squier as well. They really do sound pretty good.
Peripheral Vision i am trying to find musiclilly on google but it does not show me anything like that. can you please put a link in comment
Peripheral Vision Tnx for info. I found it meanwhile. I wrote lilly but it need to be one l
shadetree mechanic ruled
guitars should be scuffed up abused ...rock n roll is not neat .
What's 9/64 in metric
To buy a the same fender pickguard in New Zealand is $87. I know our dollar value is not the best but you can get the same one for as low as $15. Totally understand where your coming from on this one.👍
when i saw the humbucker carving, it was clear for me, i'll totally put a humbucker in it. i don't use neck pickups on a tele, so it would be a interesting add for some versatility between the clear metallic sound and a more deep sound; probably a alnico2 would fit perfectly imho. what do you think ?
Quick non related question, what are your views on the neck pickup being mounted to the pickguard vs to the body? If the former anywhere that ships worldwide and has the right screws for pickguard mounting.