As soon as you started talking about the pickguard maker and the "allows it to be customised" I already had a suspicion who it would be, once you said "from the UK" it all but confirmed it, checked the link and there it was. Absolutely agree that earlpilanz pickguards are one of THE hidden gems of guitar parts. Accurate, professional, their stuff fits and is always top quality. It's also, as far as I can ascertain, mostly made, by hand, in the UK. I had used them before for off the shelf orders so contacted them about a year ago needing a custom pickguard for a 1970s Lawsuit copy Esquire, made most likely by Ibanez. The guitar was a husk with no pickguard to work from. After some back and forth, and using the original screw holes and the "tan lines" on the guitar, with their guidance I had a template made up in 3mm ply. Barely a week after I'd posted this to them, a packet dropped through my door with the finished pickguard, plus the returned template (unexpected). It was simply fantastic, a perfect fit in 1mm aged white, with decent aging that looked like it really had been on the guitar since the beginning. Could not sing high enough praises for what they do, that one part completely made the rebuild what it was.
Not sure if I'm a minority on this. But my all time favorite 60CH videos are when Ryan tinkers with a guitar or paints it. The Super Sonic, the Mustang, the tinfoil guitar, this etc.... Literally could watch you tinker all day long lol
For real! Ryans devil-may-care style of mods has inspired me to start tinkering with things myself. I have a few project pieces that I've purchased for cheap that I'll hopefully be able to mess with over the summer.
small fun fact: Michael Shuman from Mini Mansions (and Queens of the Stone Age) has a jazzmaster with a tele pickup in the bridge position as well, soooo I guess you guys are part of the same cool guitar club now
I like odd pickup combinations. I have a Custom Custom seymour duncan in the bridge of my les paul and a Texas Special strat neck pickup in the neck. The bridge coils splits and the entire guitar circuit has a on tap clean boost of up to 15db. Very versatile and fun!
I loved the crackling effect you got on the first paint finish. It's crazy how your "mistake" was my masterpiece. It's all so subjective. Great looking guitar.
Nice guitar and fun vide. It's got a Dr Seuss "Lorax" color vibe. You might even call it the "LorAx" model. The headstock matches the look. I like it. I'll have to check out the other competitors. 👍
I will say the cracking finish was fire and you should have left it like that!! Would love to see it with a painted headstock, maybe black, or or matching the body. Great job . Very inspiring
Awesome and so much fun! that thumbscrew for the bar tension is a great idea! Headstock shape is nice, and yeah, this could be your signature model. sounds surfy and best reason to 'make' a guitar-to have it your way, uniquely for your style
I might have to steal that thumb screw idea off of ya! I'm gonna have 3 guitars (when they're all done) with this vibrato and ease of adjustment is appreciated. I did just order an allen key set that comes in a little tin with picks to keep at my desk for when it comes loose while noodlin', so we'll see how that lasts till I get tired of it 😅
Love the series switch idea! Especially with the jazzmaster rhythm circuit style switch. The pickup combo is a great idea too. Mm. Great job, man. Ha! My amps and pedals have certainly been hit with the ol “kids to 10” drive-by twisting
I wired a series/parallel switch into my jazzmaster exactly the same way he is describing and it sounds HUGE, totally worth it! And it doubles as a kill switch, really cool mod
I had a MIM Jazzmaster with a tuneomatic bridge and the wiggle stick was basically unusable without it going out of tune. I dropped that same roller bridge in and it immediately worked perfectly with no tuning problems whatsoever and is still working great a year later. Best upgrade I ever made to that guitar
Fantastic!! Well done sir!! I take 2 things from this, modding cheap guitars is fun!! & more than anything a guitar is more about the pickups than anything… that Brad paisley, eyes closed could have been in in a tele guitar, so worlds ypur oyster, go build, go buy, make your dream!!
Wow, I'm really impressed with this guitar! Sounds absolutely amazing! And stays in tune surprisingly well after all the deep dives. Aesthetically, I love the body colors and stripes, but imagine how great that would look high gloss. Not sure if I like the cream and white so much. I might try different pickguard/pickup cover/knob colors. Maybe some chrome in there. I'd also do a maple neck, gloss fretboard. And yeah, that headstock... I'd aim for something functional like tuners that are in line with the nut slots for minimal drag. Anyway, fantastic job. Your idea was the main thing. Those pickups sound insanely great, and great together. I'd buy it!
You did great Ryan! I love it! I would defiantly add locking tuners. Your paint job is awesome! I would change the P90 to a black cover, maybe black knobs and a Tele headstock just to mess with people!
Rather than routing for a new control, I'd swap the pickup switch for a 4 pole 5-way blade (or a more expensive Freeway switch which could also allow you to keep using the bat-style). That would allow you to add series and even out of phase options. PS: I love the headstock. :)
Nice job! I would ground all the body cavities and hardware with wire-connected copper foil tape to eliminate the hum and add/use true roller string trees.
I dig the paint job. I like the subtle difference in the stripe colors. The fuzzy looking paint actually looks pretty good on camera. The headstock looks cool too. That guitar has a real 80's vibe to it. Nice job.
Love how it turned out! I was on the fence on buying one of those affinity jazzmasters, but now I'm actually thinking of buying this kit instead! Lots of modding options 🤘
Dude! The “one of my kids set everything on 11”-setting sounds INSANE! Made me want to get that pedal haha. I wish you had played that sound for more than two chords hahaha 🤣
That pickup combination. Dude. That’s perfect. Awesome build, I’d love to copy it, or get one. But with the finish I think it would look cool as a sunburst to contrast that bright orange
I do a similar thing with my Mustang trem arms... I have a bunch of nylon beads that go beneath set screws to stop metal on metal contact. I think I got them through McMaster Carr if I remember correctly. I put the set screw back in with some blue Loctite, and it keeps the arm at the same tension indefinitely, since the screw can't back out, and the metal won't wear down. I got the idea from a tattoo machine that used a set screw and nylon bead to lock down the contact screw in the front binding post. I figured if it doesn't loosen under all that vibration, it would work like a charm on a guitar... and it does!
I’ve always loved putting a load of expensive parts in cheap guitars cause most all cheap guitars these days have good body’s and necks you just gotta make it your own. This guitar with a set of Curtis Novak thunderbird pups and a full jazzmaster setup of mastery bridge and trem (a jag mute if it’ll fit) and the rhythm circuit would be absolutely mint
Use your rasp to make a bevel out of the 'not flat' headstock edge. Draw a line on the top and side of the headstock and remove material to get your nice, even bevel. It's like cutting off the corner. You stay square by stopping at your lines
When you add the switch, consider a mint green or brown tort guard. I think the top corner of the headstock would look better if slightly rounded but I like what you did. One thing I've noticed is that your eyes want to choose color choices that are on the same side of the color wheel while mine always like to choose one from one side and the second from the other to avoid clashes but your visual half step mixes aren't too bad.
Just found your channel, I actually got a pickguard from this seller and they didn’t have any for my guitar so they paid for me to send them mine to make a template, great service and got a sick guard for my offset
get a Freeway Switch! I put one on a Jazzmaster styled guitar that had strat pickups and now I can do normal strat switching as well as neck/bridge combo like a tele. I love it!
Rad build! I recently did a sologuitars tele kit. I left it stock, but I just picked up a Kent armstrong firebird neck pickup, and a hot tele pickup and am going to swap those out soon enough. It's fun and satisfying to complete one of these. It's also the guitar I pick up the most now for noodling (over my JM, or SG).
Those pickups sound funtastic. Was thinking you were doing multiple layers of painting so you could go after it with sandpaper like a road-worn look. But with multiple levels of colorful paintings underneath. That could be cool too!
From Leo: Looks like a fun guitar. I like the subdued paint. The stripes are there but not in your face like a Rail Road crossing arm. Interesting vibroto system on a Jazzmaster style guitar.. Nice job. Since you asked, I think I would shape the end of the headstock to mimic the lower horn of the body. Agree with lube in the nut slots like you mention, but people often forget to lube the string trees.
To be honest, you made yourself the ultimate surf guitar. The trem, the combo coils and the color schemes. All of it screams surfer. Even the head is shaped like a surfboard, including the wavey imperfection you did on accident. Fender should take a good look at the set up and bring out their own new surfer lined with such set up.
wow, that pickup combination really, and I mean, reeally worked well together! and who would have guessed, a tele bridge pup still sounds like a tele pup when installed on a different model...
I dig the hardware, dig the headstock, dig the pickups, dig the stripes. And generally I dig orange, but you've already got that steel wool creamsicle thing from the last time. I was super into that shimmer that the wood naturally had, was hoping for some translucent staining multicolor extravaganza (the stripes would've been cool with stains, etc.) Anyway, still cool.
Here's a thought, plastic jm cover, make your own hole pattern and gold foil in-between. You could put the letters HUM with drilled holes, or any design that tickles your fancy.
Cool guitar. I’d experiment with a surf color- scheme: a pale turquoise body fading out to a sand colored perimeter. Maybe a white pick guard with the horn shaped like a curl.
great pickup combo, great sound. only things I would have done different on mine would be a mermaid themed paint job and a b bender instead of the wiggle stick.
As soon as you started talking about the pickguard maker and the "allows it to be customised" I already had a suspicion who it would be, once you said "from the UK" it all but confirmed it, checked the link and there it was.
Absolutely agree that earlpilanz pickguards are one of THE hidden gems of guitar parts. Accurate, professional, their stuff fits and is always top quality. It's also, as far as I can ascertain, mostly made, by hand, in the UK.
I had used them before for off the shelf orders so contacted them about a year ago needing a custom pickguard for a 1970s Lawsuit copy Esquire, made most likely by Ibanez. The guitar was a husk with no pickguard to work from. After some back and forth, and using the original screw holes and the "tan lines" on the guitar, with their guidance I had a template made up in 3mm ply.
Barely a week after I'd posted this to them, a packet dropped through my door with the finished pickguard, plus the returned template (unexpected). It was simply fantastic, a perfect fit in 1mm aged white, with decent aging that looked like it really had been on the guitar since the beginning.
Could not sing high enough praises for what they do, that one part completely made the rebuild what it was.
This comment has made a new customer!
Yeah I've had a couple of pickguards off Earlpilanz and they've been excellent. Definitely a hidden gem as you say.
They made a blank JM pickguard for me too. Perfect. Very happy.
Not sure if I'm a minority on this. But my all time favorite 60CH videos are when Ryan tinkers with a guitar or paints it. The Super Sonic, the Mustang, the tinfoil guitar, this etc....
Literally could watch you tinker all day long lol
For real! Ryans devil-may-care style of mods has inspired me to start tinkering with things myself. I have a few project pieces that I've purchased for cheap that I'll hopefully be able to mess with over the summer.
Jokes aside the resin guitars are pretty cool and Burl's art makes some really cool stuff and is a great Guitarist doing original content.
Oh I totally agree, I just though the line “I made a guitar out of guitar parts” was a funny spoof of that stuff.
You’ve done it again brother! I’m in love with the Surfy tone you’re getting out of those pickups!!! That thing is a TWANG MACHINE!!!!!
small fun fact: Michael Shuman from Mini Mansions (and Queens of the Stone Age) has a jazzmaster with a tele pickup in the bridge position as well, soooo I guess you guys are part of the same cool guitar club now
Staggered locking tuners should be everyone's go-to choice, especially if you like using the wiggle stick. Nice job, Ryan.
i am truly amazed by the results... the design, the headstock. and mostly the sounds, it's amazing
I think it's great! And I agree 100% on wiring it as a humbucker too. It's great man
I like odd pickup combinations. I have a Custom Custom seymour duncan in the bridge of my les paul and a Texas Special strat neck pickup in the neck. The bridge coils splits and the entire guitar circuit has a on tap clean boost of up to 15db. Very versatile and fun!
This is a fun video, really enjoy the videos you do workshopping / modding guitars. That stripe paint job is so audacious, love it.
I really like the headstock shape! You should make a custom decal!
Great idea, some variant on the show logo perhaps...
The combination of both pickups is gorgeous. I would like to hear a Broadcaster in the bridge. The hockey stick headstock is cool.
I loved the crackling effect you got on the first paint finish. It's crazy how your "mistake" was my masterpiece. It's all so subjective. Great looking guitar.
I just gotta say until I started watching you I did not appreciate surf music in anyway but your surfy riffs just bring me all the joy.
Nice guitar and fun vide. It's got a Dr Seuss "Lorax" color vibe. You might even call it the "LorAx" model. The headstock matches the look. I like it. I'll have to check out the other competitors. 👍
Pretty cool painting buddy !! :)
Thanks for inspiring me! I can’t wait to buy one of these kits and give it a try. Love from the uk x
You're having so much fun, so you did it right.
Love the middle position with those Seymour Duncan’s! Also love the headstock. Great build, good sir.
I like how the pickups sound together. Very clear like you say, also punchy. The process looks fun!
Love the color and the head stock shape,hey it,s unique.
I’d love to see you go further than this and also alter the body shape. Headstock looks pretty cool!
Oh man, mustang vibrato, tele in the bridge, jmaster in the neck, block inlays and headstock all with a custom stripey paintjob!? Bravo sir👏
Seriously though, I wish I could get excited about building partscasters again! I totally burned myself out on it during lockdown. Bravo.
I will say the cracking finish was fire and you should have left it like that!! Would love to see it with a painted headstock, maybe black, or or matching the body. Great job . Very inspiring
Awesome and so much fun! that thumbscrew for the bar tension is a great idea! Headstock shape is nice, and yeah, this could be your signature model. sounds surfy and best reason to 'make' a guitar-to have it your way, uniquely for your style
I might have to steal that thumb screw idea off of ya! I'm gonna have 3 guitars (when they're all done) with this vibrato and ease of adjustment is appreciated. I did just order an allen key set that comes in a little tin with picks to keep at my desk for when it comes loose while noodlin', so we'll see how that lasts till I get tired of it 😅
once you use a thumb screw you wont go back. Its so convenient.
@@60CycleHumcast and it's stainless so you can polish it to make it pretty! 🤩
Such a solid build! So you! Nice sounding pickup combination as well. Nice with that reverb! 11s will be awesome on it! Surf it!!!
Love the series switch idea! Especially with the jazzmaster rhythm circuit style switch. The pickup combo is a great idea too. Mm. Great job, man.
Ha!
My amps and pedals have certainly been hit with the ol “kids to 10” drive-by twisting
I wired a series/parallel switch into my jazzmaster exactly the same way he is describing and it sounds HUGE, totally worth it! And it doubles as a kill switch, really cool mod
I had a MIM Jazzmaster with a tuneomatic bridge and the wiggle stick was basically unusable without it going out of tune. I dropped that same roller bridge in and it immediately worked perfectly with no tuning problems whatsoever and is still working great a year later. Best upgrade I ever made to that guitar
Fantastic!! Well done sir!! I take 2 things from this, modding cheap guitars is fun!! & more than anything a guitar is more about the pickups than anything… that Brad paisley, eyes closed could have been in in a tele guitar, so worlds ypur oyster, go build, go buy, make your dream!!
Wow, I'm really impressed with this guitar! Sounds absolutely amazing! And stays in tune surprisingly well after all the deep dives. Aesthetically, I love the body colors and stripes, but imagine how great that would look high gloss. Not sure if I like the cream and white so much. I might try different pickguard/pickup cover/knob colors. Maybe some chrome in there. I'd also do a maple neck, gloss fretboard. And yeah, that headstock... I'd aim for something functional like tuners that are in line with the nut slots for minimal drag. Anyway, fantastic job. Your idea was the main thing. Those pickups sound insanely great, and great together. I'd buy it!
Kudos to @seymourduncan. Love the idea of tele + jazzmaster pickups.👌💯👌
I’ve been using the same guy for pickguards for years now. Always amazing
Excellent pickup combination with the orange guitar.
I LOVE your headstock design!!! I'm gonna do that maybe myself, as soon as I find a good left-handed diy kit.
You did great Ryan! I love it! I would defiantly add locking tuners. Your paint job is awesome! I would change the P90 to a black cover, maybe black knobs and a Tele headstock just to mess with people!
dude! that mustang bridge is cool as hell. one of the most unique guitar ideas ive ever seen. wiring it like a humbucker was also a great move
That looks amazing. I love your creation. Excellent work.
Rather than routing for a new control, I'd swap the pickup switch for a 4 pole 5-way blade (or a more expensive Freeway switch which could also allow you to keep using the bat-style). That would allow you to add series and even out of phase options. PS: I love the headstock. :)
Great looking thing and sounds incredible. A fantastic pickup combination!
Love this, such a great combination of pickups and hardware. Makes me want to nail the setup on my MIJ Mustang so I can actually use the vibrato!
That guitar is AWESOME!! LOVE the rectangular headstock!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Nice job! I would ground all the body cavities and hardware with wire-connected copper foil tape to eliminate the hum and add/use true roller string trees.
I dig the paint job. I like the subtle difference in the stripe colors. The fuzzy looking paint actually looks pretty good on camera. The headstock looks cool too. That guitar has a real 80's vibe to it. Nice job.
Love how it turned out! I was on the fence on buying one of those affinity jazzmasters, but now I'm actually thinking of buying this kit instead! Lots of modding options 🤘
I love it when you mess around with different pickup configurations. Totally unique content keep it up!
I absolutely love the tiger stripe paint job, that'll be something I look into with my next kit.
That looks wicked awesome work hard work payed off
GROOVY FINISH LOVE IT..
THE HEADSTOCK IS BANG ON 🤘
Dude! The “one of my kids set everything on 11”-setting sounds INSANE! Made me want to get that pedal haha. I wish you had played that sound for more than two chords hahaha 🤣
That pickup combination. Dude. That’s perfect. Awesome build, I’d love to copy it, or get one. But with the finish I think it would look cool as a sunburst to contrast that bright orange
I do a similar thing with my Mustang trem arms... I have a bunch of nylon beads that go beneath set screws to stop metal on metal contact. I think I got them through McMaster Carr if I remember correctly. I put the set screw back in with some blue Loctite, and it keeps the arm at the same tension indefinitely, since the screw can't back out, and the metal won't wear down. I got the idea from a tattoo machine that used a set screw and nylon bead to lock down the contact screw in the front binding post. I figured if it doesn't loosen under all that vibration, it would work like a charm on a guitar... and it does!
Kudos to your efforts. Very badass! Interesting pickup combo. I like the headstock cut. It's fresh looking. Patent it before someone else does. :)
Ryan never fails to inspire me. Ironically have always wanted to throw a tele bridge pickup in a mustang
A perfect summer guitar!
You are very creative. Well done on the paint job!! It came out beautiful. The cut on the headstock is so retro/modern looking... fantastic job!!
I LOVE the paint job. Loved the gradient too.
Love the headstock sir .nice paint job , I alway's block the trem on my guitars :) lol . good job.
Perfect little rockabilly terror!
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I’ve always loved putting a load of expensive parts in cheap guitars cause most all cheap guitars these days have good body’s and necks you just gotta make it your own. This guitar with a set of Curtis Novak thunderbird pups and a full jazzmaster setup of mastery bridge and trem (a jag mute if it’ll fit) and the rhythm circuit would be absolutely mint
Use your rasp to make a bevel out of the 'not flat' headstock edge. Draw a line on the top and side of the headstock and remove material to get your nice, even bevel. It's like cutting off the corner. You stay square by stopping at your lines
When you add the switch, consider a mint green or brown tort guard. I think the top corner of the headstock would look better if slightly rounded but I like what you did. One thing I've noticed is that your eyes want to choose color choices that are on the same side of the color wheel while mine always like to choose one from one side and the second from the other to avoid clashes but your visual half step mixes aren't too bad.
Just found your channel, I actually got a pickguard from this seller and they didn’t have any for my guitar so they paid for me to send them mine to make a template, great service and got a sick guard for my offset
That’s awesome
Awesome! Signature model!
You never cease to amaze me. Great job on this new project. Guitar looks and sounds wonderful.
You should have won the Harley Benton build-off with that! Superb result and sounds wonderful, the ideal surf guitar?
get a Freeway Switch! I put one on a Jazzmaster styled guitar that had strat pickups and now I can do normal strat switching as well as neck/bridge combo like a tele. I love it!
Yes, it is a good video. I enjoy seeing people be creative. Very cool guitar.
Looks totally rad! ✌🏼
Rad build! I recently did a sologuitars tele kit. I left it stock, but I just picked up a Kent armstrong firebird neck pickup, and a hot tele pickup and am going to swap those out soon enough. It's fun and satisfying to complete one of these. It's also the guitar I pick up the most now for noodling (over my JM, or SG).
What a great combo of pickups!
LOVE that paint job!!
Sounds great and looks very cool !
Those pickups sound funtastic. Was thinking you were doing multiple layers of painting so you could go after it with sandpaper like a road-worn look. But with multiple levels of colorful paintings underneath. That could be cool too!
absolutely AWESOME job :)
tempted to look at a one of those kits myself for Gits and Shiggles :)
Series/parellel switch is awesome. I would love to hear it too Ryan!!!!
From Leo: Looks like a fun guitar. I like the subdued paint. The stripes are there but not in your face like a Rail Road crossing arm. Interesting vibroto system on a Jazzmaster style guitar.. Nice job. Since you asked, I think I would shape the end of the headstock to mimic the lower horn of the body. Agree with lube in the nut slots like you mention, but people often forget to lube the string trees.
You know what... I think I'm going to do this too. Great idea.
Loved your orange tiger-stripe. Very cool!
There's a Squier Vintage Modified Tele that comes in that pickup configuration, it also has a Jazzmaster neck!
To be honest, you made yourself the ultimate surf guitar. The trem, the combo coils and the color schemes. All of it screams surfer. Even the head is shaped like a surfboard, including the wavey imperfection you did on accident. Fender should take a good look at the set up and bring out their own new surfer lined with such set up.
wow, that pickup combination really, and I mean, reeally worked well together! and who would have guessed, a tele bridge pup still sounds like a tele pup when installed on a different model...
Mustang Vibrolas are so underrated. The J/T combo is one I've wanted to do for a while.
Looks fantastic! Love the slanted pickup + stang bridge/vibrato
Holy crap!! What an absolutely lovely guitar! It sounds amazing, got job!
Guitar parts???? So that's where I've been going wrong!!!! Cool video.
That thing looks and sounds incredible. Great job!
That’s a really cool guitar. I love the color and the technique you used
I dig the hardware, dig the headstock, dig the pickups, dig the stripes. And generally I dig orange, but you've already got that steel wool creamsicle thing from the last time. I was super into that shimmer that the wood naturally had, was hoping for some translucent staining multicolor extravaganza (the stripes would've been cool with stains, etc.) Anyway, still cool.
Middle position sounds killer!
I think the two Princetons section is my favorite part of each video.
Here's a thought, plastic jm cover, make your own hole pattern and gold foil in-between. You could put the letters HUM with drilled holes, or any design that tickles your fancy.
Cool guitar. I’d experiment with a surf color- scheme: a pale turquoise body fading out to a sand colored perimeter. Maybe a white pick guard with the horn shaped like a curl.
Dude! Looks like a NAMM show mashup custom $4000 guitar! Great job!
that pickup configuration looks really cool, nice work man
That actually turned out good. I like the pick ups.
Noice dude Go tiger 🐯 guitar awesome as hell great project
Sounds good, cool pairing of the pickups. I’ve never craved a Jaguar or Jazzmaster but this channel is converting me
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great pickup combo, great sound. only things I would have done different on mine would be a mermaid themed paint job and a b bender instead of the wiggle stick.