GHOST FENDER STRAT MODIFICATIONS: DIY UPGRADES - AMERICAN PERFORMER DEMO
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
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Very nice. I have an old parts Strat that I customized during COVID with Mojotone guts, Seymour Duncan classic stacks, and a Wilkinson trem and graph tech nut and string trees (kept the tuner cause they were solid). Customizing guitars is one of the most rewarding hobbies.
I agree. Used to do it a lot before the channel, getting back into it
Now I want a strat, that white is sick
Agreed! I absolutely love this one. Sounds as tough as anything out there!
Hell yeah. Looks and sounds great! Nice job, dude!
Thank you very much! It sure plays nicely!
I love Ghost and the Strat looks great.
Thank you!!
Like the mods.
Thank you!
Sounds good man! Only thing else i would want is a floyd rose but thats just me.
Absolutely agree, the floating Floyd Rose vs the dive only on this one would be the only change!
Sounds great, bro!! I may have to build myself one, one of these days ahahaha🤘🔥
It was super fun to put together! You should do it! Thanks for the kind words!
Completely understand you! When I saw the live videos of Call me little sunshine I wanted a white guitar, so I bought a LTD Arctic Metal. Yours is beautiful!
Those LTDs are so beautiful! And a fantastic guitar for the price! Thank you!
Watching this video a second time. Not much of a ghost fan but I love this guitar
❤️ remember your first Fender experience?
Great job! Favorite song: ritual
Thank you! It’s weird to think how long ago Ritual came out! Definitely ages me.
Just looked it up. God damn, I feel old...😂
@ seriously! I searched it and aged in a matter of seconds 🤣
You should be able to set that bridge up to float a little, enough to flutter probably, you just have to spend the time working over and oiling the nut and string trees, put something under the back end of the bridge the amount of pull up you want then tune it up to pitch and loosen the claw springs until you can barely pull whatever you had blocking it, tune stretch tune dive bond , stretch the strings some more then you should be able to dump the bar release it and get some flutter and if it doesn’t return to pitch you might have to pull up on the bar but once you get the strings stretched and the nut and spring trees don’t bind you should be able to achieve fairly good tuning stability or you could put a tusq nut and staggered tuners and get rid of the string trees completely ( that’s what I would do) if I can get a baretta special to return to tune with a vintage style tremolo and the crazy string pull angle due to that iconic banana headstock, you shouldn’t have any problem with a Strat and it’s straight string pull across the nut
PRS tremolo mounting screws are fantastic upgrades for vintage style bridges they have a notch that the baseplate knife edge rides on you can use them with fender style tremolo’s as well and they do improve the tremolo’s ability to return to zero point
I was going to delete the string trees but the little tiny holes would have annoyed me. I'm weird that way! I'll look into those PRS mounting screws. I've never heard that. I really appreciate you sharing all of this information with me! I definitely appreciate when someone takes the time to share real world experience and type it out!
Love the strat! Definitely all white is gonna be my next ax. Been looking at Charvel mainly but not sure where I'll land.
Faith is my favorite Ghost song. I jam Prime Mover and Rats with my kids. We kick around the idea of maybe doing a Ghost cover band. First saw them on their Meliora tour and we never miss them when they're in town.
While I haven’t played a Charvel those sure look nice and I hear great things about them! Ah, Faith is a great song, as well as Rats! I got hooked on Ghost when Meliora came out. I’m with you, if they’re in town, I’m there!
Beautiful!
Thanks man!
Def Leppard suuuucks! Great video.
🤣🤣🤣
Favorite ghost song: Jesus he knows me (to listen to) and Kaisarion (to play)
Both are great! Kaisarion might be my favorite song. I should learn that, it does sound fun to play!
I gotta look into these noiseless springs. Thanks!
You are welcome! The red ones are heavy duty, black noiseless are standard. I'd doing standard on my Floyd's going forward. The heavy duty, are really heavy duty!
Just use heat shrink tubing. You can get them in any color and they're pennies.
@@MrDonc78 that is a good idea, especially with how many springs I need to swap. Thanks!
How much was the total build cost? It looks so sick.
I was looking at a charvel until I saw your rig, might be worth it ha
I think I’m into around $1,900……it was a bit spendy. I could probably recoup $150-$250 by selling the stock parts but I’m going to put them on another guitar! You should build one! It was a lot of fun!
The frets being improperly seated is concerning. The Tele performer I got was flawless. Even more the Charvel Pro mod (MIM) I got recently is super level on the fretboard.
Doing mods to guitars though is the best part of playing guitar! 😂 the black on white is always a clean look.
Yeah I was a bit bummed when he told me that’s what it was. It’s great now, but USA made should be better than that. I haven’t modded a guitar in so long it was really fun to do it again. I’m going to do some Floyd rose mods after NAMM and see how a stock Floyd vs one with stainless steel/brass sounds.
This could be good for Slipknot as well if Jim Root was so proud of you for that.
I agree. I’d love to get Jim’s Tele. It’s been on my list forever!
I prefer the Gibson RD's the original goul's had. The black one, and the white one.
Those Gibson RD's are so sick. I'd love to get one on the channel one day. One of the Hagstrom's they are playing too!
Bro, my favorite guitar is a fender strat. I've tried to set it up. Nothing i do can cure dead frets.
I've leveled and crowned the frets. I've got a fretboard level and adjusted ever which way. It has dead frets around 16th fret
It's a bummer. I think I'll replace the neck, I don't know what else to do.
Man, that’s a huge bummer. Other than a re fret I’m not sure there is much else than replace the neck. This is my first experience with Strats. Really enjoying them so far! I hope you can get yours playing the way you want!
Did you split the humbuckers for the 2 and 4 positions, and still use 250k pots?
My favorite song would be Square Hammer, Cirice or Ghuleh, depending on the day.
Hey there! I did not split them, I actually left the wiring for the pots the exact same, so since they’re “single coil” they don’t split. For position 2 and 4 it just combines the bridge/middle or middle/neck. If I pull the push/pull tone pot it combines the bridge/neck pickups. Square Hammer and Cirice are definitely favorites of mine as well!
I wonder if there's some Dave Murray influence behind the Sodo strat?
I have never looked at Dave Murray’s guitar but now that I do it is so similar! I’m glad you said that! I see all of the similarities!
At first i was like isnt that just a EOB didnt know he had his own sig
I’m pretty sure one of his 3 models is an EOB cause it’s not bright white like this!
Where you get the sticker on back? :)
Ah! Good call out! Red Bubble! Link is now in the description!
@@tyrannosaurusriffs Thank you sir.
Anytime! Have a great day!
She's beautiful
You’re beautiful.
No surprise about the quality problems. Fender USA has been having these issues for years now.
It bums me out to know that. I don’t think “made in the USA” means what it used to.
Still trying to hear the metal in Ghost
Definitely not the most metal band. A friend of mine called them “satanic journey” and I can’t unhear it 🤣
@tyrannosaurusriffs 🤣🤣🤣
It's white and it's not cream, but I'm still not a fan of Traffic, the band, since Christopher passed on that Passengers skinny tip. I don't know any better on that one. Even BB King was completely comfortable on Elvis guitar. Ballons for president and others talking, uh? Maybe that humbucker was made to play death metal on the Boss's telly. Who knew?! Namastè.
Namste!
Ghost SUCKS.
But I love your videos
🤣 you’re my boi blue!
Ghost is garbage😂😂😂😂
Wrong
@ cool story bro 🤡
Ghost sucks
Do you feel better getting that out?
Yeah but they're all better than you...
So does PRIMUS
SO DO YOU MAESTRO OF MASTURBATION
Yet here you are just to make the comment..