Making This Squier Stratocaster BETTER Than My Fender!
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2021
- Having already addressed playability and hardware upgrades, today I do the "Gilmour Mod" and upgrade the electronics and pickups!
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Happy Mod day!
I think I may have found the perfect setup for this Squier! Enjoy :)
Great!
Looks like Logan Designs is kaput :-/
I WOULD LIKE YOUR OPINION ON THE SRV OR HENDRIX PICK GUARD FROM GUITARGET SORRY GUITAR CENTER. THEY RUN ABOUT $300 LOADED. I BOUGHT A 69 SG THAT THE NECK AND BODY ARE DESTORYED AND WONDER IF THE 69 HUMMBUCKERS MIGHT DO FOR THIS BUILD. I'M ON DISABILTY AND HAVE TO WATCH MY MONEY. THAT IS THE SWEETIST BUILD YOU DID BUT I'M ON A BUDGET. TO CLARIFY 1 ATOMIC 69 HUMM 2 SINGLES AND THE OBSIDIAN ON A OLD SQUIER I HAVE.
@@Hickeroar Yeah, I can't find them either. Website is gone, and they had a reverb store but it's empty too.
No fair you’re cheating using the obsidian!
Awesome to see a Squier mod. Can’t wait to see your next build.
The solderless kits are complete game changers.
not for the better imo. I get the impression it's the end all be all to modding since you further modify what you have. No kill switches, affects or anything of the sort with it being on a board.
Of all the guitars in your collection this is my favorite one. Beautiful to see and hear! Just stunning, congrats on the build!
Fender ought to offer that exact wiring config and pickup combination as a stock build. That is the perfect pickup compliment to any Strat. Looks and sounds amazing. That same pickguard look could be achieved in plastic to save some money. HSS is also my preferred Strat setup. The Gilmore mod and Obsidian wiring sends it over the top. Great stuff Darrell. God bless and rock on 😎👍🎸
Look at yamaha pacifica
They do in their American Pro II series. Just bought one and the 7 way switch is standard with that series.
Looks and sounds killer Darrell! That’s a great playing Squier now for sure. Thanks for sharing your experience with the Grinder, we’re thrilled you love the tones!
I already have replaced the pickups in my 60s Classic Vide Tele and PRS Tremonti SE with your Blondie and Crema's respectfully, and after seeing this video, I see a Lambertones HSS setup for my MIM Strat in the near future. Great work guys! It was the Grinder Bridge and neck pickup sound that sold me.
That tone with all 3 pickups is INSANE!!!! Love it! Also, the pickguard is gorgeous with the Daphne Blue... Great mods!
Such a great build and sounding guitar. Like always, love the channel. Keep doing what you do
unfortunately, it appears Logan Designs is out of business... but i have one of their pickguards on a tele project and it's gorgeous!
That's too bad. My favorite thing on the build was the gorgeous pickguard.
Try brad adgrove not sure if spelt right but on here and does customize pickguards and from Canada
Yeah, I got all excited about the design of this pickguard but I can't find them either
Greasy Groove Inc. Out of Canada has a great selection, might have one similar!
In Kuwait where I'm from the only Strats available are the Squier Affinity Starter Pack ones which is what I bought as my first guitar. Watching all your videos has been really helpful in learning about all the different mods I can upgrade it with to bring it close to Fender level since I can't buy any of those here. So far I've bought new strings, setup kits, strap locks, locking tuners, nut, bridge set, saddles, pickups, knobs and now ObsidianWire electronics. Won't be anything left of the guitar other than the wood 😂 Thanks for all the great content, simple guides, and sound demos.
Watched literally hundreds of your vids during all these years. Talking aesthetics , this is my favorite guitar of them all.
These videos are great. I tend to think of my used Strat as a "priceless Steinway" or Stradivarius; when you show how easy (esp. solderless) and impactful these changes can be it's quite liberating!
That’s a great tone! Love the cleanliness of the wiring.
Fascinating series of mods!
Thanks for posting.
That pickguard looks fantastic, and a great mod to boot. You’re inspiring me to perform some mods to my Partscaster Strat.
Thanks Darrell! No matter what, I always make an effort to watch your videos!
I did a very similar thing to a Squier Strat I have. Upgraded all electronics/Pickups and used a Tone Shaper Blender kit. So I have a single volume and single tone and the 2nd "tone" knob is a blender knob to blend the neck pickup or bridge pickup depending on what position you're in, so many tonal options. It's an awesome setup and no additional switches or push/pull pots.
It looks beautiful Darrell! I really like the look of the cream components against the blue of the body and the maple fretboard too.
Amazing video, amazing tone options. Thanks for making this! Very educational!
I really like the pickguard. It's got the classic tortoise shell look at first glance, but has so much subtle detail
Nice build. Looks great and the multitude of sounds you can get out of it is impressive.
Wouldn't the cheaper way be to just smash your fender up with a hammer, making the perfectly functional playing squier the better guitar out of the two
Lolol, Well that's one way about it...
You can save money on the hammer and just go smash it on the ground outside... or just not buy the damn fender if that's what you're gonna do with it....
Just buy a better guitar with a full thickness body to start with or sell what it you have and buy a good used one.
Not really. A USA Strat is about £1000 minimum. A Squire is about £150. Obsidian wire set is about £100, hipshot locking tuning machines are about £100 and a new roasted maple neck is £150. And all of those things can be bought item by item as and when the money becomes available. So you can get something very close to the sound for half the price. And no effort with a hammer
@@maxkalba5197 but if the fender doesent work it doesent work no matter how fancy it's bells and whistles are
Love Love Love the pickguard! Beautiful guitar!!! Sounds amazing.
Man, I'm loving everything about this guitar!!
I’m in PA, in the USA, and I LOVE that Squier. I ADORE the circuit layout, and those pickups all sound INCREDIBLY sweet. Not to mention how beautiful it is. Your builds are deadly, Darrell! Cheers, and thanks!
Thanks for the pickguard maker info, I really love the look of that thing!
Enjoyed this build. Looking to buy my first electric and now I have even more questions and ideas!
A dark neck like roasted maple, walnut or rosewood would look sick with that body and pickguard, maybe a fancy warmoth one with flamed maple fingerboard?
It would, but after adding flame maple, you'd probably want to upgrade the body too. Roasted flame maple is pretty expensive.
While I respect your opinion, I tend to like the contrast the clear colour of the neck provides here
My first thought was a r/w fretboard would look much better with the copper p/g.
Yes it would👍🏼
@@kitoyobeni1 - Roasted non-figured maple Warmoth necks look great and are still are cheaper than equivalent unroasted lacquer-finished necks. Less manual labour to produce, and the torrefaction permanently seals out moisture so you can leave it unfinished.
I'd personally avoid figured necks unless I knew they were made years ago and the wood was completely stable, it's a pain in the $#% for something that just looks pretty. Maple figure can theoretically release all kinds of stresses after it is cut and shaped, and I heard some early Fender CS flamed maple necks had to be warranty replaced. A neck should just be solid and not turn into a pretzel.
Beautiful mods! The look and sound quality are great!
Such a great mod. The Braun Squier Custom Shop. What phenomenal and versatile tones and sound.
Wow. Love that pick guard!
Sounds Great! 🤘🏻That pick-guard is Stunning.✌🏼
The daphne blue and copper pickguard look fantastic, perfect contrast.
Looks really nice, and sounds even better! Very versatile!
Omg the pickguard!!! Phenomenal like always
Fantastic mod! The Lambertones pickup sounds amazing. I might have to try this mod to one of my strats.
This is a great build for a newbie I'm impressed with the sound great job
Really nice 👍🏻 aesthetically pleasing and sounds amazing too! I know what I want to build next 😃
Looks great and sounds amazing too! Nice build👌🏽🔥
That's one of the coolest pickguards I've seen. Very nice looking to say the least.
Sounds fantastic! I might try that combo in one of my strats.
What a beautiful guitar! Love the way you modded it! 👌
Wow that pick guard is gorgeous. Guitar looks great, and sounds fantastic.
Sounds really good. Thanks for the video.
Absolutely gorgeous Darrell!!!
Great mods, it really sounds phenomenal, congratulations great job and great info 👍
Just ordered this very module from Obsidian earlier today, so your video was quite topical! FrankenSquier is gonna be awesome with it!
I installed a similar setup by Emerson Custom in my US Highway One Strat. instead of the push pull pot, there is a blender knob that blends the neck pickup in with any setting that normally wouldn't include the neck pickup. The other two knobs are a master volume and master tone. It made my Strat much more versatile. The Emerson Custom prewired harness isn't solderless though.
I have 2 squier strats I have built up and 2 squier teles... I appreciate your videos they have helped me out a lot... Thanks
That's beautiful and so versatile!
I did enjoy this video, very much! Thankyou, Darrell.
That strat sounds phenomenal
That is a sweet-sounding Squier; a bit of a looker. One of my Strats is a Squier 50th Anniversary, picked up on eBay years back for $85. Excellent player that now yearns for a bridge HB.
Looks absolutely beautiful, I'm a fan.
This video came at the right time. I am currently planning to upgrade my Squier Telecaster
Pickups sound really good !
Really nice!! So awesome brother!
Turned out great ! Sounds awesome !
The thing I'm most impressed about is how Obsidian Wire THINKS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND EVERY POSSIBILITY. It's amazing
I wish I could give someone my guitar to do all this for me . Sounds so good !!!
Obsidianwire is great. Thanks to a prior vid of yours I bought a wiring harness for my epi LP and couldn’t be happier. Service was very responsive too to email.
YUMMY! What an absolute beauty ~ aesthetically and tone. Makes me HAPPY!! : )
I did a total upgrade on my fender highway one. I replaced the tuner with fender locking tuners, the nut with tusq nut, jescar ss frets, pots caps switch to obsidian wiring, bridge to gotoh wilkinson bridge, trem spring with a brass stopper stabilizer and lastly texas pickups. I really think it is really close to american elite. I definetely loving it more than ever
Now that's a great-looking nice sounding Strat !!
What a beautiful guitar a a result
Nice Job..sounds great!
Wow, it sounds amazing
This is something I must do
Looks and sounds lovely
very beautiful man great job!
Love that pick guard.
That looks and sounds amazing!
Love these squier mod vids
My friend did the HSS mod on his Squier Affinity back in 1985. It remains his go to guitar.
Love it, love that pic guard
I am really liking the Squier. The maple finger board is a winner with me and the bakelite pickguard is nice too. I am in Canada.
My 1991 MIM Strat is Hum/(blank)/single with a 3 way switch. I also ordered a new pickguard after I deleted a tone pot and moved the volume pot down a hole. My favorite set up.
I've got a Squire HSS and love it. I don't have the push pull setup but my ears aren't that defined yet anyways. Nice guitar Darrell, love it, looks great.🎸🎶🎹🎵🎧
Man, that guitar looks like a piece of art. Great playing btw.
I also have a red and black with the turtle shell pick guard standard squier stat.i like the squier standards the most out of all the squier line. I love the black pick guard mod you did changes the whole look of the guitar much better.
Been away from your channel bro...nice to feel like listening to a friend talking bout guitar gear 💯💯💯✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I did a very similar mod to a Squier Telecaster with a solderless Obsidian wire kit and some Planet Tone pickups....turned out pretty badass
Did the s/s/s with solder of course on 08 ameri st, sounds great with 7 positions, also added a dummy coil. Nice mod Darrel!
Darrell, that is one sweet pickguard amd gilmour upgrade nice and sweet. And just what i was looking for.
My Michael Kelly CC60BB came with this pickup switching, but it also has a splittable humbucker in the bridge. This offers even more tones. For me, the CC60BB is one of my two favorite guitars, handily beating out damn near every other guitar I'd ever played. Not just for the tone coming from the HSS with this mod, but also because of the amazing neck, frets, and hardware.
Man that has to be the most gorgeous strat i have ever seen truly.
That pickguard is gorgeous!
That is a very cool Squire mod , I have a couple Squires I have done lots of mods on and they are both really nice playing and sounding guitars . Lent one to my friend who is a studio player and he wants to keep it LOL. Good job on that and it's real eye candy as well I would not hesitate to play live with that . Cheers!
Darrell I've Done about 20 mods like this on strat's and tele's this is a awesome video and the kits are as well cool thanks for the video.
Probably one of the best sounding strat bridge pickups I've heard.
The bridge pickup is the business 👌👌👌
That looks badass with that pick guard.
My collection of Squier Strats is going to grow exponentially, just to keep up with your mod videos!
Absolute favorite guitar that you have played on your channel. Hss is really the only way to fly. I enjoy your channel 😊
Super Awesome. Thx Darrell. I’m building a offset style kit at the moment. This mod would be great. Have a Blessed Day!
Great mod thanks Darrell. I bought a Squier Paranormal Cabronita 2 months ago and, straight out of the box, it plays and sounds wonderful. It's actually better sounding than my Fender Cabronita which was my number one gigging guitar for 8 years.
Thanks Darrell! Absolutely brilliant! I have SO many projects you wouldn't believe at standstill because of my long term inability to get to grips with soldering. Despite the fact that they aren't cheap, I'm going to get one of these to get a Strat Seymour Duncan project finished, which will hopefully inspire me to knuckle down and learn to solder properly and get the many others completed. TBH, I don't know why all guitars aren't shipped with solderless now, solder is ancient technology.
Sounds better than many Strats. Nice job.
I'm becoming obsessive with this video, coming at least once a day just to see the beauty of the upgrade.
Absolute brilliant job you did here, man I'd even consider this over a standard US at some point.
I'd like to see a mexincan strat againts this squier. It looks awesome Darrell, great Job!
I'd definitely look into that obsidian system, just to save me having to solder.
Although I feel like I'd rather the 2nd position switched the humbucker to parallel rather than splitting it.