Building the Ultimate Punk Guitar
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Today were building the ultimate punk rock guitar!
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Transform your Fender Stratocaster into the ultimate punk guitar with this step-by-step guide! If you've ever wanted to own a Tom Delonge Signature Strat but couldn't find one for lefties, then this video is for you. Join us as we show you how to build your own punk rock masterpiece with a single humbucker, single volume control, and a Seymour Duncan Invader pickup. We'll cover all the necessary parts and walk you through the assembly process, so you can create the guitar of your dreams. With its signature sound and style, this ultimate punk guitar is perfect for any aspiring punk rocker. Watch now and start building your own Tom Delonge Signature Strat today!
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Thanks to Metro Music for helping me get the pick guard, and St. John's music for ordering the Invader.
“Well I’m a lefty” fucking same and it makes instrument shopping a pain
Tell me about it...
Same here lol
Im left handed but play right handed
@@liamfolan607 traitor 😄
Yeaa its like thattt, i gave up and i just buy right handed ones and hold them upside down
Tom Delonge is the reason we all want to build singular humbucker punk rock guitars.
Edit: Guys I know there were many of guitars and guitarist before Tom Delonge that had one pickup, I'm just saying all together, he had the most influence on the newer generation to build a single humbucker punk rock guitar. Jack White also did it, and id say he's the best guitarist of today (my opinion) and he even had just one humbucker, but Tom Delonge, the not so great guitarist of today (again my opinion) has had people wanting his signature guitar for years, and if they can't get one they build one. Jared James Nichols also has just one pickup and he has two signature models, but I don't think they'll get as popular as a standard Stratocaster with with one Seymour Duncan Invader.
Christopher Tibbetts and Billie Joe Armstrong! Be blocked off the single coils on his blue strat! He only had a JB with the angled pickgaurd
@@Andy-cz4xw that's right😂 BJA were like dummy single coils for looks, Tom just had the one humbucker and volume. I know Billie had or still has a telecaster with just one humbucker and one volume.
Christopher Tibbetts yes he does in fact! He used it in 2000, and so forth after warning was released😉
Not billy gibbons??!
Eddie Van Halen why I wanted to I just happen to play in a punk band lmao
Did he say "Tro-moe-low"??? Hahahahahahaha that was so funny ive never heard anyone say it thay way
I guess I'm weird haha
this is a really fun video. I did a really similar build turning the one pickup avril lavigne signature squire into a punk rock monster.
You had some additional struggles I didn't with the pickguard and having to block the bridge, but the end result is hella fun in both cases.
That's awesome! As long as you had fun making it and it's fun to play, that's all that matters
you influenced my decision to build one of my own, I just purchased the guitar and now I have ordered a pick guard and the pickup. Do I know anything about soldering? not the slightest.... but I cant wait to put this thing together!
Clearly you can do this with basic soldering knowledge considering I managed to put this guitar together haha. Good luck!!!
Hey there. Just wondering where you got your Seymour Duncan invader pickup at. You said the pick guard costed ya around 70 wich was the price of the invader……I never seen those picks that cheap and I’m looking for one
I was able to get it discounted at a local music store. There's always the possibility of finding one used too!
You did way more disassembly than you needed to. Since you have a new pickguard, pickup and potentiometer, all you had to do was lift the pickguard and desolder the wiring to the jack and the ground wire to the bridge and you are left with a fully assembled loaded PG. If you just took everything apart for fun then I get it... it IS fun.
I want to do this also- cool video.
You're absolutely right! I learned a lot making this guitar...you should give it a go!
were did you find the black bridge and aduio jack and bridge? fender dosnt sell them apparently. im doing a similar build but on a capri orange strat
They aren't black IRL they're silver. You can definitely get black ones from third party sellers tho. Check out Warmoth among others
@@anndynegative cool thanks ill definitely look in to that.
just a tip for unsoldering things, first put a bit fresh solder on your soldering iron it helps heat up the old one and picks it up right after it melts.
Thanks! I'm awful at soldering, but am still a lot better than I used to be
I see throughout the web about using a resistor and capacitor as well, where you aware of that? Are they needed?
Ah damn a fellow lefty high five! I put one of these together five years ago and it’s my main. I went through Warmoth for the body and neck and I had the pickup cavity done for a universal route.
Wd pickguards are a good way to go sometimes. Couldent find a pickguard for my fender duo sonic at all. They had every color i could ever, and never want haha. Pricey, but hey. Couldent find one anywhere else. But cool build man. Just built a yellow hardtail strat with an invader and a maple neck. Always loved these guitars. And yeah.. I got the signature seafoam too haha. Feel bad for the lefties though. Take care dude!
That's awesome! The yellow strats are pretty rad. The WD pickguard is great, just a bit of a pain as a Canadian. Next time I might just try to route the pickguard myself 🤙
just got a 2002 Delonge strat for $99
...looked like a beatup cheapie.
everyone sees the wiring... but not the mini tub for 1 HB only. Orig was string thru Alder Hardtail... it's not the wiring.
Looks great and sounds great!
I have a lefty oscar Schmidt oe20 that I plan on hot rodding soon. Thanks for your inspiration!!
Good luck! You'll have a blast!
That song made the video. I like how you can't hardly see the volume knob.
Thanks! The location of the knob is awesome, tho some day if lime to build one that has no knobs at all
What’s the song from the mix you used ??
It's just a random thing I wrote to sound roughly blink-ish
@@anndynegative ah it’s cool tho I love it I literally have watched the video over and over just to hear the mix 🤣
@@Bubbles2k08 amazing hahaha
How did you mount that 2nd grounding wire?
man, this strat is awesome. I plan to buy seafoam strat too.
You should, they're so rad!
I think this a simple idea for a punk. Volume And one pickup and that’s all you need punk rock. Somethings that’ll do the job without problem. I have a strat copy that is has one pickup and volume and it sounded but sadly the neck is screwed up.
That's a bummer, hopefully you can get it fixed!
What are the riffs at the end in the mix? Are they original riffs written by you? Because they’re fucking awesome 🔥🔥
Yea, that's a tune I threw together for this video. Glad you dig it!!!
@@anndynegative Awesome bro! I noticed it's in E Flat tuning as well, I don't know why but E Flat stuff just sounds so cool! Reminds me of Dookie and The Young & The Hopeless, since most of the songs on both those albums are half a step down 👌🏼
Very nice vid man! The title is a bit misleading though. ✌️
One question ? Hope someone will answer . Is it necessary to use different wires than the ones that come stock on a output jack ? Just wondering .
Nah, all wires are pretty much the same
@@anndynegative thanks for replying! I was just wondering since you changed the jack and not used the same wires
big question. do hardtail squier strats keep the tuning decent or not? (compared to fender)
I don't have a lot of experience with Squier over Fenders, tho I've seen lots of smaller touring bands playing squiers so I feel like they are reliable
Dude what amp/settings did you use for the demo? The tone is killer🤘
Thanks! I did a video where I go over how to get this tone for free, it's up on my channel!
@@anndynegative Thanks!
I wonder if you can do that with a Schecter super shredder😮
I don't see why not!
@@anndynegative because I know Schecter has a super shredder that has a seafoam green and I was thinking about doing that locking the bridge down and trying it out
@@bluephoenix3865 give it a shot and let me know how it turns out!
@@anndynegative I will cheers 😀
Damn. Your left handed too? I play with right 5ho
Dude busts all out to make a DeLonge strat (kudos), but puts the Invader bridge in.
The DeLonge uses the very different Invader neck pickup.
I think you should revisit this, and install the hardtail Fender bridge and the locking tuners that DeLonge used on the guitars he actually played, rather than the MIM-spec'ed sig model..
Check out LittleRedGuitars, he talked to the master builder at Fender and confirmed that the DeLong Strat used the bridge invader
You could play the lefty upside down like hendrix and Tim armstrong
Absolutely! That's how I started, but it's kind of a pain cause of where the knobs are, and it's always a little tricky to intonate properly
nice...
I'm not sure why you did do much work with the original pick guard. You should desoldered the claw...and output Jack.
I was totally learning while I was building
@@anndynegative Okay...cheers mate.
Thats a good pop punk guitar
Hell yea it is!
this video is about to blow up
That would be kool
Looks cool, sounds great. More metal than punk.
It's pretty well rounded, just depends what kind of amp you run it through. Using a small fender amp it slays for punk rock
just remove the whole pickguard, there´s no need of unscrewing the pickups, the pots or the pickup selector
I learned by making a lot of mistakes with this guitar
Yeah, too late...
I really want to make one out of my old strat but idk how
Get pickguard, get pickup, re-wire!
@@anndynegative how much did it cost to do?
Sick !
I did this too, but on a cheap tele.. man it sounds a million bucks hahaha
That's so wicked! I really dig teles, I bet it's your favorite guitar to play!
At 11:47 what's the purpose for the black wire under the one with the screw for
Edit: I found out
How do you add it tho 🤷♂️
@@johnperedo8464 to the back of the volume pot
Gibby DeLaRosa would the ground go from underneath the bridge at the back, to the pot??
@@johnperedo8464 does your strat have a tremolo system like the one in the video or is it a hardtail
@@sploosh0627 it has the tremolo system
I heard almost 20 times „inputjack“... it‘s called : „outputjack“ (FYI)😌
Otherwise: nice vid😊👍🏼
It's all the same electronics in the end. Glad you enjoyed the video!
As much as I love the Tom Delonge Stratocaster, I don’t have $1,000 to buy his fender signature or even $500 for the squier.
I know what you mean. There's a subreddit dedicated to Tom Guitars where people build them from all kinds of parts. I've seed people build partscastor versions of this guitar for a few hundred bucks. Might be something to look in to!
@@anndynegative I’ve been throwing around the idea of putting one together with a turquoise Squier bullet strat, not the most perfect guitar in the world but that’s what mods are for anyway.
@@MrSviggels you should give it a go! It's a fun project
Привет из России, бро
how much makeup does this guy have ib
Yeah, so Blink 182 isn't punk rock. And build a punk rock guitar? Ridiculous. Les Paul through a JCM 800, You're welcome.
Les Pauls are fine, but I like strats better. JCM 800s are stellar amps tho
just like to say that is absolutely nothing punk about you or this guitar.
👍
Fuck outta here with that salty negative shit, you sound like a bitter old man.
...wth is a punk guitar? This is NO WHERE near punk..
Not with that attitude!
What's traits does a guitar have to have in order to be punk? If your video is a "foundation" of punk, then either YOU or all the other punk bands have been doing it wrong..
It's just a guitar build video, I never claimed it was a "foundation" of anything. Play whatever guitar you want
It reads "building the ultimate punk guitar" how do you define a "punk" guitar? What traits does a guitar have to have that separates itself from another?
And what you are playing is NOT even close to punk, thats like mainstream pop blink 182 garbage
I grew up in the late '60 and '70, and I can tell you that the ultimate punk guitar is practically any guitar that can handle high distortion well
Agreed, literally any guitar will do
The perfect guitar is nothing more than personal preference. Not only how it sounds , but feels, plays , holds tune. Its a very personal thing. I like all kinds of punk and metal from the 70’s onwards, but for me the invader is as crisp as youll get for that punchy pop punk tone 90’s to current
@@unbr3akablonsoundcloud-tx6co sound like you're reading from a script
@@rodnyg7952 lol i can make it less poetic for you if you like. I’ve played others guitars and can’t get into that creativity zone. Everyone’s different
@@unbr3akablonsoundcloud-tx6co everyone's different, but we're all the same ...lol
The reason it was so difficult to de-solder is because your solder tip need to be kept clean. It should look shiny, just like a healthy solder joint. Using some steel wool works well. Cool video, thanks for sharing!
Yea, my iron is OLD as heck. Probably time for an upgrade haha
also adding a touch of solder to the tip of the iron helps prime the old solder to move.
@@berzerkerben6310 thanks for the tips! (Get it?)
I demand you get more credit for your videos. You deserve to be a great well known UA-camr
I will accept your demand 🤣
Awesome video my friend! And well done. Would love to change the pickups on one of my guitars, but I fear ruining it and screwing up.
Thanks dude! I know what you mean, but it's really not that difficult once you just sit down and do it, the learning curve is not very steep!
the second ground wire is for the shielding paint that is underneath the color coat. If you scratch the paint off in the cavity you'll see a black finish, which is the conductive graphite shielding paint. The shielding, along with copper or aluminum shielding on the underside of the pickguard encapsulates all the electronics to help block noise interference. Nothing to do with bridge plate(?) or whatever.
Sounds pretty damn good! I received my Seymour Duncan Invader bridge p/u in the mail last week, also white with the black screws. In contrast to my black LTD EC-256 with white binding, it's gonna look sickkk. Can't wait to get it installed!
The Strat with an Invader is great for metal too. Karl Sanders from Nile used one for years.
I had no idea, that's awesome!
*How to make ultimate punk guitar:*
1. Buy a $30 - $100 Strat/Tele copy. (garage sales, flea markets, pawn shops, eBay...)
2. Relic it with a palm sander, a rasp or a grater.
(If the guitar already looks beaten up, skip this step.)
3. Spill a can of cheap beer on it and let it dry. Then put a cigarette on the headstock, light it and let it burn out.
(Again, if the guitar already reeks of booze and cigarettes, or you're a straight edge punk, skip this step.)
4. Cover the body in stickers. (Anarchist "A", "This machine kills fascists", "Good Night White Pride" and some band logos are recommended. Feel free to add whatever you want.
You can also tape the headstock logo or cover it with another sticker.)
5. Take off all the knobs except the volume because you don't need them. Fill the whammy bar hole (if it's there) with a screw because you don't need it.
6. Don't change your strings unless they break. Buying strings feeds the system!
🤣
@@anndynegative The old-fashioned way😆
I havnet changed my strings since july. Its january now and they still didnt break
@@TheMrMars 😂
Buy the signature one and just go Hendrix mode, makes it even more punk
That's what teenage Anndy would've done for sure
Lol... hendrix mode makes more punk? go to sleep kid.
I do that. Not very ergonomic
@@danialm8122 in case you didn't know, hendrix was pretty punk lol.
@@danialm8122 lol bro there are no rules in punk so actually doing this would be punk as hell
Thank you for the video! i work at guitar center and was gonn ahve the guitar tech do this for me but saved myself 50$ just got a 500k pot and a new output jack for 4$ on my discount went home after my shift got my crappy solder iron and went to town and got it working flawless!! now i got a slanted humbucker in a sea foam green body with my new MIM fender 50s soft v neck plays like a dream!
Amazing! I'm stoked you were able to make it work for you and I hope it's the most fun guitar you have to play!!!
I am lefty guitarist, and you don't know how important work you do for lefties man. Just keep goin!
Stoked to help out in some small way
Lefty here (playing righty gits all my life). Good vid man. Looking to bring to life an OLD '88 HARMONY that's been with me since...'88. It's all wood now and decided to just go with a single HB. Probably an EMG. Guitar was originally 3 single coils. Glad you talked about the pot needing to be 500k because I had no idea. Definitely saving this vid. Continued success on your channel.
Edit: I don't restring either.
The Invader pickups are awesome...I bought a set to upgrade an old Schecter and it is a metal machine now! One thing you have to watch with the Invaders is pickup height. They are extremely hot and they have those huge pole pieces, so you need to lower them more than normal.
How much foundation do you want to wear?
This dude: "YES"
Ps: very informative video😉🤟🏻
Hahaha yup, you got me there! Glad you dug the video 🤙
😂🤣🤣🤣
I was just thinking that!
Has anyone every told you that you look like Jim Carrey? The few things I could think about while watching. Also, nice mods.
Haha no, but honestly I love Jim Carrey...and we are both Canadian so... I'll take it!
Dont think I've ever heard an invader sound this good
Thanks! I honestly love it for pop punk/punk rock
@@anndynegative what amp youusing in the video?
@Luke Taylor Amplitude 4 using the stock free amp. I did a video on how to get this exact sound
Tom delonge would be proud!!! It's amazing how good it turned out.
🔥
Thank you! It's hands down my favorite guitar to play
Great video! Awesome tutorial! But I think the tittle should just be "i'm making a left handed Tom delonge signature". The "Best" punk guitar is a cheap one plugged directly to the amp. Going through all of that is quite the opposite. And also it's totally subjective, and literaly any guitar is punk. Great vid dude!
Thanks! Yea, I don't actually think this is the "ultimate punk guitar" but maybe more like MY ultimate punk guitar. Either way I agree that literally any guitar is a guitar for punk. Glad you enjoyed the video!
You didn't need a spare input jack. You need a better soldering iron. Never try to save money on tools. Good tools won't let you down.
1 humbucker 1 volume knob strats are not just pop-punk, but extremely 80s Hair Metal.
You're absolutely right!
A guitarra fica completamente diferente, muito melhor.
I had this set up, I ended up putting 3 pre-wired hot rails back in the strat, picked up a Sawtooth HH strat, put the SD in it's bridge spot on that with a tone control and 3 way switch, and a Fleor hot neck humbucker in the neck. Soo much better to have more tonal variety without losing that Blink punk sound and playability.
Im a lefty that can only play right handed LOL
I shall do this with a Jazzmaster once I find a body. Though after YEARS of playing Epiphone Les Paul Juniors and Studios, I definitely will be using the Gotoh 510UB wraparound bridge. The Epiphone Thunderbird bass shape had a pivotal influence in my love for Jazzmasters when it comes to Squier
All amazing guitars, no doubt
I built mine today it’s surf green with a white pickguard and a black invader. It is a squier but it has the big 70s headstock. I couldn’t put it down after I finished it.
That sound so amazing! I bet the big size head stock looks awesome. Nothing wrong with a squier 🤙
i swear to god i just randomly searched up best punk guitars out of curiosity and i SWEAR TO GOD my bandmate lent me a strat exactly like this about a month ago
Checks out, they made a lot of them. Really any guitar will work, I'm just fond of this one!
Hey, wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a pickguard that has no holes to make it yourself how you want? Im trying to do the same thing with my strat. Also, can you recommend me a pickup that's similar to the seymor duncan but cheaper?
I'm confused about what's punk about building a guitar .... I'm sure Steve Jones stole his and Jonny Ramone bought his cos no one on earth wanted to play a mosrite at the time ..they never built them and called it punk?...I admire your work but it misses the point
My guitars are basically Chimeras from shitty pawn shop guitars I've bought that I modded out like an old car.
Don't think I'll ever truly be done with them.
When you solder you want to clean the tip by adding solder to it and letting the flux in the solder clean it.. Once ti's shinny then add some solder to the tip and then add it to the wire .. then add solder... you need the solder on the tip to conduct the heat.. the longer it sits there melted the more the flux burns off and the more clogged up it gets so you want to figure out the timing ... Faster is better
Good job mate!!! I know how frustrating it is to be modifying a guitar, and you’ve nailed it!
Thanks dude! Learned a lot. Glad you dig the video!
Unscrewing everything on the original pickguard before removing it was an unnecessary step.
Possibly. I made a lot of mistakes building this guitar, but I got there in the end!
I keep thinking... but why....
I have a squire strat that I painted red splatter on and im currently thinking about converting it into a baritone it currently has a single emg 81
Hey man just found your channel . I've actually got a canary yellow Tom DeLong strat..but I've only got the body left. During a move years ago it fell and the headstock broke right off. You know Tom DeLong strats don't have a tremelo bridge right ? Anyways brother I'm also in Ottawa in the east end near the Montfort hospital. If you want a proper bridge with no tremelo I can give you one. I actually just built a single humbucker guitar with only a volume last night out of this first Act guitar I found being thrown out a few years back. For being a cheap crappy guitar it actually plays like a dream . I also put in a Seymour Duncan invader in my build. Glad I found your channel!
Yo that's so sick! Pumped to meet ya, hopefully we can interface at some point.. stoked that you're here!
Shoutout to all leftyz inda' houz!
It’s not a bad set up but there are better pickups then the invader it definitely isn’t bad by any means but it lacks a a bit it’s not as full as I would like. I think it would sound better if there was no puck guard and the pickup was screwed into the wood not floating on the plastic pick guard. I made one of these like 14 years ago, it was my main guitar that I used live and at practice it has thousands and thousands of hours on it but it definitely doesn’t cut it for recording. I have a les Paul with a dirty fingers now that is almost the perfect pickup.
I also have an LP with a Dirty Fingers and it's great. I find the Strat is more suited to my hands, but that's the beauty of it. If you have something that works for you, that's what's important!
What’s the point of wearing makeup
Why not?
Theres no point. were all gonna die .nothing matters . he does what makeshim feel good in that point in time and just then, and so should you
Hey
Supposedly they are reissuing his model.
FYI
DUDE doesnt it suck they dont have a ben gibbard lh guitar? :(
"Why don't you buy one?", because I'm lefty, plus I'm a floating head with 2 floating hands, duh!
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Would be cheaper to get a blank and make your own pick guard .
this is my favorite youtube video
D'awww
What if I dont replace potentiometer ?
It will still work, but you will lose a lot of the ton because the pot isn't passing as much voltage
Are you wearing make up ?
If you do another Delonge build maybe you could find a local luthier or at least another luthier in Canada to do your pick guard. It may cost less but even if it costs the same as getting one from the company you did at least you're supporting a local builder in a small way and it may be quicker as well. Sick build brother 😎
Yea, I learned a lot of lessons here...still it's basically the only guitar I play at this point so it all worked out
my friend has a Tom DeLonge strat, and I can't even try it because I'm lefthanded :(( I've also wanted one for time
I know the struggle
Bruh moment
I have also built one of these ”from scratch” and it took me A WHILE to figure out that I needed to switch out the volume pot from 250k to 500k..
It's an honest mistake that we've all made!
Great content, thanks dude!
The real punk sound is P90 pickup.
They are great sounding pickups, no doubt
Next time, order through Aliexpress for the exact same lefty pickguard.... about $10, delivered.
It's still fairly expensive to have Ali Express stuff imported into Canada, probably wouldn't have really saved me any money and would have taken 6 months to get to me
Man! I'm just a lefty like you. It's really hard to find a guitar for us haha! Nice guitar build btw!
Thank you so much!!! Always a pleasure to meet a fellow lefty :)
"Tremolo bridge" 💀💀💀
I've been building "punk guitars" for years now and it coulr be really anything from a les paul to a telecaster, jazzmaster they all kinda work as long as there's a dual rectifier after !
Man dual recs just sound so friggin good... especially paired with an orange 🤯
when you said "from scratch," I expected to see a block of wood in the first shot...
I'm good, but I ain't THAT good
Awesome guitar!! Try using copper tape inside the guitar and in the pickguard to reduce noise interference. Greetings from Mexico!
Great advice! Greetings from Canada :)
im doing this right now!!!