Turning a $100 Squier Into John Frusciante's 1962 Fender Stratocaster
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2023
- In this video I take a 1990s stratocaster and turn it into the Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante's 1962 Fender Stratocaster.
All the materials I used:
Nitrocellulose laquer - www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools...
PURE VINTAGE ’57/’62 STRATOCASTER PICKUP SET - www.fender.com/en-US/parts/st...
Fender Neckplate - www.amazon.com/dp/B001C74GLY?...
Strat Mint green Pickguard - www.amazon.com/dp/B0002KZFXU?...
Aged-White Tone and Volume Knobs - www.amazon.com/dp/B0002KZIUU?...
Aged-White Strat Switch Tip - www.amazon.com/dp/B000P5ZQFY?...
Fender Vintage Style Bridge - www.amazon.com/dp/B00LJY360C?...
Tremelo Arm - www.amazon.com/dp/B001KXKGBY?...
Fender Roadworn Vintage Style Tuners - www.amazon.com/dp/B07K9LQ1MP?...
10mm Bushings - www.amazon.com/dp/B08SQ7888P?...
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The best part of doing this you will find in later life will be the memories you created making it with your dad. Keep that guitar for life lad.
Or he could feel that way now
@@erikkibler3466u dont quite get what he meant do ya
Amazing man! Never get rid of that one, bet you’ve got some great memories of doing the work with your dad that will stay with you for life! Great job both
Looks great, though for your next sunburst, I recommend starting the whole body with amber, then the red and then the black, so there’s more layers to the outer edges of the relicing, plus a bit of a smoother transition between colors.
It's awesome that you and your Dad could work on this cool project together! Nicely done
Great job. Looks like you learned a lot and have a really fun new guitar to enjoy.
Props to you and your dad for taking on such a meticulous and rewarding project!!
Good work mate, looks like you enjoyed it and learned a lot. Great project for you and your dad.
It seems like you have a great dad and I think this project, moreso than the guitar itself, is something you’ll look back on fondly for many years. Thanks for sharing
I built my own Strat a couple years ago as well. Even though I made a ton of mistakes that I had to re-do, spent nearly 3 months getting it right, and ended up spending almost as much as a Mod Shop Strat, it was still one of the best learning experiences I ever had.
The case is worth more than the guitar! Seriously, I did this to a sunburst Squier Tele about 10 years ago. I got it off CList for $100 but it had special custom Bill Lawrence pickups worth more than the guitar! I did every possible relic/aging thing I could to it to look like a '57 Tele found in a backroom of a dive bar in the South! But it sounds great. I kept the modern tuners though - all metal was aged, belt rash, cigarette burn, aged neck with finger marks, cracks around the dots, and even replicated lines in the "nitro" (really poly) finish - it was super fun! I have no video, though, and did it solo (not with my dad). My 15 y.o. son now plays it in his school jazz band and it's one of his favorite guitars. But again, it only cost $100 and my time/love. I can't believe you spent $900 on this - that's crazy. Cool, but crazy......rock on, man, since RHCP kick @$$!!!!
Great work! from Japan
Nicely done! Enjoy your journey!
Great job mate! Way to push through and make a truly beautiful vintage looking Strat. Plus it’s something you’ll always have memory’s of working on with your dad. That’s priceless!
BRAVO! 👏🏼
Good job man. Turned out really cool!
Good job! I enjoyed watching your project from beginning to end .
here's to many cool times jamming on your cool ax
Great job!! Was thinking about doing one myself haha. Love the whole journey from start to finishing the guitar. 😉 Rock on!
Appericiate the raw guitar sound demo straight off from the recording camera, unedited with the room ambiance sound
Those pups does goes well with the body,surprising, good job for all the works done
Awesome job ! Looks amazing !!!
I really enjoyed that and it looks great! Sometimes the project and the process is as rewarding as the end result, nice one
Very cool! Thanks for sharing this.
man this is so awesome! And the Result is so cool!
Awesome guitar build! Watched a few different videos on this process. It is great to learn a little bit from everyone on this process and yours is the first video I saw on how to remove some of the paint removal. That hot air was a an awesome idea! I don't know much about what the main difference between a squire body is compared to a stratocaster. I just know that the strats are way more expensive. It would be great to know what makes an LTD based ESP into an ESP. What the differences are. I have an LTD GL-200 and made some mods on mine that improved the playability. One of the mods was rounding out the fretboard on the top. Sometimes the fretboards are very sharp and the frets aren't crowned and rounded as well. It drastically improves the playability of the guitar when that is done. Some of the necks are really bulky compared to some of the 59 strat type necks. I remember trying to play a stratocaster around 1996. The neck was really bulky. I went onto guitars with the floyd rose bridges that could back dip and forward dip. Yahmaha Gold was my first guitar of this type of bridge. I eventually saw an ESP Desert Kamikaze for sale on musicians friend and bought it. The neck profile on that guitar has been the best guitar neck I ever played on. Even though the guitar only has 2 pickups, it plays very well. I only got to try out someone else's Jackson Soloist 2. It was the best neck I ever got to play on. Must be something about what they do to finish the neck. I looked up videos on how to seal the neck and make it playable and those videos look like they really will help make the guitar play the best they can. The way the guy sanded it just to fit his hands was something I really liked. Just have to have a neck that is bigger than what you want to take off to do that of course. Then contour it down to the specs you want. He used a profile tool and pushed it to the back of a guitar neck that he liked at the 3rd fret and also did the same thing further down the neck. Marked the areas on the guitar neck he wanted to make the same and then started shaving off wood. Taking to the profile and comparing until they were close. Then finally hand sanding with rough to finer and finer grit sand paper until the neck was really smooth. Going all the way up to 3500 grit sand paper. Then doing all the finishing using various products. From staining the wood using coats over every 4 hours. He used a product called Japan Dry. Highline Guitars is the youtube channel name for a lot of his videos if your interested in watching some of the finished and fret board work he does. Also the videos list a lot of products he uses to seal the wood. From doing ones that just show the wood show through all the way to making the guitar wood shine and various color stains. Lots of good info in there. I bet the guitar legends would want him to make their guitars after seeing what he does to finish guitars.
Fantastic man!
This was amazing
great job with the relic i love the wood of that Squier turned out nice
Looks awesome man, smashed it!!
Good work. Thank you!
Dude that’s awesome!
Great job! Great memories you’ll have with your dad also for the rest of your life to look back on. Beautiful thing to see. Don’t ever sell this guitar - It’s priceless!!!
Looks great
Awesome job! I love watching custom guitar build videos. Greetings from Bali, Indonesia! 😀
Do you make squiers?
Nice job man
Oh you are stepping into the future of building guitars.. good job!
Really cool!
Incredible work! I've seen vids like this before and it's so refreshing to see this.
I want to make a lefty version, curious, where did you get the nitrocellulose?(nevermind i saw the brand) .
(You incredible person linking every item in the description, Thanks!!!(
Super cool
Well done, great end result. I'm currently refinishing a Mexican Strat with a fabric top similar to the Paisley Strats you see around but with a different pattern, it's fun to do and something you know you've done yourself. 👍
Looks good. I miss doing things like this with my Dad.
Great video! Great guitar!
great job!
impressive, nice job
Sick video
AMAZING!!! U earned a sub
kickass guitar man
SO GOOD BRO, CONGRATS
Thank you!
I love this kind of videos 😎🎸
Well done
Great job! I’m doing a video on building a squire to Keith Richard’s Micawber. These projects are fun!
Awesome bro
Great, great, great job on the metamorphosis of the guitar... real thumbs up! But even more so it is a true delight to see young people enjoying real music in this age of garbage streaming, etc...
what a great project, great video, great editing, great playing, and overall you completed an amazing project with your dad, and you will be able to cherish that forever.
I did something similar, took a squier strat gave it a sunburst pint job, put tex mex pickups in it changed out the neck + tuners basically the only thing that is still the same is the wood of the body and its my favorite guitar
Good job 👍🏼
what a epic video, I was wondering how did you produce the amazing sunburst color with three cans on a 2 tone sunburst?
Wonderful job...I have 2 projects going on 89' Clapton USA Stratoverse....relicd
And another Mexican. Tuxedo strat...that had toggle for 7 way selector, ssl-5 and ssl-1, and a Dizmario stacked humbucker, along with TBX boost, and a treble bleed, and a kill switch....3rd is tge exact same guitar you started with Squir Affinity Tuxedo.....im going to hot Texas specials in it for sur✌️
Nice build and video. Heat guns are good but you have to be careful because it can soften the wood, dry the wood, and also affect the glue up. The soft wood is easy to gouge with the painters tool you were using for scraping. Paint stripper can be a bit more forgiving and you can use a toothbrush to get into tough spots. If you seal everything with shellac before painting and then lightly sand it then you won't have the uneven application of paint.
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Thanks for this video. Building your own guitar can be a satisfying process. I'm starting building a Partscaster too. Because of the thinner Squire body I would rather install a 36 mm steel block by Wilkinson / Musicily. Also I will change to new Fender tuners and a bone nut. For Pick Ups I will use Custom Shop Fat 50th. Enjoy your guitar. Well done!
Awesome
great vid!
AWSOMEEEEE MAN I LOVE HOW ARE WE BUILDING JOHN FRUSCIANTE FAN COMMUNITY!!!!!
Nice! I was just thinking lately if Fender ever releases a Frusciante strat.. I’d be all over it.
Great work, thank you for sharing the entire process. My brother just gave me his Squier Strat, and I want to turn it into a sweet partscaster with Gretsch filterTrons, and a Danelectro lipstick pickup in the middle position. It’s helpful to know that a heat gun is the tool to use to remove the factory paint.
Hope you enjoy that guitar for years!
Sounds like a cool guitar you'll end up with. Thanks for sharing.
That's awesome ❤
You killed me with the "goofy ahh bridge"
Nice video, i like this
Excellent !!! 😍🎸👌🔥🔥🔥
Good job Jacob, you need a work bench if you’re going to do more guitar maintenance, make life so much easier, Do a Bass Relic 👍🏼
I watched a different video the other day where the guy used a stanley blade to carefully score 'cracks' into the nitrocellulose laquer/paint. To scuff the paint of to make it look worn, he just scrape the guitar a few times on a bit of concrete in his garden. I'm not keen on the idea of relic'ing myself, but my japanese squier strat from the early 90's had got a fair few digs and dents over the body. The neck is still in pretty good condition. If it got to a stage where there were bare patches of wood on the guitar, I think I would either repaint and relaquer it or sand it right back and rub walnuts onto it for a while (for the walnut oil which is a very good drying oil and would give it a nice coating not too inlike a laquer).
Man, that was awesome! Thank's for sharing! Btw, I have a MIM Fender Strat (Standard), that I want to change the tuners as well and put those vintage style on it. Do you think that these bushings you've used could fit on it? Greetings from Brazil!
From what I've learned, I THINK (I'm not totally sure) that the Fender bushings that come with the tuners should work fine on a Mexican guitar. However, if they don't, I put the link in the description for the adaptor bushings I used, and that company has several sizes, so you can definitely find what you need.
Gotohs vintage tuners are good and cheap and should fit
dude i was surprised to see that you have 90 subs. You come off as somebody who has millions. Great job!
Thank you!
@@jacobwilliams06 no problem man. I know you'll get there when the algorithm finds the right audience for you! Just keep going.
Before painting use a coat of sanding sealer .. it seals the surface .. then it won't "dry super strange". it's nothing to do with the type of wood.
I'm new to your channel.. Thanks for Sharing 🎸 🇺🇸 🎶
The Fender 57/62 pickups are a good set.
great job :)
Yep , can hear the Throat of them pickups
Great Job Man
how did u make the head of the neck yellow and vintage like that?
i want to do this but i need some help on the painting part and what finish to put on etc
Quality stuff this mate, well done!
Quick question for you. How are you attaching the music to the video? I can see the songs in the description, so just wondering how you apply that to the video.
UA-cam just identifies that I used the music, and automatically puts that in the description
@@jacobwilliams06 Ahh wicked, nice one. Keep it up mate
Use a drill to drill the cheap plastic truss rod channel out. Then take a dowel rod the right size, cut it glue it in , use a dremel to shape it the drill a smaller whole in it to adjust the truss rod. Stain it walnut and you have a more accurate replica. That’s one thing that always catches peoples eyes.
Fender sells the walnut plugs. You have to widen the the hole for the larger hex key.
@@jorgehuamanmusic 👍
Are squires good? I found a red and white one at a guitar shop for $200
What a great bonding experience with your dad.
Edited to say… GO TIGERS!!!
Go vols
Sorry actually
Never
Tigers all the way
2023 nation championship bois
Go Dawgs!!!!
Nicely done and 14:28 is awesome! What's your amp btw?
Thanks! I think the amp I used for this was the Fender Champion 40w practice amp. I’ve been able to find a time that I really like with it, and it works well for me.
Good job on the guitar!! Sorry you had to wear that Tigers shirt in the end. Go Dawgs 😊
Sanding sealer first, then finish colors.
It's very cool btw, glad y're happy. Watch Dave's World of Fun Stuff here to get the skinny on setting up Strats, esp. the tremolo, he's rock solid. Setting up anything actually. All his videos are almost painfully just like all his others, it's how you know he's legit, lol
Soon you’ll discover that a fender necks are interchangeable, meaning if you find a stray baritone neck or order one it will bolt straight on. With baritone neck try tuning to dadgad. Prepare to have your mind blown in a good way.
Modding is fun....🤙
Fax
Turn a squire into eddies Frankenstein next
Hey you played one of the new songs!
Its all about logo on head🤣👍
Do you know where the guitar was made? I saw a video on 93 - 98 Squiers, made in Mexico, are actually USA built parts, shipped to & assembled in Mexico, as the plant there burnt to the ground. Korean Squiers are great quality as well. Either way, nice job & I'm sure you love it more now, for the memories & the time you spent on it. Rock on!
I think it’s Indonesian. But I’d never heard that about 90s squires! Very interesting!
Also applies to Fender badged guitars. I missed out on a 96 strat recently. Sold for $400 Aussie. I tried hard. I couldn't tell th seller b4. There's a yt video. A guy got a Sq from a pawn shop for $30 & decided to look up what it was. 👌 try to find that video!
Your dad is awsome
Bro, fax
Those 57/62s are great. It's weird though because the Fender website has them with a rating of 1 while that box has them at 5. 🤷
You should've gotten a set of Schaller locking tuners or a set of Gotoh locking tuners that look exactly llike those POS tuners you bought.
Additionally, you should've gotten a Gotoh vintage trem. Next time you refinish a guitar, remember that you always have to prime the body first and then sand it smooth before you get to the paint stage.
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I had a Mexi Traditional Strat
Suburst , and , anger actually led me to a Relic Job on it
My Nephew was Diagnosed with an illness
Well this one was a Reso Plastic jobbie
Where they took a miscut , mismachined body and dropped it I a resin
Then they remachined it back to a Strat body
(Yes , not a long lived practice , but , it was done )
So
Once I went thru the top veneer , with some above pick guard
relicing , I found hard plastic
So had to actually imitate the grain lines thru the area sort of carving line grooves in the plastic , which , thankfully was wood tone in color
I was Going for an SRV #1 , and came Real close
looks fantastic but sounds exactly like a bullet squire !!!
Payday two gang 👀
How long have you been playing?
I'm self taught on guitar, and have been playing on and off for around 5 years, but consistently for about 2 or 3
I wouldve been scared to use the heat gun on the wood
Trust me, the only reason I wasn't terrified was because it was far from a nice guitar to begin with🤣
You should have stripped it with a heat gun and scrapper would have saved you days of work you would have been done in a little bit... correction you found that out in the end lol 😅