En Route! || eBay Telecaster Revival || Episode 4 || DIY Partscaster Guitar Build

Join me as we plan, mark and route out the humbucker cavity as well as drill out the string ferrule holes on this Tele partscaster build!
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Video Chapters:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:31 Planning and Preparing the Bridge
- 1:02 Mounting Bridge and Tracing Outlines
- 2:26 Aligning and Placing Humbucker Template
- 3:30 Bulk Wood Routing
- 5:40 Template Bit Wood Routing
- 6:56 Finished Route and Bridge Plate Testing
- 7:27 Drilling Depth Stop Overview
- 7:47 Drilling String Ferrule Holes
- 8:14 Finished String Ferrule Holes
- 8:41 Outro

[@AugmentGuitars]

Hey everyone! Thanks for watching the video. If you are interested in seeing the full build process with commentary, check out the playlist below. 😊
Full Build Playlist: bit.ly/3W8IDhZ

[@The..Butterfly..Effect]

If the eBay holes are drilled in the wrong place or they are no holes - How do you check that the bridge is in the right place.

[@AugmentGuitars]

Great question! You can use this calculator on the StewMac website to find the correct bridge placement for any scale length. It's a very handy tool! Thankfully, I checked the placement of this bridge before starting this series to make sure everything would work. It's a 25.5" scale length with 22 frets, so I plugged that in the below calculator to verify the placement was correct. Hope that helps you! 🙂
www.stewmac.com/fret-calculator/

[@TeacherAn]

Interesting build. Could you address two issues that I have had when using a humbucker in the bridge position with a Tele neck pickup? First, is the difference in volume when switching from one pickup to the other. Second, is the choice of volume potentiometer. Using a 500K pot for the humbucker may make the neck pickup too bright, but using a 250K pot for the neck pickup may make the humbucker too muddy. Also, what capacitor value do you plan to use? Thank you.

[@AugmentGuitars]

Sure!
For the volume, you can always try adjusting the pickup heights to get them to sound more uniform in volume. Takes a bit of testing, but you can get them pretty close! You can also try getting two pickups with close output readings and use them. This build is finished and all I had to do was adjust the pickup heights.
For the pots, I went with 250k and followed a SD diagram. There is a video coming soon with the whole wiring process. Here is the diagram: www.seymourduncan.com/resources/pickup/wiring-diagrams
I think I want to try 500k instead though. The 250ks are a bit too dark for me. They sound great but I like brighter sounds, so I'll most likely do a follow-up video after the build is done detailing some of the changes I did. Thanks for watching though! :)

[@TeacherAn]

​@@AugmentGuitars Thank you for your response. One option I've thought about when having a single coil pickup and a humbucker on the same volume pot is use a 500K pot but put a capacitor between the single coil lead and the three-way switch. I haven't done this, but it might reduce the highs on the single coil and still allow a capacitor on the tone control more appropriate for the humbucker.

[@AugmentGuitars]

@@TeacherAn ​ ahh that could work as well! I haven't done anything like that per se but it sounds like a good idea. If you try it, let me know how it goes!

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