Fixing Up My First Guitar!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I haven't spent time playing my first serious guitar in many years and I recently had the good fortune to get it up and running thanks to Sweetwater!
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I recently just restored my 1st guitar as well. An old Korean made Ibanez RG from 2003. Not a very valuable guitar to anyone but me lol. Had the frets dressed, blocked the trem, and swapped the pickups for for Dimarzios. Still not the most comfy guitar I have, but at least it’s playable again, sounds better, and gives me a warm feeling when I look at it 😂
I can relate I have my first guitar also a squier strat. Atm just the body remains in a case right now sadly. Frets were toast and truss rod went on it. I need to get a new neck at some point love to have it playing again!
I miss the days when you could get a Mexican Fender for $299. Cool guitar man. I sold my first guitar to my friend/bandmate, a sunburst Samick Strat copy. He upgradded the pickups, redid the paint job to color changing metallic paint (greens, blues, purple) and loves that guitar. I got an Ibanez RG220B, which I still have, along with 3 other RGs now.
Thanks Fluff - this gives me a lot to look forward to. 28 years old struggling to pay the bills, but working towards where you're at with things every day. :)
Your story on this strat is similar to my first bass. Squier P bass that has had the neck replaced twice, routed out a place for a J pup, put a set of Seymour Duncan 1/4 PJs in there, and put a hipshot D-tuner on there, and it plays and sounds like a dream now.
Ya man, when I went to gear fest a couple years ago, I took one of my guitars, and had them plek it, and do a full set up. New hand cut nut, and what was cool is they let you watch it get done. Totally killer. I’ve had like 5 guitars done with them.
Strats are so much fun to modify.
Awesome story. I also still have my first guitar, also a MIM Fender strat but it's a '91. Made minor cosmetic adjsutments (black pearl pickguard, straplocks) but it definitely needs new frets and maybe new pickups. it was my only guitar for about 20 years.
I totally relate to this. 2 years ago, my wife had pro luthier put the headstock back on and fix the fretboard of my Ibanez JTK1 which was my first serious guitar. I remember crying when I broke it. It had been sitting in a case for a long time. When I got it back I was ridiculously excited, and still am, every time I pick it up. Glad you got yours back in action.
Are you playing in "Fu Manchu" in 1997 ??!!!! ahah !!!!
Everybody should keep his first guitar!
I still got my Korean Neon Yellow SL - STD 3 "Aria Pro II" from 1989. I turned it Tiger Stripe recently, and put some tlc in it !!
Mad tone. Is that the EVH your using? Cant fault an EVH
Lagwagon, Strung Out, Good Riddance...I'm pretty sure we would have been best buds in HS.
I think if my first proper electric was a fender or big name, i may have had more love but mine was an awful POS brunswick which just sucked to play. It just gathered dust forever before meeting its rock n roll death (The clash style) about 7 years ago.
The Strat of Theseus
Cool story fluff🤘🤘 Wish I had my first real guitar, I bought one I found on eBay years ago ( it’s still in storage) need to paint it canary yellow still😂😂
Is this the one that was your main guitar in the All In All days?
I'm like the only teen guitar player that didn't have a guitar covered in stickers
Cool video, kind of thought we’d see you work it though…
Have had 2 Epiphones pleked by Sweetwater. Absolute worst frets I’ve ever received on a guitar at any price level. Got a full credit on the 2nd guitar (also had the worst cut nut I’ve ever experienced). 1st one wasn’t as bad, only 3 high frets compared to a dozen on the second. Fret ends that would make you bleed on both. Everything should be within tight tolerances as it’s a CNC; level frets, smooth ends, perfectly cut nut. I love Sweetwater, but dress your own frets if you have the tools or have a local luthier do it. The operators are either not qualified or rushing the jobs through. I typically do not comment but had to on this. Not one but two terrible jobs. Coincidence, I think not. I’ve been in the machining industry for 30+ years, these wouldn’t pass QC in a metalworking shop. They would be embarrassed if this kind of work slipped through. Maybe it would’ve been a different story if I had been physically standing there and documenting it.
1998 fluff is hot just sayin-
I'm telling
First thing I thought 😂
@@lyinking1998 he looks like a Josh Homme on the picture :D
Maybe time for a visit to check your eyes?
2023 fluff is still hot.
I still regret selling my first real electric guitar.
That's amazing!!
why not put a replacement red lace sensor? lace might have hooked you up
that's the tightest neck pickup I've ever heard
niceeeee
It's awesome that even cheap gear can still be good these days, or even the 90s. When I started playing in the 70s my first guitar was a no-name bolt-on Les Paul copy made of plywood that my dad got from some music store in Cleveland. From what I remember it had hideous action & playability and it came in one of those old cases that were not quite hard and not quite soft. It was like tolex covered cardboard lol.
Thanks for this. It's always nice to see a musician who has that sentimental link to the gear they cut their teeth on.
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That guitar looks like it's built for dookie and insomniac riffs
How is his first guitar NOT a Hello Kitty guitar? I'm so miffed.
mewf
Love this story! A Squier HM (heavy metal🤘) Series bass was my first real bass back in 1992. It has been in bad shape & nearly unplayable for the the better part of 25 years with worn out frets and barely functioning electronics. This video might be the inspiration needed to re-fret it and drop in a set of EMG Frank Bello signature PJ pickups.
I just fixed up my first electric guitar myself. It’s a 1995 Epiphone SG i bought new when i turned 14.
new nut
New pots
New condensers
New jack
New pickups ( gibson p 496r / p 500 )
Fretjob done by myself (thx to stewmac)
First fiddle is always something special. I just love mine again.
Wait….have I had it backwards this whole time? He said JB Junior in the neck. Isn’t the neck the long part with the sidewards metal thingeys and the dots? I sure hope I haven’t been dummying around the last 35 years, I would have been that guy….which I’m still not convinced I’m not.
THIS SHIT IS HARD!! HELP!!
When my Dad died back in January I went back to the UK for the first time since the “biological event” and closed out his retirement bungalow. This gave me the opportunity to retrieve the first guitar I ever bought with my own earned cash, a late ‘60’s to early ‘70’s Antoria Soundmaster ES-330 type object that I bought from a school mate for £15 in 1977.
I had left it at my parent’s place when I moved out so I would always have a guitar to play when I visited, plus my Dad still played a bit at that time. Well, full confession. I taught him just enough so that he could accompany himself on simple country tunes in his pro act so that I didn’t have to!
Anyhow. It had a bolt-on neck. So I thought it would be no problem to take the neck off and bring it back packed in a suitcase.
Yeah. At some point prior to me acquiring it the neck had been epoxied in place. Of course I didn’t discover this fact until I had removed two neck screws and snapped a third trying to get it out. I ended up snapping out the fourth and thought “No way back from here”, before literally ripping the neck out of the pocket.
Well at least it fitted into the suitcase.
When I got it back to Malaysia my guitar tech friend who does rescue jobs week in week out took one look at it and said “Not even the worst one I have in this week”, and got it playing again for a couple of hundred bucks plus.
Which reminds me. I really ought to do a video with it…
If I do anything with my sticker guitar, it's going to be a nice satin clear coat when it's finally full - the fretwork is going strong ('99 Ibby AX7521).
My first electric guitar was destroyed and burned/lost. I replaced it with one still in rebuild that fits perfectly in the old case, because it's the previous model that's better broken than my new one was new.
Q. Models
A. They both cost 200 bucks each: brand new Ibanez Roadstar II RS135 in Comet Blue with fulcrum trem (destroyed) well loved Ibanez Blazer BL200 in natural ash with Kahler (bought working and killer but I broke/rebroke/broke again the pickguard/wiring into pieces with a few drunken stumbles in my younger rampages, as the jack is literally attached to the pickguard - design fail)
I still have my first decent guitar, a ‘67 or ‘68 Gibson SG junior. The only original parts are the body, neck and knobs. It’s on its 2nd set of frets, 2nd tuners, 3rd or 4th big scratch plate, 4th bridge and 6th or 7th pickup and pot arrangement. And as you might expect it got a (lovely white) refinish along the way. Plays better than ever but won’t fetch the £4,500 some chumps are asking on eBay for a good condition example with the cardboard case.
I just hotrodded my old MIM strat I got when I was 12. (Im 31 one). Love the guitar, but thought it could use some new features. Got new hardware, bone nut, nice locking tuners, lollar 64 Pups, US jack, new bridge/trem. neck and frets are nice and worn
I'm a full time luthier for Palen Music out of Springfield, MO, we are the only music store in the state of Missouri with a PLEK machine and I use it every single day. I can answer any and all questions that anybody has about getting your guitar PLEKed. We are also capable of receiving anybody's guitar from anywhere, doing a PLEK and a full setup afterwords. HMU if you got questions!
I grew up in a really poor family and i always wanted an electric guitar since my 11 years old but my parents couldn't afford one. So i made a promise that with my first pay check i would by one. I played one crappy acoustic for years and from time to time my best friend electric. I was 19 when i got my first pay check and on the exact same day i bought one ibanez art 125 for 450€. Now, almost 15 years later, i have 5 guitars and way more expensive but my first one it's still and it always be my first love. I mode it a bit. Changed the pickups ( emg james hetfield signature) the knobs etc etc. Don't know... It feels like home.
I recently just dug out my first guitar, an old Washburn WR series that I got about 20 years ago, and I've been thinking of doing this same thing. The pickups are shot, so replace the pups, do a full re-wire job, maybe re-fret and have someone really give some TLC to the neck. I'd love to have that thing back in working order.
I’m guessing a single coil sized humbucker in the bridge, maybe a Seymour Duncan JB junior. Ok after watching the video I was right.
I have the exact same journey with my Squier from 1990...body only is original...it's a really awesome guitar now and it gives my USA Strat a run for its money
I think all guys that were born in the late 70s early 80s have this guitar. A couple years ago I did something similar for my old squire that I bought at a pawn shop in 1994. New neck, electronics, full pro set up. It's currently one of my better playing guitars.
My first guitar was a beat-up 1994 USA Peavey Predator that I got out of a pawn shop for Christmas when I was 12. The way it was beat up with absolutely sad and I played it and played it and played it until it could no longer be used and after I played my second guitar for a while I decided that I should get the old one restored and the grandparents agreed to take it to somebody they needed to restore it. So we restomodded it leaving as much soul intact as we could while improving the playing experience.
I have and love my first 2. My first is an 86 Charvel HH white with a black pick guard and nice pointy headstock. My second is an 83 2 knob strat.
I still have my fender pbass made in mexico..i bought new in 1992 new.. its still awesome and all original still..love it..good bass.
I have 2005 Epiphone Les Paul that's been through it. would love to have it worked on and change the pickups. It's been a road warrior. Even though it's a cheap guitar it did way better than I ever expected. Needs love love put back into it.
cool, i'm in the process of resurrecting my first sticker covered squier strat (96). replaced the broken pickup, but turns out its wound differently and so i gotta get other 2 that match it to get the expected strat like tones...also going to drop in new switches and wiring because the old switches and pots got fucked from when i stomped on it at a show once. guess i wasn't kurt cobain after all, lolz. anyways, yeah sentimental guitars!
my 1st guitar is in a land fill or fireplace
Awesome video !! Kinda a shame they didnt put a red lace or alternative lace back in the bridge position .. or did you ask for the diffrent pup Ryan ?
Ugh… I lost my first guitar to a fire. 😕 it was on loan to someone and luckily they were okay but, my harmony strat copy from 96’ is gone. Wish I still had it because I actually know how to work on guitars now.
My first real guitar is the same as Rob Scallon had as his first. A Ibanez SZ 520^^
I was shocked when I heard about it.
The fact that every UA-camr is mentioning gear fest and sweet water spamming advertising, I will make sure my next order is NOT them.
6:33 a JB Jr in the BRIDGE. Its is nice to revisit old friends, I refretted my own 1st guitar recently and am really enjoying it...again
Awesome! I bought my first guitar at Don's in Auburn as well. Circa 1982 or so!
I'm pretty sure that is my red Strat in the Plek machine from your video. It's possible it wasn't, but odds are high since I had it done twice in the last month. First the time they missed a few frets and the last time the nut was cut too low and it buzzed open, so I sent it back. :(
Dude, plek is a thing... my new Charvelle had it done...
Everything i wanted it to be...
Are you sure you've only used that guitar in that one video, that I don't think I watched? I'm quite sure I recognize it and it's been played on your channel multiple other times.
I don't wish I still had the crappy harmony that was my first guitar but the guitar I got for letting the guy I bought it from smash it was a Gibson Les Paul and had no clue how great of a guitar it was and I had another crappy old Silvertone or something and the pawn shop wouldn't trade the three quarter size hohner baron bass they had for the crappy Silvertone so they screwed me and traded the bass and a crappy five watt tube amp that didn't work right for the Les Paul and I wanted to start a band and no one had a bass so traded it off stupidly the only other guitars I've lost I really want back are my Ibanez rg750 that had emgs in it I lost for twenty bucks thats another story
Fluff, Thank you for being a real. This is why I watch your videos.
I’m about to slam Variax guts into a stripped out LTD phoenix I found online.
In my opinion it’s always better to start off on acoustic. Because when you play an acoustic you have to earn the notes, they are harder to play. If you can play that then playing electric guitar is a breeze.
That Strung Out sticker. Man, those were some great days for punk.
You and I have the same story lol!! Except I got a peavey predator! Love your stuff!
Love how that guitar turned out man and really dig the little 59 seymour duncan cant wait to get one!!!!
It's not specific to your video but over time I've noticed I judge tone better with metal distortion. It boosts everything so much the slightlest poorness or the subtle virtues in tone are highlighted.
Still have my first electric. Fernandes red strat style. Also has a lot of stickers but not thay many hehe.
Oh man that guitar is a monster for Pumpkins Nirvana and Helmet tones etc!
I modded my first electric and don’t regret it
I couldn’t sell it fir much, and never used it, now i use it a lot.
Dons Green River Music... ha ha ha ha.... i remember that place...
I want to say I remember this guitar from a video you did of the Digitech Drop.
Wish I still had my first guitar, a Hondo Les Paul copy
Hay. What oil would u recommend for tuner gears and such
Still have my first guitar. Wish I had my first good guitar.
Lace sensor. Period. I did this to my strat knock off and sold the rest.
absolute madlad sees a BLACK STRAT and likes it.
That Lagwagon sticker money, love it!
Now do a video on Bad Religion and Strungout stuff! 😊😊
The Strung Out sticker is the most important part.
How the heck was a Squier $350 30 years ago?
Man I remember first seeing this guitar on the digitech drop pedal demo you did about 8 years ago. Granted I saw that video in 2018 first. Love seeing it back. Sounds awesome
Great stories and productions. Great channel.
Love seeing all the punk sticker’s!
my first guitar was a Stagg x400 and I miss it so much.
Shout out to the big homie Fluff from ‘98! 😂
This guitar is literally as old as me, that’s crazy
Love the Strung Out sticker.
You need to sticker bomb the headstock.
that's nice. from where it started to where it is
This is a really cool video. I dig the sentiment. To see them both together and how far you've come. It's a tangible reminder of how hard work pays off.
No offense I know you love it …. It does not sound good🫣
Thanks for sharing, Fluff. I so regret not keeping my first electric guitar. It was a Peavey T-25, and I let it go at a garage sale around 2005 because, at the time, I never thought I would want to play guitar again. Little did I know, scars would heal and the desire to play & create would come back!
Maple neck for the win!!! 🤘
in 22 days, sunn is re releasing the 100s
Freakin awesome tones.
I like these types of vids
Theseus' guitar.
I started playing in 94 - my first electric was a brand new Jackson Performer PS2 (the one with 24 frets and a vintage trem). I swapped it for an Encore guitar a year later and it's impossible to find them now :(
Never really been a Strat guy personally, but my ex-guitarist in our 90's punk band "30 Deep" played a Mexi Fender Strat on tour w/ his original Yamaha Pacifica as backup. Both actually had the same single coil sized bridge humbucker as yours does now coincidentally. Noticing that kinda got me in the feelz just now : ) Thanx! Ha!
Anyway, that said?
I'd freakin love to get myself a decent Squier Strat, mod it w/ the Corgan Lace p/u set, and get my Siamese Dream on thru my EHX BMP Deluxe!
I've become a shameless Squier fanboy over the past two decade ever since getting my VM Jag bass HB Special.
My current #2 player is a 2014 (Alder/Rosewood) Affinity Jazzmaster HH with Grover tuners. Those were stupid bang for the buck guitars IMO.
I later got a second 2017 (poplar/laurel) one, but it didn't have the same mojo so I eventually sold it.
Am I oversharing again?!😅
Yeah...
I do that.🙄
Awesome video as always Ryan!
Cheers amigo! ✌🤟🖖
Hell yeah!
SICK!!!!
Nice man, my first electric guitar was junk that wasn't worth saving... same with the 2nd and the third... until my 4th in 1996 and I still have that beast sitting here in perfect playable condition :D