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E
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Em
D
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Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.
I hope you guys are having an excellent day today.
Yeah, we've got a new project lined up on the channel and it's a little bit different
than anything we've done in the past.
So you guys know we've done our Super Squire build,
our Ultimate Epiphone build, which is basically adding high-end hardware and pickups to more
lower range instruments.
And then we did the DB Caster right there.
That was our latest
build where we used basically the best parts money could buy and put something special
together.
So we cataloged that on the channel and [N] after that, I forget who asked, but one
of you guys said you should do a series on garage sale guitars.
So in other words, like
the cheapest, crappiest instruments you can find and maybe try to do something cool with
that.
So with that in mind, here's what we've got.
So yes, we've got another Strat, which is pretty much the last thing we need on this
channel.
We've featured a lot of Strats over the years.
But when you're hitting up garage
sale guitars, beggars can't be choosers.
So you just get what's available.
So this
is a Squire Affinity Strat.
There's pretty much one of these in the basement of every
household in America, I think.
They've sold, like Fenders and Squire have sold so many
of these, probably hundreds of thousands of these guitars.
And so yeah, there's something
really unique and slightly disturbing about this guitar though.
So I'm going to take some close-up shots so you guys can see how absolutely butchered
this fingerboard is.
Somebody went and [E] removed all the frets.
So this is a fretless Strat.
Now I'm pretty excited to try a fretless instrument.
I've never played a fretless guitar in my
life.
So from that aspect, I'm really excited to see what kind of tones we can get out of
this with a fretless setup.
But whoever removed these frets absolutely destroyed the fingerboard.
And all the pits and all the fret marks have been filled with, I don't know if it's wood
filler or putty or [Am] something, [B] but it just looks [E] absolutely horrid.
Now I think there's some wisdom in not picking up somebody else's half-completed project
[B] and wasting a bunch of your own money on it.
So what we're going to try to do is [G#m] not spend
any money [B] on this instrument.
We're going to try to create something [G#m] that's a little
bit unique [F#] and cool, hopefully without spending a dime.
Now as for the rest of the instrument, it's in fair condition.
I do like the sparkle red
finish that Fender uses with the rosewood and the white.
I think it looks pretty sharp.
Unfortunately, it's not in great condition.
But yeah, there's a few scrapes and scuffs
on the front.
The back's a little bit worse.
It does have the finish cracks in the neck
pocket that are [Em] common to Fender.
Not a big deal.
That happens on a lot of instruments
and it's not a big deal.
Other than, you know, aesthetically it doesn't look great.
But yeah, the electronics all seem to be working.
[Am] [B]
Yeah, so we just have to figure out what kind
of mods we want to do to this thing.
So here are [A] some of my initial thoughts on [E] ways we could modify this guitar that won't
cost us a lot of money.
There's a few mods I've been wanting to try and having a garage
sale guitar like this [F#] is the perfect platform to try some of them.
Now the neck itself is
really nice.
Like the back of the neck is smooth.
The carve is perfect.
There's no dings
or scratches.
So it's going to play okay.
But the front is pretty much beyond repair.
Like we can't remove all this stuff and refret it.
We don't want to replace the neck because
that's going to cost us money.
So [Em] I've committed to have a fretless strat.
So we're going to
do that.
But I was thinking about popping the nut out and lowering it down.
So we lower
the action and putting a set of flatwound strings on here.
And for fretless instruments,
you want flatwounds because if you use [E] roundwounds, it's going to chew up your fingerboard.
Now
on a guitar like this, it doesn't really matter, but I'm interested to see what the flatwounds
will sound like.
So I think we're going to do that.
We're going to pop the nut out, file
it down, lower it and put a set of flatwounds on it.
Now in terms of the fingerboard, there's
been a mod, well there's a couple of mods I'd like to try.
I'd like to try to flatten
out the radius, just for interest's sake, to something like maybe 12 or 10 from 9 1
½.
And we don't really need the round radius on a fretless [N] instrument I don't think because
we're not going to be doing a lot of cording.
Now another mod I've always wanted to try
is to put ebony stain on a rosewood fingerboard to see if we can darken it up.
And I've never
wanted to do that to any of my nice instruments, but this might be the perfect candidate.
[B] Now
whether or not whatever material they [D] used to fill the fret holes, I don't know if that's
going to accept stain.
It might end [E] up looking worse, but that's something I've always wanted
to try.
I suppose we could paint it and then redraw the fret lines on, but I'm pretty sure
that's going to look terrible.
So I [D] don't know.
So ebony stain, I think that might be another
mod [F#] we want to do.
Now another mod we could do to this guitar that won't cost us any money
is to wire up this secondary tone pot to our bridge pickup.
So as it stands right now,
there's no way to add tone to the bridge pickup, which seems really weird.
So many strats are
wired this way and I'm not sure why Fender and Squier does that.
If there ever is a pickup
that you want to mellow out, it's your bridge pickup.
So we want to be able to do that and
all you have to do is solder in a little jumper wire.
So [G] it's an easy mod.
Check your [F#] strats
and if yours is wired like this where you can't control the [Em] bridge pickup at all, then
yeah you could follow along and we could do that mod together.
So that's it you guys.
That's what I'm thinking.
Flattening out the fingerboard radius, putting some ebony stain
on, filing the nut down so it's really low action, putting a set of flat wound strings
on and rewiring up the secondary tone control.
Those are the mods that I've thought of that
we could do that might be interesting to create some sort of instrument.
But I'm really willing
to try anything.
If you guys have sort [D] of weird or interesting ideas that don't cost
a lot of money, let me know and we'll see what we can do with this thing.
Thanks so
much for watching you guys.
Be sure to stay tuned [F#] to the channel as we go through our
fretless fender project.
It should be pretty interesting.
I'm not sure what kind of guitar
we're going to end up with at the end but it should be a lot of fun.
All my information
will be on the screen.
If you want to sub to the channel you can click right here.
If
you want to head over to the tab store you can click up there and maybe I'll put a couple
of my other build videos over there if you guys miss them.
Have a great
I hope you guys are having an excellent day today.
Yeah, we've got a new project lined up on the channel and it's a little bit different
than anything we've done in the past.
So you guys know we've done our Super Squire build,
our Ultimate Epiphone build, which is basically adding high-end hardware and pickups to more
lower range instruments.
And then we did the DB Caster right there.
That was our latest
build where we used basically the best parts money could buy and put something special
together.
So we cataloged that on the channel and [N] after that, I forget who asked, but one
of you guys said you should do a series on garage sale guitars.
So in other words, like
the cheapest, crappiest instruments you can find and maybe try to do something cool with
that.
So with that in mind, here's what we've got.
So yes, we've got another Strat, which is pretty much the last thing we need on this
channel.
We've featured a lot of Strats over the years.
But when you're hitting up garage
sale guitars, beggars can't be choosers.
So you just get what's available.
So this
is a Squire Affinity Strat.
There's pretty much one of these in the basement of every
household in America, I think.
They've sold, like Fenders and Squire have sold so many
of these, probably hundreds of thousands of these guitars.
And so yeah, there's something
really unique and slightly disturbing about this guitar though.
So I'm going to take some close-up shots so you guys can see how absolutely butchered
this fingerboard is.
Somebody went and [E] removed all the frets.
So this is a fretless Strat.
Now I'm pretty excited to try a fretless instrument.
I've never played a fretless guitar in my
life.
So from that aspect, I'm really excited to see what kind of tones we can get out of
this with a fretless setup.
But whoever removed these frets absolutely destroyed the fingerboard.
And all the pits and all the fret marks have been filled with, I don't know if it's wood
filler or putty or [Am] something, [B] but it just looks [E] absolutely horrid.
Now I think there's some wisdom in not picking up somebody else's half-completed project
[B] and wasting a bunch of your own money on it.
So what we're going to try to do is [G#m] not spend
any money [B] on this instrument.
We're going to try to create something [G#m] that's a little
bit unique [F#] and cool, hopefully without spending a dime.
Now as for the rest of the instrument, it's in fair condition.
I do like the sparkle red
finish that Fender uses with the rosewood and the white.
I think it looks pretty sharp.
Unfortunately, it's not in great condition.
But yeah, there's a few scrapes and scuffs
on the front.
The back's a little bit worse.
It does have the finish cracks in the neck
pocket that are [Em] common to Fender.
Not a big deal.
That happens on a lot of instruments
and it's not a big deal.
Other than, you know, aesthetically it doesn't look great.
But yeah, the electronics all seem to be working.
[Am] [B]
Yeah, so we just have to figure out what kind
of mods we want to do to this thing.
So here are [A] some of my initial thoughts on [E] ways we could modify this guitar that won't
cost us a lot of money.
There's a few mods I've been wanting to try and having a garage
sale guitar like this [F#] is the perfect platform to try some of them.
Now the neck itself is
really nice.
Like the back of the neck is smooth.
The carve is perfect.
There's no dings
or scratches.
So it's going to play okay.
But the front is pretty much beyond repair.
Like we can't remove all this stuff and refret it.
We don't want to replace the neck because
that's going to cost us money.
So [Em] I've committed to have a fretless strat.
So we're going to
do that.
But I was thinking about popping the nut out and lowering it down.
So we lower
the action and putting a set of flatwound strings on here.
And for fretless instruments,
you want flatwounds because if you use [E] roundwounds, it's going to chew up your fingerboard.
Now
on a guitar like this, it doesn't really matter, but I'm interested to see what the flatwounds
will sound like.
So I think we're going to do that.
We're going to pop the nut out, file
it down, lower it and put a set of flatwounds on it.
Now in terms of the fingerboard, there's
been a mod, well there's a couple of mods I'd like to try.
I'd like to try to flatten
out the radius, just for interest's sake, to something like maybe 12 or 10 from 9 1
½.
And we don't really need the round radius on a fretless [N] instrument I don't think because
we're not going to be doing a lot of cording.
Now another mod I've always wanted to try
is to put ebony stain on a rosewood fingerboard to see if we can darken it up.
And I've never
wanted to do that to any of my nice instruments, but this might be the perfect candidate.
[B] Now
whether or not whatever material they [D] used to fill the fret holes, I don't know if that's
going to accept stain.
It might end [E] up looking worse, but that's something I've always wanted
to try.
I suppose we could paint it and then redraw the fret lines on, but I'm pretty sure
that's going to look terrible.
So I [D] don't know.
So ebony stain, I think that might be another
mod [F#] we want to do.
Now another mod we could do to this guitar that won't cost us any money
is to wire up this secondary tone pot to our bridge pickup.
So as it stands right now,
there's no way to add tone to the bridge pickup, which seems really weird.
So many strats are
wired this way and I'm not sure why Fender and Squier does that.
If there ever is a pickup
that you want to mellow out, it's your bridge pickup.
So we want to be able to do that and
all you have to do is solder in a little jumper wire.
So [G] it's an easy mod.
Check your [F#] strats
and if yours is wired like this where you can't control the [Em] bridge pickup at all, then
yeah you could follow along and we could do that mod together.
So that's it you guys.
That's what I'm thinking.
Flattening out the fingerboard radius, putting some ebony stain
on, filing the nut down so it's really low action, putting a set of flat wound strings
on and rewiring up the secondary tone control.
Those are the mods that I've thought of that
we could do that might be interesting to create some sort of instrument.
But I'm really willing
to try anything.
If you guys have sort [D] of weird or interesting ideas that don't cost
a lot of money, let me know and we'll see what we can do with this thing.
Thanks so
much for watching you guys.
Be sure to stay tuned [F#] to the channel as we go through our
fretless fender project.
It should be pretty interesting.
I'm not sure what kind of guitar
we're going to end up with at the end but it should be a lot of fun.
All my information
will be on the screen.
If you want to sub to the channel you can click right here.
If
you want to head over to the tab store you can click up there and maybe I'll put a couple
of my other build videos over there if you guys miss them.
Have a great
Key:
E
B
F#
Em
D
E
B
F#
Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.
I hope you guys are having an excellent day today.
Yeah, we've got a new project lined up on the channel and it's a little bit different
than anything we've done in the past.
So you guys know we've done our Super Squire build,
our Ultimate Epiphone build, which is basically adding high-end hardware and pickups to more
lower range instruments.
And then we did the DB Caster right there. _
That was our latest
build where we used basically the best parts money could buy and put something special
together.
So we cataloged that on the channel and [N] after that, I forget who asked, but one
of you guys said you should do a series on garage sale guitars.
So in other words, like
the cheapest, crappiest instruments you can find and maybe try to do something cool with
that.
So with that in mind, here's what we've got.
So yes, we've got another Strat, which is pretty much the last thing we need on this
channel.
We've featured a lot of Strats over the years. _
But when you're hitting up garage
sale guitars, beggars can't be choosers.
So you just get what's available.
So this
is a Squire Affinity Strat.
There's pretty much one of these in the basement of every
household in America, I think.
They've sold, like Fenders and Squire have sold so many
of these, probably hundreds of thousands of these guitars.
_ _ And so yeah, there's something
really unique and slightly disturbing about this guitar though.
So I'm going to take some close-up shots so you guys can see how absolutely butchered
this fingerboard is.
Somebody went and [E] removed all the frets.
So this is a fretless Strat.
Now I'm pretty excited to try a fretless instrument.
I've never played a fretless guitar in my
life.
So from that aspect, I'm really excited to see what kind of tones we can get out of
this with a fretless setup.
But whoever removed these frets _ absolutely destroyed the fingerboard.
And all the pits and all the fret marks have been filled with, I don't know if it's wood
filler or putty or [Am] something, _ [B] but it just looks [E] absolutely horrid.
Now I think there's some wisdom in not picking up somebody else's half-completed project
_ [B] _ and wasting a bunch of your own money on it.
So what we're going to try to do is [G#m] not spend
any money [B] on this instrument.
We're going to try to create something [G#m] that's a little
bit unique [F#] and cool, _ hopefully without spending a dime.
Now as for the rest of the instrument, it's in fair condition.
_ I do like the sparkle red
finish that Fender uses with the rosewood and the white.
I think it looks pretty sharp.
_ Unfortunately, it's not in great condition.
But yeah, there's a few scrapes and scuffs
on the front.
The back's a little bit worse.
It does have the finish cracks in the neck
pocket that are [Em] common to Fender.
Not a big deal.
That happens on a lot of instruments
and it's not a big deal.
Other than, you know, aesthetically it doesn't look great.
_ But yeah, the electronics all seem to be working.
[Am] _ _ [B]
Yeah, so we just have to figure out what kind
of mods we want to do to this thing.
So here are [A] some of my initial thoughts on [E] ways we could modify this guitar that won't
cost us a lot of money.
There's a few mods I've been wanting to try and having a garage
sale guitar like this [F#] is the perfect platform to try some of them.
Now the neck itself is
really nice.
Like the back of the neck is smooth.
The carve is perfect.
There's no dings
or scratches.
So it's going to play okay.
But the front is pretty much beyond repair.
Like we can't remove all this stuff and refret it.
We don't want to replace the neck because
that's going to cost us money. _
So [Em] I've committed to have a fretless strat.
So we're going to
do that.
_ But I was thinking about popping the nut out and lowering it down.
So we lower
the action and putting a set of flatwound strings on here.
And for fretless instruments,
you want flatwounds because if you use [E] roundwounds, it's going to chew up your fingerboard.
Now
on a guitar like this, it doesn't really matter, but I'm interested to see what the flatwounds
will sound like.
So I think we're going to do that.
We're going to pop the nut out, file
it down, lower it and put a set of flatwounds on it.
Now in terms of the fingerboard, there's
been a mod, well there's a couple of mods I'd like to try.
I'd like to try to flatten
out the radius, just for interest's sake, to something like maybe 12 or 10 from 9 1
½.
_ And we don't really need the round radius on a fretless [N] instrument I don't think because
we're not going to be doing a lot of cording.
Now another mod I've always wanted to try
is to put ebony stain on a rosewood fingerboard to see if we can darken it up.
And I've never
wanted to do that to any of my nice instruments, but this might be the perfect candidate.
[B] Now
whether or not whatever material they [D] used to fill the fret holes, _ I don't know if that's
going to accept stain.
It might end [E] up looking worse, but that's something I've always wanted
to try.
I suppose we could paint it and then redraw the fret lines on, but I'm pretty sure
that's going to look terrible.
So I [D] don't know.
So ebony stain, I think that might be another
mod [F#] we want to do.
Now another mod we could do to this guitar that won't cost us any money
is to wire up this secondary tone pot to our bridge pickup.
So as it stands right now,
there's no way to add tone to the bridge pickup, which seems really weird.
So many strats are
wired this way and I'm not sure why Fender and Squier does that.
If there ever is a pickup
that you want to mellow out, it's your bridge pickup.
So we want to be able to do that and
all you have to do is solder in a little jumper wire.
So [G] it's an easy mod.
Check your [F#] strats
and if yours is wired like this where you can't control the [Em] bridge pickup at all, then
yeah you could follow along and we could do that mod together.
So that's it you guys.
That's what I'm thinking.
Flattening out the fingerboard radius, putting some ebony stain
on, filing the nut down so it's really low action, putting a set of flat wound strings
on and rewiring up the secondary tone control.
Those are the mods that I've thought of that
we could do that might be interesting to create some sort of instrument.
_ But I'm really willing
to try anything.
If you guys have sort [D] of weird or interesting ideas that don't cost
a lot of money, let me know and we'll see what we can do with this thing.
Thanks so
much for watching you guys.
Be sure to stay tuned [F#] to the channel as we go through our
fretless fender project.
It should be pretty interesting.
I'm not sure what kind of guitar
we're going to end up with at the end but it should be a lot of fun.
All my information
will be on the screen.
If you want to sub to the channel you can click right here.
If
you want to head over to the tab store you can click up there and maybe I'll put a couple
of my other build videos over there if you guys miss them.
Have a great
I hope you guys are having an excellent day today.
Yeah, we've got a new project lined up on the channel and it's a little bit different
than anything we've done in the past.
So you guys know we've done our Super Squire build,
our Ultimate Epiphone build, which is basically adding high-end hardware and pickups to more
lower range instruments.
And then we did the DB Caster right there. _
That was our latest
build where we used basically the best parts money could buy and put something special
together.
So we cataloged that on the channel and [N] after that, I forget who asked, but one
of you guys said you should do a series on garage sale guitars.
So in other words, like
the cheapest, crappiest instruments you can find and maybe try to do something cool with
that.
So with that in mind, here's what we've got.
So yes, we've got another Strat, which is pretty much the last thing we need on this
channel.
We've featured a lot of Strats over the years. _
But when you're hitting up garage
sale guitars, beggars can't be choosers.
So you just get what's available.
So this
is a Squire Affinity Strat.
There's pretty much one of these in the basement of every
household in America, I think.
They've sold, like Fenders and Squire have sold so many
of these, probably hundreds of thousands of these guitars.
_ _ And so yeah, there's something
really unique and slightly disturbing about this guitar though.
So I'm going to take some close-up shots so you guys can see how absolutely butchered
this fingerboard is.
Somebody went and [E] removed all the frets.
So this is a fretless Strat.
Now I'm pretty excited to try a fretless instrument.
I've never played a fretless guitar in my
life.
So from that aspect, I'm really excited to see what kind of tones we can get out of
this with a fretless setup.
But whoever removed these frets _ absolutely destroyed the fingerboard.
And all the pits and all the fret marks have been filled with, I don't know if it's wood
filler or putty or [Am] something, _ [B] but it just looks [E] absolutely horrid.
Now I think there's some wisdom in not picking up somebody else's half-completed project
_ [B] _ and wasting a bunch of your own money on it.
So what we're going to try to do is [G#m] not spend
any money [B] on this instrument.
We're going to try to create something [G#m] that's a little
bit unique [F#] and cool, _ hopefully without spending a dime.
Now as for the rest of the instrument, it's in fair condition.
_ I do like the sparkle red
finish that Fender uses with the rosewood and the white.
I think it looks pretty sharp.
_ Unfortunately, it's not in great condition.
But yeah, there's a few scrapes and scuffs
on the front.
The back's a little bit worse.
It does have the finish cracks in the neck
pocket that are [Em] common to Fender.
Not a big deal.
That happens on a lot of instruments
and it's not a big deal.
Other than, you know, aesthetically it doesn't look great.
_ But yeah, the electronics all seem to be working.
[Am] _ _ [B]
Yeah, so we just have to figure out what kind
of mods we want to do to this thing.
So here are [A] some of my initial thoughts on [E] ways we could modify this guitar that won't
cost us a lot of money.
There's a few mods I've been wanting to try and having a garage
sale guitar like this [F#] is the perfect platform to try some of them.
Now the neck itself is
really nice.
Like the back of the neck is smooth.
The carve is perfect.
There's no dings
or scratches.
So it's going to play okay.
But the front is pretty much beyond repair.
Like we can't remove all this stuff and refret it.
We don't want to replace the neck because
that's going to cost us money. _
So [Em] I've committed to have a fretless strat.
So we're going to
do that.
_ But I was thinking about popping the nut out and lowering it down.
So we lower
the action and putting a set of flatwound strings on here.
And for fretless instruments,
you want flatwounds because if you use [E] roundwounds, it's going to chew up your fingerboard.
Now
on a guitar like this, it doesn't really matter, but I'm interested to see what the flatwounds
will sound like.
So I think we're going to do that.
We're going to pop the nut out, file
it down, lower it and put a set of flatwounds on it.
Now in terms of the fingerboard, there's
been a mod, well there's a couple of mods I'd like to try.
I'd like to try to flatten
out the radius, just for interest's sake, to something like maybe 12 or 10 from 9 1
½.
_ And we don't really need the round radius on a fretless [N] instrument I don't think because
we're not going to be doing a lot of cording.
Now another mod I've always wanted to try
is to put ebony stain on a rosewood fingerboard to see if we can darken it up.
And I've never
wanted to do that to any of my nice instruments, but this might be the perfect candidate.
[B] Now
whether or not whatever material they [D] used to fill the fret holes, _ I don't know if that's
going to accept stain.
It might end [E] up looking worse, but that's something I've always wanted
to try.
I suppose we could paint it and then redraw the fret lines on, but I'm pretty sure
that's going to look terrible.
So I [D] don't know.
So ebony stain, I think that might be another
mod [F#] we want to do.
Now another mod we could do to this guitar that won't cost us any money
is to wire up this secondary tone pot to our bridge pickup.
So as it stands right now,
there's no way to add tone to the bridge pickup, which seems really weird.
So many strats are
wired this way and I'm not sure why Fender and Squier does that.
If there ever is a pickup
that you want to mellow out, it's your bridge pickup.
So we want to be able to do that and
all you have to do is solder in a little jumper wire.
So [G] it's an easy mod.
Check your [F#] strats
and if yours is wired like this where you can't control the [Em] bridge pickup at all, then
yeah you could follow along and we could do that mod together.
So that's it you guys.
That's what I'm thinking.
Flattening out the fingerboard radius, putting some ebony stain
on, filing the nut down so it's really low action, putting a set of flat wound strings
on and rewiring up the secondary tone control.
Those are the mods that I've thought of that
we could do that might be interesting to create some sort of instrument.
_ But I'm really willing
to try anything.
If you guys have sort [D] of weird or interesting ideas that don't cost
a lot of money, let me know and we'll see what we can do with this thing.
Thanks so
much for watching you guys.
Be sure to stay tuned [F#] to the channel as we go through our
fretless fender project.
It should be pretty interesting.
I'm not sure what kind of guitar
we're going to end up with at the end but it should be a lot of fun.
All my information
will be on the screen.
If you want to sub to the channel you can click right here.
If
you want to head over to the tab store you can click up there and maybe I'll put a couple
of my other build videos over there if you guys miss them.
Have a great