Info request @ pawn I saw an old looking sunburst (lower fin cracked & glued) strat body teleneck. Large round frets that played well. Askin $700. 2 $500. gues orig neck busted when botom fin broke & was changed. P. Shop may not know/care. didn't like jazz master frets back in60s & surprized at tele fret sound on this gtar. I looking 4 a cheap g. 2 take load off my les paul stu as I am retired & closet player Sud I make1 instead, leary & uned of mkt materials.Opinion apreciated?Thanks UR Glicks
There doesn't seem to be much resonance (tone sweet spot) because none of the pickups are the same. Frequency response is dead flat. I would try putting the humbucker on the neck and placing a single coil pickup on the bridge. For each pickup, I think it's best if they are very similar to make cool resonant sounds. Or have one of them, maybe the humbucker at 2x the resonant frequency or inductance or whatever.
@andy16666 I'm not sure if I have it 100% correct but I think if each pickup has a different tonal response, you don't get the harmonics effects when the signals add up. Other stuff to consider - the power output of the pickups, differences in magnetic field strength, number of coil turns, which way round the magnetic fields are pointing (use a compass) - this changes the signal phase.. Try adding different capacitors and resistors in the control box for each pickup to make them resonate
Theres loads of stuff online about pickup wiring. I tried adding an extra capacitor between my tone and volume pots on my SG copy, and it made a huge difference. The tone was muddy before but now I can get tone almost like Slash's Les Paul. : )
@andy16666 When i say that that is unfair, i don't say that they are horrible and that they suck, when i've said that that was unfair to the strat because well in terms of a strat the midle pick is the one that sucks the most. Sorry but thats the trueth men.
god damn it, i want to do the same thing to my strat...and I thought i was being original...will a tele neck pickup fit into the pickguard hole on a strat pickguard?
OK, I'm pretty impressed with the whole thing. First I thought you were playing with a recording. second the guitar setup is so versatile, and not only that sounds pretty good too. But I'll surely say, I wanna look into the stuff you were playing at the start, very enjoyable to me. Well done! I was thinking of doing something very similar, but not to the extreme like you took it. well done!
@dethndaskies so round, so firm, so fully packed. not sure who the artist is as there are several people who covered the original and it was a major song for each of the artists. this sounds different from the recordings i found anyway.
It was never going to be perfect with only 1 type of body wood (the originals in Gibson and Fender are very different tonally) and with only 1 pickup of each so u can't sound like a strat bridge or les paul neck etc. But I think it will be a really nice guitar to have fun playing. Well done.
i have a glen burton guitar a/k/a wanna be fender strat,it looks exactly like your fender and it cost me 80 bucks,it needs locking tuners realy bad wich will cost me 70 bucks,should i put that much money into it???????
@ntrnate I'd check the quality of the guitar first. I have a cheap squier strat. The input jack is always unscrewing itself, the body is probably cheap wood that reduces the tone quality, the electronics will be cheap and nasty, the bridge is slightly out of position so I have to move all the saddles right back to innotate it except the low E which can't move far enough back and therefore can't be innotated without repositioning the bridge, something that's not worth doing on a £120 guitar.
sounds good man, i love doing things like that. i just got a 30 squire strat, sanded the paint and put polyeurithane on and two humbuckers and it looks and sounds great.
It's not hard to move the controls around...you'll have to see what's inside your guitar though, and you'll be left with a hole where it used to be that you'll have to fill with something. There are other videos that walk you through how to take off the pick guard without damaging anything.
I'm pretty sure Gibson bridges are too tall...otherwise I might have done that. Their necks are angled differently.
@redderknick I replaced my stock Strat "vintage" bridge with a Wilkinson "modern vintage" model. It has the same 6-screw mounting, but has a raised tremolo arm surface that puts the hold the same level as the saddles, instead of below them. It has a Floyd-shaped arm.... both makes for better leverage for dive bombs and more extreme wammying. The saddles are high-mass modern type steel ones and the block is staggered for better intonation. It doesn't cut your hand either.
@andy16666 I think the width of Gibson bridges is also different to fender, so you have to account for where the strings are in relation to the pickups' pole pieces.
I have to disagree to an extent. Extensive physics tests on guitars show that considerably less vibration comes from the body and neck, as the strings and the system of suspension (nut and saddles) comprise the vast majority of the "tone" that is transferred to the pickups. The pickup actually "adds" the most "tone" to the guitar because of the wide range of windings, wire types, magnet types, pole piece designs and metals... etc, etc. The body/neck only adds tone.
@DarthKazi Or, I should say, the body/neck only colors the tone that is mostly derived from the strings, nut and saddles. It's true that a Les Paul has a different string length from nut to saddle, as a Tele has a slightly different one from a Strat. Plus, they have different nut/saddle combinations... tremolos will also change the tone from model to model. But, for the most part, my Strat with a '59 in the bride sounds DAMN close to a Les Paul.
I've just done a smilar "extra combination" with the pickups on my stratocaster. (cheap copy but with good mods and good pickups)
I've added a on-off-on three-way switch chrome flip switch inbetween the vol and tone knobs
Flipped forward it adds neck+bridge. off in the middle pos.And flipped backwards adds middle and bridge pickups. This gives some really great sounds. Telecaster and other warmer sounds too.
The balance between the pup's I adjusted with the height to get what I wanted
This was the first version of the guitar, so I just drilled a hole though part of the place where the selector usually goes. Later I got a new pick guard with no holes drilled so I could put my own holes where I wanted them. (See the "Part 3" video I did later)
It's easy to find strat pick guards with 3 single coil cutouts, and the standard controls. It's very hard to find one without the standard holes for the switch and the three knobs.
I agree. I ended up splitting the humbucker in the bridge of this guitar and only using the rearmost coil. It gives a clearer tone.
After a couple of years of playing this guitar I'm finding the seymour duncan stack pickups to be a little muddy sounding, and I'm thinking of splitting them all and running them in single coil mode.
great looking guitar but for me i would have put on some smaller volume knobs...why did you decide to put on those type of knobs? one other thing in the decrisption is says "cheap Body" isnt it as important to have a good wood? just asking cause ive always wanted to build/design my own guitar. thanks
Nice! But I would suggest put up an EMG Passive pick-up on the bridge with push-pull-coil-tap button so it would sound like a Les Paul, Jackson, Strat, and a tele.
They're all based off E7/E7add6 and B7add9 bar chords, except for one diminished. You can see what frets they're on so that should be enough to figure it out yourself.
So I have a question. I may have an opportunity to buy an American telecaster that has a Gibson '57 humbucker installed in the bridge position.
I tried to find some videos of teles w/ humbuckers in the bridge, but they only had them in the neck. I personally really like the sound of a tele single-coil neck pickup.
I'm just curious what you think that would sound like. How would it compare to a regular tele? Would you personally consider having a guitar like that? Any insights would be great.
It's impossible to predict how a particular guitar will sound until you play it. If I were to guess I would say that that humbucker might make it have a more piercing (or very bright) tone which is sometimes a problem with Teles and high output pickups. You might want to set the humbucker far away from the strings to avoid it sounding too bright.
You first have to remove the pick guard and see how big the body cavities are. If they aren't big enough, it means you have to make modifications to the body (wood) of your guitar with a router. There are two possibilities: either the body was designed to be "upgraded" to humbuckers or it wasn't.
A second possibility is to check out seymour duncan's mini-humbuckers.
But I'd also like to ask you, why would you want humbuckers in a strat? Upgraded single coils may sound much better.
You don't get "more tone" from humbuckers in fact the tone of your guitar shouldn't change that much at all, except the equilization. If you want to know approximately how it will sound with humbuckers, turn the mid-range control on your amp up and the treble and bass down. Otherwise, the only differences will be noiselessness (which upgraded single coils offer) and possibly more output (which you can equally get from upgraded single coils.)
If you can make them fit, go for it. They use humbuckers, don't they? You need to check your body cavities to see if they're routed out for larger pickups or not.
To be honest, I don't like how humbuckers sound in fender guitars, and I don't think I'd do it. But if you're going to, get a new pickguard that's already cut for a humbucker, after you check to see if the body cavity is large enough under the guard. If the body cavity isn't large enough, you will have to use a router to make it bigger, and that will require some experience with woodworking. If you're not good with power-tools and woodworking, you probably don't want to attempt this.
You can put a bigsby on either a tele or a les paul. Although it requires some routing.
One mod I'm going to do though is add a Hipshot B-Bender which allows all kinds of cool tricks. I thought about a bigsby but the b-bender seemed cooler.
Yeah, but from what I've heard, the Bigsbys for Teles aren't that great and I think I would need to drill new holes into my LP to install it and I just can't bring myself to do that.
Unfortunately I can't post links on youtube. But search e-bay for "hipshot b-bender" and you'll see what I mean. Also check out the hipshot website. The hipshot ones don't require any routing although they're based on the original design from the 60s which requires huge changes to the guitar.
I have a 69' reissue Thinline simi hallow body Tele. Its done me some justice, but me being a Les Paul guy myself I would prefer a Gibson. It just depends on what tones you prefer. But it is a great guitar to have obviousely wouldnt hurt to get one.
Thing to remember about electric guitars though, is that the pickups can give you a little more volume or a little different EQ, but it's the woods and the hardware that determine the sound of the guitar. A tele sounds different because it's made of different woods and constructed in a different manner. Not because it's got single coil pickups.
A les paul still sounds like a les paul even with P90s.
There is no correct answer to your question. That's like asking which is better? Gibson, or Fender or Ibanez? Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry? It's what's best for you and your preferences. Would you ask someone else to choose your favorite for you?
whats your style of playing? blues or clean? tele does blues and jazz/twang really well, while the strat has amazing clean sounds and can also pull of a little bit of everything. it's like the jack of all trades as I like to look at it. It does a litle bit of everything, but that doesn't mean it does everything exceptionally well. No offense to any Strat enthusiasts.
I prefer a little more tele tone in my guitar, because I like to do a lot of accentuated bass-lines in my playing, using palm muting a lot, and I like my guitar to feel like I can apply a little more force, and still get a nice punchy clean tone. I don't like though that coming from a country background, every time I sit down with a tele, the way I play makes the guitar sound super twangy. So that's why I like a strat...balances that out a bit, with more chime-like tone.
I've talked to him on the phone a couple of times. He checked out my pickups that I bought at a music store for $350. (the full size humbuckers). Rod was just making sure that the pickups were in good working order. (The ones I have were originally owned by Alex Leifson of Rush. He signed an endorsement deal with PRS and sold them to the owner of Alloy music. This was around the time of the "Roll the Bones" tour. Don't just love Canadian Rock?
I have never sean them stacked. Ever try a set of Evan single coil size pickups. They are fantastic. I have two of the full size humbuckers. They have four coils per humbucker and so hum cancel even when split. I'm building a Tele for jazz and don't need the bridge humbuker as I am going to use a stacked single coil size pickup for country stuff. If you are interested do some web searches and let me know. They are new old stock and not yet installed. Also, Rod Evans is a neighbor of mine.
Highly recommend them if you find your neck pickup too bitey for strumming. Depending on the style I just leave both push-pulls down and spin the pan pot from bridge to neck, for lead and rhythm.
Hey Man, I was kinda wondering if its possible to use a Push/pull pot as Tone controls for 2 humbuckers. I have an ESP LTD Ec series, It only has three knobs (Volume/Tone/Volume) but I like the Gibson LP Set up of four knobs. All I'm trying to say is I want to have Tone control for both pick-ups. It would really help!!!
An ordinary push-pull pot is really just a switch linked into a pot. You can't pull up the knob and change it to a different tone control, while keeping the settings of the first. What you can do though is wire it so that it acts on one pickup or the other, but you won't get two tone controls this way. You can get concentric pots which would work. The inner shaft works one pot, the outer shaft works the other
There are push-pull pots that are actually two stacked pots though. I've played guitars with them installed, and spotted a few on e-bay. Basically, some guitars actually do have one dial for both tone and volume, and you pull up for tone.
Check e-bay, and ask at a music store. You're right...they're not your standard push-pull switch pot, but they are out there.
hello my friend! i got an epiphone lp 100 les paul would you recommend change picks up? i ve been asking ´round , been told seymur duncan would be a great option ? pliz i want your help. thanks mate
pd:by changing picks up i assume that whole sound would change, is that right?
U SING LIKE ELVIS
JackDawsonRMS 1 month ago in playlist les paul vs strat
Info request @ pawn I saw an old looking sunburst (lower fin cracked & glued) strat body teleneck. Large round frets that played well. Askin $700. 2 $500. gues orig neck busted when botom fin broke & was changed. P. Shop may not know/care. didn't like jazz master frets back in60s & surprized at tele fret sound on this gtar. I looking 4 a cheap g. 2 take load off my les paul stu as I am retired & closet player Sud I make1 instead, leary & uned of mkt materials.Opinion apreciated?Thanks UR Glicks
uraniumcompound 2 months ago
OMG!!! YOU GROOOVY ASS!!!!!!!
olalator 4 months ago
a STRA-TE-PAUL cool!!!
flaminglonewolf 6 months ago
what were you playing right at the start? i really dig it! :D
ChristianFS1 6 months ago
Word
variaxguitar 7 months ago
There doesn't seem to be much resonance (tone sweet spot) because none of the pickups are the same. Frequency response is dead flat. I would try putting the humbucker on the neck and placing a single coil pickup on the bridge. For each pickup, I think it's best if they are very similar to make cool resonant sounds. Or have one of them, maybe the humbucker at 2x the resonant frequency or inductance or whatever.
jimmimak 8 months ago
@jimmimak Hmm...I haven't heard it explained that way before, but you may be right. I'll have to give that some thought.
andy16666 7 months ago
@andy16666 I'm not sure if I have it 100% correct but I think if each pickup has a different tonal response, you don't get the harmonics effects when the signals add up. Other stuff to consider - the power output of the pickups, differences in magnetic field strength, number of coil turns, which way round the magnetic fields are pointing (use a compass) - this changes the signal phase.. Try adding different capacitors and resistors in the control box for each pickup to make them resonate
jimmimak 7 months ago
@jimmimak It sounds like a reasonable hypothesis. At some point I may change the pickups out altogether for three identical single coils.
andy16666 7 months ago
@andy16666 I found some links you might be interested in...
buildyourguitar(.)com/resources/lemme/
duhvoodooman(.)com/musical/humbucker_mods/humbucker_mods_2
Theres loads of stuff online about pickup wiring. I tried adding an extra capacitor between my tone and volume pots on my SG copy, and it made a huge difference. The tone was muddy before but now I can get tone almost like Slash's Les Paul. : )
jimmimak 7 months ago
@andy16666 CAN YOU BE MY TEACHER?
HolyGfunnies 5 months ago
I love the pickup switch lmao
pirivi 8 months ago
any chance you could post the chord progression you used in the opening of the video? that was awesome
itsumonihon 10 months ago
its a strat
heyfuckyou1997 10 months ago
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I absolutely love the tone, and that saddle setup is the shit. just saying.
calebthomas28 10 months ago
I absolutely love the tone, and that saddle setup is the shit. just saying.
calebthomas28 10 months ago
Great Idea! taking the 3 greatest guitars and putting them together
FatBrianMayFan 10 months ago
what kind of chords are you doing? at the beginning? they sound wicked :P i would love to learn them
queerp 11 months ago
@queerp those are chet atkins style chords bruh, he's just adding to minor and 7th bar chords to get a classic sound. it sounds amazing, doesn't it?
calebthomas28 10 months ago
hey bud whats that first song you're playing when you're singing? I like it, real nice guitar
AviatorAndyK 11 months ago
@AviatorAndyK SO ROUND, SO FIRM, SO FULLY PACKED
HolyGfunnies 5 months ago
You can't just a add a tele pick up, thats unfair.
markingfeat 1 year ago
@markingfeat Unfair? :-P It's my favorite pickup.
andy16666 1 year ago 3
@andy16666 When i say that that is unfair, i don't say that they are horrible and that they suck, when i've said that that was unfair to the strat because well in terms of a strat the midle pick is the one that sucks the most. Sorry but thats the trueth men.
markingfeat 11 months ago
@markingfeat I know man. :) You're right about the middle pickup too. I don't know what it is, but they do suck.
andy16666 11 months ago
@andy16666 But hey man, your playing was awesome, and the strat sound... GEEZ, just awesome.
markingfeat 11 months ago
@andy16666 That's exactly why I've taken the middle pickup out of every Strat I've ever owned, and every Strat I own from now on
Glockenator 8 months ago
i think you sound like bob pinciotti for that 70's show
mikeguitar41 1 year ago
Sounds great I must say! and very versatile too.
It must sound amazing when you're there in person, and not listening to a recording on a camera streamed over the internet!
MagnusBruce 1 year ago
i have a strat with a jaguar neck a fixed bridge and jazzmaster pickups.
PennybagDarrell 1 year ago
i'm sorry but we can't call it a les paul hybrid by just adding a humbucker. les paul has different tonewoods, scale length, etc...
bulenterdem1977 1 year ago 5
@bulenterdem1977 Agreed.
andy16666 1 year ago
@andy16666 Im a Gibson guy through and through but I would love to have this guitar. Its brilliant!
shaindaman13 1 year ago
god damn it, i want to do the same thing to my strat...and I thought i was being original...will a tele neck pickup fit into the pickguard hole on a strat pickguard?
dumapies 1 year ago
Is that you, Les Paul? Is this me?
TheRadar77 1 year ago
With and actual Tele body it would be more like what you expect, a Strato Tele Paulster. Right now looks more like a Super Strato
Iszil 1 year ago
OK, I'm pretty impressed with the whole thing. First I thought you were playing with a recording. second the guitar setup is so versatile, and not only that sounds pretty good too. But I'll surely say, I wanna look into the stuff you were playing at the start, very enjoyable to me. Well done! I was thinking of doing something very similar, but not to the extreme like you took it. well done!
XXX38 1 year ago
thats a crazy guitar mate!
EpiphoneMaster1234 1 year ago
Sounds more like a demo of your voice.
OldPrawnFace 1 year ago
nice playing + guitar
diablo9333 1 year ago
Great voice. Elvis Presley is not dead. Nice guitar too
Leofabrizio 1 year ago
What song is that that you play at the beginning. Very nice guita as well
dethndaskies 1 year ago
@dethndaskies so round, so firm, so fully packed. not sure who the artist is as there are several people who covered the original and it was a major song for each of the artists. this sounds different from the recordings i found anyway.
itsumonihon 1 year ago
Dude, really cool idea!
It was never going to be perfect with only 1 type of body wood (the originals in Gibson and Fender are very different tonally) and with only 1 pickup of each so u can't sound like a strat bridge or les paul neck etc. But I think it will be a really nice guitar to have fun playing. Well done.
KX36 1 year ago
i have a glen burton guitar a/k/a wanna be fender strat,it looks exactly like your fender and it cost me 80 bucks,it needs locking tuners realy bad wich will cost me 70 bucks,should i put that much money into it???????
ntrnate 1 year ago
@ntrnate I'd check the quality of the guitar first. I have a cheap squier strat. The input jack is always unscrewing itself, the body is probably cheap wood that reduces the tone quality, the electronics will be cheap and nasty, the bridge is slightly out of position so I have to move all the saddles right back to innotate it except the low E which can't move far enough back and therefore can't be innotated without repositioning the bridge, something that's not worth doing on a £120 guitar.
KX36 1 year ago
@KX36 well i kinda allready bought it and the only problem is the tuners and if i buy locking ones i can always put them on another guitar
ntrnate 1 year ago
Any of you see the Fusion Strat and Tele? The Fat Strat has SD Alnico II Pro(Bridge) and a pair of Dimarzio Area '58s.
PrsFenderJackson1980 1 year ago
liked your guitar, your play and your singing!!
TonyTakano 1 year ago
sounds good man, i love doing things like that. i just got a 30 squire strat, sanded the paint and put polyeurithane on and two humbuckers and it looks and sounds great.
vinsane94 1 year ago
I see what you did with moving the volume knob; is that hard to do? I'm always hitting it with my pinky.
2nd question: is it costly/difficult to put a gibson bridge in place of the regular strat bridge? Is it even a good idea?
redderknick 1 year ago
It's not hard to move the controls around...you'll have to see what's inside your guitar though, and you'll be left with a hole where it used to be that you'll have to fill with something. There are other videos that walk you through how to take off the pick guard without damaging anything.
I'm pretty sure Gibson bridges are too tall...otherwise I might have done that. Their necks are angled differently.
andy16666 1 year ago
Thanks.
redderknick 1 year ago
What bridge are you using on that guitar? I only ask because the stock one on mine scrapes up the bottom of my hand.
redderknick 1 year ago
It's the stock Washburn bridge that belonged to the body.
I've had to file sharp edges off them before though. Not sure if I ever did on that one.
andy16666 1 year ago
@redderknick I replaced my stock Strat "vintage" bridge with a Wilkinson "modern vintage" model. It has the same 6-screw mounting, but has a raised tremolo arm surface that puts the hold the same level as the saddles, instead of below them. It has a Floyd-shaped arm.... both makes for better leverage for dive bombs and more extreme wammying. The saddles are high-mass modern type steel ones and the block is staggered for better intonation. It doesn't cut your hand either.
DarthKazi 1 year ago
@redderknick From the description: "Seymour Duncan Pickups:
- 59 replica humbucker
- Classic Strat stack.
- Classic Tele chrome stack. "
andy16666 1 year ago
@andy16666 I think the width of Gibson bridges is also different to fender, so you have to account for where the strings are in relation to the pickups' pole pieces.
KX36 1 year ago
@andy16666
What bridge pup is that?
fanofthemusic1090 1 year ago
it looks like adrian smiths strat
snickers763 1 year ago
I would not under any circumstances call this a Les Paul...or a tele for that matter, the body amkes it a strat, however modified
Noseheros 1 year ago
You have a point there. Actually...the current body (not the one in this video) makes it more of a tele, and it's hard to get away from that sound.
You're right...the wood and construction *are* the most important factors. Pickups don't really change one guitar into another.
andy16666 1 year ago
@andy16666
I have to disagree to an extent. Extensive physics tests on guitars show that considerably less vibration comes from the body and neck, as the strings and the system of suspension (nut and saddles) comprise the vast majority of the "tone" that is transferred to the pickups. The pickup actually "adds" the most "tone" to the guitar because of the wide range of windings, wire types, magnet types, pole piece designs and metals... etc, etc. The body/neck only adds tone.
DarthKazi 1 year ago
@DarthKazi Or, I should say, the body/neck only colors the tone that is mostly derived from the strings, nut and saddles. It's true that a Les Paul has a different string length from nut to saddle, as a Tele has a slightly different one from a Strat. Plus, they have different nut/saddle combinations... tremolos will also change the tone from model to model. But, for the most part, my Strat with a '59 in the bride sounds DAMN close to a Les Paul.
DarthKazi 1 year ago
That's one badass combination of pickups
danecook321 1 year ago
Thanks.
andy16666 1 year ago
Hi there.
I've just done a smilar "extra combination" with the pickups on my stratocaster. (cheap copy but with good mods and good pickups)
I've added a on-off-on three-way switch chrome flip switch inbetween the vol and tone knobs
Flipped forward it adds neck+bridge. off in the middle pos.And flipped backwards adds middle and bridge pickups. This gives some really great sounds. Telecaster and other warmer sounds too.
The balance between the pup's I adjusted with the height to get what I wanted
syncro16se 1 year ago
Cool. I added a couple of later improvements, including a coil tap for the bridge pickup, so it can operate in single coil mode now.
andy16666 1 year ago
HAHA! Best Merle Travis song ever!!!
gretschky 2 years ago
um.. can i have that?
AugieDog6 2 years ago 15
Was someone using a vacuum cleaner in the background?
CrankCase08 2 years ago
The computer I was using at the time had a fairly noisy power supply fan. This must have been right before I changed it.
andy16666 2 years ago
Does the body have individual holes for the pickups or does it have one big hole for all of them?
fridgeslayer94 2 years ago
This body is routed for an HSH configuration, so it's got three separate routes.
andy16666 2 years ago
all 3 guitars in one
what a cool idea
keep rockin'
Folsumblues92 2 years ago
hey what chords are you playing ??
mitchpsychedelic 2 years ago
Nice guitar + beautiful neck
xFinaL2Impact 2 years ago
So how did u get a knob 2 fit a selecter switch? And can u buy plates for single coil pickups?
JohnathenDavis 2 years ago
This was the first version of the guitar, so I just drilled a hole though part of the place where the selector usually goes. Later I got a new pick guard with no holes drilled so I could put my own holes where I wanted them. (See the "Part 3" video I did later)
It's easy to find strat pick guards with 3 single coil cutouts, and the standard controls. It's very hard to find one without the standard holes for the switch and the three knobs.
andy16666 2 years ago
My GOD!!! Somebody here actually knows how to play RHYTHM guitar!!!!! PRAISES!
ROCKSTARCRANE 2 years ago 28
Thanks man.
andy16666 2 years ago
@ROCKSTARCRANE I'm just as amaaaaazed as you are *
Raycing 1 year ago
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HolyGfunnies 5 months ago
i hate the sound of the bridge pick up at les paul... thats why i always use the one at the neck
elwulfo666 2 years ago
I'm finding the same thing.
andy16666 2 years ago
@elwulfo666
i think les pauls naturally have a warmer tone, especially on the neck pup
MrAlcatrazDick 2 years ago
I agree. I ended up splitting the humbucker in the bridge of this guitar and only using the rearmost coil. It gives a clearer tone.
After a couple of years of playing this guitar I'm finding the seymour duncan stack pickups to be a little muddy sounding, and I'm thinking of splitting them all and running them in single coil mode.
andy16666 2 years ago
great looking guitar but for me i would have put on some smaller volume knobs...why did you decide to put on those type of knobs? one other thing in the decrisption is says "cheap Body" isnt it as important to have a good wood? just asking cause ive always wanted to build/design my own guitar. thanks
jamesplasencia 2 years ago
Watch part 3. It has good wood now, but the cheap body sounded better because it was maple plywood...harder and more dense. :-P
andy16666 2 years ago
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nice guitar, the front pickup is called a lipstick pickup just so you know
barrelstudios 2 years ago
Thats NOT a lipstick. They are more round. This one is flat.
dbenc 2 years ago
Yeah, this is just the telecaster neck pickup (with the metal cover).
DaanJM 2 years ago
that music peoples is me sining it wasnt him
Cxhxaxcxhxix4x7x9x 2 years ago
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you talk way too much, I just wanted to hear the guitar STFU and play the guitar
axetogrind59 2 years ago
not as good sound as it looks like.
TheRadiofej 2 years ago
man, pickups are fuckin overpriced.
0hypnotoad0 2 years ago
Agreed, wholeheartedly.
andy16666 2 years ago
i like your idea on the pickup switching
BigDawg69wh2 2 years ago
Thanks.
andy16666 2 years ago
I'm looking into doing something very similar..
I got an RX40 Ibanez Strato, Alder body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard..
I'm thinking about a tele neck mic, strato mid and LP Bridge and also adding a push/pull...
I'm still not a 100% certain but... Thars probably how im gonna go..
bohemian187 2 years ago
Nice! But I would suggest put up an EMG Passive pick-up on the bridge with push-pull-coil-tap button so it would sound like a Les Paul, Jackson, Strat, and a tele.
keanoscarermitano619 2 years ago
It wouldn't sound like a les paul though lol it would just sound like a Jackson (I have one of each so don't tell me I'm talking shit)
hairy0pothead 2 years ago
amazing les paul,telecaster and stratocaster sounds
Leonardoo69 2 years ago
what are the chords you play in about the first 15 seconds?
MrYooTubeFace 2 years ago
They're all based off E7/E7add6 and B7add9 bar chords, except for one diminished. You can see what frets they're on so that should be enough to figure it out yourself.
andy16666 2 years ago
ok cool thanks
nice guitar by the way = ]
MrYooTubeFace 2 years ago
is the neck pickup from a telecaster ?
HITMAN5565 2 years ago
Not from a telecaster, but designed for a telecaster.
andy16666 2 years ago
Bloody good job you' re a guitarist- not a camera man.
Thanks for sharing!
Milkmansdog 2 years ago
kind of glad we didnt see ur face
Serious95 2 years ago
Oh?
andy16666 2 years ago
lol that's cold.
olliezero 2 years ago
LIKE FIKKIN ICE
bergaminivideos 2 years ago
So I have a question. I may have an opportunity to buy an American telecaster that has a Gibson '57 humbucker installed in the bridge position.
I tried to find some videos of teles w/ humbuckers in the bridge, but they only had them in the neck. I personally really like the sound of a tele single-coil neck pickup.
I'm just curious what you think that would sound like. How would it compare to a regular tele? Would you personally consider having a guitar like that? Any insights would be great.
irmerrifield 2 years ago
It's impossible to predict how a particular guitar will sound until you play it. If I were to guess I would say that that humbucker might make it have a more piercing (or very bright) tone which is sometimes a problem with Teles and high output pickups. You might want to set the humbucker far away from the strings to avoid it sounding too bright.
andy16666 2 years ago
telestratopaul!
thegoodtruth 2 years ago
strats aren't the best for humbuckers
ovdirtbiker 2 years ago 3
Agreed. It's not a strat though. :-P
andy16666 2 years ago
Do you think by changing the pickguard of my strat ill be able to put humbuckers in it?
TheSev14 2 years ago
You first have to remove the pick guard and see how big the body cavities are. If they aren't big enough, it means you have to make modifications to the body (wood) of your guitar with a router. There are two possibilities: either the body was designed to be "upgraded" to humbuckers or it wasn't.
A second possibility is to check out seymour duncan's mini-humbuckers.
But I'd also like to ask you, why would you want humbuckers in a strat? Upgraded single coils may sound much better.
andy16666 2 years ago
Well I'll see if i should change them right now but I wanted to change them to humbuckers so i can get more tone and distortion from my guitar
TheSev14 2 years ago
You don't get "more tone" from humbuckers in fact the tone of your guitar shouldn't change that much at all, except the equilization. If you want to know approximately how it will sound with humbuckers, turn the mid-range control on your amp up and the treble and bass down. Otherwise, the only differences will be noiselessness (which upgraded single coils offer) and possibly more output (which you can equally get from upgraded single coils.)
andy16666 2 years ago
Although if you really want humbuckers, Seymour Duncan mini-humbuckers sound exactly like full-size ones, and they require no body modification.
andy16666 2 years ago
hey do you think i can put bc rich warlock pickups in a squire strat
im thinking bout trying it if i can:D
m0t0cr0ss17 2 years ago
If you can make them fit, go for it. They use humbuckers, don't they? You need to check your body cavities to see if they're routed out for larger pickups or not.
andy16666 2 years ago
yeh it probably wont u think i can cut it out or should i risk it ahah
m0t0cr0ss17 2 years ago
To be honest, I don't like how humbuckers sound in fender guitars, and I don't think I'd do it. But if you're going to, get a new pickguard that's already cut for a humbucker, after you check to see if the body cavity is large enough under the guard. If the body cavity isn't large enough, you will have to use a router to make it bigger, and that will require some experience with woodworking. If you're not good with power-tools and woodworking, you probably don't want to attempt this.
andy16666 2 years ago
65, 45 ... Thats 110% guitar!!!
41in 2 years ago
"typically an in tune guitar will help" rofl...
redslownight 2 years ago
what song is that at the begginning? i want to learn it :)
MKrock0 2 years ago
Lestelocaster!
=)
chaazums 2 years ago
Nice job.
hoogpah 2 years ago
the beginning sounded like elvis
NERDZKANDY 2 years ago 2
great job on that
Flyin2hawain 2 years ago
I like how Strats are the customizable guitar.
I have a Les Paul, but I pretty much stuck with the neck and wiring unless I really want to get in there with a soldering iron.
And God help me if I want to put a tremolo arm on it.
I really like how Fenders in general can be changed to fit most preferences.
Now, if only they could put a good tremolo on Teles.
C1o88er3d 3 years ago
You can put a bigsby on either a tele or a les paul. Although it requires some routing.
One mod I'm going to do though is add a Hipshot B-Bender which allows all kinds of cool tricks. I thought about a bigsby but the b-bender seemed cooler.
andy16666 3 years ago
Yeah, but from what I've heard, the Bigsbys for Teles aren't that great and I think I would need to drill new holes into my LP to install it and I just can't bring myself to do that.
C1o88er3d 3 years ago
What's a b-bender look like?
C1o88er3d 3 years ago
Unfortunately I can't post links on youtube. But search e-bay for "hipshot b-bender" and you'll see what I mean. Also check out the hipshot website. The hipshot ones don't require any routing although they're based on the original design from the 60s which requires huge changes to the guitar.
andy16666 3 years ago
The B-bender looked pretty cool but what I really want to figure out is if I can put a left handed Bigsby on a right handed LP.
I haven't found any threads on people doing it though.
C1o88er3d 2 years ago
I think the bigsby should work backwards, meaning that I think the left handed one should be fine on the right handed LP.
andy16666 2 years ago
Dude im right there with you on the Whole Tele situation. But I've been thinking about buying a Bigsby for my Tele.
jonathonpvaldez17 2 years ago
Be careful which one you buy. I've heard it can be a whole hit or miss with those.
What kind of Tele do you have and would you recomend it.
Unfortunately my obsession with Les Pauls and Humbuckers have left me pretty ignorant when it comes to single coils.
C1o88er3d 2 years ago
I have a 69' reissue Thinline simi hallow body Tele. Its done me some justice, but me being a Les Paul guy myself I would prefer a Gibson. It just depends on what tones you prefer. But it is a great guitar to have obviousely wouldnt hurt to get one.
jonathonpvaldez17 2 years ago
Thanks, I'll keep that one in mind.
I've been looking for something that would give me that bright Fender sound.
C1o88er3d 2 years ago
It surrently does the job as far getting that fender sound.
jonathonpvaldez17 2 years ago
Thing to remember about electric guitars though, is that the pickups can give you a little more volume or a little different EQ, but it's the woods and the hardware that determine the sound of the guitar. A tele sounds different because it's made of different woods and constructed in a different manner. Not because it's got single coil pickups.
A les paul still sounds like a les paul even with P90s.
andy16666 2 years ago
very nice voice man!!!!!
mbnicolas19 3 years ago
nice guitar man :)
mattyboyovadanet 3 years ago
vintage
JuLiOzz1 3 years ago
what are you playing at the begin?
fucktheutubeusername 3 years ago
oh really nice
im going to put in my strat a bridge humbucker an a neck tele singelcoil. :)
I200gI 3 years ago
sweet guitar
museIKplox 3 years ago
so.. please help me what is beter Stratocaster our Telecaster??
100pila878 3 years ago
There is no correct answer to your question. That's like asking which is better? Gibson, or Fender or Ibanez? Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry? It's what's best for you and your preferences. Would you ask someone else to choose your favorite for you?
loveremovalmachine 3 years ago 5
whats your style of playing? blues or clean? tele does blues and jazz/twang really well, while the strat has amazing clean sounds and can also pull of a little bit of everything. it's like the jack of all trades as I like to look at it. It does a litle bit of everything, but that doesn't mean it does everything exceptionally well. No offense to any Strat enthusiasts.
dmanandcmac 3 years ago
I prefer a little more tele tone in my guitar, because I like to do a lot of accentuated bass-lines in my playing, using palm muting a lot, and I like my guitar to feel like I can apply a little more force, and still get a nice punchy clean tone. I don't like though that coming from a country background, every time I sit down with a tele, the way I play makes the guitar sound super twangy. So that's why I like a strat...balances that out a bit, with more chime-like tone.
andy16666 3 years ago
Yes,
I've talked to him on the phone a couple of times. He checked out my pickups that I bought at a music store for $350. (the full size humbuckers). Rod was just making sure that the pickups were in good working order. (The ones I have were originally owned by Alex Leifson of Rush. He signed an endorsement deal with PRS and sold them to the owner of Alloy music. This was around the time of the "Roll the Bones" tour. Don't just love Canadian Rock?
aaronmalc 3 years ago
Cool.
andy16666 3 years ago
I have never sean them stacked. Ever try a set of Evan single coil size pickups. They are fantastic. I have two of the full size humbuckers. They have four coils per humbucker and so hum cancel even when split. I'm building a Tele for jazz and don't need the bridge humbuker as I am going to use a stacked single coil size pickup for country stuff. If you are interested do some web searches and let me know. They are new old stock and not yet installed. Also, Rod Evans is a neighbor of mine.
aaronmalc 3 years ago
Checked out the site. They look pretty sweet. You actually know Rod, eh?
andy16666 3 years ago
Hey, I loved your diminished cord demo but what would happen if you replaced the middle pickup with a burns trisonic pickup? You would have a TBP!
aaronmalc 3 years ago
Those pickups sound sweet. I wonder if you can get them in stacked format like the seymour duncan noiseless ones I'm using now.
andy16666 3 years ago
man i was thinking about putting a tele pickup like that in my hss strat knock off and i never considered push/pull pots.. smart bro, real smart
dudelydudela 3 years ago
Highly recommend them if you find your neck pickup too bitey for strumming. Depending on the style I just leave both push-pulls down and spin the pan pot from bridge to neck, for lead and rhythm.
andy16666 3 years ago
wow! awesome playing!
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
Thanks.
andy16666 3 years ago
Hey Man, I was kinda wondering if its possible to use a Push/pull pot as Tone controls for 2 humbuckers. I have an ESP LTD Ec series, It only has three knobs (Volume/Tone/Volume) but I like the Gibson LP Set up of four knobs. All I'm trying to say is I want to have Tone control for both pick-ups. It would really help!!!
Timzsk8 3 years ago
I know there are such pots...two pots stacked...pull turns one, push turns the other. It's a different kind of pot, but they do exist.
andy16666 3 years ago
An ordinary push-pull pot is really just a switch linked into a pot. You can't pull up the knob and change it to a different tone control, while keeping the settings of the first. What you can do though is wire it so that it acts on one pickup or the other, but you won't get two tone controls this way. You can get concentric pots which would work. The inner shaft works one pot, the outer shaft works the other
petem1989 3 years ago
There are push-pull pots that are actually two stacked pots though. I've played guitars with them installed, and spotted a few on e-bay. Basically, some guitars actually do have one dial for both tone and volume, and you pull up for tone.
Check e-bay, and ask at a music store. You're right...they're not your standard push-pull switch pot, but they are out there.
andy16666 3 years ago
would you recommend the 59
for an ac/dc, zeppelin, gnr
type classic rock sound
(humbucker bridge position)
moser8 3 years ago
It certainly would. Although it's still not going to sound like a Gibson.
andy16666 3 years ago
hello my friend! i got an epiphone lp 100 les paul would you recommend change picks up? i ve been asking ´round , been told seymur duncan would be a great option ? pliz i want your help. thanks mate
pd:by changing picks up i assume that whole sound would change, is that right?
jmfr09 3 years ago
I really recommend the '59s as an upgrade. Although if you want hotter pickups, they sell a wide variety of them.
andy16666 3 years ago
thats amazing
freesalesman 3 years ago
Its not a les paul but it quiet good
theshesy 3 years ago
hey man awesome tone. what song are you singing at the start there?? :D
totosmeels 3 years ago
Thats awesome!! its like the best of both worlds :D
Platypusegg 3 years ago