Squier Affinity Telecaster3

The guitar in pieces: disassembled Chinese Squier Affinity Telecaster to examine it more closely and consider upgrades (mods).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Telecaster
• Squire
• Affinity
• Fender Telecaster
• Squier
• Amp
• Home Made
• Guitar
• Electric
• Guitars
• Blues

[a7marshal]

The foil shields the pickups from radio waves and such. It's called 60 cycle hum, and single coil pickups are noisier because of this hum. The quickest way to shield the electronics is to buy a shielded pickguard, or put foil on the pickguard. There's a website called "guitarnuts" that has a lot of good info on this.

[a7marshal]

I should have talked a lot more about the pickups and metered them, etc. This was a rookie mistake. Pickups are the biggest influencer of tone.

[a7marshal]

I have continued the mods beyond what I've documented. Because I like, I had to keep going with a mighty mite neck, gotoh tuners, cts pots. I may put a humbucker in the neck position as well. Not sure where it will end, but it plays really well as it now stands.

[a7marshal]

My pleasure. I do this sort of thing anyway, I might as well document it for those that share my interests.

[L0lrYaNL01]

So what does the copper foil do exactly?

[musicman509]

Hoping to pick up a tele and mod it up like you have. Thanks so much for the video it awnsers a lot of my questions about modding a squier.

[invictorium]

thank u sooo much for this