SX Ash mod v2 - DiMarzio Tone Zone DP155 & Fender Texas Special tele

Testing my new mod, with and handmade (and not so precise in hole!) pickguard and a DiMarzio Tone Zone and a Fender Texas Special tele on this SX with an extremely bright tone for the ash body. All with just 250k volume, no tone. Tone Zone play extremely well splitted, better than i thinked to be honest. Amp in a Vox AC30 with a Pod XT Live on USB recording.

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• sx
• stratocaster
• fender
• texas
• special
• set
• telecaster
• pickup
• dimarzio
• tone
• zone
• tonezone
• dp155
• humbucking
• split
• single
• coil
• line6
• pod
• xt
• live
• vox
• ac30

[frethand101]

Great Pickup Combo Dude!..

[rafport]

@frethand101 thank you, i did some other mod on this guitar, i should post new vids in next time. Bye!

[EmperorofCartoons]

@rafport I LOVE the pickups you put in, and the sound from this thing, it just suits me, I like it a lot. I saw your older, pre-mod videos and I think you really improved it. Except the pickguard! lol why! The old pickguard was so pretty, it had such a lovely faux pearl look to it lol. But thats a personal choice I guess.

Excellent playing and customization!

[rafport]

@EmperorofCartoons unfortunately this guitar has a very strange shape, the telecaster PUP is smaller than a single and can't fit (or can't stay) into the proper hole. After then, there are no mid pickup. If you swap on my vids, i did also a transparent pick guard and now i've a gold one :) I can't use the standard one. I like also do some try with new (and cheap) material so i'm interested in did some strange results, the plexiglass transparent one was weird :D

[rafport]

@SuperMetallica83 yes, basswood will be a good choice. you have to do some count on pots anyway, because the tone zone is quite dark and the texas special (even if not so bright) has lots of high frequencies, so you should find the correct balancing depending how many pots and their value. This depends even from the body and the scale of the guitar.

[SuperMetallica83]

@rafport Hey man, great vid. Would these pickups work well installed in my Squier with a basswood body. Also thinking about installing a floyd rose trem.

[leonjay1]

Holy f*** awesome mate. Great tone and playing.

[rafport]

@ralfcaetano yes, but holes for screws are not identical so you need to do some added hole for screws... not a problem for a such cheap guitar!

[ralfcaetano]

@rafport but a fender pickguard could fit right?

[rafport]

@ralfcaetano Body is almost same, but i can bet on exact to millimeter, and i don't change neck so i really not sure about this (i fear not). The body chamber is a bit smaller than fender, pick guard fender mount but holes are different, pickup holes are little smaller (i put Fender pickup into, but they fit with a minimal free space). Nut is exactly same, the Fender shaped Graphtech is perfect here. Bridge similar, but not exactly same in hole, but compatible.