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Are those Steinberger tuners?

CTS win

Absolutely GOATed video, so helpful, thank you!!!!!

I wanted it to be my imagination, but the handwired one sounds more alive.

Now do a hw1 vs hw1x comparison so I can decide on a purchase lol.

Brilliant video 👏

Having the proper tools will go along way. I realize this video is 14 years old, but now days Amazon has a the proper tools cheap. I dont know about pulling so hard on a thin top like that. Also, get a freaking wrench and you wont have to worry about scratching a nut. Just sayin.

2024

👍Very well explained.

Hi. Is it the same on Android?

THANK YOU, Get straight to the point with sound examples. BRAVO!!! (I don't want to watch a 20 minute video about how pots work. I need to remember with sound examples) I'm building my 5th guitar from scratch, and I still can't remember my linear pots for volume, audio taper for tones. haha, My brain just doesn't want to remember. A+numbers usually audio/logarithmic, and B+numbers usually the linear potentiometers. 250k's for single coil pickups[which are naturally more bright], 500k for humbuckers pickups or merged-coils setups[which are naturally more dulled down on brightness]. I'll be back in another 3 years when I build another and forget all this information once again.

I’d be willing to bet if you put the same speaker in the normal one the majority couldn’t tell the difference in a blind test. If there even was a perceptible one.

Thank you from 2024!

I normally wouldn't hang out on Vid like this, but your voice is calming and the Vid didn't start with a wailing guitar, nice job ❗💯

Very nice! I wonder if you could use JB weld?

Wow. What a great video. Thanks

What do I do if the threads on my tone pot move when I try to tighten the nut? (The entire thread portion is moving around the shaft...)

Why not just replace one fret?

I bought a vintage vibe pickup for my Jaguar. It's a P-90 in a Jaguar housing. I haven't put dow. The Jag since I installed it. It came with A5 installed but I bought all the magnets. I believe I'll be trying out the A2s next. Great video!!! Thanks!!!

I was puzzled when I removed the pickguard and found a countinuous cherry - shining surface and no way of accessing the inlays! So that's how it's done :O. Well, now I know it's going to be very surgeon-like. Here we go. Thank you a lot!

I tried this on my #1 guitar (1980s Strat) that needs a new 3rd fret. It worked! It took me a longer than 15 minutes (more like 45) as I had to go back and re-file and polish the fret several times, but I’m super happy with the result!

Hi john, i come many years later, but, if your still into that , i advise you to try to build a gibson type varitone.Struggling to make mine, I can tell you 2 thing 1 housing the inductor and switch in a metal casing is crucial , otherwise it hums loudly. 2 its important to get a inductive coil of 7 henries up to 15 henries, it could be the primary or the secondary of a small transformer.The varitone in conjunction with the tone pot create some king of resonance the lower you go on the dial.

Nicely done. congrats!

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Didn't the 63 stratocasters have the .01uF caps? and were they also 5% tolerance like the orange drop your installing in the video?

So long probably the oldest and the best video of the kind. Thanks

This is a disaster.

Nice job!

Thanks much for this video!!! 🎻🙂😎

The best polish for painted surfaces is to buff with farrecla grade 10 which is water based and used for polishing car/auto paint with a rotary lambs wool mop using water,once it's cut with farrecla(there are several grades,unless you have any scratches just go for the finest grit 10) after this is washed off dry and then use 3M hand glaze,the end result is amazing. I have a Triumph spitfire that i restored and was given this info by a pro car/auto spray painter the gloss is long lasting to,and cars have a time of it in the outdoors. The farrecla and the 3M hand glaze are not super cheap but not crazy expensive,the farrecla has to be wet buffed so it uses a small amount of cutting fluid,the hand glaze goes a long way too,also it works ultra amazing on guitar bodies. Never ever ever use T-cut,T-cut contains ammonia and dulls paint,it looks good for a little while but oxidizes the paint while farrecla does not,the guy who told me worked for himself but also worked in a shop here in Glasgow(Scotland) that did body repairs and obviously paint for jags and Rolls Royce so the quality had to be in the finished product. I never use anything else now. Also just as i observe a wooden block cut to the inside shape of the enclosure with a pole type handle would help.....just saying. great content .

I template using sheet steel fab enclosures,for component layout you can use stiff cardboard,not corrugated cardboard that's used for parcels etc the same grade for nike shoe boxes. I'm here to learn about gimp,i make or made tube amps but now due to supplies i'm going in for tube pedals as i can make a ss amp sound like a tube amp,no brainer.

Just did this to 3 guitar. Works amazing

Nice and informative

Hi love the channel... i have a problem with ground buzz but all continuity checks were fine.. what else could the ptoblem be ?

Use a 10" zip tie for the 1/4 jack. Works perfect. I just installed my pots, switch and jack yesterday in my Heritage H 555. This wasn't easy so it will take patience. My H 555 sounds great now. Took about 1 1/2 hours. Los Angeles

I just followed this tutorial and I was finally able to fix the two dented frets on my guitar! Thank you for teaching me a new skill :)

Great stuff john

Liked those CTS audio taper the best, I could hear amplified sound increase from start to end if rotation and it sounded clearer at this end than the others?

I did the ground testing and the last thing I suspected was -- the output jack was wired in reverse! Should be -- hot wire to outside (so plug makes hot contact at tip) ground wire to inside (so the lug nut will test positive for grounding). It was the reverse when I got it back from my 'guitar tech'! Thanks for your help!

Tone pot 10: What a different tone of different cap values even on full open tone pot! Another evergreen debate is gone with this video. Thanks!

Have you ever worked with a pot that has a wire coming out of the opposite end? Mine has 3 prongs plus a wire, and I'm wondering: what is the wire for? Thank you!

Why not replace the damaged fret rather than lower all frets with the fret job?

Quick question, will this be ok coming from the headphone out of a multifx pedal? I dont use apps, i just need to record...thanks.

Hi, great videos and great project, you see a lot of completely wrong videos on how to connect your guitar to a phone or tablet, and they completely ignore the 2.8v dc ....which is noisey as hell....so good job man.

Thanks im super glad it went worked on my new guitar!

thanks , helpful

which usually used for tone wah swells?

Nicely done even I can understand it now 😂

That thing you described in the first 2 minutes about flipping the saddles around seems common on these type bridges. I've had 2 of them and had to do the same. It's as if the final assemblers have never intonated a guitar.

Do you think this process would work if it is all printed and applied BEFORE drilling holes into enclosure? Long story short - I am going to print the design onto the pedal, and ship them to the pedal maker to then drill the wholes and create the circuits. thoughts?