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Very helpful and easy to follow. Thanks for this!🥴

Great Canadian channel. Very nice job.

Well…which Jazz bass is this? There are dozens of different Fender Jazz basses. This isn’t helpful.

Super cool thanks for doing this video! I have that same guitar, a little beat up, but not quite like this one. I love mine to death. My dad got it for a few hundred in the early 2000's, and gifted it to me years later. Im looking to replace all of the saddles, screws, and tuning pegs. I looked this guitar up on-line and some are going for upwards of 1200 these days, with the original case. I just love having a pre-fender jackson, as someone born in '97, i feel like its a little piece of history. Im wondering what you'd recommend as far as saddles, locking pegs, and what size hardware i should be looking for. Sadly one of my original saddle screws have been bent over years of trem bar abuse. I was restringing and adjusting the other day, and it got screwed, for lack of better term, haha. So my short term is to find the right screw at the store, but really i think i want to replace everything with either brass or gold hardware, saddles, pegs, and volume knob. Id love to know your thoughts man, cheers

Nice Job !!

You spelled Squier wrong on your wall art.

I own one, I love it! Did a bunch of mods to it. Change the bridge out to a Babicz full contact! It really transfers the sound well. Swapped the pick ups to Seymour Duncan vintage antiquity, neck and pearly gates bridge. Like I said, I love this guitar. Currently have it strung up Nashville tuning strings. It’s super jangly.

my trem is very loose. Is it supposed to be that way in prs?

Nice 👍 But what’s going on with the octave mandolin conversion guitar build??

Nice guitar. I love the look of the J~45

For anyone who plays B/G benders or drop tune machine heads. My main guitar....baja telecaster had been slightly modified with strap pull B and G benders/Hipshot drop D tuner on the low E string and Schaller drop banjo tunes on the high E and A strings.....OK getting to the point.... I started out with a 3 barrel ashtray bridge....all strings would stay in tune on the lower 3/4 frets when activating the benders or lowering the drop tuners.... the future up the neck the worse it got.... I tried 3 different sets/different brand of the 3 barrel compensated saddles was a slight improvement but was still off the future up the neck when using the benders and drop tuners.... I ended up replacing the ashtray bridge with a Wilkinson 6 saddle bridge.... Brass saddles on the high E and B strings.... steel saddles on the G and D strings and aluminum saddles on the A and low E strings.... I figured that would help retain the twang of the traditional ashtray bridge and fix the intonation problem which it did.... I ended up doing the same thing to my 3 other bender teles....all brass saddles on 2 and all steel saddles on the 4'th one....cured the intonation issues and with a slight tweek on the amp no huge noticeable difference between the 6 and 3 saddle bridges.

got the same one just did some work on it

I replaced the modern 6 saddle bridge the previous owner of my ‘67 Telecaster had put on with an original non compensated brass 3 saddle bridge. I have no problem with intonation and the sound and feel of the original set up is superior. 10:34 10:34

Wow, I have this same bass and am getting ready to install those same pickups!

Considering an AV-3, trawling web for videos of same. Subscribed, thank you. You can't beat 4 legged helpers! WTG Willow.

Hey !! Steve checked out your band "The Rembros" 😎 Cool Man I assume your laying down the Grove on the bass 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

Very informative, I can now work with my strat like a pro

My advice is that if you value being almost precisely in tune most of the time, including accurate harmonics, that you avoid the compensated bridges. I have a Wilkinson bridge on my Suhr tele and it is infuriating to have to compromise each pair of strings being out of tune all of the time but in different directions.

Nope, you should consider a SE Custom 24 if you want a SE Custom 24. Those guitars can easily stand on their own. The coil split doesn't make it a Strat and it doesn't sound as fat as a Les Paul either. If anything the tone reminds me a bit of a Gibson ES. But at the end of the day a PRS is a PRS.

I'm about to pull what hair I have left. I'm trying to test pots and I can't get any reading of any value on 5 different pots ( one has never been used). What is the setting on the multimeter? Going counterclockwise from Off the meter reads: 200M 20M 200K OHM Symbol 20K 2000 200 What am I doing wrong? There's a HOLD/SEL button on the top right. I've fiddle with that without success. Btw I have two meters, same results with each.

Excellent videos! Thanks for the care and detail shown

I have a Squier Affinity Telecaster and a Fender Players series Stratocaster. I swapped the bridge on the strat to a SD hot rails. I also swapped the bridge on the Squier to DiMarzio Chopper. I bought locking tuners for the Stratocaster, then drilled som new plugholes for the Squier and set it up with the Fender MiM tuners. I will swap the neckpickup for the telecaster later, and the mid and neck on the strat too! Later i might buy 500K pots, swap the telecaster bridge to a fender bridge, and maybe if i get rich buy a rosewood telecaster neck and swap that too! and the control plate, the knobs, it will be more Fender Custom Telecaster when i'm done with it, and the MiM Stratocaster will be more american when im done with it too, thinking maaaaaaaaybe switch to rosewood on the strat too, but i kinda like Pao Ferro for now. Might change the pickguard toa black one or the white diamond pattern pickguard. I have a cheap guitar from gear4music too, and that one has a Fender bridge pickup from the Stratocaster, planning to put the fender neck and mid to it when i'm done modding the Stratocaster. Then ill put in either EMG-J pickups for my fretless fender J bass, OR just Fender noiseless pickups! I also have a cheap bass with frets, may change the P and J pickup on it. When tat is done ( if i have not bought Ibanez RG550 at this point ) i will heavily modify the cheap guitar with new pots, switches, knobs, tuners, and then remove the fender pickups and instead buy something that sounds better than the original stock fender pickups, and convert it into a Floyd rose bridge and carefully remove the gear4music logo with fine sandpaper, and add a sticker that says Custom Guitar on it. Then i might sell the cheap guitar, or i might never sell it, depends how it turns out and how much i love it after im done! When i can afford the RG550 it doesnt really need to be customized, it already has everything it needs, except maybe the pickups, those are always fun to swap!

As you've found, adjusting the truss rod doesn't fix high action. The problem is a bad neck angle from 50 years of string tension pulling the neck up. Only a neck reset can fix that, fixing the neck angle.

On my Strat Deluxe from the same era the push-push button doesn’t split the humbucker. What it does, mostly, is change the phasing of the various pickups. My understanding it is their attempt to mimic a Gibson with it’s two humbuckers among other things. In the neck position, for example, it changes the sound from, well, a Strats neck puck-up to something a bit more like a Gibson neck pickip

Here's a little tip; If your push-on control knobs also have a screw, try to line it up with one end of the slot in the split shaft. If it doesn't line up, try turning the knob 180 degrees to see if it lines up with the other side of the slot. Once you've done that, tighten the screw just a little and it will spread the slot so the shaft of the pot grips the control knob, but without damaging the splines on the shaft. You can check that the screw is lined up with the slot when the knob is on the shaft by taking it out and putting a pin or straightened paper clip down the screw hole.

Gotah solid brass modern bridge with brass block saddles. It is a no brainer.

I just ordered the white one. It will be here tomorrow.

If there is a pcb would the resistance always be the same? There is no direct contact between the pickups and the output jack?

When you buy a real Fender, you are paying for the name. You can buy Indonesia or Korean made guitars with the same or better quality and features at half the price. You're paying for not a quality guitar, but for the luxurious lives of Fender employees. So in a way, isn't Fender a fake itself?

I think that was when they started using PCB boards and got away from the traditional Gibson Les Paul wiring, I’m not a fan, I figure if you want single coil sounds get a Strat or a Tele.

I recently purchased an American ultra brand new while Fender and GC had a great sale going. I got it new in the box and had to do a full setup myself. No problem, I've done it several times before. I love the guitar except for some fret buzz on the high E on the 11th fret. It never frets out, but the buzz in that spot is about as close as you can get before fretting out. My American pro ll is immaculate! It's almost perfection. I just wish the fretwork on a higher end model was as good as that one. Odd.

It’s a producer switch! 😂

Well, you never measure the height of the strings on a lying neck. You measure it in the playing position! We didn't go to the same school, I think, because everyone I know in lutherie does it with the guitar or bass in the playing position, and if necessary, and if the saddles (bridge and nut) are the right height, then it's easy to measure the string height according to the brand and factory measurements ... but I don't particularly like Yamaha guitars and basses, but rather Fenders and Gibsons ...

beautiful

I bought an Epiphone Custom last year when they went on sale. It's fine, I like it for banging out rock riffs, but I find that if I want a single coil sound, a different guitar does a far better job. And I've yet to meet the fine folks who utilize out-of-phase tone. However, very interested in pure bypass wiring. Is it just a no-load pot at full vol?

I’m not a fan of the reverse phase.

I wish it was all black, the fact the nut and headstock isn't black bugs me a bit.

Its rainning?

ashbridge more twang brass modern lpauli sounds

Cheap junk is what it will always be.

I watched dozens of those, but none was as practical as yours. many thanks

Sqiuer??? 😂😂

I also just got one of these, exactly same looking , but the 4 string variation. I wish I had your skills, it could also use some truss rod help and saddle sanding, but im gonna have to go with it as-is, which isnt awful, just not optimal.

In passive mode, the 3.xxk reading is with the pickups in parallel. That's why it's 3.85k but you can figure out what the other pickup measures at by solving for the missing number in the parallel resistance equation. (P1+P2)/(P1*P2) or whatever it is. You know what P1 is. (8.74k + x)/(8.74k * X) And solve for X or whatever.

How do they make them for that price? Easy. The company that builds these for Thomann's is an established company that's been around for like 4 or 5 decades already. They make guitars for Sterling by Music Man, Dean, Washburn, Ibanez, Aria, Harley Benton, Monoprice/Indio, and J&D Brothers Guitars, the house brand at The Music Store, also in Germany with Thomann's. If they were trying to build these themselves, they'd be a lot more because they'd have to build a factory, buy the machinery, hire workers, etc...and all of that gets priced into the guitars. When you use a company that's already established and builds 10s of thousands of guitars every year already, it keeps costs down for the company having their guitars built there.

Keep going grow your channel ❤❤

Why not just buy the AFD Slash Epiphone? It fkn rocks 😂

I had this guitar in Sienna Sunburst. Pretty sweet guitar)

Collin on The Guitaristas channel says he likes the traditional bridge because he anchors his pinky against the side of the plate and with the new style he can't do that.

Neither, but i do like bridge #3. The Jazzmaster bridge with deep silver alloy saddles. It gives it that Gretsch slinky feel. czcams.com/video/P_XWoyvDJzE/video.htmlsi=Bz7mO8GxNHNCMwAP But, I do like the modern bridge better, for intonation control and a slinker feel.