Throwing $530 of Upgrades Into a $100 Squier!! || High Intergrity NOSTALgufish
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» 0:00 Introducing My Squier Bullet Strat
» 0:50 Background & What's Wrong With It??
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Throwing $530 of Upgrades into My First Guitar!! || High Intergrity NOSTALgufish - Hudba
What was your first guitar, and what upgrades have you done to it??
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First guitar: Fender Sonoran SCE Acoustic (Cutaway with Strat Headstock)
Fist Electric was also a Squier S/S/S strat. Many fun stickers, not added by me. $50 at a garage sale not a bad way to begin :) No upgrades yet. Someday.
Still have both. I write most of my music on the acoustic. The strat stares at my back all day while I work. Someday strat.
a Jaxville "Zeus" cheap strat clone, with a wonderfully cheesy lightning graphic as part of the finish! Currently a husk with Wilkinson tuners and an Aria neck, I plan to build it up as a Billie Joe Armstrong-inspired thing, with the angled humbucker. Previously had it with that, no middle pickup, an Epiphone 3-way switch and master volume and tone.
Squier JR Tele, nothing really, just replaced the pot that went die
My first guitar was an epiphone acoustic that was to expensive for the irresponsable shit that I was at 10 and my first electric was a Yamaha Pacifica that is stock
I put Grover tuners and a baby grand bridge
I saw it at a garage sale when I was 9 and begged my mom to buy it. The old man who was selling it saw how bad I wanted it and said to my mom "ten bucks and its his." So we pack this dirty busted tweed case into my moms Toyota Tercel hatchback and take it home. My dad was a guitar player and as soon as he saw me bring in the case he looked shocked asked me where the hell i got it. So I tell him the story still not having a clue what kind of guitar it was. We opened that case to reveal a 1956 fender musicmaster. Red with a gold aluminum pickguard. All original except the volume pot. I hammered out years of songs with no friends to jam with or learn from (or amp). That guitar was pretty much the only Possession that mattered to me. It sparked a lifelong passion for a music that for me has quite literally given my life value at points where I couldn't see any. Looking back I feel like if it weren't for that little fender nobody wanted i wouldn't have been around to end up later giving my son his first strat (at 4years old lol).I'm in my late 30's now and I have lots of guitars. I'm happy to say of all the shitty mistakes I've made along the way, I still have it. Its not going anywhere.The only way I will ever part with that guitar is if I ever meet some kid who needs it as bad as I did when that old man saw me tearing up asking my mom for something i knew damn well we couldn't afford. I Still think about him sometimes and it blows my mind to realize how much that one unselfish act has echoed through my entire life. Moral of the story. If you have 20 guitars and don't play one of them... please donate it. You really could change someone's life.
Holy shit. So touching. I hope I come across a guitar as special as this one.
My brother gave me his guitar that sat neglected and a little under a year later bought me my own lp special that I love and dump money and upgrades into. I'm never giving it up because it sounds and plays better than any other guitar I've played. Music has given me new life too so I'm glad to see someone kinda like me.
@@xeones Thank you. Any guitar could be that special to the right kid.
do you like fender mustangs and offset? my first guitar is the squier bullet mustang and i love it
Well I used to hate my Tanglewood, but after reading your comment, I swear I won't ever throw it
Aww Pringle wanted to help,instant like
Thats a weird way to spell lick.
@@jrockkai oops hehe
luthier dog luthier dog luthier dog
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john 3:16-21
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and romans 10:9-13
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Kirk Hammett: I raised that boy.
And james
@@leombele9310Nah Kirk and James look like grandma and grandpa respectfully
Metallica grandparents
@@trainfrainebanelmfao they really do
This is a crossover of the best elements of this channel
Specially distrokid
@@ravelitschimo specially when something he didn’t foresee becomes an issue
I wish I kept my first guitar. It was a blue Squier strat. I still have the Kurt Cobain strap I put on it though
The Hetfield "bleeps" are my one of my favorite things about your videos.
[Re: first guitar]
I do have my first guitar but I've since given it to my sister, but any "mods" I did to it were metal dome knobs and locking tuners. I plan on modding my first guitar I bought as an adult with locking tuners, dome knobs and some new pickups at some point but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
Man, I’m gonna throw a baritone neck on my first guitar and some new electronics. It was the first, it deserves to be remembered. I even called it Gretel for the longest time.
Yeah, you wired it wrong. Flip the hot and ground wires on the humbucker. Humbuckers are usually reverse of modern Strat style pickups and vise versa.
Ah ok will try that!
Will that be the case for me? I'm installing a Dimarzio super 2 for the neck and a Seymour Duncan Trembucker 59 for the bridge. And also using a fender video as a guide.
8:02 That's one A E S T H E T I C capacitor.
Nice pfp
I would love to be there clerk ringing up the guy with a peppa pig bandage who only has nail polish remover, but with no nail polish on
The "Starcaster" Strats they used to sell in Target, Walmart, et al. actually have full-sized bodies - probably better mod platforms than the Bullets/Affinities!
Oh I have one of them! It was my first guitar, it's shit. I got it off Amazon as a birthday present, and sure, there are memories that come with it but I now have an even better start copy (hey, I'm still poor, I'll probably never get a real one in my life). If you can, try and get your hands on a Johnson strat (preferably the "EMG designed" pickups edition), that's my current one and I love it to bits. Never played a real strat but I reckon my hunk o' junk plays as well!
I have one, hss "arrow" "fat strat". Its actually kinda good. I just dont like how the trem is basically floating.
Good to know. I have a starcaster I wanna mod to hell and back
It is a First Act model is a POS and no other brands parts fit on any of the body on purpose, even other brands strings barely work on it.
I really enjoy all of your videos dude.
Did anybody else’s heart sink at “These middle positions- what is the point?” Somebody please help out my man
I thought that was literally the only reason to ever HAVE single coils haha Spank away for days
Never used them, don't like the sound. Get rid of them lol
100%
neck & middle is the only way i clean.
Most Strat fanatics love the twang of the "in between" positions but if you are playing heavy drop tuning stuff yeah you really only need a fat humbucker in the bridge and done. So you don't really use a typical strat in that case anyhow.
Given that he only plays ONE style, (drop tuned chug), his guitars only really need a bridge pickup!
In fact he only really needs ONE guitar because everything sounds the same!
This project was a hot mess. Love it!
You should try a G&L sometime soon, they are basically the revised version of the models that leo fender did. I have one of the import models and it is pretty awesome
Also, try Reverend. They are superstrat versions of fender stuff that looks better, plays better, and sounds alike yet more defined. Im done with Fender in that Reverend just stomps them each time they make a guitar.
I've been researching the G&L Indonesian models but I've got enough guitars!
@@phillipholt6005 they are quite good for the money and remember the right amount of guitars that you need is all of your guitars plus one
If I buy import I prefer Indonesia made
I'm confused on what a SUPER Strat is. Please enlighten me.
I’m still on my first guitar, and I’ve only had for three months, but it’s my most prized possession already. A $100 Guitar. I’ve taken it apart and put it back together, and even taped on some EVH style stripes onto the body and headstock.
Nice, dude!
Dude that pickup cover is nickel. If it shimmers yellowish its nickel, blueish its chrome. Your bridge is chrome and pickup nickel. Triggers my ocd so hard😂 keep up the modding. Best series
Bro I did this with my first guitar a couple of years ago. It still didn’t play like I wanted it too but it got me back into playing actively. Now I’m in a band and we are just waiting for the pandemic to end so we can get out there and play!
17:55 the first time I saw hunter without his glasses
Awesome restoration Hunter! It sounds like it needs those 250K pots though.... It would fatten the sound up perfectly.
This is easily my favourite episode thus far. I felt like saying something when you were removing the nut, but then realised that it just wouldn't be Agufish if it was done any other way. High Intergrity sticker well merited!
I love all of the mod projects! It satisfies my need to modify guitars without making the mistakes!
I still have my first electric guitar and it's by far still my favorite and the best guitar I've ever owned, it's a 90's model Studio Gibson les Paul, I've had it 21 years and never made any mods to it and it's still a beast of a guitar outplaying 2000-3000 dollar guitars.
Man I love you're upgrade vids man
Good work Hunter. I did the same with a Yamaha Pacifica....put "Kent Armstrong" pickups in and a coil tap switch, had the new neck fret stoned.......beautiful sounding and playing guitar.....really
Wow, first time to your channel. Loved the cat in the intro and your dog giving a neck taste test. But your presenting on the build was pretty great and entertaining. And your metal attack playing is super good. Thanks man 👍😁
Nice project. We can feel the love you have for that guitar.
The high integrity sticker is what makes this a full circle video. Well played!
I absolutely love guitar disassembly videos and changing parts 😍 please do more like this, and take your time with editing no need to speed it up 😂I had to slow the video down a bit, just I have a fetish on disassembling a guitar and rebuilding it again 😊
"Im hunter i don't get why you would want a thin sound"
THIS is the video i was waiting for!!!! \m/
My first guitar was a Red magnum! Then I got a series 10... so them were my first and second guitars. Good video hunter, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Damn bro. Fleshing out one of the old riff idea files into a full track? That's the true victory of this video. Love, love, love this.
"Bad nuts are always a bummer"
- Agufish, Feb 9, 2021
an all white Squier Strat was also my first guitar. Mom got it for me back in 93-94. I gave it away to a friend when I moved to the states in 2001 so i never saw it again. Last week I found a filthy 2000 Squier strat (same colorway as yours and with that good feeling neck) at a pawnshop and got it for $110 with a hard case. Its been a blast restoring it! so far, a good deep cleaning, prewired pickguard with Alnico 5 pickups and a good setup. the pickguard I got is black with white trim. pickups and knobs are white. looks AMAZING! and when I play it, it feels so familiar. I cant put it down.
I like that you’re sampling the pickup platter with these mod projects rather than just throwing the same set in everything, good man
I've been waiting for this ever since you put up the community post
Hipshot Tuners are amazing, I got them on a Les Paul I bought that someone else upgraded and they are amazing! Big fan!
Ive got a 2010 bullet strat and it has the nicest neck ive felt on a strat including a few very expensive fenders. That bullet will never leave me!
I've noticed your lead playing has improved A LOT lately. Good going!
These are the kind of videos I love
Nice vid as usual mate! My first ever guitar - a Les Paul copy (Vintage brand) has been in transformation period for the past 2 years. It's completely disassembled but I got all the parts needed like Hipshot locking tuners, IronGear pickups, Graphtech nut, Dimarzio push-pull pots, etc... I re-fretted it with stainless frets and it's just waiting for the right weather to repaint it in something similar to silverburst. I hope it will be finally done in couple months.
Super Jazz Hands! You Rock, Hunter - Micah
That chrome covered humbucker makes the whole guitar for me. I love the looks of this thing
Hi Hunter!
We did almost the same project at the same time! 😉👍
I have exactly the same at home and I want absolutely to upgrade it, mate ! Because, woods in it feel very good !
Pringle approved. That counts for a lot. Nice humbucker and a working axe. What more does anyone need ? Oh, yeah N+1 because wants ...
My first guitar, a 1987 Korean Ibanez RG135, one of the transitional models. Unaltered, but needs some love and playing time.
Nice lead playing on that song! You're improving for sure!
Dude, I just did the same thing. I have a 1996 Olympic White Affinity Strat I bought new back then as my first guitar. The neck aged and darkened beautifully, and the white body faded and darkened alot. It looks great. I upgraded the pickups, hipshot tuners, Switchcraft output jack, and added a mint green pickguard. Want to do the bridge but it has the thinner body. It looks damn near just like the vintage strat Robert Baker got not too long ago, just not worth near the money. Haha. I love it, and it was an awesome experience to give her a makeovers. I'll never get rid of it. Happy for you!
Very nice dude! I myself just got finished upgrading my Olympic white Squier Bullet Strat. Went with the flat top hip shot open gears too and the tusq nut, installed the Billy Corgan pickup set from Dimarzio, they are high output and SO HEAVY it sounds amazing now!
If I’m this early.....does that mean daddy fish will like my comment😳
Yes
I watch a lot of guitar repair videos. I really like the pace and camera work of this. Cool ideas too. I’d never heard of those pickups.
I was just saying I wish there was more Nostalga-fish episodes.
Sounds great! I recently put my 1st git neck on an old Peavey. It's an old Korean Bullet neck (I've since lost the original body) that is stained up the whole neck cuz of a blue cast I had on my wrist when I was 15. It's now a reminder that I kept playin thru that S&%!
Awesome. A lot of us wish we still had our first. Great Job.
Dude, this is BY FAR. Your most awesome sounding guitar! (In my opinion at least)
As someone who is new to guitar modification and has a frankenstrat of my own with missing pickguard screws, this video was especially entertaining lol nice work Hunter !
That was sick mate!! 🤘🏻🇦🇺🤘🏻
Basically did a High Intergrity build with my first guitar last year.
Early 90's Washburn Chicago series HSS strat.
Unfortunately, part way through, found it was made of plywood - but kept going anyway.
Stripped off the paint, chopped part of the back away, reshaped the horns, cut in a Vai Monkey Grip, full custom paint (with glitter), new (cheap) pickups and tuners. Refurbed the Floyd copy that was on it.
It's just a fun thing to pick up - does not sound the best, but I may upgrade the pickups at some point.
But for having my first guitar still - priceless.
That humbucker sounds good man!🤘
Love the video man! I still have my first guitar, a Fender Squire that I got from my dad 25 years ago. This video makes me want to put some love into it and get it in playing condition. 🤘
Super video! I applauded for $2.00 👏
Game on man! Still moding and playing my first guitar, a blue squire strat. Never going to let that one go. There are stickers all over the back and it is a story board of the last 20 years. Fun videos man, keep them coming
I love these high integrity builds
Hell yeah!! I did the same thing with my bullet tele two years ago first guitar and my first guitar I upgraded myself
I’ve never clicked so fast in my life
Best pringle moment ever is on this video
"Mmm, maple!" 😂
On the pot if you have a extra retainging nut you can adjust the height. I use the same trick on my footswitch buttons. Basically thread on one nut onto the pot stick it through the pickguard and thread the second one on. The one on the underside will be used to set your knob height. The one the outside locks it into place.
My first guitar was a "Nova" knock-off Strat from Sears. honestly it held up WAY better than it should have. I brought that thing to hell and back and it held up. Tunings ranging from Standard to drop B and EVERYTHING in between.. Carving the finish, stickers, bumbs, bruises.. I eventually replaced every part (except the body and neck) refinished it and sold it. It's been almost 10 years and I definitely wish I kept it around.
Definitely passed the tone test -- and then some, Hunter. Great job. My first guitar was a Gibson SG, Cherry, I bought from the Music Mart in State College, PA, in 1973 (Boomer Alert!). Never having picked up a guitar before, I immediately purchased it after seeing both the WHO, and Alice Cooper in NYC? I foolishly let it go along the way. Great demo and playing here too!
Im already convinced that if you put a EMG 81/85 into any guitar, ANY guitar then you can make it a super metal guitar.
I wish I could start doing this to my first guitar which was a Behringer strat copy guitar. I can do it, I have all the skills, but the neck is.... well I bumped it and somehow I thought it was a good idea to mindlessly rub a razorblade to remove the dirt from the fretboard so it now has a bunch of marks on the maple neck. Everything else is okay. It has a few spots on the body in which you can see through the black paint to the unfinished body, but I could.
Though it would be better to buy like a Kramer special baretta or any other type of strat guitar and modify it instead. its cheaper and overall better.
My first guitar probably ended as wood fire a long time ago. But i just finished revamping an Ibanez Roadstar II 1984, and it kicks some major butts!
I love spending waaay too much on something I'll never sell!
I did my own Squier, guessing it is about 20 years old. Did a bunch of fret work. Bought a pick guard with all the electronics on it. Bone nut, and Grover locking tuners. What a machine! Oh and its one of the Bullet Hard tails.
I'm more of a Tele guy, so the hard tail feels right to me. It was an intentional purchase.
This demo track is probably my favorite one you’ve done!
I worked at a music store for over a decade, I remember selling bullets with HSS config. wasent popular but they were about, I'm from Canada
Man that's a cute dog, instant subscribe! Im also working on my first guitar, also a trash strat!
Still have my first guitar, three tone sunburst “Starcaster by Fender” from costco with an arrow headstock. Its gone through a lot of iterations, guitar hero stickers, anarchy sign made out of electrical tape, woody guthrie TMKF card, but now 15 years later ive spray painted it black and red with different band symbols on it. Also had to swap the neck as the frets were done, so i have a mighty mite maple neck with maple fretboard on it currently. For pickups i took out the original god knows what single coils made in indonesia and put in lace sensors which sound really unique and cool. Also removed one of the tone pots like you did to make more room for my picking hand so its now master volume master tone. So thankful to still have it after all these years!
Hunter may not be as flashy as a lot of the other youtube guitarists, but the dude really has a good ear for kickass riffs
This makes me miss my Squier I had when I was 16. Lost it in a combo house fire and flood. First it got all melty from the house fire but was still playable, just needed a new pick guard. Then as it sat in the basement for repairs, it got flooded and was submerged in water. RIP that poor thing.
I just bought a shit ton of parts to upgrade my first guitar. This one hits close to home.
Also, start Twitch streaming
me watching this video: ''wow i always wanted to do the same with my first guitar''
my first guitar hanging on the wall for over 3 years without strings: ''I'm waiting fucker!!!''
Squier Bullet Mustang, a beast of a guitar for how cheap it is, won’t ever let it go. Also, pretty good for rock and some metaly metaly stuff. :)
I used the same fender bridge for upgrading my first guitar (Austin brand strat)
Hunter: the Filler of Holes
"This thing is begging to be played"
You're goddamn right.
I have an identical looking Korean Squier Strat maple HSS. It was given to me for free. From the mid 90s. I slapped on a loaded Mexi pick guard I had laying around and it actually sounds decent. Like yours the neck is great. Just shows you can get away cheap, especially if gifted. Mine does not have the full thickness body though. Probably made of plywood. Still it rocks.
I still have my first guitar: a Lyon by Washburn Strat copy I got from Toys R Us for my 10th birthday. I learned on that guitar and used it until I got my Telecaster, and then my Explorer. The Lyon is currently unplayable - the wood the tremolo screws into has snapped - so when I work on it, I'll need to address that. I'll also have to cut a brand new pickguard as it's not the same shape as a real Strat pickguard. But I'll be getting it up & running in good time for sure.
I have an Aria STG-007 with a Licensed Flod Rose. I added a brass block on the tremolo and that brought out the spring noise of the tremolo. It sounded like reverb on a sitar. I eliminated that phenomena with coated springs. I did remove some coating at contact points to retain ground connection.
i have my first guitar that’s a strat copy, currently making up its mod plan to make it a playable guitar again, this just makes me more excited
Pringle kicks all the butts! 🐶🦵🏻🍑
I had a 2010 bullet strat in Olympic white.that had a full depth body and specs.was a good mod platform for sure.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates where the volume knob is on strats
The bridge+middle position is wired slightly wrong, so the pickups are out of phase when combined. I did the same thing on my strat (with a hot rails in the bridge) and once i got it fixed by moving a couple of wires it became so much better
I still have my first guitar! It has gotten a refret, i still use it and I plan to never get rid of it!
Hey man, nice to hear you play leads! love it, should do more!
haha I'm really bad at it. I hate writing leads 🙃
@@agufish sounds good to me!
Oh hell yeah brother.
“Empty Apartment” for the clean demo. Nice.
dont have my first guitar. but took a squire classic vibe tele deluxe and ripped out the stock pickups and replaced the bridge pickup with a duncan jb and left the neck pickup out and bought an after market guard. the thing rips!
First guitar was a fluro green B.C Rich Warlock MIJ NJ series. Still have it and still love it. Only upgrade is I swapped out the factory humbuckers for Dimazio SD3 and PAF pro. Chugs nicely.
My first guitar was a Squier Strat body (probably the same year as this one) with a licensed Fender neck that my brother threw together for me at his shop in high school. Still have it! I might have to do what you did and bring it back to life because at the moment it's just in pieces in my closet lol.