Interesting mod

I’m loving your videos! Enjoying your work and sharing your skills. 🎉

280 and 500? That answers my question. Great job on the neck!

Great job

Great tips!

A lot braver than me lol great job

They’re not a bad platform

Why did you decide to change the fretboard radius from approx. 16" to 12"?

Cool channel bro

"Made in Mexico"? Really? I thought all of these Suhr preamp basses were U.S. made.

I think the wood is pine or poplar it's pretty soft I sanded my first act down a lot to make it more comfortable

You have really done a amazing job repairing this guitar. Boy did this subscriber give you one heck of a challenge. So far it is coming together nicely. Excited to see the entire finished master peace.

Those were real Gibson humbuckers. I bought a pair bb2,bb3 and they look exactly like those. I bought mine through the Gibson store on Amazon.

Happy New Year to you and your familly

Very appropriate artwork, bringing the dead back to life. I'm lovin' it. Great start to a great new year.

I have a strat that i wanna mod. Would i wanna just sand the finish ans oaint over it? Or strip down to the wood like you did?

Dry-erase markers are also great at removing permanent marker. Thank you so much for sharing your excellent information!

Great explanation and very cool art work. Happy Mew Year!

Happy New Year, great work!

I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I have a feeling in 2025 that your page is going to get huge.

Happy New Year, nice work

Do I have to take strings out?

Thanks for making this video! Whenever I see an old Peavey amp, I adopt it. Complete disassembly and cleaning, along with repair, is a labor of love that I enjoy - great amps. Modding the combos for extension speaker output with a stereo switching jack never disappoints; my Companion 15’s stock 8” rarely sees any action, since it sounds fantastic through my 2x12”. I found the exact same Backstage model at a local thrift store, here in Chicago - tested, and works great, but it has seen better days. Are the baffle runners on yours also plastic? First time I’ve seen those - I’ve only ever seen aluminum.

Just picked up same one except in the pewter color...great video. Thanks

How have these held up? They worth buying?

around 2020/2021 affinitys changed from 6 screw trem to two screws and nut width changed from 40.5?mm to 42mm i think and headstock logo changed to what used to be on the standard series which was discontinued in 2018 the debut series seems to just be a sonic with a matte finish and three ply pickguard but i wonder if the bridge is subtly different and the knobs and other components too because if you examine differences between sonic vs affinity almost everything is slightly different I assume because of manufacturing in different countries? idk but i am curious about debut strats now

I love the new rectangle, but they are so brittle. Also more likely to be sat on. They just crack.

When I bought mine new in 2013 they listed it as a Gibson Junior Special

Thanks for answering some questions about modding. A couple more though. What's the thickness of the body (would it accept a full size trem block) and what is the width of the neck pocket (in case someone would like to swap the neck with a squier or something else).

Fantastic video! Thank you! I have 2 questions please. 1. Was the graphite a liquid? Would powered graphite lubricant work? I didn't see what you used at HD/Lowe's but they had: Hillman 3 g Powdered Graphite Lubricant 2. Is there an advantage to painting AND adding shielding tape too? Thank you! Matt

Great info! I am aware of one more, the Voyagair TSA came with the Gold Elite Line.

Hello, thank you so much for the info, it has sorted out my confusion to a huge extent. What i am still confused about is that, once i get to know the polarity of both the coils in a humbucker, how do i determine which of the 2 sets of +ve/-ve become the center link for series and the other for Hot and Ground? Or is there a specific way to determine this to get all the properties of a series humbucker right. Thank you

Got an old peavey studio pro 40 from '84. It's cut down into a head running into a full range 15 inch cabinet and boy does it move some air! Way back in day,I'm 55 now,certain gear snobs would look down on me for it. Had a couple of different "classic" 2x12 series. One a VT,the other a VTM. Tremolo and phaser respectively. They were great amps as well. Looking for a "classic" in a 4x10 combo for my psychobilly band if anyone knows any. Thank you for the maintenance video! Rock on!🤘🎸🏴‍☠️

At 10:33 , just back down the volume knob a bit, it’ll clean right up, nice V!

I'm seeing the explorer and prs style for $25 from pango. Is this shit for real???

Switches on my Silver Skies were really scratchy. Was planning to take them to the shop but I just saw your vid; I sprayed some contact cleaner into each end of the switch slot, worked the switch, and it worked like a charm! Scratchiness is completely gone! I appreciate your tutorial!!

Dude the first 4 minutes is common sense and then you get to the desoldering stage and you skip it??? When I first started working on amps that was my first obstacle,I'm sure others struggle with it also. That being said thank you for uploading the video I'm not trying to give you shit ,I totally appreciate you teaching people this skill.🤟🤟🤟🤟

Got the 2006 deluxe, or special version in oly white , Agatis wood. Like it a lot

Speeds it up at the most important part of the video

you should have showed us how you buffed out that residue.

love the COB serial number bullets from this year. There is plenty of space to drop in kluson inline tuners too, with the extended portion to the headstock around the low E tuner,... even if it looks a little off once noticed:)

I always took the squiers for granted back then because the MIM and American made fenders were so affordable but looking back now that everything is so much higher, those squiers really were very great guitars hiding in plain sight

Squier quality can vary, but I find they almost always clean up well with a few upgrades and a setup.

Love that vintage cream finish and the aged knobs. I've got a Sterling String Ray bass in that color. Would have looked a lot cooler if the pick guard had aged too.

Squier Bullets are the real deal in a sea of copycats. Love the older examples with rosewood boards. Some really nice Bullets were coming out of Indonesia there at the end. Bought two last year when MF was closing them out for $149, one surf green and one lake placid blue. Put a new CV maple neck from the STRATosphere on the surf green. The laurel board on the lake placid blue strat looks nicer than most I've seen so it stayed. Installed new cream and antique white three ply pickguards, knobs and pickup cover. Kept the pickups because the ceramic magnets though powerful aren't half bad just have to run the neck and middle pickups almost flat to the pickguard and adjust the bridge pickup height to equal volume with the neck. Have no fear leaving them out so they are always close and practice with them often. Cheers!

I love these Squiers. They are an excellent platform for some mods. But be careful, by the time you're done you could have bought a mexican strat.

I bought this guitar today for 130 from a pawnshop

Where can i find the replacemrnt caps online?

If you don't have a capo you can push a heavy gauge pick under the A string and over the E and D strings to hold down the E string at the first fret.

Plywood body ???