Vintage are great guitars

i wouldnt call it heavy its pretty balanced

One common theme with your videos is that your guitars are out of tune… I’m not trying to be an ass, but it make it hard to listen to…maybe the intonation needs the be set?

Will this work running off a battery only and no 9v adapter cable ?

it doesnt have a headstock cause it doesnt need one

Today I picked up a 24x8 with original box, mackie meter bridge with original box, and mackie desk/stand, all in great shape for $400. It is dusty and needs a complete strip down and clean. I see there are many here going through the trouble of doing the deep clean, so while the system is disassembled, I'm curious if anyone has re-capped the boards? Capacitors usually last 15 to 20 years before they degrade and change the circuit for the worse. Thoughts on recapping anyone?

Sounds great but it doesn't clean enough for me thats why I returned it,but the overdrive is crazy good

Or just put a 10 band EQ between guitar and preamp and you can make your pickups sound any way you want.

Soooooo cool!

First Brass, then bone and tusq sounds the same to me and plastic is worst.

Can someone send me a link to buy this? I can’t find it anywhere

Tune the guitar, for the love of God.

keep it man never go against your gut

I have that exact guitar and color and absolutely love it

Will a 50w soldering iron do the job?

when the stratocaster was released last century there were two guys just like them criticizing the ridiculous design decisions Fender made and making fun of it

Unfortunately putting a decal on always leaves a ridge where its been cut you have to do several coats of lacquer sanding each one to get level or pring your own on A4 transfer paper, pring in rhe middle and apply the full sheet, dry and cut alkng the headstock and clear coat for perfect finish. I use this when i restore original guitars.

But does it switch sounds without any delay or noise or squelching

Thanks for the video. 😀

Wow. Great playing. I have to know. What is that red strat you’re playing? It’s magical.

They are so close that almost no one would be able to tell you’re switching pickups if they listened to the audio without the talking. Maybe only those with really good ears for tone I certainly wouldn’t be able to tell.

Copper + Alu is not the best idea. They form a galvanic couple, and Aluminum could corrode with the sweat from the hands

A brilliant work, hats off. Looks amazing, looks very small and light and playable

The green one sound like an cheap strat

Very nice, thanks. I don’t think that Vintage products are available here in the USA.

Great for upgrading a mid price axe with. I got three of them in my vintage vs63, really great. I don't need another sg.

How can we identify anything if you play only a few chords? No licks nock drive power chords....

I think the term and the concept of being terminally online started in guitar customizing forums

ok so replace pickups, nut, tuners, bridge, body, and maybe neck. got it

That is very cool. I have a couple of pallets saved want to build a pallet guitar. Currently do not have a table saw. So will have to wait.

Another satisfied viewer, thanks!

Shirt fits with personality 😂

Just saying I can hang my strandberg 8 string on a guitar hook lol and it fits on a stand

can I ask you what was the song you played at 4:03 which worried you about copy right claim?

Couldn’t you just add more high end on your amp eq for the epiphone to match the barenuckles?

"This squier is the one to buy". Proceeds to change the pickups, the bridge and the whole wiring system, making it in the ballpark price of a 2nd hand highway one or even a lonestar Fender Strat. Talk about waste of everyone's time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think the fat 50’s sound significantly better. More depth and clarity.

Interesting neck pickup! Look up the Soapstack, it's a stacked coil P90, so the tap/split function of the tone control simply bypasses one of the stacked coils (as it does with one of the bridge pickup's coils). I'm guessing that the AlNiCo V/Ceramic hybrid magnet involves having one of each, as a P90 has two bar magnets (one on either side of the pole pieces). Clever!

In the case of the stratocaster, there is nothing better than the original fender bent steel saddles for sound, even so I use brass block saddles on my stratocaster, with stainless steel screws, more than anything for comfort and because my sweat destroys almost all metal, the brass lasts a long time and you only have to clean it from time to time.

You said let's listen to the bridge and then you left it on the neck pickup! 😢😡😡 I wanted to hear that Humbucker! 😭😭😭

I recently did an A/B/C test with three strats, all with late 50s- style pickups in them, and I have to say that on the looper when I listened to the playback, it could have been one single guitar playing all three samples, they sounded so similar. All 3 were enamel-coated wire, Alnico 5, with enough turns for a late-50s sound (probably around 8,000 turns on the neck), and the makes were Tonerider (pure vintage), Entwistle AS57, and Alnicov (from amazon, very cheap pickup but with cloth wire and all vintage specs etc - except the wire which was enamel-coated). I think heavy Formvar wire is a bit different due to the thick coating and although you can adjust the number of windings (and thereby the total inductance) so that you get the same general EQ peak frequency that you would with enamel, other values necessarily end up different and there will be subtle tonal differences and response differences. Most of Fender's very expensive pickups are the ones that use Formvar and it would be interesting to identify brands that offer low-cost pickups which also use Formvar. It's more expensive wire but it still should be possible since it's the time rather than the parts you tend to pay for. There are a few sellers on AliExpress who offer them. But other than that difference (heavy Formvar vs non) I can't see anything which a 'high-end' pickup maker could add to their standard strat pickups (above a Tonerider formulation) that would justify a big price difference, if they are using enamel wire. And even then it's not a quality factor but just a sound/response preference.

I bought one earlier this year. My first strandberg. Beautiful instrument top to bottom. Its so easy to play, the pickup are very articulate and versataile , the endure neck teahces u adjust your thumb to a more comfortable position. The only critique I can offer is it takes a little while mental to wrap your head around the concept of playing a headless guitar. It felt weird at first. I kept reaching for the head to tune up forgetting that the tuning pegs are at the bottom. 😅

The Toneriders are enamel wire vs heavy formvar on the Fenders. So the Toneriders are late 60s fender design but with the other specs aiming for the eq of the 50s pickups. With the formvar having less overall reactance as the coating is thicker, they should have a slightly faster response as less energy is being temporarily stored as capacitance and inductance. And there will be subtle tonal difference too.

The bridge pick up is not wired through the tone control from the factory. I wired it through the knob next to the pickup. Now the bridge is more versatile. Turn the tone down and add overdrive the guitar will sound like a Les Paul. I'll be installing a treble bleed soon . I try to keep things simple. Good video from Sacramento

Not a Chinese epiphone. US or Japanese. Pots caps everything is better quality than the Chinese version. Just a side point...an extremely valid one! Nice job though

Fat 50's are definitely are darker tone ...

I can hear a difference. I know how susceptible we as guitar players/people are to our own biases, so I did the test blind. I just fast forwarded and rewound at random with my eyes closed, listened and picked, then randomized again. 3/3. The no pickup sounds a bit more rigid and dirty to me. Not that it matters or is worth doing, but I do hear something 🤷🏼‍♂️

Okay, nice video! I went to the website where the guitar is listed, but I don't see a price. Can you please tell me the price?

That's a lot of nuts

You invented the Fender wide-range humbucker. Just buy some wide-ranges.