Totally understand.. The second hand market is not giving money to the CCP.. Its already gone and paid buy the retail buyer.... So all good. Go buy the Chinese made one CCP Free!
@mrtonysantos11 күн бұрын
Boooooooooooooooooo... vintage tuners FWT... lol
@TrendSigns10 күн бұрын
What is FWT?
@CaptainRon191311 күн бұрын
I have about $700us into a Squier Classic Vibe Tele. Setup, tusq nut, CTS pots, Grigsby switch, Switchcraft plug, Fender vintage pickups, Gotoh compensated saddles, & a fender ash tray. The tele is a bit heavy, but plays and sounds fantastic.
@TrendSigns11 күн бұрын
That sounds like a cool guitar.. Would love to see photo of it..
@henrikruckmann632112 күн бұрын
Good to see the next gen is into the string world :) Thx for the interesting tech talk 🎸🎸
@shadowminister409013 күн бұрын
Not so sure about the inlays, but overall, it turned out great! - Rod
@TrendSigns12 күн бұрын
Yeah the inlays were the first attempt.. didn't work out exactly how I wanted.. But its got a vibe about it still.. Bit rough and grungy. The colour is not what I wanted either but is cool. Look kinda rosewood-ish.. It has started to wear now as I use it in my band, getting some cool patina about it. Thanks for checking out the video and commenting.. Cheers!
@dezaparizio13 күн бұрын
Hello from Las Vegas ! I really enjoyed your approach to the Squire upgrades ! , especially the neck sanding , and i liked the locking tuners as well and picked up some insights , please give us an update after you get some playing time into it ! really like your family teamwork ! keep up the good work , lets see whats next cheers !
@TrendSigns13 күн бұрын
Gday! from the Sunshine Coast, QLD Australia!!. Thanks for tuning in... I have used the CV Strat in many band rehearsals since the upgrades. I use it specifically on two songs that require the classic clean Strat sound and it performs and sounds beautifully. Thanks again for the comment and kind words... Cheers!
@robertclarkguitar13 күн бұрын
Gotta sleep but i need to check these vids out. Im hooked. Hahah. Giving me the GAS. Makes me shop broke online. Lol😂
@robertclarkguitar13 күн бұрын
Thats so dang cool!!! My son started at 10. Hes well known in fl and ga as a great local "Shredder" lol. I was a drummer but got into guitar when he grad and moved out. I missed those leads!!! Keep it up you 2. I have always wanted to try those PRS SE. Amazing
@TrendSigns13 күн бұрын
Hey! Rob, thanks for the comment Mate! Its great fun learning and playing guitar with my son. We both really enjoy bonding while jamming together. These videos are a great excuse to spend more money on new gear.. thanks for watching and commenting.
@robertclarkguitar13 күн бұрын
I have the 2015 like this. Its amazing. I got mine second hand for a steal marked as and SE. Lol. It had mitey mite cloth wired ceramic pickups in it that look more like fender MIM dual bar magnet but cant find them anywhere. I still have them all loaded in the guard. I purchased a MIm player series loaded pickgiard same toroise and dropped it in. The tuners are very stiff but stays in tune well. Like low ratio too ill eventially get newer locking. Ive had it for a while since 2019. A year before that i bought my first electric black strat MIM standard FSR like gilmours. Absolutely love it but i wish the frets were taller. I play the CV alot. I do hope to try the stock pickups one day. Ive been looking for marketplace to drop some. That and id like a 50s vintage white cv also. I am loving the CV series. Mainly the chinese. But i like the indos too. Awesome to see your son involved. I wish i could go back to when my kids were younger. I woulf try to be more attentive. I got custody and worked back then alot. I had to. Us 3 against the world. I love them so much. Now i babysit the grandkidddos ...cheers from USA. Georgia.
@TrendSigns13 күн бұрын
Classic Vibes are great guitars!. Even though I have many high end guitars I still my the CVs a lot too. Josh and I love to modify them as you can see. Josh learns a lot and its great fun to do as a Father Son bonding session. Thank you so much for watching and contributing in the comments. More vids coming soon. Regards, Craig & Josh.
@calvinevans634719 күн бұрын
GREAT TURNOUT!!! THAT'S AN AWESOME LOOKING TELECASTER!!!
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars19 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching and thanks for the encouraging comment.
@calvinevans634719 күн бұрын
The Indonesian serial number starts with an "i". That's not a "1" before the "SS", it's the letter i. I looked it up for you. It is a 8/2021 made telecaster The China one: 7/2017
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars19 күн бұрын
Great! thanks for the info.. Also thanks for watching..
@005bruns29 күн бұрын
not 3.85 but 8.58 kg. !!!!!
@alvincoveАй бұрын
Hi there~! Interesting concept of review there~ I really enjoyed this. Is it possible to compare the overall length of all 3 guitars(Standard, DGT, Hollowbody) you have there? If it's not a bother, I hope you can let me know the length of each guitar from the tip of the headstock horn to the strap button at the bottom. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you~! Cheers! :)
@TrendSigns13 күн бұрын
I just saw your comment.. For Sure!.. ill measure them in the next few days and let you know. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@alvincove13 күн бұрын
@@TrendSigns Thank you~! Really appreciate your time to do this~! Cheers~! :)
@elbib2446Ай бұрын
chinese one is grand reward factory,the indo either cortek or samick,probably cortek
@user-kf9fy3dz7zАй бұрын
Good comparison review. Background music was annoying though
@TrendSignsАй бұрын
A few people have complained about the background music. Hence, we have stopped using a year ago. Thanks for the comment and watching our video.
@noblehatred9782 ай бұрын
Thanks for the information … some of the comments also answered a question I had . I’m impressed with your sons positive attitude . My wife and I are fostering a boy similar in age that was abandoned by his parents - drugs tore the family apart . I found your channel accidentally and Eli saw something in it that he’s never seen before . Father and son working together with respect and intelligence- I can’t explain it but he saw something more than a telecaster review . I apologize for going off topic . Keep up the good work
@TrendSigns2 ай бұрын
WOW!.. what a great comment!... Im so glad you got more than just a guitar review out of our video. Josh and I do just about everything together. I'm blessed with 3 awesome kids and Joshy is the eldest of them. I hope you your boy enjoy time together as Josh and I do. It's great to bond over learning projects. Thank you for the great reply and Josh & I so happy to have made a positive impression upon you both. Once again Thank you watching our channel.
@nicholascroukamp14632 ай бұрын
Awesome vid guys - I'm doing the same
@renedifrancesco74242 ай бұрын
🤩
@GuitarMav3 ай бұрын
The Indonesia one doesn’t have 3 tone sunburst. It’s two tone. Chinese one looks better, has an alder body and rosewood neck also. Thanks for good comparison 👍
@Thepalpatineboys773 ай бұрын
Prefer the Indonesian ones myself
@andrewmchugh59633 ай бұрын
I now that kid he is one of my friends
@bertonedes4 ай бұрын
Nice action, but now that pine body is much more fragile because its softnes. It gets dings easyer:) I have one to.
@TrendSigns4 ай бұрын
Part of its charm... Still so much better feeling than the hard plastic feel. To be honest I use this guitar in my band as the main player and its not wearing or sustaining ding or damage anymore than any other guitar I have. Its really not a concern at all. It has a very nice quality "Nocaster" or early 50s pick ups in it so its not very twangy at all. It has such a sold sound that it has become my favorite player over many of my top end Brand name guitars due to it just works so well with any amp and is so versatile ans easy to use. The neck is nice enough but I do prefer a 60s Rosewood FB asymmetrical neck. So getting back to the pine body.. its a pretty dense piece of pine (for pine) hence its original weight. I hope it does ding up and age quickly so it can look like a played guitar with a history of Rockin!... Thank you for watching and commenting. .
@bertonedes4 ай бұрын
@@TrendSigns True that. My has a very thin and soft nitro finish, and looks nice. It has a charm like you said, my only concern was that fragilenes, but…yes thats life, even people wears scars;). Look how nice partcaster i manage to get: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6LRoICOYtd5oM0si=YFCvh_UPSkQDK29S
@bertonedes3 ай бұрын
@@TrendSignsIts nothing better then a worn out looking guitar.
@woodsteelcreations46813 ай бұрын
@@bertonedes its all personal.. Thats the great thing about a Squier... Doesn't matter in the slightest if its ruined or not. I have the top shelf Fenders too that I don't subject to this level of modification...... So the Squiers are sacrificed for the fun of it. Nothing better than a custom worn Squier. Happy Rocking!! Thanks for Watching... More vandalism to come!
@bluesbondsman4 ай бұрын
I really like it
@TrendSigns4 ай бұрын
Thank you! We do too.
@dp95504 ай бұрын
I don't think the holes effect the bridge pickup like you think it does , you said yourself you like the Indo pickups better so.. maybe it is an improvement on the design. The Chinese guitar is by far the better built guitar solid alder bodies rosewood fretboards with Fender construction as in the truss rod hole access is partially into the fretboard like the usa counterparts , no veneers etc...
@flgo.diegor13104 ай бұрын
The CVC (China) that i bought comes with Threaded Saddles, IMO that´s more "traditional"?
@TrendSigns4 ай бұрын
I think the threaded one were a 60s thing... Maybe?
@jazzdrumguy50445 ай бұрын
I wish I had all those tools! I have to strip and sand by hand. I am doing a Squier now and hoping to add the belly cut and front arm cut.......turned out nice and cool project with the kid!
@TrendSigns5 ай бұрын
The drum sander makes it soooo much easier.. We are spoiled with the tools for sure. However we are going to refinish a carved top Gretsch soon.. We are going to have to sand that all by hand... and the plastic poly is super thick. Hope your Squier turns out great.
@conramey87775 ай бұрын
'Promo SM'
@theokidokis6 ай бұрын
3.85 kilo? The display says 3.58.
@1000foxtrot7 ай бұрын
Looks like a great job .... stunning Look love it
@Johnny.D7 ай бұрын
The tele turned out very nice. The process has nothing to do with value of the final product and everything to do with making that instrument your own. Enjoy!
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
G'day mate!.. Yes agree 100%. We are both working towards making our own guitars. I have actually designed 6 six prototype head stock designs and 3 offset body design so far. Playing around with the Squires is a great way to learn how simple guitars can be improved while figuring/getting the feel for what type of guitar we would like to build. I don't expect my original guitars will be worth anything either due to the huge amount of experienced builders doing it.. there is heaps of them... Its all in the name of fun for Josh and I.
@Johnny.D7 ай бұрын
I am following along on you adventures.
@timndel7 ай бұрын
That is one great looking dye job. I love the grain-thru look of it. Anxiously awaiting how it plays and sounds. Subscribed just to find out.
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.. We are working on recording better Audio... much better.. as soon as we have this worked out we will do some recording.
@3cardmonty6027 ай бұрын
I modified my ‘50’s Classic Vibe Tele too. Mine was heavy - 10lb (4.5kg) - so, I routed it under the pickguard with a “Smugglers Rout”, added a belly carve and an arm cut and brought it down to a respectable 7.5lb (3.4kg) guitar now. I also put a short scale neck on it - Gibson Scale - and I put locking tuners on it and I love it now. I had to use a Heat gun to get the poly off. I then sanded it and let it hang during a dry summer to get as much moisture out of it as possible. Then I used a purple leather dye on it for a see through look of the grain. Then about 8 coats of wipe-on poly - nowhere close to what it originally had.
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
They are good fun to modify... Glad it worked out for you too.
@nickwooldridge31877 ай бұрын
That looks great guys, love it!!!
@mrmikerc17 ай бұрын
Well it is very nice to see you and your son work together but the one thing I disagree with is using these electronic or electric Sanders if you wanna call it why not just use a poly stripper without damaging the wood would have been faster you have removed too much wood but anyways thank you for sharing your video I appreciate that hey my hat is opt to both of you
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Reshaping the bodies is part of what we wanted to do to change the feel of the guitars and make them a little original. We are working on modifying traditional body shapes to see how we may like to make our own modified original designs..... Some cool things to show you in the next video too!. Better sound and filming lay out to improve the quality of the videos.
@shovington677 ай бұрын
I was immediately struck by Joshua's passing resemblance to a young Mick Ralphs, of Bad Company/ Mott the Hoople fame. May he share the creativity and fame of the renown gunslinger. You could do worse than Mick Ralphs royalty cheques...
@shadowminister40907 ай бұрын
Aussie channel. 😊. I've Liked and hit that Subscribe button. That glue bottle; mine still has tomato sauce in it. 😅
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
G'day fellow Aussie, Glad your on board!.. The good old sauce bottle.. Red is for the Tightbond Standard and the Brown is for the Tightbond 2. Where abouts in Aus are located?
@shadowminister40907 ай бұрын
@gearcave6065 I'm a retired bus driver in Canberra. It's a bit cooler in winter than where you live....and thankfully, not as wet! I was a bit surprised on the video when you said "Titebond". I wasn't aware it was available here.
@papablue30157 ай бұрын
Cool 🤘
@johnwashburn37937 ай бұрын
Just asking that guitar as a guitar, what do you think? Happy new year and nice job!
@lastbestplace81127 ай бұрын
why not play the guitar at the end?
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
Because we are having trouble with recording decent audio with our current set up... This week we are introducing person mics and amp mics so we can produce a decent guitar sound... Next time we will have a cool jam.
@Jim-ro5sl7 ай бұрын
I thought this was probably not a good idea. Very happy to have been proven wrong. Very cool I love it
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
It was a little touch n go for second there. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@Jim-ro5sl7 ай бұрын
@@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars 🙂🙂🙂
@Great-Documentaries7 ай бұрын
You can put a piece of tape over the pole pieces when you are ready to put the cover back on the neck pickup so that it will sound like a Tele neck pickup without the tap. Keep in mind that if you put $1000 into a $2000 Fender American, it's not worth $3000. So it is pointless to say that putting $500 into a $500 guitar doesn't make it a $1000 guitar. That's true of all guitars; partscasters are not worth the sum of their parts. But some of the most famous guitars ever are partscasters.
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
100% Agree... But its the fun of modding and working together... That's the real point of what we are doing. I mentioned the cost thing just to establish I am not trying to make them worth more. Just fun stuff. Thanks for the comments.
@wizrom30467 ай бұрын
Wow I thought you ruined the dye job there for a minute! But you saved it and the result actually looks really good. Digging the hippie boatwood kinda vibe... 👍 A small tip, water down the dye with water or metho (depends on dye type) so it is really weak. Then apply with multiple coats so it takes 3 or 4 coats of dye to start getting close to the final colour you want. That's better than putting the dye on 10 times too dark and needing to sand it back (although that can also give a nice effect if you want that). Great to see Aussie guitar making content and that Tele looks 🥰 Liked and subbed. 👍🛎
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
Yeah it was a save for sure... I am learning a tonne with each project. Thanks for the tips!
@Great-Documentaries7 ай бұрын
It is from a physics standpoint impossible for the sound of that guitar through an amp to have changed even slightly. Sorry. It is *exactly* the same. The wood or whether it has a protective poly coat is irrelevant: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGGVpXyjmMpmd6c In fact you could have replaced that pine body with a *cement* body of the same dimensions and it would STILL sound EXACTLY the same through an amp. This is due to physics and the fundamental way electric guitars (non-microphonic magnetic pickups) work. It may sound different acoustically, but that's irrelevant since it is not an acoustic guitar and is heard through an amp via non-microphonic magnetic pickups that ONLY generate sound based on the vibration of the strings above them. It's not a matter for debate. It's science.
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
Yes you mentioned that last time with the exact same link too. What has changed about the guitar is the "VIBE" not the plugged in tone... Pickups are pickups we get it, 100%. What changes is the weight and feel of the guitar along with the acoustic value of the guitar providing better feel.
@Great-Documentaries7 ай бұрын
To reiterate from the previous video: Leo Fender TRIED using pine on his early Telecasters, but gave up due to how soft a wood it is. Fender is right to put a thick coat of poly on these. Nitro doesn't do anything to protect the body of a guitar. Our good friend poly does. I am more of a fan of the bright colors that punched you in the face than the muted look. *I do, however, love what you have done with the inlays. You even got the perfect good vibe typeface.* It really does look outstanding. Groovy even. 😎 Congrats and happy new year.
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
I don't mind the soft wood. The guitar will develop some cool character as it get beat up along its life....as we all do. Glad you dig the colours and hippy vibe. We did have a lot of fun with this one.
@guitarzleo7 ай бұрын
Wonderful job you two!!! The guitar came out fantastic. The endgrain colour change with the sealer was epic!!! That surprised me as well! I really enjoyed your father-son team work guyz! Congratulations!👏👏👏 Happy new year with lots of fun guitar woodworking!
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
Thanks you for the kind comment. Glad you liked the video. We have heaps of fun as we overcome unexpected challenges.
@Steven-kj7xq7 ай бұрын
Great job. Loving the hippie vibe of that telecaster. Peace and good vibes to you both, and happy new year!
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching and spending the time to comment.
@chubs2707 ай бұрын
I love that good vibes guitar!!!!
@janosmakkai31247 ай бұрын
Nice work❤
@regentroad7 ай бұрын
Really enjoy the videos guys but would be cool to hear you both playing a little bit like at the start and end of the video. Also, when you speed the clips up you can overlay some guitar playing from yourselves instead of keeping the sped up audio in as the sped audio is slightly irritating to the ears haha. Looking forward to more videos!
@GearCave_RetroVibe_Guitars7 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching and taking the time comment. Future jams are planned to happen need to fix the audio quality with direct mic recording etc. Next video will hopefully have that fixed.