I just don’t want to give my money to the CCP….

Boooooooooooooooooo... vintage tuners FWT... lol

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.

Good to see the next gen is into the string world :) Thx for the interesting tech talk 🎸🎸

Not so sure about the inlays, but overall, it turned out great! - Rod

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 !

Gotta sleep but i need to check these vids out. Im hooked. Hahah. Giving me the GAS. Makes me shop broke online. Lol😂

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

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.

GREAT TURNOUT!!! THAT'S AN AWESOME LOOKING TELECASTER!!!

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

not 3.85 but 8.58 kg. !!!!!

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! :)

chinese one is grand reward factory,the indo either cortek or samick,probably cortek

Good comparison review. Background music was annoying though

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

Awesome vid guys - I'm doing the same

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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 👍

Prefer the Indonesian ones myself

I now that kid he is one of my friends

Nice action, but now that pine body is much more fragile because its softnes. It gets dings easyer:) I have one to.

I really like it

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...

The CVC (China) that i bought comes with Threaded Saddles, IMO that´s more "traditional"?

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!

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3.85 kilo? The display says 3.58.

Looks like a great job .... stunning Look love it

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!

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.

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.

That looks great guys, love it!!!

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

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...

Aussie channel. 😊. I've Liked and hit that Subscribe button. That glue bottle; mine still has tomato sauce in it. 😅

Cool 🤘

Just asking that guitar as a guitar, what do you think? Happy new year and nice job!

why not play the guitar at the end?

I thought this was probably not a good idea. Very happy to have been proven wrong. Very cool I love it

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.

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. 👍🛎

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.

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.

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!

Great job. Loving the hippie vibe of that telecaster. Peace and good vibes to you both, and happy new year!

I love that good vibes guitar!!!!

Nice work❤

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!

Cool guitar.