I Finally re-Finished my Squier Super Sonic + 10 total pickup settings & a kill switch

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[@georgelackey622]

How to wreck a perfectly good guitar! Don't try this at home unless you want a fucked up looking guitar!

[@60CycleHumcast]

Lots of people love tucked up looking guitars.

[@iainmcguire7190]

It looks great

[@TheConcealedCarry]

You're crazy, this is all class.

[@oldrrocr]

LOVE love love the tones you're getting from this guitar... but boy is it fugly! (think I'll make one too.)

[@3badthebad]

I personally like the new look better 😌

[@tomieilamo]

Editing Ryan was going nuts with the time lapse music at around 27:00, truly an avantgarde masterpiece!

[@tehdan1mal]

I thought I was going to spasm for a minute there :-D

[@zadtheinhaler]

I thought I was having a stroke between 26:00 and 28:00. WTF.

[@cheebsgod]

S t r o k e

[@srcigarros]

8D music

[@__tusovka5841]

Nice tunes tho, great mix

[@TheLateBoyScout]

I love how Ryan's beard is like 2 inches longer at the end of the video! This project took some time!

[@ronandougherty9646]

These modding vids are by far my favorite thing you do here (besides all the surfy stuff of course).

[@60CycleHumcast]

They take a ton of time and work to pull off, I wish could do them more often though.

[@xplodingbeer]

Tuning stability tips - strings go sharp, nut slots need to be wider. Strings go flat, try using your thumb and pressing down fairly hard a half inch or so in front of the saddle to seat the ball ends. Strings a mix of flat and sharp usually means the trem anchor screws are not set properly. To fix this you need a feeler gauge set. Take the strings off, back of the spring tension to where you can operate the trem easily, raise all screws up, make sure base plate is flush against body take your .010" (0.25 mm) feeler gauge and place it on top of base plate in front of screws and lower screws until each one kisses the feeler gauge. Once that is done, check the screw head heights for evenness with a fret rocker or a straight edge. Now the trem should operate smoothly without catching or walking up/down the screws. From there restring, setup, cross ur fingers & good luck. Thx for all the great content.

[@Molotov_Milkshake]

It stays in tune just fine for me. I only use the E and A string-trees. I don't use the D or G ones though. Seems to work a treat.

[@elwrongo]

its the string trees, don't use them and its fine. they're on the E and A strongs which are wound and grab

[@mattwatsonthesecrethelicopters]

This is why I love your channel Ryan. I get entertained, satisfy my guitar nerdiness and some inspiration AND... You have no snobbishness around budget and cheaper gear. Which, in the real world is what many of us can only afford. You show what's possible and always show a genuine positive enthusiasm for everything guitar. Keep up the good work.

[@gregmock6808]

That is the best looking relic job I've seen honestly and I hate relic jobs but yours looks like a boat that's been in dry dock for 50 years....impressive...that's a relic job I could appreciate! Well done!

[@60CycleHumcast]

I don't consider it a relic, its more of a 'stylized' finish

[@JC-11111]

Amazing job, Ryan! I'd love to have a guitar with that finish! 👍👍 Make sure you use a respirator any time you use a catalyzed aerosol like primer or clearcoat. They can get into your lungs and harden, which is the worst of the worst. I almost died from it, TBH. Because no one told me. So, I sprayed primer and clear with no respirator when I was doing automotive refinishing and it almost killed me. I had surgery on my lung and the surgeon had to go in and try to clean that, crap out of my lung. He said it was like cleaning play-d'oh out of carpet. That, was after they drained over 2 liters of fluid out of my chest. It was so much that it was crushing my heart to half its normal size so that my BPM at rest was 100+ no matter what. It was beating twice as fast to keep up with the amount of blood it needed to pump. The doc said I literally could've died at any time. Use a 3M respirator with the proper filters. Don't take a chance. Not even once.

[@alphanumeric1529]

Oh, and dang, that wiring harness brought SO much life to those dead pickups. I'm glad you put the stock pickups back in there so you and we could hear what a different that wiring harness made!

[@VikCain]

Men, you use the best stock music. I have to re-watch your "looks like pancakes" classic video.

[@bipbipletucha]

That time-lapse music fills me with joy every time

[@blairswitchproject2347]

Man the purple and green looked killer! A burst starting with green and fading out into purple and then the black outer edge would look sweet.

[@JohnnyGuitaristOfficial]

Hey Ryan, love that worn Orangey finish! Awesome build dude.

[@DavidHBurkart]

That is your coolest refin-mod yet!! I would totally rock that quirky axe!!! You should call this guitar the "Squyran"!! Swap out those tuners with a set you know are solid to see if the stock tuners are defective. If it maintains tune, you know it's not the truss rod... but before you do that, shelf it for another five months 😉

[@artartpal]

This is why I love this channel. Not afraid to fess up you messed up and you just have fun with it all. I hate every other guitar channel

[@richardsherman7283]

Just found your channel last week, and I have been enjoying all the videos I have watched. Love the stream of consciousness/thinking aloud approach instead of something heavily scripted. Keep up the cool content, and hello from Escondido!

[@Mistertbones]

Great job on the guitar, Ryan! I love how unpretentious you are, and how much love you give to budget equipment.

[@MalcolmO]

Great outro, man! You really had something going there. Thanks a lot for that. To be fair, tuning issues aside, I was a big fan of the stock SuperSonic. Even liked the colour. Great look, great sound, and the pickups were screamers! I really thought of the original as an unruly rock machine and I kept on thinking about it after you debuted it. Now it's _still_ an unruly rock machine but now it's one of a kind and that uniqueness was in the outro. Time and effort well spent, Ryan. Good on ya!

[@edryba4867]

Hey Ryan! Looking at the Squier after the first coats of your Ed “Big Daddy” Roth Kustom Kar Kolors, on this iPad, it was impossible to see any drips or runs in the paint you applied. It looked pretty cool in a You Tube picture. Personally, I thought the purple would have looked better on the front side. On take 2, it sorta looked like spray engine enamel! You should go to your local MoPar dealer and see if you can find a “HEMI” decal that will fit on the body somewhere!! And you CAN use the Gun Street pickups - just get a couple of the kind of pickup surrounds that Gretsch and/or Gibson use for their humbuckers. Too bad you let that beast sit around in pieces for so long. It sounds GREAT and you sure seem to be able to get a lot of different tones out it. The choice of series or parallel DOUBLES the sounds it’ll make!!! But why does it have a left-handed neck with an upside-down decal? The Glow-in-the-dark feature is the icing on the cake.

[@tundratom]

Ryan, you crack me up. Love the honesty and self deprecating humor! Keep up the great work and playing!

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

I had a Scotty-dog growing-up named “Squire”, so I’ve always had a soft-spot for the brand. I bought my first squire recently. It’s an offset Telecaster (surf green) and it needs some work, but I’m impressed with the quality of squires over the past few years. This one has a gorgeous neck & I’m looking forward to getting it up to my specs.

[@MrSJPowell]

Looks like you're using actual fluorescent paint there. Nice. And I like using a fighting game button as your kill switch. If any kind of button should be able to handle abuse, and still be used as a hair-trigger, a high quality arcade button should do it.

[@ALWTunes]

I love that you just do these wild finishes and don't care about the "right" way to do it. It always turns out pretty cool, imo. Love the wiring, too.

[@WarrenPostma]

This is the best looking thing I've ever seen. I think it's rediculously awesomely great looking and it sounds killer too.

[@OzziePete1]

19:25 Looks like a Novo guitar body finish. Rhett Shull would love it!

[@bldallas]

Man, I wish I had a push-pull pot, variable selector switch AND a kill switch! How cool is that??? Very cool. Very very cool. TIP: clean out the lube gunk and then polish the nut and saddle slots with folded over wet/dry sand paper. Amazon has a 6 sheet variety pack from 1000 to 2500 grit for $4. Don’t push too hard, just “polish” the sides and bottom of each slot. Then add dry graphite for “lube.” Works perfect on my 60’s vibe Squire Strat. Even with rather deep dives, no tuning issues. OTHER TIPS, fewer wraps is better on tuning pegs. I use two on wound strings and 3 on the high strings. I also set my trem bridge to be just shy of floating. It definitely hits the body and stays there when I bend strings, but only requires minimal pressure to dive.

[@keithhampton9700]

Purple burst looks great. Green needed more burst. When spraying candies silver ,bronze gold metallics work great for base coat.

[@alexanderball6326]

Purple and green are my favourite colours. Loved the way that burst looked!

[@Rotceh-r4g]

Odding is a labor of love. Nice job!!! The kill switch should be standard in all modern instruments. I love mine. Again, good job, buddy. Nice tune at the end.

[@LuisRFeliu]

this is the content I fell in love in this channel

[@michaela.friestbigmikesbas2508]

The ending jam was killer. You are a better guitarist than you give yourself credit for.

[@60CycleHumcast]

I have good days and bad days

[@zaliman]

26:36 with the background loop going 3 times is a trip. Great build!

[@fundude365]

When I was 4 years old, I was asked to stop coming to my sister's orchestra recitals becasue I sprinted out of the room when the violins started shouting 'STOP THE NOISE!' I got the same feeling when multiple instances of the time lapse music started playing out of time 😅 Personally loooove the look of the new finish.

[@DelScully]

What a beautiful beard... I mean guitar Also this guitar would look sick as hell with a black pickguard. Orange and black are the best

[@bskbishop]

I really liked that purple! As for stripping paint, I've used Citristrip to get paint off of guitar bodies VERY easily, with great results.

[@bskbishop]

@@prodbyjuneg I'm not really sure what type of finish it was, since it was a used body from ebay. I just followed the instructions, and it got EVERYTHING off, and took it to bare wood using only a credit card to scrape off the finish.

[@GDT1124]

Dude legit that guitar looks so absolutely sick and is like a dream guitar. Always wanted an Orange Super Sonic.

[@ThatMattGoodMusic]

Love how the music track gets completely messed up around the 26/27 minute mark as things get more chaotic and things go wrong

[@conorfowler]

Love how this turned out, that wiring setup is awesome. Especially love that 4th position sound!

[@octave-up-up-up]

Hahahha, I love how unhinged the multiple layers of bg music get

[@patrickkem689]

A wet sand with some 800 grit to 1000 grit and all that over spray can be blended perfectly. I think it looked great!

[@steverolfeca]

That yellow sanding sealer under the finish on recent Squiers is brutal. It's some sort of polyester, hard as hell, heat-resistant, and clogs most abrasives like crazy. Mirka Abranet mesh sanding sheets and discs are the answer. Gives you a nice, controllable cut, so you don't dig into the wood underneath and mess up the body contours!

[@terryenglish7132]

I hooked up my Strat to have 26 combos or single settings. Overkill, I used 3 mostly, w 2 occasionally, and 1 every so often. So 10 is probably plenty. ... There is a setting thats not offered commercially thats totally killer : ground a pickup then have it go in series thru the other 2 pickups that are in parallel w each other. Best of both worlds. Full , not thin sound like series, w parallel sparkle and jangle. Strong output volume as well.

[@jake5952]

Way to turn a bad idea into a great one! The end result is such a cool guitar... great job!

[@KristofferVad]

Loved this Ryan. The guitar looks and sounds great, love the wiring harness - so cool. Wonder why you didn’t just take a dremel to the pickguard to accomodate the new pickups? The tuning issue is a weird one.

[@VanAvakian]

TUSQ nut, locking tuners and a solid bridge should fix that tuning stability.

[@gloryxkid]

I know you’ve been working on this for a while now, so excited this video is finally out!

[@NeoRichardBlake]

Ryan! That purple burst on the back is sick as hell! I love that coloring! I may have to do that to a guitar now. I wonder how it would look on my SG Special... 🤔

[@GuyXVIII]

me: *making my jokes about firm wiggle sticks* Ryan: "make your jokes" me: "HOW did he know??"

[@michaela.friestbigmikesbas2508]

Nice colors. We're on the same wavelength. I just got samples for my home studio remodel paint job and I was also going for The Hulk green and purple.

[@TheRichieRussell]

My favorite finish you have done so far! Really digging it!

[@LookieChannel]

Awesome orange wear finish, great!

[@PaperbagmanOfficial]

This is my second time watching this video 🤣 You have the best guitar channel hands down.

[@Probably.boredinPDX]

This was great! I've got a Super-Sonic I had switched over to left-handed; I like it overall, but I hadn't been thrilled with the pickups, since they're very hot for clean tones, but the sounds you're getting with the coil split are exactly what I'm looking for. Just emailed Gunstreet about getting the same harness; turns out they're close to me in Portland!

[@jeremymenson]

What did you find out?

[@Probably.boredinPDX]

@@jeremymenson Oh geez I never provided an update! I reached out right after I posted that, and Gun Street knew exactly the harness I was talking about. Took about two weeks to get it, and installing it was a fairly straightforward soldering job even though I haven't wired a guitar in decades. The soldering job is super ugly, but it makes noise. Better than that even - the split, series, and tone circuit options turn these somewhat middling albeit very hot pickups into absolute tone beasts. I also moved the jack input to the side of the guitar with a football plate, to get it out of the way when I'm palm muting, and aside from the ever-present tuning issues on this model, I'm happy with it. I might try to fill in the trem hole and install either a hardtail or a left handed Bisgby, as a right handed Strat style trem is almost unusable for a lefty.

[@PhilLament]

Cool stuff. I look forward to hearing your comments on the rotary switch and tones after you've played the guitar for a while (like, 3 years from now: Squier Super Sonic Re-Revisited!).

[@bretrich]

I modded my blue sparkle one similar to yours. I routed out the lower horn for the pickup selector (way better having it down there) and did a similar killswitch button as you. Locking tuners and a brass block later and it plays amazingly well. It will always be an oddball that I sunk money into without getting a return, but I love it.

[@TrickyPickins]

I think the new finish is gorgeous. I knew it would look good in an Orange color.

[@retromacman620]

Reminds me of a sandblasted guitar, and I love orange! Looking great

[@mattheweastel129]

Beautiful finish with that orange Ryan, very nice work! The pup options are ace now too. I’d look at putting in a graphite nut and perhaps locking tuners

[@salmonti9707]

The orange over the white looks great (relic'd).... And you will never worry about dinging it. I have unfinished guitar projects over a year old, so don't feel bad. Enjoy!!

[@trevor-johnsen]

Love the racing stripe idea!

[@stephanematis]

I really like this video :) Friday fun time! This reminds me that my guess for the Supersonic tuning problem always revolves around the thinner neck with the appropriately smaller nut and the way it was cut. My SS is hanging pretty on the wall, un-played. Perhaps I need to get on it.

[@slowdownbrucemediaproducti1944]

Dude, if your wiggle stick wiggles too much. Fender actually has a solution... its a small little spring that goes down the cavity where your wiggle stick screws into. Get a few, it will save you some hard earned bucks in future

[@tyschmidt7404]

This is an inspiration to me. I have a very cool squire strat that is my favorite to play and it needs paint badly. I bought it from a guy off Craigslist. I’m going to buy that kandy paint

[@LAMBDRIX]

One little trick you may wish to try with your tuning stability on this guitar, I noticed that you have the saddles set up in their standard position for a right handed neck set up. Try reverse order because (you have a flipped neck) so for example note that the tuning post on the neck for the bass E is now further away, so bring the saddle out as you would for the High E on a normal strat. Hope this makes scence but yeah in a nutshell just reverse the order of the saddles.

[@jezmez68]

That paint technique would look cool in barn red. Would make any guitar look like you made it from barn wood. Or something...

[@vahmatieu]

kind of reminds me of the orange Ibanez Yvette Young signature. love this upgrade

[@JayEdom]

Upside down Jaguar nice look

[@dougking4978]

Love the color dude! I got two Super-sonics. A black Vista series and the orange sparkle pawnshop series one. There awesome guitars for what they are. Been thinking of getting one of the paranormal series to add, but been more of a strat and lp jr player these last few years.

[@josephmcguiness6452]

Loved the green and purple bursts

[@60CycleHumcast]

yeah they had a really cool look, The green reminded me of some old 60s department store guitars.

[@MrPhins]

That purple is a winner.

[@michaeldisalvo]

Now the guitar matches your skull. 😂🤣😂😂👍🏼 I like it.

[@60CycleHumcast]

Lol

[@sassycat]

Would new tuners help with the stability issues? Fun video, I'm amazed at how much better those stock pickups sounded with that new wiring harness from Sean (Shaun/Shawn?). I can see a fan paying you stooopid money for that guitar. 😉

[@davidpeters8328]

The back of the experiment was nice!

[@andresilva8444]

Big up Squier! Yeah!! Did you know the brand Squier is actually older than Gibson? Almost as old as Epiphone. They were a violin (et al) string manufacturer founded in 1890. Not many people know that.

[@Burythelie]

Great content man. I've been waiting to see what you'd do to that guitar for awhile! Looks great and sounds great, love squier!

[@malfunction5448]

I'm a fan of the "brushed" neon orange finish!

[@codelicious6590]

Im old enough to remember when Squire was widely known as the, "student" tier of electric guitars and have always had a positive opinion of every one Ive come into contact with.

[@sebas07]

Amazing video, I was wondering about getting one of those and with all those mods you have made my mind :) Thanks again for this channel

[@andrewsmith1520]

If it wouldn't have gotten away from you, the candy idea would have been great with that (basically) silver under coat. But you do need more patience with it and a spray can handle so your fingers don't get tired. Help with controlling the paint too. They a cheap and should be available at most hardware store.

[@60CycleHumcast]

Yeah i might try the candy again on something else.

[@rhc5496]

I replaced the bridge with a mexistrat's bridge because the string ball ends would get stuck inside the trem block and would need to be pushed out with a real thin poker when changing/breaking them. Not sure if this particular problem is limited to my block, but it was super annoying. As far as the tuning, just put power slinkies on it and run down the nut with a pencil.

[@The2ndProtectsTheRest]

Ryan, next time you do something like this, try “Zip Strip” or some of the “gel” type paint strippers you can just wipe on with a rag and get into all the nooks and crannies and let it sit for about 15-20 minutes and you can pretty much just wipe the existing paint off, and it won’t hurt the wood.

[@JC-11111]

But that won't take off the clear undercoat/sealer under the paint. That's what the heat gun & scraper is for. It's not just primer and paint like a car or a refrigerator.

[@sayijinman]

There’s something magic about the strat style where when you balance the back springs (via tightening and loosing with a screw driver) the strings always stay in tune! Just make sure your g string goes up a 3rd (minor or major is up to your own taste) after that you shouldn’t have any issues

[@JC-11111]

Sweet! I have that same Craftsman Nextec drill. I got it around 2009. It came with 2 batteries and the 2nd one is almost dead so I finally found a decently priced aftermarket battery and now it spins faster than ever! 🤣

[@60CycleHumcast]

mine is close to its last legs, I think my father in law gave it to me back in like 2010ish? the batteries still go but not as long as they used to. It really shows its age when I try to drill a screw into anything hard.

[@JC-11111]

@@60CycleHumcast order a new, generic battery. It'll be good as new! Mine was the same way. With the new battery, it's faster than it ever was before lol. I love mine. I use the D'addario string winder adapter in mine and it works perfect for winding tuners since it's so small. Before I found the batteries, I noticed that there are a bunch of drills out now that are designed just like it with the 2 speed control on top, etc...so if they didn't have batteries, it was easily replaced by a another drill almost exactly like it. Most even use a similarly shaped battery with different charge lug locations.

[@teknomanning]

You got mad skills in concept

[@Floodland-bn3ol]

Nice work shop & awesome color.

[@ThatMattGoodMusic]

The orange works so good on the final article! Squier should do competition orange on this as a FSR

[@jpb1231000]

LOVE that finish!!!

[@tupacsnotdead]

Kind of love the background song with the weird slippy slidy bass line

[@Watergrovey]

Looks pretty rad, specially under black light!

[@RCSkunkWorX]

Love the Buckethead kill switch!!!

[@andrewsmith1520]

For the wiggle stick on the stock bridge, try a trem spring in the hole before inserting the arm.

[@LittleFoilFish]

Hi Ryan, I don't know if you did it but when you put the strings on and tune the guitar up for the first time, give it a couple of dives on the wiggle stick. Tune up again and repeat the process. Eventually it will stay in tune. I've done it with my Squier CV offsets and the Cyclone and they stay in tune

[@60CycleHumcast]

yeah i did all that and stretched the strings.

[@LittleFoilFish]

@@60CycleHumcast wrap a piece of very fine sandpaper around a string and run it gently through its relative slot to polish it up a bit. If that doesn't work I dunno... Maybe the springs need working in a bit more

[@famachris]

I think one of those sandblasted finished Fender sells would be cool on a Super-Sonic. I have the original Silver sparkle Vista. No tuning problems! When I hear about tuning problems on these simple guitars it always makes me suspect something is wrong with the truss rod. So the EVH trick for using a conventional whammy is to tug the G and B strings up away from the body after they have gone sharp after a dive bomb. It works on my old school terms, though it’s pretty cliche lick after Ed owned it. Both pickups in my Vista measured 7.25. Several years back Fender released a version of the Super-Sonic in sparkle orange very similar to this.

[@jezmez68]

Not sure why you'd want to change those pickups out. In other Super Sonic reviews, those pickups are bracing at best. With that Gun Street harness, that's a completely great guitar. I guess my next move would be to change out the nut and if that didn't work, tuners. Although I can't imagine that those tuners are any different than the 2020 CV 50s Telecaster I have.

[@butchsguitarsgear520]

💯💯💯💯💯🤯🤯🤯🤯The purple side turned out real slick after you would have water sanded it and then cleared it it would look real good I've seen professionals do a worse job than the purple side but you are so cool for doing this it shows that nobody needs to be perfect we're just human beings I love your content Ryan sometimes it's your videos that shows me that people still can be human beings.....💯💯💯💯🤯🤯🤯

[@patrickkeenan6331]

Love the final product!

[@SpiderStratagemVI]

Yes! Another experiment on a guitar- looks great and guaranteed that it's the only one out there. Isn't that the point of mods ? Make it your own!!

[@igavehimadollar3354]

i love that colour on that guitar

[@the_nondrive_side]

Well that's strange. I like it. Totally didn't expect that.

[@djay6651]

I'm sure we all like our wiggle sticks to be tight in the block. I'm thinking of picking up a Wilkinson bridge on my Strat-o-Clone. The original is pushing 40 years old and has seen better days.