Great video. Good to see there are options to build other than custom shops and alternatives. Informative & simple as always.

I love window shopping! Candy apple red stratocaster? Got it! A classic vibe! I'm very happy with it! Mine costs me 275.00 used! Thanks Landon

I did a hybrid black/red Strat - black Jimmie Vaughan Strat, single-ply black guard, EMG DG20 electronics. I went with Hipshot locking tuners, and I ordered a custom short trem arm. Aged white plastics to match the ivory EMG pickups.

Straturday, in the park ; I need a bucker in the bridge 🎶

This was great - I wouldn't mind seeing you do more of these window shopping videos in the future - keep up the good work

Make sure the pickguard assembly comes with the mounting screws. I made that mistake once with a loaded pickguard from 920D. It did not come with screws.

Building your own is a great way to learn what you like. Light bodies are important and Warmoth is great for necks and bodies. Check out Callaham bridges and I like Fralin pickups. Fender offers the Eric Johnson pickups at a good price also. I've learned soooo much and finishing build #7 a 6.5 lb hardtail Strat now. My guitars ring like pianos thank you Angel Guitars !

Many a good times and fond memories watching him play that red strat on the Pulse Live show DVD in my teens.

So Very Cool, Thankyou. Such an amazing build, nice work. I have an awesome Sterling by Music Man Black 'Strat' with white pickups which scratches my David Gilmore Strat itch. And it is such an Awesome guitar, definitely my favorite Strat Style guitar. Amazing maple neck and fretboard and just a pleasure to play. I have no need to match his red guitar. Cheers

This is great to see/know now. I want to build an Esquire and I was all over the place for different parts and reviews of most of the sellers were not great. Thanks for this video and keep up the great work!!

This was really interesting. I tried doing the build by starting with a player series, but after adding the EMG pickguard and case, that already ended up being about the same price as yours (but then I don't get the contoured heel). Don't forget the neck bolts though!!!

Good job. I think the Red Strat was an '84 American, though probably built in late '83. He ordered it in Britain and it had to be shipped from the Land of the Big PX, IIRC. That was back when I was playing an '83 Made in Japan Squire sunburst with a maple neck that RAWKED, and that I bought at the Navy Exchange in Sigonella, Sicily along with a sweet Fender reverb tube amp. The sound of those two together was killer. Traded the pair in at Alpha Music in Norfolk, VA several years later for a new Strat and amp combo. Eh, people should remember that CBS still owned Fender until 1985, and that Gilmour's guitar techs probably had to do a little work on the axe to get his sound right (though CBS had fixed the quality control issues by then, so no slam on the company). Still, this is why I personally consider the MIJ Squires of that same era to be at least equal to the Fender CBS stuff, but that's just me. Anyway... the point of all this is that the guitar you window-shopped is GREAT. You could do "nitro" this and "aftermarket" that, but this axe EVOKES Gilmour, and with a modern sensibility and reliability that the Red Strat probably didn't start out with, given the technology back then. ;-)

Good video buddy. Always nice to know. Love to do this someday Thanks. Man 😎👍💯👋👋🎸🎸

This is one way of building a Gilmour Red Strat, i took the safer option and asked a highly respected luthier to build one for me using the best Fender Licensed parts available with a birds eye maple neck and the preloaded EMG pickguard, he also routed out the back to take a battery holder to make fitting new batteries easier. The end result was stunning, it wasn't cheap but it is easily as good as Fenders Black Custom Shop one. Now i have both to pick from. Good luck to anyone building their own, getting the setup right is the hardest part.

For Gilmour's red Strat you're gonna want a nitro candy apple red body. The color on the classic bodies isn't anywhere near close to to the nitro body. The nitro body has a gold undercoat and a transparent red overcoat that makes the candy apple red. The poly candy apple red is just a one stage color. It's doable with the poly, but if you see it next to a real AVRI candy apple red body you'll be disappointed. I'd advise anyone wanting to make a parts red Strat look for a used nitro candy apple red body. In the long run you'll be happy you did. Oh, and for the neck. You defiantly want a 50's Nitro neck. The 50's necks have the truss rod adjustment at the heel of the neck instead of at the headstock. That's the way Gilmour is, and it's the way it should be. If your'e going to all the trouble it's only a few hundred dollars to make it correctly, You can get all the correct nitro parts aftermarket. Just get a Fender water slide spaghetti head stock logo and you'll be good to go. A Callahan vintage tremolo is also a great upgrade that doesn't cost much more than a use spec fender Trem if you don't mind not having fender stamped on the string saddles. You could easily replace the Callahan string saddles if your a stickler for authenticity. The Callahan saddles are definitely better than the fenders though. Anyway, good luck if you're making a red strat. To me its the definitive Gilmour Guitar. If you're looking for pretty much spot on Gilmour tones on a budget get a Mooer Ge-200, and check out gilmoursdigital.com. You can purchase packs of all the studio tones and well as the live tones up to Pompeii. The mooer ge-200 will get you the all the tones from the PULSE album. There is a bigger selection of tones for Helix and the Fractal systems that are phenomenal. But for the price the little Mooer GE-200 is very good for the PULSE tones. I'm in no way affiliated with gilmoursdigital.com, but I think all Gilmour tone chasers should know about the amazing tone packs offered there. You won't be disappointed.

Thanks for the sources! I actually prefer his red strat with the EMGs to the black strat.

Great video Landon, can’t wait to see the build,I really dig your build videos, I’m sure people are gonna say buy a Mexican Strat and just put the EMG Gilmour loaded pickgaurd but building it yourself just makes it your own guitar in my Opinion.

It's fun watching your Vlog building custom electric guitar it's kind a very satisfied for me actually, yep I was more-less like modified kind a stuff , I've modified my Yamaha to a Fender/Squier with three button knobs and modified my Squier to a Fender (only the pickups). I want make a custom like you did but after calculate the import things and the custom/tax to my country the total expenses are the same with price as a Fender Deluxe electric guitar. Lol.

Great video. Do we need a back cavity plate? I bought one of these DG Red Strat builds from ebay. Benefitted from someone else’s hard work 😊🎸

Darn man you gotten so good at this you like a Martha Stewart of guitar. Every time you build one of this you always use first class parts.Good video.

Great video ... still I don't get it 100%. 😀 If I would like Gilmour's kind of red strat on a budget, I would buy any decent kind of Strat for around 500 / 700 box (there are plenty of option in different brands) and would just replace the mics and pickguard by the all in one EMG DG20 David Gilmour set that you can find online for 275 box. That will then give me a Gilmour Strat for under a thousand box and even under 800 box ... or I missed something ?

Hi! Great video, the back plate for the tremolo is missing! Thak you!

This will be a great guitar to play Trooper on

The more part details the better! Excellent specifics You made a great Jaguar in a similar way before. You still have that guitar?

Great video! Could you please do a Harley Benton TE-20HH deep dive review?

You know your channel got buried in my notifications for some reason, and you came back into it. KZfaq is weird, but I'm glad. And you are making a Dadocaster too 😂. In all seriousness though strats are cool, I just wish they had 24 frets

Thanks, Bro!...

the neck has a different hole pattern than the body you bought?

About the Fender tuners. Fender has locking tuners that are also pretty inexpensive.I assume the non-locking tuners selected here are a drop-in replacement and maybe the locking ones aren't? Or do you prefer the traditional tuners for some other reason?

Did the Spring cover/backplate come with the pick guard assembly?

Nice! No backplate/trem cover? I'd like to build a Robert Cray hard tail strat.

You got the heel access body and backplate but a regular neck fit. How does that work? I assume you need to drill an extra hol in the neck but is the old one visible once attached?

Neck plate and screws And pic guard screws

so on that loaded pick quard how do you get to the battery? would you have to make a cavity inn the body to get to the 9 v or take the pick guard off?

? Ok so here is the tough question I'm debating on. I will be doing an Esquire build out of a Squier bullet FSR telecaster, but wondering if I should change out the jack plate. Does it make the difference?

Have you begun to receive all the parts to begin the build?

,,,,,,..land o' lakes,wi.....here !............very cool vid,,,....are those the "Fender Lace" pickups????...in his red strat???...this is a great vid.........dream on.............tnx,,,pat&family...🎸

Just make sure you have 10mm machine head bushings for the neck !

Does that body you picked out have a routed out spot for the active pickups battery supply?

Need a backplate? From those photos it looks like Clapton's red Strat had a 6-screw trem. I'd go for a 2-point one, though.

Did u get the back cover for the trem?

What’s a window and how do you shop it?

in original red strat the truss road screw isn't in the headstock side

Cool Beans.

I was on the edge of my seat, especially wondering about missing both the contour heel plate and the contoured offset holes in the neck. Can you even get necks with contoured heel offset holes drilled? These questions and others will be answered on the next episode of Soap, err David Gilmour Strat Build.

How do you get Sweetwater to ship to Canada, Landon?

Backplate? Volume, tone and switch knob?

Yes backplate was missed although I never use any on mine, to be honest.

Just nitpicking here but Dave’s strat used a six screw trem and your body has a two point. Good call going with the prewired pick guard. I have wired guitars with the “Gilmour switch” and it’s no fun at all.

I think Dave would make any Strat sound good. Doesn't matter which parts you use.

The heel on the neck you chose wont line up withe the contoured heel on the body.

A few comments: - You chose the wrong tuners for that neck. Those vintage tuners require a different hole size and mounting than the neck you chose. There is a version of that neck that accomodates those vintage style tuners. - There is a Mexican made body that uses the 6-hole mount for the vintage tremolo bridge & it also has the regular 4-bolt heel, so no need for a custom heel plate. - You need to make sure the neck is compatible with that body, otherwise you will need to drill out a hole in the neck for the correct position of one of the mounting screws (be careful not to drill through the fretboard!!) - May need to buy pickguard mounting screws - Also one might want to get a single ply white pickguard to be accurate if making a Gilmour replica. - Also need a white tremolo back cover plate.

I've found Warmoth bodies and necks are better than Fender's. You also have the advantage of knowing the exact weight of the body before purchase, and that's invaluable.

EMGs FTW!

It's good that the neck already has a piano pillow.

Ferrels! And did the load pickguard come with an output jack?...P.S., I always use rolling string trees.

Straplocks are only 9c more. Considering Pro II are $1700 now, I expected your DIY basket to be more than $1300. Sandpaper the rolled edges on the mexi neck, job done.

The one thing that doesn’t make sense to me is you went for a player series neck, but a body that has contoured heel joint. Player series Strats don’t have a contoured heel joint.

Sorry for my English, it is not my native language. Just wanted to say that I like your haircut. Your taste in guitars, too. Are you always so polite because you are Canadian? Have a nice weekend.

Me too

You know, Fender just released the Player series with a candy apple red finish and maple neck new for 2023, why not just start with a complete guitar then add the EMG Gilmour set? Seems the cost would still be about the same and you'd save on a lot of labor assembling all the components.

You use the Magic of Cooking 🍳 🎩 for Guitar 🎸 😮🤤😋

Would love to see Tom Delonge’s new Fender Custom Shop Starcaster build

Hey Landon thanks for the video I really think your show's pretty cool and you're a funny guy anyway that being said I was like to live know like what the prices are for individual items that you're getting instead of just like a random total here and they are you might be showing it on the screen I'm blind so I wouldn't pick that up so forgive the full pot if I am wrong on that one Jada cases I bought a 2018 maybe somewhere around there that form is g it cost me $109 after everything all set and done at the door and it's probably one of my favorite cases you know I don't know the Gibsons in guitars with it being a really good cases and that's supposed to be anyway and this case was like floorless will I don't think I have one other case that flawless like Rich hollow-body excetera my next case I think I need cuz I have a soft case for my doulas yet I'm going to get it another day that has the shroud and it and I know lots of people don't like this route I wish they were on all my cases I would be very happy with a shroud for my guitar case and my guitar think that's classy if you ask me LOL I'm a handy person but I used to be even more handy when I had eyes that the kind of go together somehow I don't quite understand why because I'm not a professor but that's just seems to be the way it is cuz I would feel the guitar on myself and I would do all the guitar work myself used to build motorcycles work on car so that's a pretty handy kind of guy just want to say that I didn't play the guitar for over 2 months and yesterday I picked it up and it was hard and felt the fusing and I put it down I wasn't feeling it today I picked up the guitar I played for over an hour and a half and I was rocking and it felt great so yeah just thought I'd throw that out there later as a matter of fact I was playing my tools yet and I was playing through my boss katanamy boss katana version 1 amplifier I've never hooked it up to a computer because I don't have to get into all that stuff and you can't see and they should have accessibility settings anyway on these crazy four dangles new kind of amplifiers and yeah I was digging it so I'll stop there and watch the rest of your video thank you so much for your videos I haven't subscribed for a while I do catch most of your videos and you're a very personable kind of guy and a person of a kind of guy that happens to be in ticket Tarzan guitar related year is just up my alley for entertainment appreciation and the video appreciation and depreciation of all things fine just really bothered line bedroom PS if none of this is legible well it's going to be legible but if none of this is readable in the sense that you can understand it please don't think I'm a literate. Told you I'm blind speech-to-text as its own unique take on the English language and how it's written and it has a lot l

Missed back plate cover?

Good video. Thanks! Any chance you can build a Roger Waters bass? 😁

No output Jack?

Windows shopping for me 😂

AVRI 50 Strat, EMG DG20, Duracell 9V battery. Job done. Exact replica.

An essential component, which makes the difference!.. I can't copy the link.. it's removed immediately! Search reverb for this title: Fender American'57 Tremolo ARM for Gilmour RED STRAT

You didn't mention the type of nut that comes on that neck. If you're running a trem bar, you'll want a good nut. At least bone, maybe graphtech.

you should contact/work with Warmoth

Heyyyyy!

Rickenbacker wont like my Ric-Tele-Paul. Ric 350V63 Les Paul Neck with Tele pickups! Its under construction.

The best way to get a David Gilmour body? Eat pizza every day for a year straight.

You should do a video where you get a face tattoo. 😂

If you get the case from Sweetwater...does it still come with a 4 course meal and a cake 🍰 in the case?🤔😁🤣

Hendrix / Gilmore inspired Stratocaster.

i do know... it takes 8 hours, 1 minute and 56 seconds 😎

Its not this neck , is '50s lacquer neck

i thought it was mad full guitars cost so much yet heres a guy buying lumps of wood for just as much money to make his own guitar.

Did you forget a string tree?

Spend that much to do all that work? Not for me

Strato-what now? 🤔

Going to be a great build Landon. I myself would go for a standard neck plate body and 6 screw tremolo to make it more correct but that’s just the Gilmour fan thing. Here in Australia I’d be paying double for those parts. Greetings from communist Australia 🇦🇺

Gilmour's candy apple red was a Squier

That neck isn't the best choice. It has standard 4 bolt holes not contoured

I fuk wit u my guy

Just remember, You're going to put $1400 dollars into this parts list and build a very good Strat. But when it's all said and done, you wind up with a partscaster that you could sell for $200 - $400. Or you could buy a MIM Strat or around $850, and have an $850 Strat. Or you can buy a top of Squier's line Vintage Strat for $500. In all of the online blind comparisons I seen, there's hardly any differnce in tone. With a little effort, or a few dollars, you can inprove the playability of any Strat. Your Choice!

you should do more research the neck isn't correct

I don't think Fender cares as they're still making money from it.

All wrong body and neck. Body has wrong neck holes. Neck should have 21 frets, not 22.

350 for the body? You can get one for 50. It doesn't make any difference.