It’s been 24 minutes, I can’t remember how I found this video or why I clicked on it but I’m glad I did

My nephew did the same thing for my Squire strat. He left the logo on front and serial number on the back alone, though. It sounds like my son's $1,000 American strat when it's played, so I'm happy. He used my guitar in tech school to work on, so it got all sorts of upgrades. The stain used for the neck is a nice touch too - it brought out the wood grain. Sounds great, nice job!! I see your assistant came for a visit 🥰. My children are grown up now. Enjoy them while they're little, 'cause they grow up too soon. Thanks for the vid✌

Jaw dropping result, both acoustically and visually and the video was just a pleasure to watch. Awesome stuff!

This is so satisfying to watch, really calming to the soul and incredibly educational!

I've done many guitars and still found some great tips from watching this vid. Great job.

Ramsey - thanks man! You are so meticulous, so relaxed and so skilled. As an engineer, I really appreciate your videos.

Thank you for this! I have that exact Tele. Most of this is beyond my ability, but I still want to upgrade the pickups and find a unique pick guard. This helps!

Wow! The soldering tip for removing the frets, NICE!

I stumbled across your channel after picking up the same bullet tele - can’t thank you enough for giving me a road map for upgrades. Super informative!

What a fantastic video! Really interesting, and always great to watch a craftsman at work.

This video shows how to optimise through upgrades. Of course you could go and buy a better version - but this has given me some options to upgrade my affinity. Even if you don’t do all of them, you can pick the top 3 you can afford. And maybe make additions over the years.

Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your videos. Your love and passion for guitars are really inspiring. I appreciate what you do to the point that I am buying some basic tools to do the same to my daughter’s affinity telecaster 🙏🏼🎸

Patience...Pride...Proper tools...Skills...that neck is a work of art...great video...

thats a great project dude! I did also a upgrade series of my squire deluxe and I think these guitars are really great to work on as someone who just want to try out himself! I got motivated by your video to dig deeper into fretwork! thanks man!

Awesome job, really informative process

at one point you ask why anyone would want to watch this series.. i've been playing guitar for 20 years and have never done anything more than a basic setup on one, i picked up a affinity tele that i decided i was going to learn to work on, your video has been the most helpful that i've come across. i could have just gone out an bought a nicer guitar but then i would have learned nothing and would continue to be dropping my guitars off to a tech and paying that cost every time i wanted anything repaired or changed up, in the long run this is not only a benefit to my understanding of guitars but a cost benefit as well. so thank you, thanks for the education!

Although I've learned a lot on KZfaq about working on guitars, I learned more from this video than all the others combined. That's why I subscribed. Thank you and Happy New Year!

I learned a lot watching this. Also found it soothing. Thank you! Might try my hand at becoming a luthier!

Great video Ramsay, really informative.👍🏻

I feel like I could be a guitar tech after watching your informative video. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience.

So I posted a comment almost a year ago about how I found this by accident but loved the video. Since then I’ve got into upgrading cheap guitars and I revisit this pretty regularly for tips. This time I’m here for removing the nut of the neck. Such an excellent video!

Fabulously done! I would’ve enjoyed hearing a 'before' audio clip, because it sounds great after all that work was completed. Thanks for sharing this video, you’re helping a lot of people. I guess that the folks who start ripping their guitars apart and lose the drive to finish will have a luthier do it, so you’re really 'paying it forward'! Two big thumbs up for this! 👍🏼👍🏼 Namaste🙏

Great update, work looks perfect and a really great sound!

This is exactly the job I would like to do so a big huge thanks for this amazing video! It's gonna help me a lot! And congrats on the amazing job you did! Cheers from Switzerland. 😊

Awesome marksmanship.!! I enjoyed while watching. Great Job Dude

As a guitarist of over 20 years but modder of 0 years I love watching these videos! I would never have considered a bullet tele before seeing this video, but went out and bought the lake place version last month. I am slowly working through mine on a much slower basis, so far I have worked on the frets neck and nut. Tuners and pickups next! Not to worried about how much I sink into the guitar as I am aiming to having something that I play for many years! Keep up the great videos

Fantastic video.... just picked one of these up that is bone stock and looks untouched. I will follow some of your suggestions. Great stuff your doing there!

Beauty. I like this color. Great job

This is the exact video I wanted to see. Thank you!

Fantastic video with tons of great advice......top stuff man!!!!

Absolutely fantastic video. Thanks so much for sharing!!

This was very therapeutic idk why. Great vid!

Six brass saddles would look really good, IMO. Brass tuners. You did an excellent job on this project. Beautiful guitar. Lovely tone.

Was a joy to watch, we miss you in Dubai

Man I like your manner and work, very cool I must say.

Respect. Really enjoyed as I learned. Thanks pal. All the best.

Neck plate “It has Squire written on it but hey; I want to be true to the guitar”. I find that quite amusing😊

Your Video has all the Techniques I need to do a great job on my Tele & Strat style guitar necks. (ll my guitars for that matter!). Thank You!

This is so soothing

wow dude.. i'm your new fan.. love your work

Great video and awesome upgrades. Just bought this Tele the other day though it’s gone up in price since you got yours!

Loved every minute of this!

Dude that is GORGEOUS.

I have the identical guitar and the only thing I did to it was drop in a 5 way harness all decked out, put a USA control plate on it, some aftermarket pups,but put the stock bridge back in cause it is very good. Took a sponge sanding block to the edges of the fret board, and tightened up the machine heads. Just an FYI on the control plate, the stock plate if it accepted full size pots I would have used it instead cause it is a bit more robust than the stock American model. Also the Bullet accepts full size American parts without modification save for the full size pot shaft size.

Thank you for this amazing work !! I learned a lot :)

Can’t wait to try this out. Thanks.

Pretty much did the same to mine except SD Pickups, Little 59 in bridge and 52 Tele in the neck. Graph Tech nut, Graph Tech string saver saddles, Graph Tech string separator, New CTS pots and connector, frets polished (tops) sides were good, Parchment pearl pickguard. Also 4 way switch. Worth every penny. Kluson locking tuners also, love them :).

Excellent work young man! I'm impressed!! You commented that you should always go with the grain when sanding and scraping. Great point. I'd like to offer that when scraping...always use a brand new blade..or at least a blade that you know hasn't been used and the edge is bunged up or you'll put scratches in the wood. When you know you're going to have a certain section play in fast forward you should talk more or sing a song! It's so funny hearing chipmunk voice! You make the re fret look so easy...I wanna try it!! Thank you for creating editing and posting your videos. Excellent work:)

Yep, that was therapeutic! Your work is mesmerizing. Thank you!

It's so sad that you had to get rid of it, it turned out beautiful!

Man, I was waiting take off those inlay dots ))) nice job

Really sounds great!

Very nice vid, and great job! I have a collection of classic superstrats, that's my thing, but now looking to get a few guitars that sound (and look) different to what I have, axes I would not have been caught dead with when I was younger, lol. Just about to pull the trigger on a Dano 59XT, and was contemplating a tele, just don't want to spend on a higher end Fender, very tempted by this precise guitar, in fact I have a shot at buying one tomorrow (I should say I have a weakness for sea foam green) and was looking for YT reviews... I think yours is a very interesting exercise here. One could think that upgrading a cheap guitar would only result in a crappy axe with overkill expensive parts, because no matter what, you have the body and neck of a 180€ guitar. Quite obviously you have demonstrated the opposite, because this ends up a beautiful and incredibly sweet sounding guitar.

Eventhough I don't have a guitar like that,now I know how to take good care and fixing it.😁

Love this vids man! Great job!

Awesome vid dude!

Wow it sounds and looks so good

This makes me feel like I can do this. I kind of want a project guitar to try it out on.

Beautiful my brother. You did a fantastic job. Enjoy that pimped out squier.

I have this guitar, I love it. I'm not good enough to where the non-perfect frets effect my playing yet. I noticed one fret isn't level, I'll sand it down one day. Tbh, I kinda fell in love with the guitar as is. I wish I had to the tools and knowledge to refret it like you did.

Great video!! Nice work

I really liked this video, thank you!

Great work! I'm from Philadelphia and I haven't heard of that luthier company! Nice to know! P.S. I think you can wipe off the Squier logos pretty easily with a little acetone (at least the silk screened ones). Cheers!

Nice vid, really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Wow! Adding solder to the fret wire to transfer heat...absolutely brilliant. Amazing discovery/invention/whatever you wanna call it. You're right..it is much faster! I had a funny thought..a guitar guy seeing a bunch of frets in the garbage can with solder on them...looking at them and wondering what the hell happened! He'd think "did some jackass try to add material to worn out frets?" You said the stock frets were shorter and wider..maybe next time you could throw a caliper on them and measure the actual difference? That would be information that I'm sure many people would appreciate! Thank you:)

It sounds amazing nice so crisp

I modded this same guitar, even down to the color! I know some folks say get a better one as a foundation but I disagree. The bullet is fundamentally solid. Mine has used fender tuners, fender pots, etc., and fender deluxe drive pickups. Looks like a humble squier but after some minor fret work,this guitar can hang with any fender. The lower price point makes it possible to take a leap of faith to mod it up and make it a slick guitar. And I proudly leave the squier logo on it. Great video! Happy Christmas. Cheers

This is the kind of ASMR I need

You should wear a frizzy wig, you'd be the Bob Ross of Guitars! We don't make mistakes, only happy little accidents, look at those happy strings, ohh, isn't that a fantastic color! Relaxing stuff!

Great video brother!

Thanks for the therapy.... I enjoyed that...

Wow you really know your stuff I have just picked up an affinity series tele for peanuts and came to this vid for upgrade ideas

Enjoyed this alot. Its the first time Ive seen anyone pull out brand new frets though. Imo the factory frets can be leveled, filed and cleaned up just as good as any replacement ones. Still cool though. Great video. Im subscribing! Bryan from Tennessee

I'm buying a affinity tele....I just hope to come close to this guitar after I've finished.

It would cost a lot of $$$$ to have this work done plus parts and unless you have done fret jobs , soldering , etc IMO purchase a better guitar to start with. Wonderful informative video. Thank you

That was awesome!!!

Awesome video!

Great video. Thanks.

I thought I was great 'coz I straightened the neck/lowered the action on my Squier Standard Stratocaster, eliminating the fret buzz, intonated it perfectly and set the string height to my own tastes...!

might be an older vid but you got a new sub here!

This is amazing!! half the price as a American tele and probably plays 100x better

I love the bullet tele.

I like squires. They’re fun to mod, I don’t have re fret skills,. Just doing a few upgrades greatly improves the playability. Not sure how I feel about putting a fender logo on it though.. the Squier logo is fine. Let people think it’s a cheap guitar!

Bought the same guitar!( For my daughter,ahem). Now I have to upgrade it!

Nice work!

Enjoyed that! Subbed!

This was awesome, I’m picking up one of these guitars for $100!

I got the same guitar model and color and I gonna do almost the same mods you did in this one. Great guitar to upgrade

A really really well done video mate! Excellent! Thank you so much 😎. Where are you based?

Thank you for uploading this video!

Nice work Boet!

A pleasure to watch. Did you put a coating on top of the Fender decal? Most other renovators do - presumably for protection.

I got the same one but Lake Placid Blue color, mine came with the mint pickguard from factory

Squier Bullet Tele with a string through body? Done watching. Fantastic job dude.

Sawubona my broer!

One more thing you could do is to pull the black plastic tube out of the truss adjustment hole. Then take a piece of walnut and drill a hole in it just big enough to fit the Allen adjustment wrench. put a stick in the hole and turn it against a table sander until it fits into the adjustment hole. Sand it down smooth to surface it with the neck. The black plastic liner in the hole is a dead giveaway it's a Squire. I mean, it's aesthetic, we're not trying to counterfeit here, but it's more pleasing. Also your decal is placed too close to the tuners. Overall, I'd say a great and good restoration. Also, without a serial number you'll never get a pawn shop to accept it when, as a musician, you get down on your luck. Just leave the original number on it to show you're not trying to counterfeit, so it won't get confiscated going thru an airport. Just sayin' Mike

I wish you had put on Fender locking tuners stainless frets and an LSR roller nut, even if there's no tremolo, you have open and fretted notes on steel.

nice work sir

Was thinking of upgrading a Squier Telecaster and adding a Jazzmaster tail to it. Maybe I'll change the input Jack and pegs as well as some other stuff.

Nice vid on the mods. I am amateur player and modder and some excellent tips in this vid. I own the identical tele as a matter of fact. Gonna start some mods on it but really pretty basic stuff, 4 way switch, I have some nice pups for it I purchased for another mod project a few yrs ago that I never used on that guitar so I'll use them on this one. The only 2 things done so far are rounded the fret board on the sides and put a new nut on it. I couldn't justify a refret on it. I might put new tuners on it but truth be told the guitar stays in tune very well so might leave them. I might also rub in some used motor oil on the neck. I did that to a strat I built yrs ago and it worked pretty darn well. thanks PS did you get your money back on the guitar with all time and effort put into it? thanks