soldering on top of your finished guitar . . . the confidence! the skill! I would never

P90s are such an underappreciated metal pickup. That thing sounds sick, now I'll be drooling over P90 SGs for months.

But are you prepared to loose a couple tips of your fingers?! Next video idea....Maybe? Great video as always man and sounds awesome 🤘🏻

You as a gear head, obviously a big win, but you as a player deserve serious props too

This thing is absolutely sick, sounds and looks godly, and it being tuned to C# is just a cherry on top. I love it a lot.

As an SG and Sabbath fan, a video like this is fascinating Colin! Such good production quality.

My suggestion for that partscaster: Firebirds! An underappreciated and incredibly versatile pickup that doesn't get nearly the love it should.

I have two suggestions for the Alegree Strat. 1. 3 incredibly hot single coils that are tappable. You can use that for a video about what tapping actually is and if we can get a vintage sound if we tap a hot pickup. 2. Jazzmaster pickups, for the querkiness of it and for comparing them to the P90s

I'm once again impressed by the quality of video production. The lighting, the framing, the traveling, it's all so well done. oh yeah guitar's a banger as well

I gotta say my Scottish brother Into The Void cover was like a sacrament it sounded so good, you really should do more stuff like that, graveyard guitar tone chasing! "Ne Obliet"

You should do a Glenn Tipton Tribute guitar with the parts caster 2 dimarzio SD HB and a metal scratch plate. The influence that guitar sound had is as important as big Toni's in it's own way - excellent vid and playing that tone you got was legendary

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Every time I hear you talk about subs, I think about how I've been subbed since your Invaders review Keep 'em comin'!

Sounds absolutely righteous Colin, great cover of Into The Void too!🤘

Really love how powerful the tone is now with those P90 pickups! In regards of the P90 Strat, my suggestion is either make a 3 mini humbucker strat or put filtertrons instead

Mate the fact that 37% of your viewers are subscribed is amazing, other channels usually get less than 10%

You did such a great job rehabbing that SG and your playing did some justice for it also. Great job. Thanks for great content as always.

Dude! Thank you for rocking Extinction Level Event for the drums! Honored! -Jordon Beal

Really enjoyed the vids on this repair. Really nice work. I own a Fender Lead II (looks like a baby Strat) that I did some modifying to, including adding a third center pick-up and putting in a set of *Texas Specials* and a slick 5 way switch which allowed me to reverse the polarity on the the three inner positions to get a hum bucking effect. Would love to have an SG someday. Keep up the great work. Will keep watching!

Amazing effortless playing. Such an entertaining video.

Greetings Colin! Been expecting something great out of that SG. Beautiful job. A note: one of the things that make most of the Iommi sound is the string gauge. I believe he uses something like 8-38's in C#, which is incredibly wobbly for most of us. I tend to play in C with a 9-46's mixed set on an SG with a humbucker sized P90 and it gets really close on almost any amp setup, as it's the way loosier strings resonate that contribute the most to the final sound. I used to go for 9-42's before but I'm not such a careful and precise player like he is, so my bass notes would get all out of tune. You might want to give a chance to a lighter gauge on this guitar, you'll love it! In any case, amazing job. Thank you for your videos. Salutations from Spain!

Hell yea!! Tony would be proud. Beautiful guitar. 🤘🏼

This is the only channel i comme running to whenever i see a notification

into the void is my fav sabbath tune by far, especially fun to play

I came across some of your older videos. Clicked on your channel to check it out, and was like "who the hell is that short haired dude!?" Great channel, thanks for all the tips

This is a really satisfying video to see. Thanx

P90s are the only pickups where I prefer the neck over the bridge. It just sounds magical.

Oh yeah, these were some serious Iommi tones for sure, I'm really impressed with your precision and the sound of your custom wound P90s, Colin! Looking forward to more Sabbath!

You’re an artist, really enjoyed watching you fix this guitar

Way to go lad, you knock it out of the park with the quality of your videos!

Fav song right there

I did this same setup to a friend of mines 90’s It was a fun sabbath filled night

Dannnng!! Sounds amazing! The difference is more obvious in the song. You can hear the sustain and separate string articulation. Great song choice. Totally matches! Way to go above and beyond for a great guitar that had a bad day ☺️ Cheers from Texas! 🤘😺🤘

I agree with the comments requesting mini humbuckers/firebird pickups!

Sounds amazing!!!

I just started a project with a really cheap SG copy. 108$ US. Got some generic humbucker sized P90 Ceramic pickups. Got a group of electronics for a Epiphone SG 400.Added locking tuners.Orange drop caps. Wish me luck.🤘🤠🤘

These P90 are gorgeous! Talking about the future of PartsCaster, personally I'd be interested in seeing some work involving humbuckers and electronics. How to play with phasing, for example, but also how to best reach a single coil sound with them. Just splitting a Humbucker drops too much their output but for example the Guthrie Govan Charvel has lots of different sound options even if it keeps the volume quite consistent. I'd be curious to know more about this.

Wow, that guitar sounds great! Also, nice playing!

Wow, that guitar sounds glorious!

I´ve expected the P90s to have a brighter tone than the humbuckers, but they actually have more "meat" and gnarl to them than the stock pickups. Excellent Iommi emulation BTW!

Was just watching Sabbath at Cal Jam/War Pigs….. and bingo, here we are! Excellent.

Simply amazing sounding guitar

I regret that I have but one subscription to give!

Awesome to see you using Extinction Level Event! Something tells me you and Glenn would get along rather well.

I saw your Liz Truss joke and I appreciated it like a Tory appreciates a nice warm pork market

Sounds killer. I had reservations but man, you nailed it.

What a great guitar! Congratulations Colin!!

You were killing it sounded like Tony iomi through my headphones but then all the sudden you turned into Zakk instead of Tony when the solo came... nice but not who I was expecting

One of my favorite Sabbath songs, man, nice choice. \m/

Im subscribed! Thats why i can say nackel covered p90 peekups!

Vast improvement! Good idea becomes a Great idea realized!

Colin I want to see you play bass again. You're so cute when you play bass. As always keep killing it!

Fantastic video, as always! As far as the Alegree Partscaster goes, I hate to see it change! I love the way it looks and sounds! But if it must change, maybe as a counterpoint to the more flamboyant builds we've seen (Muppet Jazzmaster) or thrash and metal guitars, go back to a simple, vintage single coil arrangement and show people with your mad playing skills why Stratocasters have been kicking @$$ for almost 70 years! Maybe even as a history lesson demonstrate using a three way switch how players got to positions 2 and 4 before Fender finally started building them with 5 way switches.

If you wanted to go crazy (which I fully support), you could go HSH and then add a Free-Way-5 Switch, which will give you 10 total options for what pickups you'd like to have selected and how. It'd give you a chance to really flex on showing how you can wire it up to be flexible but still super useful.

Fair play, you did a cracking job on that. I wouldn't have known where to start.

Really like the sound of the digital backend too!

That sounded really nasty in the best ways possible. As for the strat, think you need to make a P90 humbucker.

Iommitastic 🤘🏼🤘🏼

IMO the partscaster would be badass with a Jazzmaster pickup in the bridge, and a Charlie Christian in the neck. Truly the spanish inquisition of Strat pickup choices.

I would love to see a Sustaniac in the Partscaster!

Sweet Axe 🤘🤘

Playing was spot on. Nice one. Tone was similar but not quite there. Not the big knackers of the original, but the character of the overdrive was all there. Probably because you are using an amp that has a fairly high passed input. To get that big Sabbath tone the treble booster needs to be hitting a quite dark sounding but overdriven amp, i.e., the normal channel rather than the treble one (old school normal mind you). P.S. I am 52 now and can count the number of times on one hand that I have bothered to string 11s and tune down to C# so i can play that era Black Sabbath. Kind of need to always have a guitar handy that's already setup for it. BTW. I wonder how many folks heard Iommi uses 8s and tried tuning down to C# with them only to discover they almost flap in the breeze because there is not enough tension? Not even 9s have enough really. 10s maybe, but 11s seem to be the way to go. I think Iommi must have used 8s for standard tuning (9s for Eb on Heaven And Hell apparently -- and modded Marshall amps).

Dig the whole set up, I'd swap the bridge for a roller style . P90s and Meastros on any Gibson are bad ass 🤠

I suppose I don't have number in front of me but based on all the other youtubers that show the numbers of subs and non-subs I think 37% is well above average, I'm used to seeing channels with numbers in the mid-high 20s if not lower. Not to say that you shouldn't have even more as this is likely the best guitar centric channel on the internet, it's mostly to say good job on a better ratio that most :D

That Gibbo SG sounds and looks absolutely killer.. Be great to see P-Rail pickups with coil splitting on the Alegree strat. P-90, 'bucker, single coil and all the combos of them all in one guitar. 👍

Nice job, nice tone and nice playing. The P90 ? Supergreat ...I had them on my SG with trem back in 1972 going through a Marshall full stack cranked up to 100 watt...no pedal needed 🙂

Hey Colin. There is a Dimarzio pickup called "Humbucker from Hell" that looks like a PAF but sounds like a P90. Check it out.

I loved that ❤

Wow!!!🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

Would be cool to see you use some modern pickups on the partscaster. You tend to focus on vintage pickups when you buy and wind your own pickups

Badass!

That SG turned out super sweet (leaf).

Great show and fantastic tone on your wind P90’s. Maybe a swap out for Filtertrons or at least an Episode on what makes up a Filtertron unique.

Tone for days!

I wired my Epiphone SG so you can switch the humbuckers between series and parallel, which is effectively like having the humbucker or two single-coils sat right next to each other. It's in the ballpark of a P90 sound but you still get the hum cancelling effect from the two coils.

Bold move soldering on top of the guitar, nice work!

Loving the dig at Pork Markets

Thinking the parts caster should PRails but that's up to you dude!🤷🏼‍♂️🤘🏻😎

I have a 2006 stop tail SG Classic with P90's. It is by far my favorite SG (I have a '61 reissue, Tribute, & Modern). It just Dooms.

Humbucker Humbucker Single Strat! (Serious head nod and rockers solute)

Into the Void… my man!

Great video! Your playing never fails to amaze me. And for the Strat, I thought it would be cool if you put in some Gretsch Filtertrons.

It sounds killer!

That full mix of Into the Void sounds very tasty!

Great change. P90’s sound good in every guitar don’t they! Especially Gibson P90’s which you have replicated. Like you said in your video, they basically have the same output as a humbucker, but, they are so much brighter though. Great vid, love your work and your channel.

Well done, Colin. That rendition of 'Into the void' sounded spot on. I now have to wonder if the 'Bass Butler' pedal that flashed on screen was aimed at replicating the sounds of a certain Geezer that Black Sabbath and Ozzy fans might be aware of... As for the parts caster, maybe an HSS pickup combination would be a good change from all the P90's. Otherwise (since I can see an all single coil S type on the wall) you might want to experiment with either a pair of mini humbuckers or something like the Seymour Duncan Hotrails system. Since you have that pickup winder have you ever considered experimenting with adding a 'dummy coil' to P90's in order to give them a humbucking mode without changing the sound? I remember there was a Gibson signature that did this a few years ago but I have never heard of anyone else replicating it. That would be handy as the thing that puts me off about P90's is how sensitive they are to electrical interference. The keyboard player in my last band also played guitar but picking up the electrical radiation on his P90 loaded Epiphone made it unusable until he replaced the P90 with a humbucker.

Hi, Colin! I'd like to suggest something different: taking your Partscaster, or another similar guitar, and doing a switch from P90s to minibuckers using one of those adapter sets, and all that this would entail. I'd also like to see your take on usable out-of-phase tones. Perhaps you can even combine these into one project? I don't want to ask too much, especially cuz I plan to do this for a non-metal genre, and yours is primarily a metal channel. But, heavy is heavy, no matter what emotional sets we are expressing, and I'd like to learn how to get the best of such a setup. You're the guy to do it, and do it well, in my opinion. 🧈👈😂 Thanks for all that you do!

Nice one Col!🤘

You could try Filtertrons or Mini Humbuckers/Firebird Pickups in your Partscaster. Or Railhammer Nuevo 90s. I would love to see and hear that!

Man I love Into the Void, if you would have used much lighter gauge strings it would have sounded even closer (but been harder to keep in tune)

I subscribed ages ago, I like the science, personally I always like to learn as it keeps the mind active. I'm 56 years young & your channel is fascinating, especially when you consider I was 13 when I began playing. Oh, I'm from B'ham, very close to Aston just like the original Black Sabbath. And I think you did a remarkable job emulating Tony's sound. The Partscaster idea's, how about a Fast Eddie Clarke recreation. He was the man who got me to pick up a guitar. And I was lucky enough to see the original line up 9 times, plus when Brian replaced Eddie for Another perfect day. What I would like to ask you is unrelated to this video, I'm about to buy either a Boss Katana Artist 2 or a H&K Black Spirit combo. In your personal opinion, do you favour one above the other? Or even a similar alternative? Sadly I cannot afford a Grandmeister Deluxe 40 head & cab which would be my choice if money allowed. But a back to back comparism of both H&K amps showed the Black Spirit ran the GM 40 very close for sound. I do hope you see my message, I consider you to be a wealth of knowledge & therefore the best person to ask my questions to. Thank you Colin.

Excellent showcase Colin 🤘🏻 For your partscaster, maybe leave the p90 in the neck and have a dual rail in the bridge (your choice of brand and output) ?

The Partscaster is a great opportunity for mini-humbuckers. Alternatively there are multivoiced pickups that are out there, but need perfecting. The Seymour Duncan P-Rails and the Bareknuckle Polymath come to mind. They go about it differently, but I'm curious how you might approach this. SD has two completely different coil winds and a common magnet. Bareknuckle has two different wire gauges and a common magnet. I'm curious to see if there are other ways around this sort of thing. SD Quarter Pounder magnets and coils matched to a hot-rails magnet and coils. A staple P90 matched to a parallel axis Strat coil. The rout for the P90s gives you many unconventional options for a multivoiced humbucker. Wind a P90 to the width of a P90, but go deep to make room for another coil next to it. Or try to make the old Lace P900 Holy Grail geometry.

Great tone!!🤘😀🤘

I love P90's, and I actually want more guitars with them installed. I have an Epiphone Les Paul Special with a GFS Dream 180 bridge and Dream 90 Neck set and a Seymour Duncan Active Blackouts Preamp, which I also retrofitted with a microtuner stop tail. In a perfect world, I'd love another identical guitar, or close to it (I'd settle for a chibson or cheap imitation if the balance and fretting quality is there, and I'd also be fine with an SG shaped axe), but this time without the active wiring. I love buying $200 sleeper guitars and turning them into modded monsters.

amazing video!

Sounds like Tony Iommi to me, nice playing. I was pretty close to grabbing my bass and playing along. I have a bass that I have tuned to C# just for Sabbath.

Colin, this was one of my favorite videos of yours. Maybe you can tackle recreating EVH's frankenstrat next?

I normally don’t like batwing SG’s but good golly that combination of traits looks A+.

Well how about a hybrid pickup layout for the partscaster? Keep a P90 in the neck and put a humbucker in the bridge. Gives you a more cutting neck sound that fits in the mix while a full bodied bridge pickup tone. Keeping the best of both worlds!