Cool video, it's hard to find archtop reviews so thank you. Pretty sure we're kindred spirits, I just like to noodle around on a guitar &:just generally enjoy them.

Cool!

Dave - I just stumbled across your video as I am in the market for an arch top. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to create this video. It’s excellent. I also wanted to share that I think you’re an excellent player. We will all run into the worst of the worst on the internet, but I appreciate that you love playing for yourself purely for the love of music. Embrace it and keep on playing!

Squiers have thinner bodies as well, so it's hard to put regular Fender parts on it, like a bridge or pickups etc.

I was off on the price in the video. Apparently they’re $799 on Sweetwater but they have a demo available for $599. You can also find a variety of prices in that range on Reverb.

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Did you consider the Tom Bukovac bridge

Jack Pearson plays squier almost exclusively. I am teaching my son about this. You can mod a squier with great frets and a straight neck to be a phenomenal guitar. Great discussion here. I have had a squier classic vibe and I tend to be a PRS core and Private stock guy. It was an excellent guitar. We Just got him a Players Strat and we are modding to the Vega Trem and adding pickups. I think that guitar is great. He has a good "picker". Like Father like son fortunately.

I took a fender Starcaster strat and did the David Gilmour thing to it. It sounded and played incredibly good.

Lots of good technical guitar info. Thanks so much

"REW" (Room EQ Wizard) is a free and extremely versatile loudspeaker measurement program - I think you could use its sine sweep to get good graphs with your pickup in place of a mic. REW can also measure impedance if you build an impedance jig which only has one resistor for parts.. Its cool you "do" pickups. IJ only wound one about 52 years ago - perhaps #26 wire on an alnico bar magnet - DC was close to600 ohms IIRC -Ii used a tiny mic matching transformer to steup up voltage and it sounded very good - very hi-fi with extended treble- more so than a stock Fender P-bass pickup - probably too sterile for guitar use. The bobbin was in bad shape with soldering iron melted areas so did not mount it..

I have the same guitar. I love mine. I noticed you said it probably has a plastic nut. It's actually a synthetic bone nut. Nice review

somethings wrong when you don't have a dog hair in your supper

Is that an aftermarket bridge on the green guitar?

sweet!

That’s a sweet Squire. I own a 1984 black Japanese Squire that I bought by mistake thinking it was a Fender version when I was starting out in the early 2000’s for $200 bucks off EBay. Had EMG Steve Lukather box set added as a mod. Freaking love this guitar over my other Fender Strats. Plays and feels incredible. Keep the vids coming🤘

I forgot to say I have the 60s vibe strat and it’s great, well worth the £399. I paid for it to start my collection off just under 3 years ago and I suck too but it’s fun.

Just to answer your question on where they make these now, they did go back to Indonesia. That’s where my strat and Tele Deluxe were made both made around 2021. Love the videos and your strat.

Thanks for the demo, was that Beatles? Blackbird? Good song BTW.

I've been thinking about getting one of these. Kind of kicking myself for not getting one when they had the $30 off coupon. I agree with you on the bridge, I would probably swap it out as well.

go to reverb and like a few, dealer might shoot you a good offer. That's how I recently got my B7 for a my LP.

Never heard about this. Nice video and very interesting.

Thats so cool!!! Do you have a wiring diagram or anything to construct it please? Thank you, very impressed!!

I've got the exact same guitar in the same Claret Burst livery Dan. Yours appears a brighter/lighter red top than mine in this vid, guessing possibly because of lighting? MIK pickups are medium output, 7.2k/8.3kOhm respectively.

honestly love that bright tight sound

I imagined this song as being played on a strat

Turn of you fluorescent lighting or overhead lighting., and make sure your running into a grounded plug.

The Trembucket is an F spaced pickup. Too wide for a Gibson guitar.

the strap buttons are too shiny....

Clarification it was a Blues Deluxe Reverb 40 watt 112 converted to a 40 watt 112 basement all the boards were ripped out it's all tubes fantastic

Dan great video I always wanted a blues Junior so I'll do it the way you did yours but I got to tell you about my amp I got a deluxe Reverb that was converted to a basement 11240 watt it's got a half power switch and maybe a switch it's fantastic I want to do what you did to the blues Junior so I'm going to buy one and do it and make sure I remember the clip the resistor Take Care thank

My favorite pickups. Bring the noise.

I get mad when people throw these away give them to people who can fix them

I love these old record players

Dan-you uploaded unreal upload.

You made a fine piece of equipment.

When you did the sound comparison i found your strat the most pleasing to my ears, whstever that means.

I love lightweight guitars.

Nice work getting that P-90 installed in the Tele it sounds great. I also love the look of that burst.

It’s a return, not a blemish.

Keep the combo, it will be great for recording and won't do your back in. I stuck 2 strips of 1x2 " wooden strips to the base of the Champ combo to protect the base and to help transmit bass through any wooden flooring( likecon some British made cabs). The new speaker is essential, a low wattage Alnico will make it sound closer to a Princeton rev. Swap the 12ax7vfor a 12at7 as it makes you turn up the master volume making the 6V6s work a bit harder and the sound becomes much more warm and the valve sound is much more prononounced. Small combos are very sought after at the moment that's why every brand has a "new" 5/10/15 watt amp design available and most if the expensive ones are very similar to this Champ in layout ( 2x6v6s ax7s ) but include much better speakers ( alnico 10" or Eminence GA-10 sc64) which makes the difference between a practice amp or a general purpose combo, for what they cost you would nut's not to have one( even for a spare).

that was 5:23 wasted minutes

Appreciate this guitar with fantastic acoustic neck!

I would never put that tonearm and cartridge on any of my vinyl. What force is that tracking? A Dual 1219 Automatic table? Yes. For 78 RPM I have a Macintosh preamp with equalization switches outfitted with a home brew DC supply.

Nice job

Dude...how must you regret what you did to your headstock...I'd be going freaking nuts here.

Yeah I just got one in yellow shipped for 400 mint condition. I'm blown away. Not my choice of color but I'm going to black out all the hardware / pickguard (plus will install a Duesenberg trem). In my case the setup was beyond anything I've played in my 30+ years of playing. I didn't think action could get that low without consequence but no buzzing even on bends I can't believe how buttery smooth fast runs are. My only gripe is the 3 way switch. The 5 way on the standard/pro models gives a nice quack in the in between positions and I love that. I'm not entirely sure how to wire this myself for that type of thing having only dealt with strat re-wiring and I can't find much online for these Yamahas

I have an american standard tele, from the year 2000 i believe. It has a flat oval neck shape. I've never related so much to what you said about them and im glad its not just me. It feels like a struggle and my hands and wrist would actually get sore after a while. I just thought it was normal since my other guitar is an ibanez (yet way easier to play despite being slimmer). So here i was researching for buying another neck for my telly and im just so glad i heard you say that its been exacly my experience. So on another note, Im curious as to the thickness of that neck on the first fret and the nut width you went with, I'm considering a hard V(0.96-1) or a soft v (.93/.89/.87) according to musikraft measurements on tele blackguard models which is what im aiming for but i have no clue as to what measurements will suit my hands better. How are you liking yours so far? I know it depends on taste annd hand size, mine is average to small, but i do play a lot of thumb over the top as well as jazzy chrods. Any commennts on this would be much appreciated as im really trying to be happy with my tele. I love teles!

I bet that guitar would sound cool in open G. Two finger fun all day til you get the doc to fix you up.

These are awesome guitars. Digging the video.