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Weird headstocks pull a certain rage out of me too, since they can often ruin an entire guitar’s design.

Truth be told, it’s not original (at least, I think). It’s kind of hard to explain, but it’s a riff this customer used to play a lot which he wrote. But, that was maybe 28 years ago when I was a teenager working at a small music shop. That riff always stuck with me, but it’s not mine and I can’t remember his name to give credit. That said, I did modify the riff from how I originally remember it being. It’s just not mine.

Of all the videos I keep saved just in case I need to draw from it again, this Short is missing. Sadly, I cannot figure out what music I used. It's not in my music library I usually draw from, nor is it a Final Cut Pro X library jingle. I also experimented with CapCut around this time, but I cannot seem to source it in there either. So sorry! I'll keep looking as I now need to know what happened and what music it was. However, I will say that I never use commercial music in my videos. So, whatever it is, it's attribution and license free. I'll find it and let you know.

I go in waves. I do require a neck pickup most of the time. But I also appreciate something designed to do one thing, and that one thing incredibly well.

It was a really fun build and I love it. It's currently on loan over at another RUclips guitar channel and I miss it.

Nah dawg. You got this all wrong. It’s made from cast iron. 😂

I couldn't agree more! I haven't tried their basses yet, but I hope to sooner rather than later. I still have an array of Slick guitars to try out still, but have one more in my possession to review soon.

Zero issues! It’s awesome, and I love it so much more than the stock bar. Having the ability to quickly pop the bar out to stash the guitar in its case is perfect for me.

I was very lucky to get my hands on one of these. Sadly, I've yet to try the Sire L3 P90. They've not reached out, and I'm flooded with enough guitars where I've zero motivation to seek one out at the moment. But I can say that of the 4 Slick guitars I currently own, their pickups are something very, very special to me. They all have just a little more push than vintage spec, but not overdoing it to get muddy. The Sire L3 P90 does have the traditional mahogany body for that kind of nod to Gibson and a nice, polished finish. Whereas the SL59 is a rustic looking ash body with a thin layer of automotive paint and no grain filler. Some players get pretty offended over the idea of a relic'd body, but I like it for the sole reason that it feels good to the touch and you don't have to worry about accidentally putting more battle scars on it. That said, if you were to get a Slick, avoid their Indigo/Crimson/Black ash finishes. I have one that I've yet to talk about on this channel that is easy to scar and it scars ugly. Get one with a more traditional color and you'll be good. 👍

@@11thFret Hey thanks for the fast response! I hope I can try one of the Sires someday then, they seem very nice. I was considering the TV Yellow finish anyway so no issues xD About the Slick finish, I like it rustic too, no issues for me neither. Hugs from Spain :)

Thanks! Just a heads-up: the TV Jones adapters space the height adjustment screws much farther apart than Fender's Shawbucker mount. You could probably make it work by ordering a custom pickguard from WD Music and specifying the correct screw spacing in your order. I learned this the hard way when modding a Gibson Flying V as a test. The TV Jones adapters were wider than the Shawbucker mount I mentioned to WD, and the screw hole threads ended up stripping. I had to use small 3-48 nuts underneath the mounts to make it function, but the height adjustment screw heads ended up pointing outward atop the pickguard. I never quite figured out the right spacing to tell WD before a friend helped me make custom ones. The adapters in this video are made from the same material TV Jones uses, which I’m happy with. The key is to make sure your spacing is correct when ordering a pickguard from WD Music. Or order the pickguard with no mounting holes and drill them yourself. But yeah, I've been back and forth with this idea for years, long before this channel. It always bothered me aesthetically. I've packed foam, rubber, bent the humbucker's legs, etc. This adapter was the only way to make it work, allowing me to rotate it back to the stock angle, or make it perfectly level without disassembly.

@@11thFret Thanks, I think I may get some of the TV Jones adaptors just out of interest, even if I don't end up using them. I'd probably order a pickguard without mounting holes, to make sure I got the spacing right! Do you know if the TVJ adaptors fit #3-48 screws? Their website doesn't say very much.

@philipquail4044 Yeah, ordering the TV Jones adapters was a crap shoot for me too. I ended up throwing caution to the wind anyway via Sweetwater because I knew they’d take care of me with no guilt. My adapters worked with the 3-48 screws, no problem. Well, no problem until I came at the holes from an angle. That was stupid on my part. My impatience won that battle, but simple logic won the war. The TV Jones adapters should still work just fine. However, make sure you have some 3-48 nuts around, just in case. 🤘

A glitch in the Matrix?

@@11thFret prolly, the guitar was so awesome it destroyed the fabric of time.

Definitely not kidding ya. It would be a design flaw if the pickup angles were so extreme that when adjusting the humbucker height for better output, one coil ends up so close to the strings that you accidentally press them against it while playing, while the other coil sits farther away. Does this matter for a bar magnet? Not really, since the center of the magnetic field is what counts. In theory, a pickup could give great output even at a 45º angle, but the pickups would be guaranteed to rub against the strings, defeating the purpose. So, I'd say anything beyond a 5º-10º angle is pushing it. Using the three-screw mount like Fender does helps avoid this issue, which Gibson 'could' do but never has. And honestly, what harm is there in matching the pickup angle to the strings? The answer: None. Plus, yes I own and play a few Les Pauls too. I have that base covered. ;-)

@@11thFret A magnet has the strongest magnetic field at the center of the magnet. Tilt the magnet and you will get a variation of strong to weak from the same magnet to a greater degree than if the magnet is perpendicular to the strings. Sort of like tilting a flashlight where you can see elongation of the light beam. The subtle difference affects the audio signal, there fore, the tone, which can be detected with an audio wave form viewer. It's just like the "tone wood" arguments as to the subtle tone variations caused the density of guitar body and neck woods in both electric and acoustic guitars.

Yes they do! I love those Ibanez Artists. What year is yours?

Weeeee! Thank you so much!

@@11thFret dude i drove for 3 hrs tonight in the middle of no where to trade for a esp ltd ax-360 that looks kinda like a warlock..wth emg s and a neck thru construction.. for a epi ej200 i had laying around. U inspired my energy to make it happen,, thx bro...

@lonewolffgrey8983 YES!!! Congrats on the score! I don’t know you, but I will say I’m proud of you for getting something you’d rather have at a great deal. I love a great trade like that.

Oh damn! That’s an amazing trade! I’d have probably done that too.

@@11thFret thanks man I couldn’t say no either. Can find many more strats but there’s something special in that Swedish wood

Amazing! And that’s a first year featuring the “Made in Mexico” decal. It’s almost like a 1954 Strat but for those manufactured south of the border.

Yes!!! I love those! Great score. I actually had that same FSR in seafoam green for a minute too.

@11thFret I had tried a bunch of other teles, including my dad's original 76' and couldn't find the right one. The only thing I HAD to change was the tuners. I went with MIM ones. I love it, it will forever remind in my collection.

I was looking on a site in China selling strat tremolo arms ...they were listed as 'shaking crank handles'....😂

Yup! I’ll take another deal all day, every day. I’ve many more examples, but that might be for another video. 😉

Thanks! Yeah, it's definitely a jarring appearance at first, but the obsessive-compulsive person in me enjoys the tilt a little too much for aesthetic reasons. 😂 As for the Batwing, I'm not sure. I love the '61 guard as well, but I have friends who absolutely hate it. So I guess it's safe to say that the SG's pickguard appearance issue, if not the entire SG line itself, is divisive at best.

Thank you so much! What an awesome compliment!

Your English is great. No worries! I'm glad you found some value in this video. Good luck replacing your output jack!

Sadly, yes. Most budget guitar companies use the cheapest of the cheap for output jacks. And what makes it worse is that inexperienced players are the ones to buy them, not knowing how to adequately service their guitar. So these cheap jacks eventually loosen and twist around until the wires break free, or the player accidentally bumps the cable to deform the barrel. To be fair, the cheap jacks work for a long time if well cared for. But if anyone is like the way I used to be, hitting the stage after pounding a few beers before the set can be a troublesome outing for that jack. 😂

I usually do that with all my output jacks anyway, be it Pure Tone, Switchcraft, etc. But yeah, you’d definitely want to do that with a Pure Tone (2 nuts, 2 washers) as it has a longer barrel than most.

​@@11thFret It's always good when they provide the extra one as well, apparently they didn't do that at first and now they do.. which is great. This is a very good video showing the advantages of these.. I didn't know much about them but they seem great.

@Jonw8222 Yeah, that used to irk me quite a bit when they’d only give me one nut and one washer. I’m so glad they included all the necessary parts. Thanks for the compliment on this video! I thought it’d only be a stupid little thing, and I’d tell me self,” who is going to watch a video on output jacks?!” Well, apparently quite a few, and it was well received. Thanks again for watching and sharing your awesome compliment!

Semi-hollow? Are you talking about the SL56? That's one I've yet to play. One of my favorite guitars I own is a Warmoth/MJT Offset Tele partscaster. So I'm really fond of the offset body with Telecaster components. A P90 in the neck like the SL56 has is pretty appealing.

My nut and action are great with mine. But yes, as the owner of this guitar and an SL54 (pre tremolo version), I do struggle with the bridge being recessed into the body. It makes intonating, let alone changing strings, way less fun. But beyond that, yes, the pickups and the use of the brass bridge add so much character. I love both a lot.

Sorry I missed this comment! It's a wicked guitar. But to answer your questions: 1.) No, a standard PAF sized humbucker would not fit without breaking out a router. A soapbar style P90 is both taller and more narrow than a PAF sized bucker. Theoretically, a mini humbucker could and should fit. However, if you look at how soapbar P90s are designed, they mount with two screws going through the middle of the pickup into the body. A mini humbucker mounts with legs on the top and bottom of the pickup, usually affixed to a pickup ring. So you might need to do a little bit of careful routing to make room for said legs and then mount a pickup ring should that extra space be needed. Check out GuitarFetish's website for their soapbar style pickup offerings: www.guitarfetish.com/P90s-Soapbars-Mini-Humbuckers_c_593.html 2.) As far as a switch to bypass the harness, look up "blower switch" or "blower mod". It's one of my favorite mods to do. I usually use a push/pull pot for such a thing, just to make it look clean. Here's an article from Seymour Duncan about it: www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/guitar-wiring-explored-adding-a-blower-switch Thanks for watching and commenting!

I still have a lot of the parts off mine. I haven’t done a lot with it. I was mostly interested in the Fishman bridge and the Duncan Hot P90. But I think the only thing I’ve actually used off this was the locking Gotoh locking tuners, which I relocated to one of my Warmoth builds that had non locking Gotoh’s. That sucks they treated your issue with total dismissal. I’ve not heard the best feedback about Route 101 Guitars since I posted this video.

Agreed. It's a tough pill to swallow sometimes, but is unfortunately a necessary evil on budget instruments to keep build costs down. Sometimes budget guitars are like half-way finished DIY kits that still require a significant setup.

Yes!!!!1!!1!!

Sorry it’s taken a minute for me to respond. I’m currently out of state on a trip. That aside, I’ve also since had an issue with one of my pickups too. One of the coils failed on the neck humbucker. I was able to “save” it, so to speak, after identifying that as the issue, wiring up a permanent split instead to just run the other coil. But that is absolutely not satisfactory to me. So I swapped the pickups. I haven’t really jumped down the rabbit hole with options just yet. But I do have a wealth of uninstalled pickups at my disposal to choose from. So, for the moment, I choose the GFS (aka: GuitarFetish) Lipstick humbuckers. They honestly sound pretty damn amazing, but sit inside the pickguard weird. I’m not dead set on keeping these Lipstick installed yet, so I don’t want to commit to ordering a new pickguard that could contour around the curves of the lipsticks. But, for what these lipsticks both sound and look like on a Toronado, I am a fan. If I were to change them out again, I might consider a set of Seymour Duncan 59 Models or Pearly Gates. I even have an uninstalled set of chrome covered GFS Dream 180’s that need a home. I’ve also toyed with the idea of ordering a set of GFS Surf 180’s for a review to be installed in the Toronado. There’s a lot of possibilities.

@@11thFret Thank you very much for the info!!

All I can say is that mine ‘was not’ at the time of filming. However, as the weather changed from normal to broil, I did notice the neck’s maple shaft had shrunk a little bit. The fret ends are still coated with poly, but did blister up. And I can now feel the edge of the skunk stripe on certain spots. So yeah, now I don’t know if Squier allowed these maple shafts to age properly.

I’m really glad you found it useful! I never know going into filming these things. 😂

Thanks! Yeah, I was supposed to have the guitar 2 weeks before prime day and something apparently happened in shipping where a replacement had to be sent. So I literally filmed this on Prime Day and had to take my screenshots the day after during the final stages of editing. As an Amazon Affiliate myself, I was pretty bummed that I missed the opportunity since this is how I get paid (which is, at the most, 1/1000th of the minimum wage). I wasn’t aware of the effects discrepancy either (obviously). In editing, I thought it was kind of funny that I was unaware, yet everything captured. That wah effect at the end was horrid, and I didn’t get to really react to it. Oh well. But thanks for commenting!

For starters, my condolences for whoever hurt you that now causes you to lash out at complete strangers. It’s unfortunate for all who take on the choice of conversing with you. Second, at no point in the video did I throw it on my bench to take measurements, for various reasons. I just went with a somewhat standard unboxing formula. But if you would have just asked vs attacked, I might tell you the low E is at 1.9mm off the 12th fret and 1.7mm off the high E. It wasn’t as bad as my optics led me to believe. Still high, but about as high as my Taylor’s were when I got them. Second, I’ve been playing it a lot since filming, almost non stop. It’s not required a major retune since I tuned up for the video shoot and still sounds awesome. It’s in good shape and I’ve still no issues. Thanks for commenting, and watch out for your knuckles. I’d hate to learn that you tripped over them at some point.

There are players who like it high and there are players who prefer it low - and since it is easier to lower the bridge -- nut the manufacturers market the guitars a little higher.

Ha! Thanks Mark! I do love this one. Mark Ranalli over at 8 Minute Axe turned me onto these, which first piqued my curiosity a bit. Now I’ve got this one and I can’t stop playing it. 😂 I do want to try their latest Nova Go Sonic (LP shape). I saw them at NAMM, but usually shy away from all-in-one electrics having had prior experience with things like the Cort Effector. But now everyone is telling me how incredible they are. So here’s hoping I get one soon. 🤞

If that’s how you feel about your SG’s, I wholeheartedly agree. But there’s a number of us weirdos out there who felt that it did require attention. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sounds like a plan. 🤘