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When building off of a layout make a copy and mark each component complete with a highlighter. Measure each component before installation. It is super tedious and slow, but ultimately a time and headache saver. Also, a lead bending tool is super cheap and super helpful. If you are thinking of future builds then a chassis cradle really helps when soldering components to installed pots or jacks.

I build them from scratch……..it’s an easy build

How do these pickups compare with the humbuckers split compared to a standard single coil tele?

You need to get yourself a tripod so you're not doing the one handed mechanic thing, and jerking the camera around. Makes it difficult to watch. But thanks for trying

Sounds great! My first amp kit was also a Princeton reverb. Don’t regret it at all. Key takeaways: take things slowly, do research, and accept that there will be mistakes. I learned the most from troubleshooting: learned to read schematics, measuring voltages, trace signal, etc

Sounds like a tin can without amplification, simply awful

Not bad... your soldering skills need improvement however. I saw several "cold" joints.

P.S. I wonder if this kit will, properly, fit the cabinet of a 65 PRRI?

Congratulations! Well done. Now, enjoy the product of your effort.

That's a nice exercise, thanks for sharing. I'm like you, CAGED is starting to make sense, but the trick is how do you use it. Another thing to realize is that you don't "have" to play the entire 6 note chord, you probably rarely would when soloing over chords. Keep at it brother.

I am impressed with Dan's knowledge and understanding. Di Marzio has made some wonderful ceramic classic pickups, for decades. I agree with Dan's assessment.

i'm about the same level as you. riffs make me happy and happy is why we play. 😃 i very much enjoy building, painting , setup etc

i'm a ceramic guy. seymour duncan makes some great ceramics. in fact, the sh-6 distortion and black winter are my favorites and both are ceramic.

Amazing guitar

Good, informative video, thank you. I have a Godin Session HSS (Strat type) with ceramic pickups (the only electric guitar I have, new about $600, with a light wood fingerboard). Unfortunately, it sounds way too shrill for me. But that's probably also due to my otherwise budget equipment. In this case, it's not the pickups. I probably just bought the wrong guitar, good if I want to play country, clean etc, but not for distorted sound a la Slash, Metallica etc. Ok, I should probably have a Les Paul and/or active pickups guitar.

My pickups are all girls? And i like them "HOT"

Thanks for the heads up on that. I have been day dreaming of assembling my own PR or DR type of amp and have that as a head, rather than a combo. Thank you for the advice so I can take a step in the right direction and not leap before I look! ❤️‍🔥🕊️🤘🏻

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I love the stock pickups in my ‘013 MiM Strat. When I was shopping for a Strat, I was about to by an American Standard with Fat ‘50s alnicos - but I tried the MiM, and honestly liked the ceramics better. It’s my # 1 go to Guitar.

Thanks for the intel, especially on the ceramic aspect, I agree they get a lot of flack due to the deployment in budget guitars, however, not necessarily a bad choice. Interestingly our HSS 2018 Mex Stratocaster came with alnico pickups according to the database / serial so Mex can clearly go both ways dependent on the year.

Magnetism works the same. No matter the source. Strength of field is the determining factor.

Bill Lawrence was the best . Without Bill there would not be a DiMarzio or Kent Armstrong. Seymour Duncan would not have Bill’s design to steal from and make money on. I standby what Bill said about magnets. If you don’t know what it is look it up and learn. Read any and all available information from Bill Lawrence and then you might understand pickups a little better.

Time Stamp for ''what you haven't been told'' ?

You didn't adjust your middle and bridge pickup height with the new replacement guard.

I liked your new pickups better and I like the look of the white pickguard with the natural wood.

You really take too long to get to a point

amazing looking tele dude. love the mini humbucker in the neck and the single coil in the bridge. where did you get the neck for the guitar from because im looking to get a new neck for my tele and that one looks really nice

The white pickguard looks good on that guitar.

Jeff Beck Fender Signature strat hum canceling single coil pickups use ceramic magnets.

The original pick ups in the red pickguard are commonly seen in in squires. I recently changed them not because they were crap, but they were lacking some treble and were very bright I put some 68 copies in with original style magnets, tone is the same but has less bright - ear piercing. Everyones tastes change too. Good video mate 👍

Can someone tell me if swapping the steel for brass saddles made a difference on this guitar? I have a blue NK-C1 and thinking about swapping the saddles.

I have a guitar with a set of $20 pickups I got off of Amazon that sound great.

I put a loaded pickguard from Rockn R in my Jet 450 s style. It has a humbucker in the bridge position with a push pull in the tone knob to switch to single coil. Made a huge improvement in the tone. Nice to see someone else trying these out. Was impressed with how nice the whole thing was neatly put together.

All of them :)

I find a Strat with Alnico pups sounds fizzy and diffuse with distortion and overdrive. I find Strats with ceramics sound better and more focused with distortion. I’ve no Strats with ceramics now because Alnicos sound better clean and that’s more suitable for my style of music.

🤘🏽Westcreek🤘🏽……I own two other models of Westcreek’s, now I’m considering getting their semi hollow, thanks for your sharing your video 🤘🏽

These are the best loaded Pick guards on the market!

Biggest difference to me was the distortion and the mud went away when you put the 'new' set in that guitar. That's a Strat. Maybe the original electrics were meant to come some where near a set of HB'rs ??

I have swapped out A2 bar magnets from humbuckers and put in ceramics. The ceramics improved the clarity a lot. 🎉

I would chide out to fellow guitarists that clarity relative to a similar or same style pickup is the most redeemable aspect of a pickup when comparing. I almost always point to the clearest sounding pick first (same volume level) relative to another. Can I hear the note with more clarity and tone. This is what tricked us into identifying a squire vs much more expensive strat even though you could simply replace the pickups if you really preferred the squire - that simple. I do however wonder what differentiates in terms of measurement numbers or materials the difference $$ between pickups.

I've been playing over 50 yrs and always prefer the ceramic pickups😂

The confusion comes from purists who like the vintage sound. If you are looking for the sound of a 50s or 60s fender, or Gibson, they are great, though it still doesn't guarantee a good sound, because the windings matter too. If you want a good powerful hard rock, metal, grunge etc, you can get much better results from a ceramic.

All of my electric guitars have ceramic magnets. You just have to work with them. A lot of it is the set-up with the pickup. Some ceramic magnet pickups you set farther away from the strings than you probably would with Alnico. Sink the pole pieces further with some of them. Adjust the overdrives, amp settings to fit. It just takes a bit of work, but you can get good sound out of most pickups if you have the right approach.

What was the point of uploading this? You didn't even finish your sentence.

I couldn't' care less about sports ! You lost me right off the bat !!! This is supposed to be about guitars, not sports !

I bought a $65 Tele off Amazon to teach myself how to do fretwork. I fully intended to gut the electronics and replace the pickups but much to my surprise the ‘cheap ceramic pickups’ sounded fantastic. They have beautiful harmonic overtones that ring and sound great. I find alnico V’s to sometimes be harsh and overly tinny or brittle. Whatever gets you to the tone your ear wants to hear!

Hi Dan, I just ran over your clip here. Oh well, what a mess you are in, right? 1st, don`t call all that wonderful gear shit. That puts it all down. You should appreciate all what you got! I was never able to have so much high quality gear. Or wanted to invest that much into it. I also got quite some, but I always looked at it this way. Do I really need it? Can I get it cheaper in terms of the brand and tune it with better parts, to get the same fun out of it, after doing so. With less money than the producers charge you for the original. Mostly new Pots, PU`s and better electric components and certain hardware does all that. The tone wood is totally unrelevant in the physical terms of a Guitar. Many think so, because the manufacturs and music-magazines throw in some catch words, to hook you up. Basicly, the wood is an attenuation for the resonance of the strings. Means less sustain therefore! Many talk about, that this or that wood gives you more susatin and all fairy tales to it. That is BS!!! Those folks don`t know a damn thing about the physics of a Guitar and the relation of the swinging of a string. You need two fixed points and than the string can swing. The submission of the hardware on an electric Guitar to the tonal wood is there, of cours and also measurable and you feel the resonation on a Guitar-Body, but the wood is damping the sustain. So, a cheap Guitar with cheap tonal wood is only as cheap, as the bridge, nut and the mechanics that are mounted onto it. Better parts do have an impact. That is a fact. If any one else does not believe it, well, they don`t know what they are doing....., but that with all their might! So why buy a Guitar for so much money than? In my case, I had known thes facts already after I got deeper into the topic. Tuning cheaper Guitars, was worth to do so. If I have to sell it/them, it won`t hurt that bad. I can set the stuff back to its original condition and sell all extra parts. It won`t ever hurt, to give them away for a smaller price therefore. You have to wait for s.o. who appreciates it, the way you do and doesn`t want to pull you over the table. But you need to consider, that you will never get the money back, you invested into it. That is the way, the used market works. If there is a rarerity among them, you can set the price up and easily deal it down. But the problem today is, the market is so full of all kind of stuff, that it is oversaturated. So there are folks, that always look for a bargain. Why not hang some onto yor wall and have them in your eyes. That way you are more attracted to your Guitars. If you are satisfied with your amp, why keep all others? If you really want another Guitar, you wished to have for a long time, try to take it the amps a dealer and see if you can make a deal, that both sides will like. But please, don`t call your wonderful gear shit. That is not justifying them. And always keep in mind, less is more, means a LesPaul and a Marshall amp is actually all you need. We all in the western societies are oversaturated and can`t appreciate the simple things in life anymore. Maybe, you should also consider to donate stuff to kids, that are talented and can`t afford such good stuff. That way, it won`t hurt and will give you a good feeling, but don`t hang in there with your high hopes. That is an illusion. Greetings from Germany :-)

80% of Duncans and Dimarzios are ceramic. Its really a must for high gain. Alnicos not so much. Everything has its place.

What a load of b******S

Body will be 3 piece's and the body is totara from new Zealand