4 Reason to Own a Partscaster...my Tom Delonge Stratocaster and a Rivera Fifty Five Twelve
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2019
- If you want a guitar that is completely your style and helps you write new music and grow as a musician, you have two options, pay thousands of dollars for a custom shop or build it yourself.
I've owned and hotrodded this Tom Delonge Strat for 16 years and it's now a purpose-built rock and roll machine. I love it and have grown with it.
Partscasters grow on you and with you.
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Very emotional video. Just shows what that guitar means to you and that can never be replaced. Too many memories built into it. Worth more to you then any other guitar you will buy.
I've only started watching you the past couple of days, but I already love the channel, the wisdom you're passing on and your personality, you seem like an incredibly kind and genuine guy. Keep up the good vibes and be well.
Just finished my parts-Telecaster. One piece pine body some guy sold on Ebay, a dark wooden pick guard from a dude in Greece, a pau farro Fender neck and Fender vintage PUs. I learned a lot putting it together, now feel comfortable setting up a guitar and slotting a nut and soldering a control plate and shielding, all that good stuff ... and it sounds beautiful. The wood is so soft that it'll get plenty of dings over the years (and I just used wipe-on poly), but I'm looking forward to that.
Spot on Jeremy. Great video and thank you for sharing.
5. They can truly reflect you and your personality.
6. They can be super cheap to build and it's alot of fun to trade parts with your friends to customize it to your taste.
7. They are just plain fun to build.
I just finished an awesome all black strat and I was able to source alot of top of the line parts alot cheaper than you can imagine. It's now one of my favorite guitars and I find myself grabbing it nearly everytime I play. I've got several high end guitars including American strat, les paul gibson, g&l and a schecter all costing way more than that partscaster but it can hold it's own against any of them if you build it right.
Same thing here bro. I rarely go to my brand guitars (Gibson, Ibanez, Jackson, ESP). I always go to my partscasters. There’s something really personal about them.
I just found your channel and I’m blown away by the quality of your videos. You definitely earned my sub.
i really have respect for u dude! love ur vids
Just started gathering parts for my first partscaster! Going to do a modified Tom Delonge style guitar as well.
This was way more emotional and deep than I expected
Jeremy, I really enjoy watching your videos. I have an old Fender Strat Partscaster too, which started from a 1979 American Strat neck I got from a friend back in 1985. Built a body for it, later upgraded to a Mexi 70s Strat body, added a loaded pickguard with Texas specials from ebay, and Tremolo from a buddy off his mid 70s american strat,...it's been evolving over 30 years, has some bumps and dings and faded paint, but no worries...play it every day gotta love the Partscaster! Will never sell it.
I have a partscaster I assembled back in 1992, when I was a really young musician. It has been through countless 3-hour gigs and been played, dropped, refretted, eventually a new neck, but it's been there throughout my entire musical life. And, it's still one I'll go back to for a riff or recording a special part to get it's sound. Worthless to anyone on the used market, but priceless to me.
That's a beautiful guitar man. Keep rocking it in good health as you both grow older and keep it for your kids.
I want to build a pine body parts tele but in short scale. 24 inch but i don't know where to begin. It's a project i have in my mind for my 40's. Im 38 now, so i have time.
I like your approach.
I’ve built 5 strat partscasters and a tele partscaster. I love them so much!
Great video! I’ve though about doing something similar but my strat is USA... so maybe I’ll do something like this
Yea, I’ve got a partscaster. It’s my favourite too.
Great video. My partscaster is the best I've owned. 2014 Clapton body in pewter, 2013 American standard maple neck with LSR roller nut & Fender locking tuners, EMG SA with SPC & EXG (originals not the rebranded DG-20'S) and CTS push/pull volume pot. A dream to play
Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
I bought an American Deluxe Tele about 7 years ago and I've been modding it ever since. I went from crazy 5 way switches to having no switch, no neck pickup, and a no load tone control. I probably won't ever sell this guitar, but I'd love to refinish it in white with nitro finish
One of my first and favorite builds was a tele wine red alder body, mint 3-ply pickguard, brass 3-saddle bridge, classic 60s neck, and beautiful Lindy Fralin pickups - a blues special in the bridge and a vintage wound at the neck. Amazing guitar for well under $1000
Really good video. I liked how you connected the guitar to your personal experience. I have the same thing with another guitar I own, and, yeah. That is about all :)
I always come back to this video, that guitar is so bloody cool
It's showing up in a video about a Mesa I found in a barn next week...buckle up!
You’re rad dude!!!
i use my pbass 16years now and still love it.
Nice video Jeremy
I just built my first partscaster. Olympic White American Special Body and pots, Mint Green Pickguard, MIM Classic Player Maple Neck.....Seymour Duncan SSL-1 in the bridge, Texas Special in the middle and Eric Johnson pick up in the Neck. It was super fun putting it together and it was under $800. Plays and sounds wonderful
I don’t currently have a partscaster, but my dad and I are building one soon and I’m stoked!
My favorite guitar I have right now is my surf green HSS strat for sure 🤘🏻
Jeremy I can't believe I just now found your channel! I strive to do a similar theme on my channel, but I focus on the cheapest, most over-looked old guitars I can find. Also I deal strictly local, Craigslist, OfferUp, I've never bought a guitar online or shipped one and I must admit I have a bit of a phobia to shipping a guitar..I know people do it all the time, but seems like theres so much that could go wrong in transit!
I had a 2001 American Series Double Fat Strat for 15 years, and it was a fine guitar. But it quickly became my (at times) favorite guitar after I got a Warmoth one-piece nitro-finished Strat neck. I still have the original neck, so no guilt here.
Just "finished" my first parts-caster. Started as a 2008 affinity strat. New pickups, tuning machines, string trees, nut, switches and pots. Has 7-way switching now too. I love this thing. Eventually wanna re-neck it as well.
I love partscasters. My favorite electric is a Tele kit guitar. Did a lot of work to it and ready to make some upgrades. The thing plays like a dream!👍😎🎸🎶
Thanks for this dude, truly. I'm currently on the home stretch with my first Partscaster. Like this, it's a single humbucker Strat. It's, a USA body with a PRS SE pup. I know next to zero about electronics bit, like you say, it's a learning curve. I can't wait to finish it off and I'm trying desperately not to medle with the finish because I've got it to the black over sunburst I always wanted.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Thanks again man
I've made two so far. Finished the bodies and necks with nitro. Sourced all the parts and put them together. Once is a very close replica of a 55 Esquire. Sweet guitars!
I REMEMBER THOSE OMG!!
I bought my American Standard Tele HH on the unplanned trip I had to make right after my mom died. I've changed out the bridge and put an Antiquity in the bridge position. It will be with me forever.
I’m building my first partscaster. I know it’s gonna be a long term thing until I’m happy with it but I’m ready for it.
Love it! That's the best part is relentlessly making it exactly what you want.
nice video, im building my own tom delonge guitar out of squier now
Yea definitely a must have.....I like to take the Edward Van Halen approach to my project guitars
I'm so excited to build my guitar, it's gonna be exactly what I want and it's the only guitar I want to own. And for way cheaper than it's performance could be
My second real guitar was a parts caster. I had been playing for about a year and wasn’t too into it but I found a custom blue swirl stray body and neck on eBay for $54. I didn’t know anything about building guitars but it was the best decision I made. Guitar has become my life. I’ve built 3 now and I’m building my fourth soon. My main guitar is based on a 1962 Strat with some of my own touches
Cool guitar. Your videos just showed up in my feed. I'm in the mountains in VA too but I am a bit west of you. I'm over near Galax. I hunt, buy, sell and trade guitars a bit myself.
My second guitar (1985 or so) was a partscaster. Black Fender strat body, white pickguard, Bill Lawrence ‘mini’ L500 humbucker in the bridge position. Mahogany 21 fret neck (headstock was reshaped like an early Charvel pointy look, no brand). I turned the body into a full solid shape (no pickguard) and put in a cream Dimarzio super distortion. Volume control only. Painted the whole thing cherry red. Two years, I refinished it to cream colour. It now looks like an early Kramer Baretta. I have 3 other Partscasters (a V, a tele and another superstrat). They are really fun, and I keep on experimenting all the time.
Nice relic’d’s
Yep I have a partscaster strat (2) and a partscaster tele......they are for playing not for sale or trade. Great guitars with all the features I love ....
Sorry, to hear your mother passed. That bummed me out. U have a great channel.
I have 2 Partscaster Strats. Mexican Alder bodies and Warmoth maple CBS headstock necks. They both have a Dimarzio Super Distortion bridge pickup which adds some beef and splits beautifully. One is a single pickup rocker and the other has a Dimarzio Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues neck pickup.
I have a parts caster, same as you, was my first guitar, have now spent more on parts than guitar itself, but despite all the changes I still get all the old memories from the first time I played it.
However now I’m older and have my own money I finally bought myself a used mint condition fender start Tom delonge 😬😬
My Partscaster is a Squier Bullet made in 2002 in Indonesia I believe. I just picked it up this past December and have put in a new pre wired black pickup and switched out the chrome bridge for a black one...it’s navy blue and looks pretty great with the black components. The nut needs help though...soon I’ll get it playing again! $70 before the few mods.
I have a 2007 Fender standard strat with a floyd . it is my Favorite mod guitar. I put a Dimarzio Super 3 in the bridge & will change out the stock Fender single coils to some Dimarzio noiseless pickups in the future.
good channel,very high quality video,i hope i find this channel earlier.
I have a Peavey Predator my parents bought me when I was 12 that was my first "good" guitar that I owned. Over the years I've acquired much better gear but for the life of me could never sell or part with this. I somewhat recently made the decision to modify it (with my parents' blessings) and it went from being just a sentimental starter guitar to something that I like better than far more expensive guitars that I own. Swapped out the pickups, tuners, bridge, and nut and it plays like a dream.
I had an interesting conversation with a Strat geek today who swears that the Squier's have a smaller/thinner body and greater possibilities of misaligned OEM parts - previous to that convo I would assume they would be great for parts-casting. Is it recommended to stay with MIM / American foundations?
cool guitar, been doing the same thing for years
Parts guitars are great! I didn't even think about it until seeing this video, but all of my "Fenders" (except for basses) are partscasters. My Strats are combos of Squier and Mexican Fender bodies with Warmoth necks. The one exception is a combination of the neck from the first guitar I bought with my own money (a '98 Fender Deluxe Fat Strat Floyd Rose) and a newer Mexican Fender Floyd Rose body I picked up on eBay. None of them have the original pickups.
I've also got some MIJ Mustang bodies with Warmoth necks. Building parts guitars can become an addiction.
I absolutely agree. I have two , a Yamaha EG112 and an Epiphone Les Paul Jr. that I'm constantly modding and experimenting on . My Tele and 335 are pretty well good to go . PEACE
Pretty heavy bro....Sad but very heartfelt ...Wow. Be well dude.
You should do more videos on amps.
I'm currently working on a Partscaster that's guilt free for me, but I've taken a little heat for. It was an old beat up Fender Black Label MIM that I got cheap. I'm doing a complete upgrade and repaint. It's still a Fender body and neck, but now it'll be a much better guitar than it was when I bought it. And it will be my own "signature".
Keep it up!
Sooo I had this squier vintage modified body that I got on eBay. Sonic blue!! Put in a sweet pick guard with some nice American made pickups
Sullivan brand I believe.. new big block bridge and all that nice cloth wiring.
The most expensive thing was the neck! I put a 2016 American standard rosewood neck with locking tuners. Man it was nice!! Soo one day I need money! I was gonna pawn that partscaster but I loved the neck! So what I did was I took off neck and pickguard and put those on an American nitro honey burst strat I had! The maple neck big head stick went on the Squier body along with the pickguard and electronics.
That’s what I ended up pawning
The sonic blue squier body with the maple big headstock neck! It hurt but atleast I kept the nice rosewood American neck and electronics on a USA body.
My Mexican Strat (hss) is slowly being transformed into a custom version that suits me. I am not a fan of trem bridges but will keep this one. My favorite solid body guitar is without a doubt one of my Ernie Ball Music Man Silhouettes. I have a few of them. My main Silhouette is a 2002 with a Seymour Duncan pickup system. I always carry 2 guitars to a gig just in case. My opiniion is that the Silhouette is unmatched for an "off the rack" non-custom made solid body. I have a bunch of other guitars that are also pretty cool for instance, my Guild S-300 AD. That was my main guitar until I switched to long scale guitars. I play "bebop-ish" blues/rock/swing" stuff that includes some "jazzgrass/country."
I've got 1 that I'm constantly changing up things on, and I've got 2 more that I'm slowly building. (VERY SLOWLY! lol) I get a piece or two for them once in a blue moon. Too many guitars to piddle with, and not enough time or money to do it with. Lol
Much HEART
Nice Jeremy , I'm always messing , swapping out strats , destroyed loads , regards from Ireland ☺
I wanna build one like that
Do it! Send pics.
I bought my daphne blue tele on Covid unemployment, and I’m modding it with Duncan invaders and a pearloid pick guard to be Delonge-esque
That amp sounds nice!
My Usa Strat got modified over the years bit by bit, has chips and dinks all over it and has aged with me (had it for 20 years). I've just started building a partscaster with a bullet strat. A musician needs an emotional connection to their instrument.
Hey Jeremy, thank you for the awesome video! Loved checking out your Partscaster. I have a Fender Tom Delonge, it's modded, all of my guitars are modded, what can I say? I'm a hot-rodder, always have been. I put a 2 Meg Ohm volume potentiometer in my Delonge, it opened up the Invader so much. Building a Partscaster right now; It's a 90's MiM Alder body. The neck is roasted maple with and ebony fretboard, abalone dots, abalone side dots, compound radius from Warmoth. Fender locking tuners. It's an H-S-S Strat. Neck pup-Lace Sensor Gold. Mid pup- Lace Sensor Silver. The humbucker is a 1990's PRS HFS. The wiring harness was made by a guy who is the guitar tech for Foofighters, Weezer, Ozzt Osbourne's band which gives me 16 tones. There is a kill switch, which is very useful for my purposes. The body is shielded *Faraday Cage). Output jack is a Pure Tone model The Tremelo is a PRS with Graphtech saddles. Removed the horribly thick stock poly finish, the guitar is black metal-flake. Re-did the Fender logo but in abalone, the rest of the decal is standard. Having a blast building this guitar with my son. I wouldn't sell it, the guitar means too much to me. We built a better Strat for me than Fender ever has, and I've owned a few lol.
I’m getting a squire strat off of marketplace in 2 days. It’s $150 with an amp and the guitar. It’ll be a project guitar. I’ll have pick guards that’ll have different pickup configurations ready to swap out. The output Jack wires will have a connector so it can do quick swaps. It’s really mostly an experiment guitar. I have a schecter hero 6 with Duncan design pickups, a 92 Mexican tele, I’m getting the strat to do builds on, and I’m going to make a tribute les Paul for my biggest inspirations for rock, metal, etc. les Paul because Guns N’ Roses got me into rock and I love slash, it’ll be white with a black pickguard and hardware like Jim root’s tele. But I’ll have a grey burst on it so it still has a bit of slash’s design. And it’ll have Seymour Duncan invaders like synyster gates from avenged sevenfold uses
Great video men. I'm sorry about your mom. I own a partcaster guitar too.
what's the song at the beggining?
Cool video !! I wish I'd have held on to a couple I let go....
Down to 1 acoustic but thinkin about getting a MIM tele......?
SmiTTyy 1967 yes. Get a mim Tele. And modify the heck out of it.
MIM tele with swapped electronics is for sure the way. Cheap and kicks any american made out of the water
I seem to have an old Strat with a Guitar Research neck on it. Don't know anything about it. Paid $100 for it.
I'm a simple kind of guy. It doesn't get any better than a single pickup guitar covered in stickers.
This video made me not want to sell my Squier 😊
Earned a sub right there!
Hot rod that thing!
@@JeremySheppard Gonna install a new neck and get her refinished! Some new hardware will be nice too, I've had her since 2013 (She's a 2007 Squier SE) and she deserves to be treated right!
Where did you find the custom fretboard?
Custom inlay from Fuquay Guitars in Virginia.
I'd have to say my favorite guitar was probably my first and it was either a brand new 77 or 76 Les Paul Standard in wine red. I would have never chosen wine red. they had about six new guitars in the store. Gold tops Sunburst custom Sunburst custom black beauties and I just asked them to bring them to me one by one. And I tried them un- Amplified and I simply strummed them and it was more resonant than any of the rest of them so I said I'll take this one. And when I opened it up my eyes it was a wine red Les Paul Standard he was your typical norlin era Les Paul but it did have a nice top and it was probably more than two pieces but it wasn't obvious I see lots of them that are incredibly obviously three-piece tops which kind of bothers me I mean I really honestly Gibson you should be able to do better than that. But it was a great f****** guitar I got it when I was fifteen and I played it until I was 18 or 19 then I traded it all for something else and went through about six or seven guitars in Rapid succession that I bought a black Les Paul Pro Deluxe which I still have fowling I would not sell my guitars anymore or at least not the ones that mattered for my 50th birthday I bought the one up in the left-hand corner before I got the Gibson Les Paul I loved thank you Mom and Dad Merry Merry Christmas
Putting together my own partscaster right now. When it's all done, I'll have spent 500 on a guitar that was
Did you explain the sheep thing?
Jamie .Loh I explain it in this video. I was called Jimmy Sheep in high school ruclips.net/video/jaQRiIU05qk/видео.html
I got into partscaster guitars because I play lefty and lefty versions of classic guitars are rare and prohibitively expensive. There's so many great necks, bodies and pickups available these days you can get anything you want. You can put together a great Fender clone for $5 - 600.
im about to mod my shitty off brand strat i got when i was 7 to the specs you have, im painting it hot pink
I built Billie joe Armstrong’s from Green Day and it’s my fav and I’ll never sell it bc it’s the guitar me and my dad built
I’ve got a strat that was made by a local luthier. Swamp ash body. Nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Looks amazing, Seymour Duncan hot rail in the bridge. Plays better than $5000 guitars.
Pls get an SM57 for recording your guitar ^^ :) Under the less, nice video :)
maxi hraschan on it!
Perfekt mate. Keep going doing your nice videos.
Nice, bet is priceless for you, it would be for me.
Boomy room!
Nice guitar, sounds great through the Rivera! I just don't see how you got $1000 in it , with what you said it should be under $600.
George Lackey neck refin and inlay were $300. It’s not $1000 I was guessing and over shot. Also, cumulatively, it’s probably around there but I’ve sold most everything i swap in and out.
@@JeremySheppard OK ,You should learn to do this yourself, lots of money to be saved especially refin job.
I’d love to hear more about the ‘Sheep’ neck?
I ended up cutting that bit out.
My nickname growing up was Jimmy Sheep. I had a friend who was great at inlay and he had just gotten sick. I wanted him to inlay Jimmy Sheep on a Martin D-28 for me, but that wasn't happening in the timeframe he had left so he inlayed it on my parts caster. It's the Merle Travis style font. It's a cool detail that didnt' get discussed on the video. Maybe I'll do another sometime.
Thanks for watching!
I built a parts guitar once. The body and neck did not like each other, even tho they were Fender USA same era. It sounded like dog balls. So bad that I couldn’t sell it together. I had to turn around and sell all the parts. Scared me off from trying it again.
itchyvinyl what do dog balls sound like? Haha. They’ll need a setup. Did you wire it yourself?
Jeremy Sheppard All the electronics were fine. It didn’t have anything to do with the wiring. The two pieces of wood did not resonate well together. Like not at all. When you strummed it, it felt (and sounded) like a dead fish. No life at all. I would have felt like a crook trying to sell it as a built guitar. Luckily, I was able to move the parts and break even. BTW, dog balls have shitty tone.
I like modifying Mexican Fender guitars. No worries if something happens to it on a gig. It only get's better with good mods. :D
Too many guitarists get a bit snobby about guitars (Newsflash, right?), turning their nose in the air if a guitar you’re playing isn’t all original. They seem to forget or don’t even realize that some of their guitar heroes played partscasters - Clapton’s Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Number One and Lenny. The best strats I own are partscasters.
Agreed, take Gilmour's black Strat- changed neck, pickups etc and Fender offered that as an artist series so people were spending top money on a copy of a partscaster
I’m building a fender mustang
Eric Clapton's blackie was a partscaster.
my favorite guitar: whichever one I'm playing, They all have a special place and purpose in my life. As far as Strats go, both of mine have been modded with essential upgrades and my favorite customizations are: Better input jacks, better (more solid) 5 way switch, David Gilmour pickup switch mode to turn the 5 way into a 7 way and the odd pot/cap here and there.
The best part is you can also just buy a genuine USA strat body and neck and then fill it with what you want so it can be a full on custom strat it’s just you made it custom, obviously will never be with what you spend but that’s all relative a custom Gibson isn’t worth £5000 and a custom strat isn’t worth £5000 guitars are about the feels and if it gives you the feels it’s worth what ever you can afford to spend on it the actual money is irrelevant
All guitars are customizable xD
guitars have to much stuff you don t actual use , always use the bridge pickup , always have to tone full , never install the tremolo bar , so hard tale with bridge pickup and no tone , is the way to go ,
Excuse me, but all my Partscaster Guitars consists of American Made Necks and Bodies!
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I hate that name “partscaster”. Guitars were meant to be bastardized and tinkered with. If you’re buying an overpriced guitar (any one that is over $3.5k, then you’re buying nothing but a name and advertising. There are few, if any really worth it. Yes, I understand the true historic ones, like a 59 LP, or one with significance, but people associate name and rarity with cost and it isn’t.
Certain luthiers do make god guitars, parts casters are always just noisy crap.If you could replace fender and Gibson they would not exist.Metal distortion, covers, not important what you play, it is all crap.
Any guitar, partscaster or not, that is set up well, will be a great guitar. That's an interesting point about replacing Fender and Gibson. They've definitely lost market share to Bilt, Reverend, and Fano.
@@JeremySheppard Oh please. Look, i work with great Luthiers in Nicaragua, Classic to dreadnoughts, we have the best woods in the world in Central America. The machinery in factories world wide is exact, People able to do good hand work are generations old. Mixing and matching parts may please kids in garage bands, but the guitars are nothing burgers. Shit wood, inexact machines, inexperienced hand work equals metal, pop rock cover noise. Look i dig your hobby, have fun. However to pretend these are instruments capable of shows or studio work is insulting our intelligence.
@@georgechapogas1054 Blackie was a partscaster, SRV pieced his guitars together, Les Paul was constantly changing his stuff around by himself. Let's also be clear, there aren't "partsacoustics" acoustic guitars demand a muuuuuch higher level precision and care to detail. I'm much more of an acoustic player, I prefer Huss and Dalton and Martin's the most.
@@JeremySheppard SRV and Les Paul were qualified, and least Les was, SRV had the full lab to experiment in. Garage junk is garage junk, deal with it. I have hand made 3rd generation coco bolo African ebony new dreadnought cutaways, you are correct, they require a 3rd generation luthier and old growth cut 40 years ago.
George Chapogas There’s room for all of us. Thanks for watching. Send me links to your guitars, I would like to see them.