Did the same setup,,,now the good will store project,lives.the good thing is last week, it was a pile of parts, no one bought at 30. dollars,snooze you lose.rock on man
Dang! All you guys are lucky. I see all these videos of people finding guitars (Some actually expensive vintage that apparently no one realizes which seems a little too good to be true and hard to believe happened more than maybe once but...) at goodwill and yard sales. I have never seen anything even remotely related to guitar in any of the yards or stores in my area which is kinda odd since I live in the Nashville area where several brands are made and imported and everybody and his brother "plays" guitar or has at least owned a few and tried. I've diligently checked regularly and religiously and even talked to mangers and staff. They tell me they don't remember ever getting any guitars donated in. I'd be happy to find one of those crappy ole harmony strats that Sears sold in the 80s that were made from crap and played and sounded like it and were half thrown together and falling apart when you first opened the box. Bummer! Lol. You guys are lucky.
@@johnpearson4899 yeahI couldve bought 2 but others where a little beat up to mess with,been jammen on it sounds sweet,might have to line electric cavity,has buzz till you touch strings,all good with amp cords looking at 115.00 spent to jam,way happy here, hunt,around for yours good luck
Good review. Let me say (only bc I suffer from the same thing!) try to play fewer notes 90% of the time. Let the notes sustain longer and just feel the pocket. I wish someone would have told me this years ago, so I’m not trying to be a jerk or anything...you play really well.
Looks pretty cool! I love taking something that started out as junk and turning it into something cool like you did. It'll be a nice guitar when you're done. Some of my favorite guitars are cheap ones I fixed up! Sounds pretty good too!☺
I am doing the same with a knock off strat my little brother used and abused he glued goofy stickers on it with epoxy resin it was a nice Trans blue I am sanding it down and re painting it a deep blue metallic with a blue pearl pre loaded pickguard from drangonfire guitars HSS and Im getting a fender american standard neck for it. I want to make it a real nice custom strat. Getting a hipshot trem bridge for it and locking tuners it should be slick! I can’t wait to show my little brother when it’s done he is gonna want it back!
Nice review, I always used to play HSS guitars when I was playing cover songs back in the early 90's, that pickup config' suits the need for single coil or humbuckers per song. Ammoon makes really great stuff. I have a Les Paul copy made by them that plays and sounds great.
Man I have the same set up,one question though,I assume black wire is ground to bridge.not sure which red and white wires fit on jack,,my rig was body with no guts,,,,so any help is appreciated
Hi...nice job..question is there a ground wire going to input jack and to trem clawm.?..I'm working on a project and I'm stuck in that part..can you share some tios?
I put the same one in my cheap Glarry,very impressed for the price.you can't buy the components separately for this price,I know I have tried.the musiclily ones are pretty good too.
I was looking at these to upgrade an old Squier strat that I never play anymore, but I assumed that the pickups would be junk. They actually don't sound bad at all in this vid. I might rethink my decision and save some cash. It sure is cheaper than the Dragonfire one I was looking at!
I found a local cheap guitar techie but i think i can solder 3 wires myself. I got a 2007 Squier strat HSS from him for $85 and love it! The action feels really good but i keep thinking about upgrading. The black and white design is so boring. I took one apart to strip off the paint but it was really cheap basswood and i couldn't put it back together. So i sold it for parts. It was super light and sounded so good. Hopefully someone fixed it up. I got a cheap MINT 2000 Squier strat with little amp for $50 off Facebook. Did nothing to it and sold it for $140 in 2 days. Deals are everywhere!
well i almost left this vid , when you were talking about the pick guard wont come out of bag lol it was poking threw an caught any how glad i stayed the end result which is all that matters was excellent i was shocked you got all that blues tone on a not $$$ guitar great job you have a talent keep it up, this is another vid proving we need to stop paying for names !!! thanks and great job
HAHA yeah sorry about that I get side tracked sometimes. I been buying hardware off of amazon last couple of weeks and trying it out I can’t tell a difference between expensive or cheap the name is what makes the price go up now days
Brian Kulakowski you're so right! The name is what you pay for, not the guitar. I can't see thousands of dollars difference. If you do like he did and then make sure it's set up right, has decent tuners, and the frets are level and smooth on the edges, you'll have a great guitar for a small fraction of the cost of an expensive one. I have a bunch of nice guitars for the cost of one name brand! All copies...Strat, Tele, Les Paul, etc. and I love em!
Great to hear the playing do the talking. I like how there is no mention of tonewood, expensive pickups, tuners, relic tone paint etc etc. Thanks for the demo. All I needed to chance some of these pickups. What amp are you using?
I feel like improving my guitar but i know i wont play it :P Change the strat's body, add an HSS setup and such. Or maybe i will play more if it feels a lot better But we know we arent
That is so much work and where would you buy the magnets, also you can damage the pickup. Just buy some cheap alnico pickups or a loaded cheap pickguard with alnico pickups. Don’t be penny wise and pound foolish.
Probably too late but go to stratosphere they have loaded alnico pickguards for about the same price and for $100 you can get a Fender lic. One there as well. Not that the one in the demo sounded bad but ceramic bar magnets are pretty blah alnico 2s or 5s for the same price I'd go that route.
I just installed this exact same loaded pick guard into my Squier Affinity Strat today. The neck and middle pickups sound like total shit man. Muddy as hell and hum. I expected some hum because of the single coil and middle position but godamm, this is terrible. The humbucker in the bridge is ok, but a tad bit muddy also. Everything is 100% wired correct. What the hell could be the problem ?
@@williamb4652 No you check the output of the pots with a multimeter. I've had to replace CTS 250k pots in my Fender guitar. They read 184k, very weak. I buy a lot of 3-10 pots and choose the highest reading ones and swap them out. Don't assume the pot puts out what the manufacturer says they are.
@@williamb4652 A humbucker needs at least 300k pot output to not sound muddy or dark. I've got some HSS and HSH Strats, on 500k pots and they sound great. I can assure you that's the problem, weak pots. I've put in stronger pots in about 15-20 of my guitars, take my advice ✌
I got one of these (or very similar) its very nice but I don't know where the wires go. there's one red, a White one and a Black one. I know one is to ground the guitar but not sure about the others. Can anyone help me lol?
Hard tail models,, black goes to bridge, underneath it,red went to jack tip , white was inside of cord jack use muti meter on ohms, to determine which leads are which, look on back of control knobs,ground is off the back of controls ,my pickguard is from Corona virus central,so it was disinfected before and during , opening the package!!!😷
I ment the inside of out put jack ground(white),,to bridge is main ground(blàck)shame the builders don't use common color codes,good luck and a meter helps make sure 😷
Seems like that pickguard is really nice and the neck pickup that you're playing on sounds really good for a neck. Would have like to have heard the other ones as well. Thanks for subscribing to my channel I will reciprocate.
Did you add wire from spring cavity to the common earth point, shield cavity and Jack cavity plus use shielded wire from Jack to switch? Position 1 3 and 5 may be noisy but try to position yourself away from fields 2 and 4 should be quiet if coils are wound correctly
Did the same setup,,,now the good will store project,lives.the good thing is last week, it was a pile of parts, no one bought at 30. dollars,snooze you lose.rock on man
Dang! All you guys are lucky. I see all these videos of people finding guitars (Some actually expensive vintage that apparently no one realizes which seems a little too good to be true and hard to believe happened more than maybe once but...) at goodwill and yard sales. I have never seen anything even remotely related to guitar in any of the yards or stores in my area which is kinda odd since I live in the Nashville area where several brands are made and imported and everybody and his brother "plays" guitar or has at least owned a few and tried. I've diligently checked regularly and religiously and even talked to mangers and staff. They tell me they don't remember ever getting any guitars donated in. I'd be happy to find one of those crappy ole harmony strats that Sears sold in the 80s that were made from crap and played and sounded like it and were half thrown together and falling apart when you first opened the box. Bummer! Lol. You guys are lucky.
@@johnpearson4899 yeahI couldve bought 2 but others where a little beat up to mess with,been jammen on it sounds sweet,might have to line electric cavity,has buzz till you touch strings,all good with amp cords looking at 115.00 spent to jam,way happy here, hunt,around for yours good luck
Came for the review, stayed for the playing
and the playing is the reason I keep coming back!
Good review. Let me say (only bc I suffer from the same thing!) try to play fewer notes 90% of the time. Let the notes sustain longer and just feel the pocket. I wish someone would have told me this years ago, so I’m not trying to be a jerk or anything...you play really well.
Looks pretty cool! I love taking something that started out as junk and turning it into something cool like you did. It'll be a nice guitar when you're done. Some of my favorite guitars are cheap ones I fixed up! Sounds pretty good too!☺
That sounds very good. I just bought one, coming tomorrow. Thanks for the demo
I am doing the same with a knock off strat my little brother used and abused he glued goofy stickers on it with epoxy resin it was a nice Trans blue I am sanding it down and re painting it a deep blue metallic with a blue pearl pre loaded pickguard from drangonfire guitars HSS and Im getting a fender american standard neck for it. I want to make it a real nice custom strat. Getting a hipshot trem bridge for it and locking tuners it should be slick! I can’t wait to show my little brother when it’s done he is gonna want it back!
Sounds good to me my friend for it to be a yard sale guitar, Awwwwesome review and love it!!!
Nice review, I always used to play HSS guitars when I was playing cover songs back in the early 90's, that pickup config' suits the need for single coil or humbuckers per song. Ammoon makes really great stuff. I have a Les Paul copy made by them that plays and sounds great.
Man I have the same set up,one question though,I assume black wire is ground to bridge.not sure which red and white wires fit on jack,,my rig was body with no guts,,,,so any help is appreciated
Hi...nice job..question is there a ground wire going to input jack and to trem clawm.?..I'm working on a project and I'm stuck in that part..can you share some tios?
Haha you're Cherokee Ronnie ,Ive watched alot of your Jeep vids
some of the cheap stuff on ebay/amazon actually is pretty good. cool looking guitar, and really liked your riffs.
I put the same one in my cheap Glarry,very impressed for the price.you can't buy the components separately for this price,I know I have tried.the musiclily ones are pretty good too.
I was looking at these to upgrade an old Squier strat that I never play anymore, but I assumed that the pickups would be junk. They actually don't sound bad at all in this vid. I might rethink my decision and save some cash. It sure is cheaper than the Dragonfire one I was looking at!
I found a local cheap guitar techie but i think i can solder 3 wires myself. I got a 2007 Squier strat HSS from him for $85 and love it! The action feels really good but i keep thinking about upgrading. The black and white design is so boring. I took one apart to strip off the paint but it was really cheap basswood and i couldn't put it back together. So i sold it for parts. It was super light and sounded so good. Hopefully someone fixed it up.
I got a cheap MINT 2000 Squier strat with little amp for $50 off Facebook. Did nothing to it and sold it for $140 in 2 days. Deals are everywhere!
You sold me on one of these. Thanks for sharing!
Effective demo and very nice play at the end. Pickups seem to be 100% ok to play the blues. What about them for crunch ?
Just got mine ... I just slipped the corner of the bag over the horn .. came right off.
i bought the same one but black and it really sounds quite good
well i almost left this vid , when you were talking about the pick guard wont come out of bag lol it was poking threw an caught any how glad i stayed the end result which is all that matters was excellent i was shocked you got all that blues tone on a not $$$ guitar great job you have a talent keep it up, this is another vid proving we need to stop paying for names !!! thanks and great job
HAHA yeah sorry about that I get side tracked sometimes. I been buying hardware off of amazon last couple of weeks and trying it out I can’t tell a difference between expensive or cheap the name is what makes the price go up now days
Brian Kulakowski you're so right! The name is what you pay for, not the guitar. I can't see thousands of dollars difference. If you do like he did and then make sure it's set up right, has decent tuners, and the frets are level and smooth on the edges, you'll have a great guitar for a small fraction of the cost of an expensive one. I have a bunch of nice guitars for the cost of one name brand! All copies...Strat, Tele, Les Paul, etc. and I love em!
neck pickup sounds pretty quiet from what I can hear at the end. Nice work!
I have a similar HSS loaded pickguard. I am a bit lost with the wiring from the grounds, I get no sound from the pickups when I tap on them.
Great talent!!!!
Great to hear the playing do the talking. I like how there is no mention of tonewood, expensive pickups, tuners, relic tone paint etc etc.
Thanks for the demo. All I needed to chance some of these pickups.
What amp are you using?
It looks like a Peavey Bandit??
I feel like improving my guitar but i know i wont play it :P
Change the strat's body, add an HSS setup and such.
Or maybe i will play more if it feels a lot better
But we know we arent
Awesome!!
Can those pickups be upgraded with pole magnets? Get rid of the big flat magnets off of the bottom?
That is so much work and where would you buy the magnets, also you can damage the pickup. Just buy some cheap alnico pickups or a loaded cheap pickguard with alnico pickups. Don’t be penny wise and pound foolish.
Does it worth it if I change the squier bullet strat pickguard with this one?
The Bullet pickups are pretty average these would be better
Probably too late but go to stratosphere they have loaded alnico pickguards for about the same price and for $100 you can get a Fender lic. One there as well. Not that the one in the demo sounded bad but ceramic bar magnets are pretty blah alnico 2s or 5s for the same price I'd go that route.
who else thought that he will play november rain solo at the beginning?
I got one of these today, not fitted it yet, but mine was stuck in the bag also. Ha!
Every pick guard I buy is lol
Lol, a year later and the same!! Got mine yesterday before seeing this vid, excited to get it in and wired up.
Did you burn the headstock to make it look like that
It's a wood stain. You can pick them up from Wal-Mart for a few bucks
Why relic the neck?
I just installed this exact same loaded pick guard into my Squier Affinity Strat today. The neck and middle pickups sound like total shit man. Muddy as hell and hum. I expected some hum because of the single coil and middle position but godamm, this is terrible. The humbucker in the bridge is ok, but a tad bit muddy also. Everything is 100% wired correct. What the hell could be the problem ?
Sounds like your pots are 250k. Put in 300k or 500k and there ya go.
@@davidkastin4240 The pots come with the pickguard so they should be right.
Have you checked your pups are the right height .... and have you checked your grounding?
@@williamb4652 No you check the output of the pots with a multimeter. I've had to replace CTS 250k pots in my Fender guitar. They read 184k, very weak. I buy a lot of 3-10 pots and choose the highest reading ones and swap them out. Don't assume the pot puts out what the manufacturer says they are.
@@williamb4652 A humbucker needs at least 300k pot output to not sound muddy or dark. I've got some HSS and HSH Strats, on 500k pots and they sound great. I can assure you that's the problem, weak pots. I've put in stronger pots in about 15-20 of my guitars, take my advice ✌
what is your guitar colour? Mercedes blue?
I got one of these (or very similar) its very nice but I don't know where the wires go. there's one red, a White one and a Black one. I know one is to ground the guitar but not sure about the others. Can anyone help me lol?
Black wire you solder to the claw in the tremelo cavity. Red and white to output jack.
Hard tail models,,
black goes to bridge, underneath it,red went to jack tip , white was inside of cord jack use muti meter on ohms, to determine which leads are which, look on back of control knobs,ground is off the back of controls ,my pickguard is from Corona virus central,so it was disinfected before and during , opening the package!!!😷
I ment the inside of out put jack ground(white),,to bridge is main ground(blàck)shame the builders don't use common color codes,good luck and a meter helps make sure 😷
nice amp i had one
Seems like that pickguard is really nice and the neck pickup that you're playing on sounds really good for a neck. Would have like to have heard the other ones as well. Thanks for subscribing to my channel I will reciprocate.
Ronald Leggett Jr How will you rate this pickups from 1 to 5?
4.5
Bought same pickguard after install very load hum. Any suggestion?
James Gallagher
A. bad grounding
B. Reverse sodered the jack cables
Did you add wire from spring cavity to the common earth point, shield cavity and Jack cavity plus use shielded wire from Jack to switch? Position 1 3 and 5 may be noisy but try to position yourself away from fields
2 and 4 should be quiet if coils are wound correctly
China is better for loaded pick guards much cheapness .find them on ebay
No need to buy a trem cover, say no to extra, useless plastic!