Turning A Squier Into A RIFF MACHINE | Squier Sonic Mod
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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Squire should definitely do your signature model!
Squire Absorber, that sounds wicked
I'm all for it! 🤣🤣
pink Squire with single fishman pickup i'm buying it
They could but Nintendo would be very upset about Kirby being on it 😂
@@Metaldad87 it all depends how you sell the story, basically from their point of view that could be free ad for Nintendo
@@dejannisic9770Nintendo really doesn't roll like that sadly 😭
Any one else notice how his hair waves in the air lemme just say it’s pretty awesome
Hahah, that's the fan behind the camera 🤣
@@sixstringtv1 cool
‘Tis the power of the riff
@@TobyKBTY . . . or Beyoncè . . . 🤔 😂
1:09
That's a killer mod job! Why would you spend $1300 on a Tom DeLonge Strat when you could have a Squier Absorber!
Also, the HB locking tuners are VERY good! They hold up really well even playing multiple gigs
Oh yeah, I've played it a bunch now and they really do the job well
Maybe its just my heavy handing and locking it too tight, but I find that the hb locking tuners snap my strings way too often at the peg.
I see what you mean, cause they definitely would if you tightened the screws all the way. So just... don't? 🤣
@@sixstringtv1 wow that thought never crossed my mind😆 well it is probably just me but I wouldnt put it past the manufacturer to just not finish the bolts evenly enough all the time to avoid sharp corners something like that..who knows
@@sixstringtv1 did these tuners drop in or did you have to do additional drilling to get the fit?
Came for the Sonic Strat and Kirby, stayed for the music and Homer! Amazing stuff!
honestly im only half way through this video and so far this thing looks killer, i think the kirby being rough around the edges is dope! nice guitar dude
That's a pretty cool little squire you got there now.
These rebuild breakdown videos are always a lot of fun
Love me a pink guitar. Also love watching you saw *towards* your fingers with no protection. I expect Don’t Close Your Eyes next time!
I was a bit hesitant about these sonics at first but i REALLY like the purple tele im definitely thinking about trying it now
Go for it!
I bought a sonic tele a few weeks ago, I legit play it instead of my fenders or my Ibanez collection. It’s criminally cheap, all they need is some nice pots and mechanical switch. The tele pickups are so nice
They're sooo cheap.
Picked one up myself -pretty impressive for an entry-level guitar.
Die Gitarre ist einfach extrem cool geworden!
Das pink und schwarze ergänzt sich einfach perfekt. Und dann noch Kirby 😍.
Hört sich auch richtig gut an.
Gute Arbeit!
[Nintendo wants to know your location intensifies]
This turned out pretty sick.
Thanks SO much for this! Been super curious for a couple months about the routing on the HT, this was exactly the info I was after. Bought one immediately after seeing this vid and can’t wait to start modding it! Thanks again
That guitar is actually a thing of pure beauty! I wanna do one myself now! 🤣
Need to build one now as a tribute to two guitars that were staples in my guitar learning
My first guitar a red 2007 Slammer by Hamer SSS Strat that was absolute dog💩 that I got for $200 Canadian with an Line 6 Spider 2 15w and then my Rocksmith Edition 2011 Epiphone Les Paul Junior.
Mod plans:
-higher end hard tail top loading bridge (probably Gotoh)
- Seymour Duncan distortion bridge
- body match the headstock and back of the neck
- black pickguard 3D printed to support Gotoh’s 510 wraparound bridge
- Gotoh standard tuners or Harley Benton Locking tuners.
Those squiers look like so much fun to mod. Cool project man!
Thanks for showing it is routed for HSH. i plan on putting a high output hum-bucker in the neck BUT hide it under the pickguard and use a push pull pot to engage it. Nice mod BTW.
It Will not be too far from the strings?
This was an awesome video!! You reallly transformed that into a beast. Cheers from Nova Scotia
Okay, i'm sold. Gonna grab the Esquire and do this same thing at some point.
Dude hearing "Think This" was SUCH a pleasant surprise. Great taste
Man that fishman is doing god's work
That guitar looks absolutely amazing. Good work!
Black TUSQ nut! Looks and sounds great, nice work! 🎸🤘🎸
Also a black tusq string tree.
I've been waiting for this for three hours since i watched that 1st squire video. +points for kirby
Thank you for opening it up! You're the first one I've seen actually show the rout and it is all kinds of ready for some MAD SCIENCE!
I am so glad that you are happy with your Sonic. After waiting weeks and weeks i finally got a Sonic Mustang SS on Friday. Sadly, it was in such terrible condition, i returned it the next day. I was so upset, really, since the wait was 5 weeks (or more?) and to have it delivered in the condition i received it.....felt like knives in my gut.
Oh damn, that sucks. I do recommend ordering another one, cause I know first hand that these guitars are spectacular for the money and you probably just got the last one from the assembly line on a Friday evening when everyone wanted to go home 🤣
@@sixstringtv1 To be honest, they are now "all sold out" from numerous online retailers. Ironically the one i got had no Squier Tags showing the inspection on it, just that Warning Label for cancer....you could be correct, all guitars are individuals. But it is my second brand new Squier guitar that i had to send back out of the box due to QC issues. Its all good, shit happens, i have seen €400-€700 guitars from big names that were also in a horrible state delivered. I decied to try another brand and another style guitar this time around.
Some people dream about doing the mods Kaylen does... I dream of having such a glorious hair as Kaylen has.
Do both😆
@@acevedohiram them modes are the easy part, bruh...
That's just bad ass! I'm absolutely in love with it.
Wow I'm soooo glad I found this. I've been considering snagging one of these since I recently purchased an old Squier 7 string and fell in love. Wasn't sure if it was routed for HSH or not. Love what you did with it and you've basically sold me on it! Also subscribing now because your riffs are amazing!!!
I was heavily considering this guitar for my daughter as her first electric. Thanks to you this completely confirms that I’m going to make the correct decision. Thanks for this man!
Hell yeah! Raising em right!
@@sixstringtv1 yessir. 80’s everything and she has an odd desire for Death…. Especially Pull the Plug.
She better like Exhorder! 🤣
@@sixstringtv1 haha not at this current stage but in due time. She has a great teacher and it’s not dad cause I’m shite at guitar. I yell into a mic for fun. I could have swore this was going to be just a H rout under the pickguard. Huge bonus for when she really wants to experiment later on. Thanks for this vid and the review.
I had just bought one and was planning on doing the same thing when I found your video. Great stuff
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I have noticed that these Sonic series stay in tune for quite a while. Going on 3-4 days of grinding Rock smith arcade games and I still haven’t had to retune.
I love the outcome of the guitar, awesome!!!
Very cool guitar…excellent work…I would rock the shee-it outta that thing👍
One of the most badass mods of all time. I love it!
The slayer riff at 1:27 whose name I can't remember to save my life sounded so good even before any modifications to the guitar.
It was an Exhorder riff hahah
@@sixstringtv1 oh fuck that's why i couldn't find it, been a long time since I've listened to exhorder. Great band tho.
Too much gain, and some of those power chords aren't intonated well, but otherwise played well.
@@sixstringtv1 Desecrator is the song iirc.
Thank You for all you do .
🙏🙏
My next purchase is that very model, with similar ideas. I just want a pink Strat and I think that one could be made pretty decent for not alot of $$
exhorder went hard on the squier
Nice! Love the Tuners. Thank You for your Video!
7:54 Is that DT's The Enemy Inside? Nice!
That turned out great, huge fan of the 1 pickup 1 volume strats.
Pink and black with maple looks killer too
🤘💀🤘
Ended up ordering one of these to mess with as well. So looking forward to getting it in the post.
Your volume is your tone knob and you get more vibration out of the strings without the neck pick up even though it’s off the magnets are still pulling the strengths
The scratched-up Kirby design actually looks pretty cool to me, reminds me of Smash Bros Brawl lmao
Nice glasses man 👍 definitely better than the Mia Kalifa ones 🤓. Cool vid too
It needs a hello kitty sticker
Keep it up with these, and I might have to make a Jim Root inspired modded Squier strat lol
Thats a sick looking guitar..sounds amazing with the fishman..i was looking at getting the new tom delonge signature..now im seriously contemplating getting the pink sonic strat.. with a custom hello kitty pickgaurd with a slight alteration. New pots, bridge, tuners and a seymour duncan invader...decisions decisions.. sny advice on what i should get.. great vid bro..respect from the UK and a new subscriber right here..
Reviews for the Delonge Strat haven't been incredible so far, I recommend getting a Squier and modding it to make it exactly how you like it 🤷🏻♂️
This gives it even more of an 80s kinda vibe. I like what you did a lot.. though I bought the same guitar and am keeping mine pretty stock.. maybe I will replace the pickup at some point.
That's sick brotha! Would love to have you on my Rockland Revolution podcast.
Might as well call this squier “the budget delonge” imma buy one.
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A thing of beauty
Wish these came in more colors. I will hold out trying one until they come in white.
EDIT: The pickup swap really helped with how the guitar sounded on the high strings. So much more output.
There is a white one now! Arctic white its called, i just checked
@@koolin3613 You are right, but it's not the single humbucker version. It's a SSS. I guess it wont be a problem if you can easily source the pickguard. Hrmmm.
Thank you RUclips recommended.
This is awesome! Honestly I’ve thought about buying one and doing the same lol
That's awesome. 😆 I'd deffo rock that guitar, any day of the year.
Not sure if you had enough room in the body cavity, but if you wanted a tone knob, you could have used a concentric pot and had a volume and tone control with just one visible knob. It's never too late to take some careful measurements and drill a second hole in the pick guard either, this way you get to use your second knob, if it's still floating around.
That guitar is sick bro
So glad you chose Kirby instead of Peppa. My daughter would disagree though lol
Hi!! I’m working on the same guitar and the problem is the bridge. Could you tell me about the bridge installation?
Seriously, the only reason o buy an expensive guitar these days is simply because you want one! Cheap guitars are so good now!
Give Kirby some long black hair and youll be done.
Toxik-Think this
In case everyone was wondering what he played when he started the demo.
And a nice Toxic riff included! 😁 Anyway. nice one. Now you only need some black screws and string guide.
I kinda like the silver screws, but I'll look into some Graphtech string trees for sure
Desecrator!!! That whole album is a riff bulldozer, very nice inclusion of some Exhorder.
if i were you, i would have also replaced the silver pickguard screws with black ones. still, very nice!
That sort of quack on the clean tone sounded really tits. I was expecting it to be unstratoguitar-like, but was pleasantly surprised. Fish Man pretty good.
The modding videos are always my favourites
Kickass name for the guitar!
I just got mine,
-pickups gain is pretty low
-fret crowning is pretty acceptable
-fret polish is bad and you can feel the scratches when bending
-it keeps getting out of tune easily
-neck has not any barnish and you can easily see the grinding.
-fret leveling is ok
Even with all of that Im sure this guitar can be turned into nice guitar with a little work
I think this guitars will be good for moding
Might go for a black ine and have an anodised gold pickguard, ive been looking for a project
The gold pickguards are also super easy to find.
Strats need more hardtails! My dad has a Strat FSR With an HSH but the middle pickup is a telecaster
Pink - um, no. But fair play to you, your mods are awesome and it sounds killer. Kix - yeah man!🤘 I saw them many times back in the '80s when I lived in Washington DC and my old band even opened for them once in 2004. Great memory.
You have to send the guitar down in order for the paint the stick on it. It’s not gonna stick to shiny lacquer. It’s gonna roll off.
Almost like I did exactly that and you weren't paying attention
the Squier Sonic Series tremelo systems are surprisingly good!
Came out nice!
Excellent, now I have to do this.
You should!
sneaking in an Exhorder riff in the demo, fuck yeah
Can I put these mods on a starter kit Squier strat or does it have to be a Sonic series
These are really similar to the hello kitty strats. Dope mod platform
Welp, guess I found my next project! Thanks! Hahaha
Badass bro! Should've done a black tusq nut and string tree to complete the look tho. ;)
Nice, I saw a metal band several years ago and he played a pink Hello Kitty Squier he had modded. I decided a few years later I wanted to mod one but the prices went thru the roof. A $130.00 guitar new was selling for 3 to 4 hundred bucks! I have seen some selling for almost $1000.00. Guitar Center was only offering people $50.00 back in the day. I have seen knock off ones I will steer clear of. I have seen knock off Hello Kitty pick guards out there cheap I will consider. I think this guitar and modding it with the Hello Kitty pick guard will be much more affordable option. I love modding cheap guitars.
You should definitely do a video on the Amp 1 Iridium
After my tour of the Bluguitar HQ in June!
@@sixstringtv1 cool! Very interested
Everything is OK, and many will agree, some will say that there are much better guitars for that money, but one thing is certain: It's a guitar FOR GIRLS OR GUYS.
I have the same guitar. Can you tell me the part number you used for the bridge and the jack plate? Also i went with hip shot locking tuners and Seymour Duncan Black winter pickup 😎
Looks rad!
Ive been wanting to build a guitar like this for ages i love it but i think it would look cooler if you replace all the hardware screws with black ones an put a black roller string tree on the headstock
Working to get the light blue one of these for hella cheap and do something similar ❤ kick ass
Pink guitars are the best
If possible do you have a link to the bridge on amazon - nevermind I found the bridge
I didn’t know Steve Vai hosted this show!
I have to have a humbucker in my strat. Im really digging everyone putting only one in these strats. I hella want to do that to mine.
Shit dude i feel you on thie pick gaurd. Every damn time i get a pickgaurd for my strats they always dont fit right lol but it always works out
You can't go wrong with a pink guitar and awesome stuff on getting endorsed by fishman...
Since I was preschool, pink is one of my fave colors. Idk how it gets the "role" of being a color only old ladies and little girls should like. Its a badass, intense color, right alongside orange, purple etc. Ive never had a "favorite" color before, I must not be "set up" as normal as most ppl. Lol. The one who posted this did a rip-up feat fixing it up w black pickguard and knobs. I'd like that Squier to be a denser, ruder pink, though, but I don't mean it doesn't look like a kick-ass axe..It looks VERY sharp, in case it looked like I was bitching.
Pink and purple are my favorites hahah. You can tell by the background lighting
do you know if that guitar has a normal strat neck pocket ? i am curious if its possible to swap necks
would probably be a perfect guitar with 24 frets
Next time, do a decal instead of paint. It’s easier, less messy, and you can remove it easily if you ever want to go back to straight pink, or want to chose another graphic for a decal.
Also, if you ever want a metal pick guard in the future, and are having a hard time finding on that will work or that you like, talk to a print shop. Many of them, like the one I work at, can do CNC routing and can custom make a pick guard for you. Cheers from Phoenix
I don't want a decal tho lmao
@@sixstringtv1 fair enough just throwing suggestions to make life easier
Looks and sounds great 😂
Great job 👍