Really enjoyed this one - thanks! @ 06:39 "...if you have a good enough amplifier..." : will you be doing a follow-up series, "What makes this AMP great (and affordable!)?" Would be a wonderful complement to this series. What were you playing this Partsquire through in this video, I wonder?
Check out 'Red Plate' amps - Allen uses them and apparently prefers the overdrive in the amp to any of his pedals. (Although I've heard his pedals producing a virtually identical sound).
Brilliant.. especially the beginning!! I love the way he builds up guitars and lets us amateurs see what he’s done.. brilliant player, great tutor (TrueFire).. superb musician👍👍👍
I got tele from a pawn shop chipped and banged I slowly put it back and made it playable I might have 5 bills in it works great now just mostly hour cleaning and learning to make it play
I own a black 1950 Esquire, one of the guitars with no truss rod. The neck is still straight after all these years and the guitar is killer. One thing to add regarding the 1950 Esquire: the body is 1/4 inch thinner than the Ash bodies that followed
Thanks Allen for delving into the cool world of partscasters. Love the fluidity of your playing man, goes straight to the heart! Have u ever put a P90 into the neck position of a Tele? I find the tonal range pretty amazing. Cheers brother for sharing your beautiful feel of music and inspiring us lesser mortals. Peace and love from Australia
Hey Allen, I'm a big fan but just found this channel. Ironically, I just built a Pinecaster Esquire for about $350 all in....JUST to learn how to play "Falling Up" hahaha. (Yah I know it's kind of backassward to start with the guitar and work back to the music heh. But I'm a bit of a gear head.) Thanks for all you do to make my life a brighter place!
Hey Alan, what amp are you using? I really love the sound of it. The sounds on the song elegant decadence are fantastic. And that type of tone is consistent with you. Just curious. Thanks.
Nice ! Got one, a Squire Fat Tele, think Andy Summers. 20th Anniversary even. Guitar wasn't right. Sat so long the price sticker left a stain on the back of the headstock. I bought it in '07. Something was wrong. Tech at the shop was authorized to do a partial mill and full fret dress under warranty. Plays great. Brought it back for an AllParts style cup type jack holder. This was about 5 years ago. I should play it more (one of a dozen electrics) Edit, just did. A bit of ABB's Blue Sky. HB sounds good.
Very cool. Now we're talking. I'd also just like to make clear - in previous videos where some of us had pointed out that the guitars were actually a bit expensive, for myself at least it wasn't meant to be overtly critical/negative. I certainly did understand what you meant by them being "affordable" in relative terms. In that, they were great guitars that either (like your Strat) had all the "key" components of $25k to 50k pre-CBS Strats. I.e. old wood, original pickups etc (I've assembled two of my four pre-CBS Fender Jaguars in the same way. It's just getting more expensive to do and parts more difficult to find). Or - like your LP Custom - were guitars that played every bit as well or better than say a '58 burst or '54 gold top and have investment potential but won't set you back a house payment to get into. I and I think others totally understood that. It's just nice and right on time for you to also include a guitar like this one that is affordable on a much broader scale. Not to mention that doesn't look or sound like a "$350 guitar." To that end, what I'd be really interested in if feasible and/or convenient for you would be some "inside baseball" on how you go about improving and setting up these guitars. I know there are many in depth videos from luthiers and such but I'd love to see how a real working player who's learned through time, trial and error goes about avoiding superfluous trips to the luthier for set ups. When you did your LP Custom video you mentioned toward the end how another nearly identical one sold for over five times as much but that yours is likely as good better because you've been working on it. As a player who obviously knows what he wants and needs from his instruments, I believe that and would love to see a bit on how you go about achieving it. What you're looking for before and after adjusting a truss rod, what basic tools/items a player might want to have for dialing in their guitar, rolling a fretboard edge, perfecting the nut of the guitar etc. Thanks again for the great video!
Allen slight change of subject. You could do a vid on effect of changing plectrums. I've been experimenting with different plectrums. I read Allan Holdsworth used 1mm. For years I've used a Dunlop 2mm. Just tried a 1mm & much better for what I'm aiming for. Also different plectrum material make a lot of difference to tone. I think it's often overlooked as means of achieving better tone Not surprising. It's the bit that touches the string. Rather like choice of tyres can make a difference to how a car drives. That's the bit that touches the road
@@allenhindsguitar Great thanks, look forward to. I'm amazed how difference to tone the choice of plectrum makes to tone. I should have ditched my 2mm Dunlop for 1mm year ago
Great thanks, look forward to. I'm amazed how difference to tone the choice of plectrum makes to tone. I should have ditched my 2mm Dunlop for 1mm years ago
I have two strats one is a custom shop NOS 1960 which I’ve used for five years , then I put some parts together last year an ash body which I thought was going to be to heavy and a USA strat neck , Something magic happened when those two parts came together , I haven’t touched the custom shop strat hardly , The parts caster just rings ,
I love the esquire. I'd love to part together my own, I just don't have the balls to go lone single coil. This guitar sounds so sweet, though. I might have to take the plunge.
There was a guitar-playing physicist who theorized the electromagnetic influence of the neck pu affects the second and third order harmonics, not the fundamental. That’s why we hear a difference - the string still vibrates but the harmonics are left more or less untouched.
That's great Allen, I love parts casters. I've been putting parts casters together for over 40 years (ever since Mighty Mite and Schecter USA put out kits in the late 70s ) and just love the results I got. Use them all "Tele's and Strat's". Love your playing and vids, and I love your guitar collection. Thanks Allen. Hope you can come too Scotland at some point for some gigs and clinics ??. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Hey Allen. You are an amazing player and always an inspiration. So i will build me a T-style partscaster and want your killersound. What Bridge Pickup you choose for your Esquire in this video?
Very observant you should mention that because I did the whole video and forgot to talk about the pick up but it’s just a little free pick up Fender gave me for doing something for them a few months ago
Have always wanted an Esquire. Like the history and simplicity. So..rather than actually buy one, I bought an Affinity Telecaster for $250, in surf green with a maple neck/fingerboard, bought a Esquire wiring harness with a 4 position switch on EBay for $55, and a white 3 ply Esquire pickguard for $12. It's at my local Guitar Center, where Tim, this amazing tech is assembling it. Looking at about $350 total.
There are electric guitars with absolutely no body that sound amazing. I can’t believe you said something like that man ! Or hollow plastic Danelectro that weigh nothing that sound amazing. Come on man !!
I was generalizing about solid bodies. Although Leo used pine at first. Maybe there was a tone reason he changed woods. Although some of those are great. But I don’t think as light as a danelectro. Danelectros have a unique sound for sure
I will do an episode on those guitars. But don’t misunderstand me. I was talking SOLID BODY guitars. And generalizing from my personal experience I play plenty of heavy as well as light body guitars that are great.I only believe there are extremes And exceptions to every rule as well
‘’Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets ... any sound investment will eventually pay off." - Carlos Slim Helu
@Casino Şimşek Sounds like plan, how do you put money to work?
Am hoping on you can explain more on how you make extra income from investments
@Casino Şimşek Thanks for replying me, I've heard so many people talk about investment but none had said how to do it right.
@@alexmontrey5372 There are lots of investments options such as real estate, stock market, forex, cr ypt os, passive income,
Financial freedom is absolutely the perfect freedom
Yea, $300/$350 guitars - Million Dollar fingers.
Hey Allen! Great video, loving this series of videos. Have you ever taken on a guitar project like this that hasn't worked out so well?
all the time.. its a crap shoot.. but a fun one
Really enjoyed this one - thanks! @ 06:39 "...if you have a good enough amplifier..." : will you be doing a follow-up series, "What makes this AMP great (and affordable!)?" Would be a wonderful complement to this series. What were you playing this Partsquire through in this video, I wonder?
Check out 'Red Plate' amps - Allen uses them and apparently prefers the overdrive in the amp to any of his pedals. (Although I've heard his pedals producing a virtually identical sound).
Brilliant.. especially the beginning!! I love the way he builds up guitars and lets us amateurs see what he’s done.. brilliant player, great tutor (TrueFire).. superb musician👍👍👍
Thank you
It was very helpful 👍🏻 🎸
I got tele from a pawn shop chipped and banged I slowly put it back and made it playable I might have 5 bills in it works great now just mostly hour cleaning and learning to make it play
Dude - I love your playing and you are a total guitar nerd, but I am 100% sucked in to your world. Thank you!
It is interesting to see you use your left hand as a chorus pedal. 🇸🇪😊
I own a black 1950 Esquire, one of the guitars with no truss rod. The neck is still straight after all these years and the guitar is killer.
One thing to add regarding the 1950 Esquire: the body is 1/4 inch thinner than the Ash bodies that followed
I have never seen one. And yes I knew they were thinner too. Awesome
I discovered him recently, phenomenal musician and a cool guy.
He could make a piece of string and an orange box sound brilliant.
Thanks Allen for delving into the cool world of partscasters. Love the fluidity of your playing man, goes straight to the heart! Have u ever put a P90 into the neck position of a Tele? I find the tonal range pretty amazing. Cheers brother for sharing your beautiful feel of music and inspiring us lesser mortals. Peace and love from Australia
Hey Allen, I'm a big fan but just found this channel. Ironically, I just built a Pinecaster Esquire for about $350 all in....JUST to learn how to play "Falling Up" hahaha. (Yah I know it's kind of backassward to start with the guitar and work back to the music heh. But I'm a bit of a gear head.) Thanks for all you do to make my life a brighter place!
Awesome. Thanks that means a lot
@@allenhindsguitar Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
That is really a beautiful guitar and (in your magic hands) it sounds completely insane.
Thanks
Hey Alan, what amp are you using? I really love the sound of it. The sounds on the song elegant decadence are fantastic. And that type of tone is consistent with you. Just curious. Thanks.
It’s probably his Redplate.
Great video! Thanks very much! I am a super fan! Come and play live in Brazil! 🎸
Nice !
Got one, a Squire Fat Tele, think Andy Summers.
20th Anniversary even.
Guitar wasn't right. Sat so long the price sticker left a stain on the back of the headstock.
I bought it in '07. Something was wrong.
Tech at the shop was authorized to do a partial mill and full fret dress under warranty. Plays great.
Brought it back for an AllParts style cup type jack holder. This was about 5 years ago. I should play it more (one of a dozen electrics)
Edit, just did. A bit of ABB's Blue Sky. HB sounds good.
Very cool. Now we're talking. I'd also just like to make clear - in previous videos where some of us had pointed out that the guitars were actually a bit expensive, for myself at least it wasn't meant to be overtly critical/negative. I certainly did understand what you meant by them being "affordable" in relative terms. In that, they were great guitars that either (like your Strat) had all the "key" components of $25k to 50k pre-CBS Strats. I.e. old wood, original pickups etc (I've assembled two of my four pre-CBS Fender Jaguars in the same way. It's just getting more expensive to do and parts more difficult to find). Or - like your LP Custom - were guitars that played every bit as well or better than say a '58 burst or '54 gold top and have investment potential but won't set you back a house payment to get into. I and I think others totally understood that.
It's just nice and right on time for you to also include a guitar like this one that is affordable on a much broader scale. Not to mention that doesn't look or sound like a "$350 guitar."
To that end, what I'd be really interested in if feasible and/or convenient for you would be some "inside baseball" on how you go about improving and setting up these guitars. I know there are many in depth videos from luthiers and such but I'd love to see how a real working player who's learned through time, trial and error goes about avoiding superfluous trips to the luthier for set ups.
When you did your LP Custom video you mentioned toward the end how another nearly identical one sold for over five times as much but that yours is likely as good better because you've been working on it. As a player who obviously knows what he wants and needs from his instruments, I believe that and would love to see a bit on how you go about achieving it.
What you're looking for before and after adjusting a truss rod, what basic tools/items a player might want to have for dialing in their guitar, rolling a fretboard edge, perfecting the nut of the guitar etc.
Thanks again for the great video!
Allen slight change of subject. You could do a vid on effect of changing plectrums.
I've been experimenting with different plectrums. I read Allan Holdsworth used 1mm. For years I've used a Dunlop 2mm. Just tried a 1mm & much better for what I'm aiming for.
Also different plectrum material make a lot of difference to tone. I think it's often overlooked as means of achieving better tone
Not surprising. It's the bit that touches the string. Rather like choice of tyres can make a difference to how a car drives. That's the bit that touches the road
Good idea. A couple students presented me with some custom sized picks last month. So. I’m on it Thanks
@@allenhindsguitar Great thanks, look forward to. I'm amazed how difference to tone the choice of plectrum makes to tone.
I should have ditched my 2mm Dunlop for 1mm year ago
Great thanks, look forward to. I'm amazed how difference to tone the choice of plectrum makes to tone.
I should have ditched my 2mm Dunlop for 1mm years ago
I have two strats one is a custom shop NOS 1960 which I’ve used for five years , then I put some parts together last year an ash body which I thought was going to be to heavy and a USA strat neck , Something magic happened when those two parts came together , I haven’t touched the custom shop strat hardly , The parts caster just rings ,
I love the esquire. I'd love to part together my own, I just don't have the balls to go lone single coil. This guitar sounds so sweet, though. I might have to take the plunge.
G'day Allen! LOVE your WMTGGaA video series! I learn A LOT from you because you explain it so well and leave out all the BS. Keep up the good work! 👏
There was a guitar-playing physicist who theorized the electromagnetic influence of the neck pu affects the second and third order harmonics, not the fundamental. That’s why we hear a difference - the string still vibrates but the harmonics are left more or less untouched.
That's great Allen, I love parts casters. I've been putting parts casters together for over 40 years (ever since Mighty Mite and Schecter USA put out kits in the late 70s ) and just love the results I got. Use them all "Tele's and Strat's". Love your playing and vids, and I love your guitar collection. Thanks Allen. Hope you can come too Scotland at some point for some gigs and clinics ??. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
That guitar sounds great. I want one. Thnx for the great videos.
Hey Allen. You are an amazing player and always an inspiration. So i will build me a T-style partscaster and want your killersound. What Bridge Pickup you choose for your Esquire in this video?
Very observant you should mention that because I did the whole video and forgot to talk about the pick up but it’s just a little free pick up Fender gave me for doing something for them a few months ago
@@allenhindsguitar I have a 14k Wolfetone Telebitch telecaster bridge pickup. Do you think that might be a good idea on an Esquire guitar?
@@patrickbuster8341 I dont know anything about those. But I would quickly try.
@@allenhindsguitar A friend of mine told me it was hotter than skillet grease and I thought that was a good sales pitch.
Allen, you inspired me to build my own partcaster with vintage parts. Thanks for that!
Loving your channel! Still great as ever. Randy Hall
Have always wanted an Esquire. Like the history and simplicity. So..rather than actually buy one, I bought an Affinity Telecaster for $250, in surf green with a maple neck/fingerboard, bought a Esquire wiring harness with a 4 position switch on EBay for $55, and a white 3 ply Esquire pickguard for $12. It's at my local Guitar Center, where Tim, this amazing tech is assembling it. Looking at about $350 total.
Awesome
Love your diy mindset! Nothing more satisfying than to create something like this from parts, then be able to enjoy its great tone 🤘
The beauty of simplicity in a telecaster, magical, absolutely magical!
wonderful listening to how these gems were assembled, take care
Thanks Allen, Cool video!
God Bless!
That sounds incredible
There are electric guitars with absolutely no body that sound amazing. I can’t believe you said something like that man ! Or hollow plastic Danelectro that weigh nothing that sound amazing. Come on man !!
You are right. Hollow and plastic. I was referring to solid body tele bodies.
I was generalizing about solid bodies. Although Leo used pine at first. Maybe there was a tone reason he changed woods. Although some of those are great. But I don’t think as light as a danelectro. Danelectros have a unique sound for sure
I will do an episode on those guitars. But don’t misunderstand me. I was talking SOLID BODY guitars. And generalizing from my personal experience I play plenty of heavy as well as light body guitars that are great.I only believe there are extremes And exceptions to every rule as well
Sounds beautiful to me too 6:50
This series is the most interesting and encouraging. Thank you
Thanks for sharing, Allen! You make me want to start experimenting...
hey Claudio.....how are you.. yes life is no fun if you dont "experiment"
All good,@@allenhindsguitar! Hope you are good as well and that you are fully recovered (it looks like that! :D)
Yeah man!
Thanks Allen.
I'm a "telly dependent" so I'm in love ;-) What's the name of the song in the end of the video? It's awesome!!
Ha me too. It’s a song called fearless from my new cd. Out in a month or so
@@allenhindsguitar Thank you Allen I Will wait for the album!! 🤟
Hi Allen, as always you are amazing. When is your new album coming out?
well, we are shopping it... so as soon as some contract is signed
thanks
@@allenhindsguitar thanks! I’ll purchase it as soon as it’s available. :)
Thanks. Well. I am shopping the cd. Hopefully within the month