Fender Tom Delonge Stratocaster to Bob Delonge Spongecaster Conversion
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- My dream of owning a Graffiti Yellow Tom Delonge Stratocaster has finally been fulfilled!
The Surf Green TD Stratocaster cost me £1300 = $1618
The Surf Green Fender hard case cost me £200 = $250
The SpongeBob guitar cost me £100 = $125
That means this Spongecaster cost me $1993!! YIKES!!
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He sold me this guitar and he's great for anything TD related. He'll probably hate me after what I've done to it in this video lol.
That tonewood is fantastic but... Please don't do this at home!
Thanks for watching this parody video and don't worry the Delonge Strat is safe and sound. I figured I might as well do something fun with it while I was taking it apart anyway!
Music played on guitar in the order it appears in the video:
Rammstein - Dickie Titten (Drop B tuning)
Killswitch Engage - My Curse (Drop C tuning)
Rammstein - Engel (Drop D tuning)
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One of my guitars has a spongebob sticker on the headstock. After watching this video I realized that it's not enough
😂😂 you got to up your game now
That was awesome. Very much looking forward to the follow-up videos.
Cheers dude, I'm more scared trying to DIY refinish that body than I was chucking it in the bin so it'll be fun 😅🤣
I love spongebob reminds me of my childhood. And i love your piece of art work. Good Job!
Thanks bud 😊
I love the pearloid pickguard, the color and single humbucker. I'm a huge Fender fan as well. I have a Tele that's the same color
Ohhh this colour in a Tele 🤤 nice one mate
@@Giant_Guitars yeah but it has a plain white pickguard. I want to change it to Pearl Lloyd and do some customization on it but I just got it a few months ago and haven't played it much so I want to get a feel for it first before I start messing with it because right now it's really nice
@@Netriderceo sounds like a good plan 👌 good luck with it and enjoy!!
Great video mate keep up the great work. Gotta love the single pickup guitars
Thanks dude 😎 trust me I will. Some serious guitars coming next!
First view and like! I commend you for deciding to fix and refinish the body man! 👍🏼
Thanks Jesus 🙏 appreciate it you as always bud. Yeah it's a difficult choice but I'm certain I'll be happier with it in the end 😀
this one is even better, sounds wicked too😁🔥🔥🔥
Haha thanks bud
Just found your channel and this was rather humorous! I say take your time refinishing and repairing the original body to the graffiti yellow you so long for. you'll be so much happier you did. Also I am also becoming more and more curious about one pup guitars. Some day maybe...
Thanks bud and yeah you're probably right, this is definitely the most sensible thing to do for sure! And do it, single pickup guitars are the best 😀😂
I've been a Blink 182 for around 13 years at this point, and a Spongebob fan since I watched it as a kid in the early 2000s and honestly I never expected watching content of this quality on YT, I never expected to want a Bob Delonge Spongecaster because I didn't even knew this magnum opus could exist until today
Dude I've been following you since instagram love your builds and video man!!!
Thanks bud 🙏 I appreciate that! Back to the serious stuff very soon 😁
Haha! I saw my comment on that graffiti yellow in front of the mirror. What a dream guitar 🤤
Haha 😂 brilliant. What a guitar that is!
surf green or seafoam green or anyhthing along those lines is my favorite... i'd hate to see it go yellow, but whatever ...it's your guitar, do whatever YOU want with it.
Fair! It's more the yellow is my favourite with this second so I feel if I'm taking the effort to refinish it I might as well choose my favourite, you know? But I'm so indecisive we'll not know until I do it
@mrNobody100 I’m with you, I’d stay with the surf green any day of the week.
I love the color, and the case is beautiful. Sad there was damage, but it's pretty obvious you like modding guitars. it can be an addictive part of guitar collecting. All my guitars are drop D, love those power cords!
I would have gone looking in your rubbish bin if you left that😂Glad you decided to fix it.Your right,the single humbuckers look killa,remind me so much of early Gary Moore and Van Halen.🤘Your vids are a blast to watch👍
Haha never worry I'd sooner give stuff away than bin or waste it!
exactly
Iove your film style!!
I love the sponge caster!!
Haha thanks mate
Hell yeah dude! Go for yellow!
Cheers bud, with a stripe?? 😅😮
@@Giant_Guitars ooooh man! I’m not sure! Maybe straight down the middle like Tom’s 333’s haha
Yes, You should paint it yourself, and Yes is should be Graffiti Yellow, and for 2 reasons...........
If you don't follow through on the idea of a DIY refinish AND the Graffiti Yellow color, you will forever wonder what it would have been like to do it yourself.
I am currently building a 1962 Stratocaster and a 1956 Telecaster, I just have to build them or else I'll never know what its like.
Great content, count me as a new subscriber.
Thank you bud I appreciate it, good luck with your project too 😀 I have already begun the refinish process
@@Giant_Guitars Thank You.
I can't wait to see how your re-finish turns out, I'll be watching for sure.
sick riffing
! :)
Haha thanks
This was the goofiest video I've ever watched.
Lol thanks, I agree 😂
I had a Tom Delonge before there was a Tom DeLonge. I converted my 1983 Fernandes Stratocaster into a 1 humbucker guitar and I used the invader. I was able to purchase a one humbucker pickguard.
That's awesome, whatever happened to it?
Oh boy. Well I was drunk at a gig and playing rockstar and threw it up in the air it came down and smashed into a few pieces. I miss that guitar
@@stringlocker well at least it had a good send off
That's true. What I do have left of it is a cracking noise on the tape.
@@stringlocker have a ‘94 MIM I whimsically (and somewhat drunkenly) painted it like Buck Owens’ Telecaster, and it had a succession of single humbuckers on a pearloid pick guard for a long time. (Gibson 490T, EMG 85, Duncan Distortion, Duncan Invader, Super Distortion, yada yada yada. It’s since had S-S-P90 setup for quite a while, but I’m thinking of going just P90, I never play the singles. I have to say, though, the middle single/P90 combo does that in between-Mark Knopfler quack better than just about anything else. I am not, however, Mark Knopfler.
Why change to nitro paint? I only have one strat, a newer Squier Affinity, so far the worst guitar I have, I have already added locking tuners, but now it has a broken ground on the trem and is noisy as hell, I got it a case so I don't look at it, I fear it is going to be a money pit and never play well. lol confessions of a guitar addict
I prefer the look and feel of nitro I also prefer how it ages!
any idea where i could get a spongbob guitar or body?
@@krystian_went8537 eBay is probably your best chance. Maybe Facebook marketplace too.
Finish cracks are not uncommon. It’s when the wood actually cracks in the neck pocket that you have to start to worry.
Thankfully all good in the wood 🪵
@@Giant_Guitars exactly.
If you don't want that spongebob guitar body I'll take it off your hands
Very cool! 👍👍❤️
Haha thanks was a bit of joke 😂
Now that Tom is back with Fender, it is rumored that they are going to rerelease the old strat signature. Might be able to get a yellow TD strat in a few months! The used 2000s models will tank in price also if that happens. Just some food for thought.
I also heard this. There was one particular big guitar store released them for pre-order online and quickly took them down after they messed up 😂😂 that paired with the paint cracks has changed this from being a guitar to put away and keep good to my guitar to mess with 😁😁
@@Giant_Guitars I support modding what you have to what you want. It will make you play it more. Also I’m guessing the new strats will have a paoferro board like the new hoppus basses they made. That seems to be the way things are going. Your neck is gorgeous, worth making the guitar body just as nice. Good luck with the project, looking forward to more videos.
Yeah new ones pretty much can't have real rosewood fingerboards without coming into export issues etc. Thanks bud, we'll get along well haha!
Man those cracks are insane. 😢 Why does this happen??
Heartbreaking, I'm sure someone has an answer online but I guess a flaw in the poly or underseal 🤷 sucks but most of them have it!
thats epic dude.
Haha thanks bud
Oh how utterly preposterous haha
I love it and hate in equal measure
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Haha yeah just a joke 😜
I would definitely paint it, and might aswell go for graffiti yellow!
Thanks! Seems logical doesn't it?
What in the world would cause that cracking? Is it only the paint?
Yeah only in the paint thankfully, the body was fine!
@@Giant_Guitars That’s super weird, I’ve never seen that before. Is it really thick? That could explain it...
I’ve got an old ‘84 Jackson Rhoads that was finished all black, the paint on the neck was coming off in razor sharp sheets, it was basically unplayable. It was like it wasn’t bonded to the primer coats. Maybe something similar?
Aw man, I hope you don’t trash the spongebob body. It’s worth some money! And heck, I’m sure a lot of your subscribers would buy it off you, myself included!
Vintage white. Haha. Yes. This was a great video. 👍
Haha thanks Robert! And that might be cool with a matching pickguard too!
great guitar im think squidward would like
😅 he would approve
But I think that the spongebob theme is very nice. Try to put the white pearloid pickguard on the spongebob body…
Haha I would but it's not staying there!
yes.
Haters gonna H8 😂 aré you in the Facebook group single hum single vol guitars?
No lol, but in going to search and join that right now!! Thanks haha
@@Giant_Guitars lots of cool stuff there!! Myself included have posted a couple of mines, my Jackson RR24, Arbor Star and recently got a Hondo H1! Cool guitars bro keep up the good work
Think you've huffed enough of them fumes
Haha
I kinda like it 🤔
Haha nice!
Haha cheers Johnny!
LOL 😂
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Tom Desponge guitar hahah
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LOL!
no..plz..god..no....
🤣 too late I guess
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