Fender Squire Affinity Telecaster - Polishing the Frets on a Guitar

Fender Squire Affinity Telecaster Polishing the Frets on a guitar is a rewarding job, that not only makes your frets play smoother but they look great too. I have always liked the look of a Fender with a glossy fret board and so I wanted to create one using true oil and that's what inspired this video.
Here's the video on how to airbrush your fretboard with Tru-Oil
Fender Squire Affinity Telecaster - Airbrushing a Guitar Fretboard with Tru-Oil
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Here's the video on the guitar body
Fender Squire Affinity Telecaster - How To Glitter & Clear Coat your Guitar
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Fender Squire Affinity Telecaster - Mixing inexpensive glitter for a custom paint job
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I am going to reveal an embarrassing moment and how this whole process got started. This would be an embarrassing moment for any guitar painter… but this one happened to me a while back.
I had this Squire Affinity Telecaster Deluxe up for sale on Facebook marketplace and I got this offer from a guy to trade it for an an amazing looking Firefly LP guitar.
So I arranged to meet up with Dan at a local watering hole and we both pulled our guitars out of our cases and we each looked each others over. His was pristine and a beauty and although mine was good. Dan pointed to a small place on my Squire Affinity near the neck pocket between the horns where I had previously missed finishing and polishing the clear coat on a repaint of this guitar I bought new but it was a scratch & dent.
Frankly it looked like the classic “crack at the neck pocket” that is a continuing problem for some Fender Tele’s and Strat style guitars.
I was so embarrassed and immediately apologized to him for presenting this guitar because It simply was not 100% ready. I also vowed to myself, never to make that kind of mistake again.
If you’ve ever had an embarrassing, moment in a guitar sale? By all means share it in the comments.
So here I am back at my shop to fix my own screw up and I thought to myself, why not go all out and turn this already great guitar into a real show piece and a pro playing guitar.
So in this video series that's what you're going to see, is a transformation from boring black Fender Squire Affinity Telecaster to a bling filled glitter bomb, that has a nice shiny clearcoat on it.
Here's are what I've done to it and some stats from Fender Squire as well
My mods:
• Full sized CTS pots added
• Conductive Copper Shielding in cavity and pickguard
• Removed fretsprout
• leveled, crowned & polished the frets
• Custom Createx opaque base coat blue/black
• Glitter 5 different colors
• Upol 2k clear coat
• Fretboard sanded to 1200 grit and then airbrushed with True-oil
• Frets cleaned and polished with a rotary tool
• Rounded the fretboard edges and removed fret sprout
• Neck back polished with 0000 steel wool
• Adjusted the truss rod
• Set up a nice low action
• Set the intonation
• Added some D'Addario 9-42 strings
Features from the factory:
• Thin and lightweight Poplar body
• Two Squire humbucking pickups
• String-through-body bridge
• Slim and comfortable “C”-shaped neck profile
• Sealed die-cast tuning machines with split shafts and the classic center hole for the end of the string
Body Material : Poplar
• Body Shape : Telecaster
• Body Finish : Custom
• Neck Material : White Maple
Neck Finish : Satin Urethane with Gloss Urethane Headstock Face
• Scale Length : 25.5" (64.77 cm)
• Fingerboard Material : White Maple with custom finish
• Fingerboard Radius : 9.5" (241 mm)
• Number of Frets : 21
• Fret Size : Medium Jumbo
• Nut Material : Custom Bone nut added
• Nut Width : 1.650" (42 mm)
• Position Inlays : Pearloid Dot
• Truss Rod : Head Adjust
Electronics:
• Bridge Pickup : Ceramic Humbucker
• Neck Pickup : Ceramic Humbucker
Controls :
• Volume 1. (Bridge Pickup)
• Volume 2. (Neck Pickup),
• Tone 1. (Bridge Pickup)
• Tone 2. (Neck Pickup)
• Switching : 3-Position Blade
• Configuration : HH
Hardware
• Bridge : 6-Saddle Strings-Through-Body Tele
• Hardware Finish : Chrome
Pickguard : Custom
• Control Knobs : Classic skirted amp knobs
• Neck Plate : 4-Bolt Squire
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If you'd like to email me questions or comments you can get me at
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Thanks so much for watching!
The music on this video is original and written, performed, recorded, engineered & produced by
Dennis Segelstrom
© 2024 all rights reserved
The Airbrush I am using is actually a freebee that we got from Temu, it has no make or model number on it so it's not possible for me to give you that info. It came with a .35, a .5, and a 1.0 needle set and that's about all I can tell you.
If you'd like to email me you can get me at
[e-mail]
Thanks so much for watching!
The music on this video is original and written, performed, recorded, engineered & produced by
Dennis Segelstrom
© 2021 all rights reserved

[@olderendirt]

Thanks for the demo!

[@dennyps1]

Your welcome 🙏