Fixing the questionable Squier Classic Vibe Jaguar Factory Setup | RIP
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2021
- No talking, just putting the shitty factory set up of the Squier Classic Vibe Jaguar to its timely death. I hope your eyeballs enjoy this one.
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Here's how I set up my CV Jag. I shimmed the neck with a guitar pick (can't remember what thickness) to increase the break angle. I restrung it with .011's which is what Leo intended for his offset designs. I later added shrink wrap to the bridge posts to eliminate any remaining rattles. That's it! Nothing else was necessary. The guitar plays great and I love the short scale. These CV's are a great value for the $$$.
I’d replace that pic with a pocket shim so you don’t end up with a heal hump. Rounding the fret ends and rolling/filing the fingerboard gives them a much slicker feel. That being said everyone has their own likes and dislikes. And yes I agree they are great value for the $$.
Why shrink wrap? Is this because it doesn’t mute the vibrations of the bridge?
Idk, but this totally made me think of the Blood Eagle from Vikings. Just the first part. You really made me choose to order this now.
Epic! It’s a great guitar once set up nicely. ✌️
Nice soothing presentation 😊 Some of the early CV Jags had the hotter Duncan Designed pickups left over from the VM Jags. Bridge DC resistance was over 13 kOhms. With the Fender designed pickups they also put the bridge and neck pickups in the wrong positions. Neck measured 6.2 kOhms and bridge measured 5.8 kOhms. I also turned my bridge pickup round 180 degrees for the same claw orientation,
Thanks for the comment. Appreciate it. Mine just had the stock fender design. I ended up moving the little 59 to the bridge and putting the stock bridge in the neck. I got a better balance this way. Thinking of putting the SD P rails in it. Need to find an H H pickguard for it first.
I put 10 gauge GHS Precision Flats on mine and currently playing it through a Peavey Blazer with an oversized reverb tank. Palm mutes into an almighty thumpy drip lol. This is my first go with a Jaguar, they seem to have tremendous scope. Tone also sounds great through a Big Muff.
@@AireSound the options for custom wiring are also massive. I have the little 59 set up to coil split via the switch that used to be the bottom cut. I can now let it rip but also go back to the more traditional sound. I think what I love about it most is now with the work I did on the frets and the finger board it’s probably the most comfortable guitar I own to play.
Today I shimmed the neck with two stewmac shims , one 0,5 and one 0,25 and raised the bridge about 3 mm . Got a sitar like sound from the g string , so I filed the slot and now I'm fine with the result . Plays smooth now . Lovely guitar indeed . I'll put 11th on this guitar , can't wait
Nice. I ended up making a shim because I wanted a little more angle than the shims I had. My bridge is up about 3-4 maybe closer to 4mm. I also had to slot the saddles a little bit, I also greased them. I have 10-52’s on it and am pretty happy with it. My nut was also slotted uneven, the bottom E was too close to the edge. The other thing I did was rounded off the sharp edge on the binding. Feels much nicer now.
i have one scheduled for tomorrow and just accept i will learn all about setting up a guitar in many hours of trying to get this one right
Take your time. Just do a little bit at a time if you are new to it. Start with the nut, it needs to be slotted correctly for the strings you use or you will struggle with keeping it in tune. Then tackle the bridge height and neck break angle. These 3 things are the most important first steps. 👍
Amazing video mate.. keep on going!
Thanks man I appreciate that. I have more planned just been real busy at work. Stay tuned. 🤘🏼
5:09 i just realized plagued moth has this music playing in the intro
The song is Kurt by Cheel from the youtube library. I just added an extra guitar track to dirty it up a bit. :)
That was so intense until the happy music came on and gave me a hug from inside
I appreciate the over produced quality of this. I too overproduced a video once. No Foley artistry in mine but still. Excellent effort and result.
Hahah thanks. I had a friend get into me about my poor effort on the quality of my other vids so this was a bit of a “here you go then” but I actually really enjoyed making it. 😀
@@RisingSunGuitarMods hahaha. That's awesome. 🤣❤️
@@RisingSunGuitarMods Was the string cutting a stapler?
@@bciecko1 no it was part of a sound effect in Final cut library that I chopped up. :) Can't remember what it was but had nothing to do with what's on screen.
Lol that ending was so epic
I have two classic vibe jaguars and jazzmaster that I heavily modified with nitro paint and descendent bridge and vibrato and I installed 92D wiring harnesses and they’re my favorite guitars I’ve ever owned. I don’t ever play my dunable’s or vintage Gretsch guitars anymore.
Agree, great value guitars with some mods to make it yours. 🤘🏼
Awesome cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Chur bro!!!
Threw a buzz stop on mine and a MIJ trem on it, cts pots, and a 3 way selector. I have a SD hot rail and lil 59 sitting around and this video definitely makes me want to throw it in my jag
Nice one man, I’d love to upgrade the hardware on mine too, the mods make it better but it does have more to give. I moved the bridge pickup to the neck as well as it was a bit hotter than the neck and matched the little 59 a bit better. I have some cts pots in my kit. But they are going into my MIJ knock off jag. 🤗👍
@@RisingSunGuitarMods the only reason I changed the pots was to make them 500k, I was getting insane ice picky sounds that I wasn’t a fan of haha I’d love to see an update video I’m the near future man, I really enjoyed this video!
@@gloryxkid thanks man. I appreciate that. I do have a couple of follow ups to do on this. I reckon I might go into detail on a couple of the things I’ve done. Cheers.
I have the awesome Hot Rail in strat I modified. Purchased mim strat, black, maple neck to upgrade immediately. Installed 3 SD humbucking single coil size pickups - Hot Rail at neck, Lil' 59 middle, jb Jr at bridge. The hot rail is my favorite. Neck strat position sound plus great tone gain and strength. The hot rail has a full and great tone that is bigger sounding, more full of content, than the 59 or jb. Those are nice but not better sounding.
What is the Tool kit you're using? Looks like it has virtually everything we could need.
It’s a bit of overkill but it’s the ifixit kit. I bought it for fixing phone and iPads but it’s a good kit for this too. Quite expensive but I don’t regret buying it.
Top tip from one of your other videos , get that pivot point on the trem smooth. No need to upgrade👍
Yeup. Get rid of the rough tooling marks and it’s just as good as the Japanese fender ones. 👌
@@RisingSunGuitarMods If you remove the plating on the Trem pivot point won't it eventually corrode.
In the past I've polished the contact points and used a touch of graphite, however I've never taken a file to it.
Once the plating is gone its days are limited.
Which video?
@@hkguitar1984 I regularly file through chrome plating on tunamatic saddles so I have no concerns with oxidisation on monkey metal trems.
They are usually as rough as your nans shin anyway. 😁
Have recently got an unplayed Vintage Modified Squier Jaguar (Olympic White/Red Tort) from 2015. I'm throwing some money at it.
*Staytrem Bridge - correct radius & string spacing.
*Fender Pure Vintage 65 pickups - because they're relatively cheap.
*Fender locking vibrato - just better, not too expensive.
*Staytrem arm - am used to a Bigsby.
*Stewmac maple shims a la Puisheen
*Bone nut
*Power Slinkys (0.11s)
I think that will put a few Fenders to shame.
Have I gone too far, any of these not necessary?
Hey Nicholas, honestly, in my opinion if you can do the mods, and enjoy the satisfaction of doing it then why not. If you spend some time on the fret work you will get a really nice playable guitar. In my personal opinion don't worry about the label on the headstock, you might get people saying, just buy a Fender, but that being said it comes down to the guitar and how it feels for you. Mine now plays better than a Fender Jazmaster that I have in the moment for a set up but my squire feels nicer all round. I'd love to see a video of your adventures with it mate. Sounds like it will be awesome!
Stewmac doesn't have a phone. Other sources might be easier to talk to. Stewmac sells very complicated kits such as wiring kits, but does not have any phone support and almost no directions other than standard printed forms of incomplete nature. Suggest keeping other sources in mind. I expect more from a big supplier like stew Mac.
Communication is a key element.
You installed the Duncan pickup in the neck position, but by the end of the video it magically moved to the bridge position?
It sure did, nice eagle eyes my friend. It's a little 59 and I tried it in the neck but didn't like the combination. It sounds better in the bridge position and I have set the switch that would usually cut the bottoms to be a coil split. I do plan on putting the seymour duncan P-Rails in this so keep an eye out for that. Also if you want a more in depth explanation as to why I changed my mind let me know, I'd be happy to make some content on why I changed my mind. :)
@@phillmackie2978 Does the Duncan in the bridge match well with the output of the stock neck? I would think the Duncan is way louder?
It’s actually not bad at all. The Duncan is hotter as far as output but the actual audio output is not far off surprisingly. I’m not 100% happy with the pairing but I happened to have the little 59 sitting around and just wanted to try it out. 🤗
The fake sound effects are so hilarious lmao
Thanks for the comment. Yes, yes they are. 🤣
Nice video! What do you do to the vibrato exactly? Mine always slightly detunes the guitar.
Thanks for the comment. A couple of things, firstly on the squier trem the part you see me filing is the pivot point, it should be nice and smooth but the cheaper machining of this part leaves either tooling or moulding rough edge, that’s why you get the click noise when going up and down on the bar. If yours is going out of tune it could be a couple of things. Make sure you have enough break angle on your neck so the bridge can be raised about 3-4mm off the body, also you will need some lock tight on the screws as they work their way loose and drop the bridge. Another good thing to check if you are loosing tuning is to make sure the nut is filed correctly and a bit of nut grease, or graphite and Vaseline works well to allow your strings to glide. I reckon I might make a follow up vid with this one, would you like to see that?
@@RisingSunGuitarMods bs got fender floating trem same you need to change the cheaparse tuners big time and maby the bridge on the classic vibe you need reset the bridge hight change strings tuners even bridge to your likeing but its not uncommon to pay 360£ and get a guitar that dosnt not only go into tune it just makes same bell sound on every fret you need to adjust screws inside the bridge to the right hight. nice guitar a blank canvas for a guitar builder player to make the perfect guitar that suits you other wize its just parts in the mail i still prefer my many other guitars even the fender squire bullet mustang lets face it the type of sounds you get from it your great grandad dads listened too and im 52
@@joemom1012 it’s okay to disagree, no need to get worked up. I have set this one up to my liking. I have played it for a long time now and it plays just as good if not better than the Fender Jazzmaster I have been playing. If you know how to do a proper set up and modify a few things there is no reason you can’t make these play really well. A lot of people think the tuning pegs are no good when in actual fact most of the time the issue is with the nut not being cut properly.
What type of pickup do you install in the neck position?
That’s a Seymour Duncan little 59. I ended up putting it in the bridge position as it was too bright for the neck and I wanted to split it too.
What kind of pickup did you put in the bridge? I’ve been looking for one that will fit inside the existing claw.
It’s a Seymour Duncan little 59. It’s actually a neck pickup spacing (I put it in the neck position to start with) but because the jags have a narrow nut and bridge spacing it worked better in the bridge position. It’s also a humbucker in a single coil space so the claw doesn’t do any thing for it except look cool 😎
@@RisingSunGuitarModsDo you know the exact model and the color? I’m also thinking about butting a humbucker as bridge pickup in my jag, but i want it to be the exact same color as the original pickup
@@maartenaerts651 Mine is the older version of this: www.seymourduncan.com/single-product/little-59-strat they only come in white or black. If you check out the strat page: www.seymourduncan.com/products/pickups/electric/strat there are a few options for single coil spaced humbuckers. Another option would be to try a stacked humbucker, sometimes referred to as noisless single coils. But it depends on what type of sound you are after. I like the little 59 because it handle gain really nicely with plenty of warmer mids. :)
How to wire the ground in the bridge Bush? Just pushed It in the Bottom.of.the.hole?
Just pushing it in the whole might not be your best option. You may need to remove the bush so you can get the wire properly seated. Be careful as there is a process for this. Do some searching on how to remove bushings. I have not yet done a video for this.
No neck shim? I keep seeing people say that it’s nearly impossible to set a jag/jazzmaster up without a neck shim?
It has a neck shim, I think I missed that in the edit. You most definitely need to give the neck enough break angle to lift the bridge up around 3-4 mm off the body. If you don’t then there isn’t enough tension from the bridge down to the tremolo and yours strings will jump and/or have a buzz. 🤗👌
@@RisingSunGuitarMods Awesome thanks, that’s exactly what I wanted to know. I recently bought a Jaguar and a Jazzmaster….looks like I’m pulling necks off of both! Thanks again.
@@rockerbob949 I’ll be going more in depth with what I’ve done to mine in coming vids. Keep an eye out for them. I also have a Fender Jazzmaster here that needs the same done to it so will have that in the coming weeks and will go over the neck shim as well as shielding to help with noise. ✌️
amamzing
Haha thanks.
Love the video .. does the tuners hold tune?.
Yes mate, as long as you cut the nut to suit the string gage and set up the bridge and tremolo correctly it holds tune really well.
I suggest reaming the tuner holes out to 10mm/1cm with a hand 'reamer', 6", and installing high quality inline 6 locking tuners from a company like Grover, or Fender/schaller. These will make using the guitar a far nicer experience by taking the effort out of tuning up. They are super accurate and smooth to turn, and they are much easier to turn because of the better gear ratio. Tuning is quick accurate and effortless with high quality tuners. This is a super mega great upgrade for an inexpensive guitar. These make a big difference.
what for? why not just build the guitar from wood i did
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A shame you buried the guitars' tone with a lame-ass pedal.
Lol, shame you think the lame arse sound is from a pedal. Hahaha.
unnecessarily dramatic.
Thanks for commenting man. It’s just a bit of fun. Lighten up a bit dude.