NGD" Squier Paranormal Telecaster Seafoam Green

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

This one, from this site because they do free shipping on orders over $50 which this just qualifies for. There's another model, the GTC101 I think, that has brass saddles. I opted for steel for that snip-snap.

GOTOH GTC102 String Through Fixed Bridge w/ Steel Saddles

GOTOH GTC-102 hardtail fixed bridge with steel saddles.

www.philadelphialuthiertools.com

I found out when I was potting the stock pups that the covers are epoxied on, I was trying to pop them off and gave up before I broke anything. When I eventually replace them entirely, I'll pick a new color then. Potting the stock pickups was effective and cutting the feedback and a worthwhile learning experience.

Nice, will keep an eye on that for later. Maybe even get the 2nd one for my sunburst one, just to add some high end sparkle to counteract the Duncan Hot Rails' rollloff.
And yeah I was disappointed when I found out the covers were stuck, because tbh the stock pickups sounded pretty great. Especially in the neck.

 

[MFB]

This one, from this site because they do free shipping on orders over $50 which this just qualifies for. There's another model, the GTC101 I think, that has brass saddles. I opted for steel for that snip-snap.

Small world, when I ordered the new nut/graphtech saddles/etc for my white Contemporary Tele (that I've still yet to have installed) I ordered from them thru Reverb as they had everything I was looking for at the time

 

[Vegetta]

May have to do the Gotoh switch on my Seafoam one. Sounds okay but could use more snappy high end. Got a link to the one you used?
Also what do you plan on doing with the pickups? I unfortunately found out that Fender/Squier uses weird P90s where the covers seem to be epoxied to the actual pickup, so cover replacements are a no-go if you plan on making them black too.

Well shit I didn't realize that at all. I was going to order red covers for my black one. I am still looking at replacement pickups. Was thinking about getting a noiseless set but it looks like most of them require routing since the pups are taller.

 

[BlackMastodon]

either way this thread makes me want a baritele really badly

Same tho.
I do love seeing and hearing about everyone's mods.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Well shit I didn't realize that at all. I was going to order red covers for my black one. I am still looking at replacement pickups. Was thinking about getting a noiseless set but it looks like most of them require routing since the pups are taller.

Yeah you're gonna have to either get aftermarket ones or somehow paint your existing pickups

 

[MFB]

EMG sounds pretty good in this guitar, glad I did the swap.

One thought that just occurred to me, how much space was there in the cavity for the battery since switching to actives?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

One thought that just occurred to me, how much space was there in the cavity for the battery since switching to actives?

It'll probably have a little more room than your standard Tele, due to the 3-way vs a wide-ass 5-way, but still probably tight as fuck.

-Someone who's put EMGs in a couple of Teles.

 

[MFB]

It'll probably have a little more room than your standard Tele, due to the 3-way vs a wide-ass 5-way, but still probably tight as fuck.

-Someone who's put EMGs in a couple of Teles.

Are you using active ones, I thought the P91 was a passive? But you're right about the 3-way vs. 5-way, I forgot about that as a potential (slight) space saver.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Are you using active ones, I thought the P91 was a passive? But you're right about the 3-way vs. 5-way, I forgot about that as a potential (slight) space saver.

Passive in my Baritele, but I've installed them in Teles (and explorers) before and the cavity can be tight. Might not be a problem with soldered connections, but if you use the solderless and/or push-pull pots you're gonna run into some space issues.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Well shit I didn't realize that at all. I was going to order red covers for my black one. I am still looking at replacement pickups. Was thinking about getting a noiseless set but it looks like most of them require routing since the pups are taller.

I did not realize that noiseless p90s were taller, glad you caught that as I was likely going to go that route.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I did not realize that noiseless p90s were taller, glad you caught that as I was likely going to go that route.

Noiseless P90s are stacked humbuckers so they have to make them taller to compensate for the extra winding of coil.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Well
Change of plans.

DiMarzio Fast Track 2 just popped up for cheap. Grabbed that, and gonna put it in a Strat that current has a Hot Rails, and that Hot Rails is gonna go into the Seafoam baritele.
So now idk what to do with the cheapo Hot Rails I got coming in.

 

[MFB]

Well
Change of plans.

DiMarzio Fast Track 2 just popped up for cheap. Grabbed that, and gonna put it in a Strat that current has a Hot Rails, and that Hot Rails is gonna go into the Seafoam baritele.
So now idk what to do with the cheapo Hot Rails I got coming in.

Do you have some sort of conversion pickup ring or is it just a single coil sitting in a P90 route?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Do you have some sort of conversion pickup ring or is it just a single coil sitting in a P90 route?

Mix of both. In my tobbacoburst one it's direct mounted to the body, but I used double sided tape to install a Wide Range-to-Single Coil conversion ring to hide the hole. Because I don't wanna drill any holes on top of the guitar yet.


Went with reverse slanted because

1) Keep the bass strings aggressive and tight while treble strings don't get as harsh
and
2) They didn't sell any wide-range conversion rings that had straight routes.

 

[CanserDYI]

Moving my score over here, picked up this body today for $45 bucks, can't tell what wood it is, seller said swamp ash, I'm thinking walnut, what do you think?

I never was a big fan of the sunburst body and the belly/forearm sharpness always drove me nuts, this body solves both those issues and it's got a full sized humbucker route, I'm stoked. I just have a pearloid pickguard taped on just for mock up, don't know if it will be staying as I won't be putting a chrome control plate on this thing, and I think the pickguard might look odd without it? Thoughts?



Gonna direct mount a Seymour Duncan pegasus in the bridge and throw a regular old bent metal hardtail on it. I don't mind em.

There is quite a gouge out from underneath the bridge that I'm pretty sure a bridge screw will have to go into. Any thoughts on if I should fill this before mounting new bridge?


Looks like it's had quite a few bridges installed on it

 

[fabronaut]

whelp. I bought not just one, but two of the damn things in the span of a week on post Christmas sale. justified as "I don't have a baritone / anything with longer scale length." my girlfriend ended up buying herself a purple burl top Ibanez Gio with gold hardware. she hasn't played in a long time and never gravitated towards any of the guitars I have hanging in my room.

picked up the P90 cabronita and the Classic Vibe models, both in sunburst. they were both the best sounding and playing out of the three available of each on the rack. I'm not a sunburst / transparent finish nut or anything, that's just how it worked out. pretty nice grain on them too. the P90 model is going to need a switch swap -- it sucks, as you guys have pointed out.

haven't popped the cavity open to check yet, but what output jack style does the P90 cabronita have? I can't remember if Tele (or LP?) side jacks are the longer barrel type, or if it's model / manufacturer specific. can check tonight, but figured I'd ask anyhow.

 

[MFB]

whelp. I bought not just one, but two of the damn things in the span of a week on post Christmas sale. justified as "I don't have a baritone / anything with longer scale length." my girlfriend ended up buying herself a purple burl top Ibanez Gio with gold hardware. she hasn't played in a long time and never gravitated towards any of the guitars I have hanging in my room.

picked up the P90 cabronita and the Classic Vibe models, both in sunburst. they were both the best sounding and playing out of the three available of each on the rack. I'm not a sunburst / transparent finish nut or anything, that's just how it worked out. pretty nice grain on them too. the P90 model is going to need a switch swap -- it sucks, as you guys have pointed out.

haven't popped the cavity open to check yet, but what output jack style does the P90 cabronita have? I can't remember if Tele (or LP?) side jacks are the longer barrel type, or if it's model / manufacturer specific. can check tonight, but figured I'd ask anyhow.

We were talking about the jacks in my other NGD thread, they're socket jack, you'll find a link from Canser to a replacement one or as Fbomb shows, you can mount a plate style over the cavity without any issue.

My Cabronita toggle switch is actually quite solid, not sure if I'm just lucky or what but no issues with it