I Installed a Tremolo to This £150 Guitar!

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Can you turn a cheap £150 guitar into a professional, road-worthy, custom-shop-style guitar for £500… ALL IN? Well over the next couple of months, that’s exactly what we are going to find out. In each episode of this guitar build challenge I am going to change, mod and quite frankly butcher each individual part of this Harley Benton and hopefully make something really special. All the way from the pickups, hardware and even the finish. But I had to set myself a budget, because otherwise this whole thing could get out of hand quite quickly. So I have £500 to spend including the guitar!
This episode is all about the hardware. The little things (or not so little things) that will hopefully add up to make a massive difference and make this guitar a much more premium stable instrument.
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• Ernie Ball Music Man Cutlass HSS (McNelly Pickups)
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• Fender Telecaster (Seymour Duncan Antiquity Pickups)
• Gibson Les Paul Junior (Sunbear Pickup)
• Heritage H-150 Standard Artisan Aged Europe Ltd
• Victory V40 The Duchess
• Victory VC35 The Copper
• Victory V4 The Sheriff
• Boss Waza Tube Amp Expander
• Universal Audio Apollo Solo
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@tommybrxb Год назад

Wow! That is looking and sounding ace! This has been an inspirational piece and shows that these projects can be a lot of fun and still result in a very unique and usable instrument. It really could end up being worth more than the sum of its parts.. well done JB, looking forward to the pups next.

@joshuabenton3785 Год назад

Loved seeing this!! Love the Les trem and the paint choice, top notch!

@JacksonBrooksby Год назад

Thanks Josh!

@gringogreen4719 11 месяцев назад

The difference will mainly be from adding a beefier bridge and the extra mass of the trem. I have an Ibanez Artcore in my pic that when I went from the stock bird swing tailpiece and wooden jazz style bridge to a Ibanez Vintage Vibrato and Roller Bridge, it changed so much of the tone. It was brighter and has more zing. I still love playing that guitar!

@mikemccourt6225 7 месяцев назад

Sounds good

@AM2PMReviews Год назад

wow I just did the same thing with the same guitar and color. Mine is the stock pink. I wish it was relived nitro. As for the term...did the cheaper, rip-off version from Guyker. The spring isn't as good. Think it needs some of the upgrades that you mentioned. I also did a cheap Guyker roller bridge which is awesome! I did install some new 1meg pots and next week I will install a treble bleed variable circuit and a variable tone capacitor circuit from Mythos. Overall, I am shocked at how light it is and how well it resonates.

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing Год назад

Cool! Love the whammy. Money well spent. Nothing wrong with a parts guitar. Your whammy should keep its tuning. It could be snagging in the nut. Just a bit of graphite sprinkled into the slots should fix that. I did it on one of my guitars and it stays in tune even between a few days of not playing it :-)

@JacksonBrooksby Год назад

Cheers! After some more tweaking, tuning stability is solid

@attrition0 Год назад

I've been considering dropping that exact same trem onto one of my guitars, good timing. Edit: I think the les trem I had the spring go to the body itself with a piece of felt between. It caused some marking on the guitars so the les trem II is supposed to help that.

@JacksonBrooksby Год назад

Ah that makes sense! Do it

@brCharlieNagy 4 месяца назад

So it comes back in tune ? ! Thanks

@rickpapineau2704 10 месяцев назад

Did you have to fill and re-drill the tune-o-matic original holes in order to fit the Duesenberg ii Les Trem? or was it a "drop in" replacement?

@JacksonBrooksby 10 месяцев назад

Nope didn’t have to do any drilling at all. The whole process is in this video

@tomnelson5815 Год назад

Nice and economical. Note: It's pronounced "Less" Trem, an in vibrato for Les Paul, whose name is Les, pronounced "Less", not "Lez" as you Brits are wont to do. Short for Lester.

@user-in7nk1iq2j 3 месяца назад

I’m surprised how many RU-vidrs install a duesenberg without adding a roller bridge. You absolutely have to use a roller bridge, unless you don’t mind the strings sawing into the bridge like a bow saw every time you use the trem. This vid does no justice for that tremolo. Also when is the zero fret going to catch on? You don’t need a nut. Why have a nut when a zero fret works flawlessly and requires no setup. These nut replacements are a joke. They only effect unfretted notes which makes uneven volumes. And stop destroying your guitar finish to so called relic it. You just turned a functional guitar into a string snapping piece of garbage, and probably spent twice the value of the guitar to make it half as good as it was. The point of modding is to make things better. That paint job is terrible. It’s like soiling your new tightie whities because you don’t like looking like a mommas boy!