Hi! I wanted to refinish my sunburst Squier strat to sonic blue with 2 humbuckers. I love the look of that guitar now. What do you think ? The musics in this video are mine. Don't hesitate to leave a comment ! ✌️
the blue color along with the tortoise shell pickguard is such a beautiful combination, and i love the shoegazy demo at the end, very talented and you made such a beautiful guitar, congrats :)
Amazing! Love that you stick to your first guitar like that... mine is a butterscotch tele but I wanna try something new so I'll put a white Pickguard, Hotrail in the neck, Killswitch so on and so forth. There's just a mental connection to your first guitar that is invaluable! Your project turned out great, loved the result, loved the video, loved the music you played. :)
Wow thanks a lot ! :) Yeah, I'm not in love with Stratocaster, but hey it's my first guitar ! I was sad to leave it lying around.. Plus the neck is very nice to play. This strat came back in my daily guitars ahah
Nice. I’m actually looking at doing a very similar thing, my first electric was a 2011 squier affinity strat, also in sunburst. Finally started rebuilding it recently with much better components and thinking about repainting it to better suit the new neck I bought as the sunburst didn’t look too great tbh. Will take some inspiration from this haha, thanks!
From LeoM: Looks like you did a good job changing the color. I made the switch to humbuckers on my Strat, with a coil split switch to still enjoy single coils if needed. I really like that conversion.
Question: I'm about to repaint an Affinity Strat that's currently off white to sky blue. I shouldn't need primer if I just sand the existing off white paint, right? I should be able to spray the blue right over it, shouldn't I?
Your sonic blue looks very nice! It's a loooot of work to refinish a guitar. I confess my uncertainty that the new tortoise pick guard is a pleasing colour match but I'm no interior decorator. I'm refinishing a Squier SE right now. Pure white body.I plan to install the original tortoise shell pg on it even though I don't think it matches. It'll look like fire engine red lipstick on an albino face. But there are lotsa pics of white strats online with ts pick guards. I bow to peer pressure. I hope it'll look as good as yours overall.
I have a pearl pg here, I lay it in place on the guitar. Thrre are many white syrats over the years sold with pearl pg's. Too blindingly white, too anemic.Then I whip that one off and lay on the tortoise shell. Of the 2 historically very popular choices, I must go with the tortoise. My unnecessary fussing over pg choice will evaporate once my Squier SE has new Tex Mex pickups installed and the neck with leveled frets presents the guitar with maximum low no buzz action. I say yay to renovating guitars!!
hello, I also have such a guitar model 2003, I want to ask you if there is a change in the sound after painting it, someone says that the sound changes and I am thinking of painting mine, thanks?
Hello ! No, there's no change. Paint can't change the sound of an electric guitar when you're plugged in. It's 99% the pickups that capture the sound for your amp :) It can change a little little bit when you're unplugged, but it so little...
Hey I have a small doubt. What kind of finish was your guitar before repainting? I mean did it have that thing like umm... I don't know it's name. A transparent layer of something like plastic? A white powder forms while sanding it. Did your guitar have that? Or is it normal finish in which Fenders comes with? Please reply bro.
Hey, yep it's called varnish. A clear coat over paint. On Squier and the majority of mass production guitars (Fender too) it's polyurethane. It's very solid and it looks like plastic.The "white powder" when you sand is juste dust. I hope I help you :)
@@killercat2896 ahah no prob. If your new paint is opaque, no, just sand it enough so that the paint can adhere. No need to sand through all the finish (varnish).
I know you didn't sand because you like the eggshell finish but...if you wanted a smooth finish do you recommend sanding between each coat of primer AND each coat of finish?
Hi! If you’re doing nitrocellulose, you can but it’s not necessary because layers tends to merge together. Only a good sanding and polish final the final layer of clear coat. If you’re doing polyurethane, yep it’s better to sand.
@@FrenchGuitarGuy Thank you for the reply. Yeah, I’m thinking of doing a satin type, nitro finish in fiesta red. Ironically, the color I’ll be going over is nitro sonic blue. Well, it’s actually yellowed to surf green, not sonic blue at all anymore. It’s too bad because I LOVE sonic blue but I really dislike surf green so I think it has to go.
🤯You’re right! I didn’t do it on purpose, but it’s an happy accident I guess. Those are Dartfords Nitrocellulose cans, I bought them on a French website (emma-music.com).
It's not that difficult but it requires a lot of prep work and patience (which is difficult in my case). I did an another video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-057rZIiQ3l4.html
@@FrenchGuitarGuy Cool, I did think it was Dartfords but wasn't 100%, I've used their Neck tint nitro in the past and I was surprised how good it was, plus I think Dartfords has the best range for Tinted gloss, don't know if you've seen them but they're specifically for necks, haven't used a Solid colour from them yet though, looks like you've made a decent job of it, I've built a Mustang to Cobain specs but was umming and arring over what brand Nitro to use I was looking at northwest guitars own nitro but I've read mixed reviews so I'm really contemplating Dartfords...Or Manchester guitar techs but Dartfords seems to come in a bit cheaper. Cheers Matt
@@FrenchGuitarGuy Well my reason for doing it initially was that and actual KC Mustang was a bit out of my price range, and I've had a couple of Fenders go through my hands over a year or a couple years back, which quality wise left a bit to be desired, they weren't trash but I expected better from Fender, so I thought I could do better than what I received, it was little finishing issues and slightly below par quality....I'm a carpenter/joiner by trade so knew I had the skill set, sourced the body from guitar builder UK, and a beautiful allparts Jag Neck (which I hit the jackpot with because the rosewood board is some of the darkest rosewood I've had on a guitar), only real mod I had to do was route the bridge pickup cavity to take a Humbucker, the guitars assembled I'm just waiting on some good weather to laye some nitro down, the hardest part for me to find was a decent headstock decal and this company called Crox guitars have the best decals going imo. Another thing is Kurt's Mustang was a poly finish but I'm using Nitro, I know die hard fans would say it would have to be done poly but I'm cool as long as its Sonic blue. So yeah, do you find once you started modding etc it turns into a bit of an obsession? I'm gonna do a Jag or a Jazzmaster next, part of me really wants to build a sprinter...but can't find a 22.5" scale neck for the life of me. Anyway man thanks, sorry if I've rambled on a bit . Matt
@@MC-wh3xm Thanks, no not for this music. I have a punk/grunge band, you can listen it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wKmH-p38jNw.html
Thanks for your comment. Just remember, if you want a mirror polish, you have to sand a lot (1000grit, 2000grit, 5000 and polish). It's not in my video because I wanted a "textured" paint. The song a the end was just me noodling on the guitar ^^
Hi Edouard !! Deepest congrats for your really nice work !! You’ve got a amazing tone with these two humbuckers. A Foo Fighter tone ! Could you tell us your signal path after the Strat ? Amp ? Mic ? Premamp ? Amp sim on your computer ? Really really nice work ;)
Hi! Thanks! The strat goes straight into a Zoom Multi Stomp MS-70 CDR (which I no longer have) with reverb and delay, and for the disto it's a Proco Rat BEFORE the reverb and delay. Then it goes through the clean channel of my amp (I think it was a Bugera head at the time, but I'm not sure, it's been a while). Then into my sound card with OwnHammer IR speaker simutations. That's it :)
Franchement bon boulot! Tu m'inspires pour repeindre une de mes guitares ! Tu as eu besoin d'un cale a poncer, de papier de verre (grain 400 les 2?), d'une bombe primaire et d'une bombe de couleur de chez emma music c'est bien ça?
Hello, merci ! J'ai poncé au 120 avant de repeindre, le 400 c'est trop fin.Sinon le reste oui pour les 2, et j'ai pris ça chez Emma music. Si tu veux avoir un poncé/polie à la fin faudra beaucoup de papier, jusqu'au 2000 au moins et du produit de polissage. Bon courage :)
Not really, I really like the early Weezer, but I had completely forgotten about River's guitar. It was when I saw another comment about it that I remembered it afterwards lol
