Excellent work Chiba. One of the most overlooked instruments in the myriad of guitar-ish things out there. Bridge and Middle is indeed the sizzle. Starting with basically firewood and melted down bicycle parts, if we appropriately replace certain attack surfaces with the good stuff, they're gem-worthy instruments lying in the rough to say the least. So versatile... I appreciate your effort on this one. Having built a few of these from scratch with a bevy of vintage and cutting edge parts, it's cool to see the opportunities available on an 'upgrade' project. Might have to steal that from ya - but I'd of course sent you a cut of the profit... I do the same with low-end Jazz-masters, upgrading the pups, wiring, pots, bridge, nut, tuners and strings and the results are similarly frigging awesome, one-of-a-kind pieces of engineering. I don't want to paint over a perfectly good and new finish, which is why I do the "from scratch" work from select timbre out of the UK or wherever, client's choice, typically with Nitro. Finding the necks is the biggest hassle, but I've got my "dealer" now so it's much less painful. (Sounds like a drug thing, but I guess in a way it is a similar process....) Keep up the good work dude. We'll all be watching... Cheers, RR
Appreciate it, seriously. I've thought about doing it with a CV Jazzmaster, but after doing this project I'm not sure I want to invest the time, let alone the money, when I already have a great JM to play. I do like a project, though...
I haven't seen or played the Vintera II Bass VI, but my opinion of MIM Fenders is much higher than these Squiers. I would assume it might need a complete setup, maybe a little bit of fretwork to make it 100% perfect, and then be good to go. If the Vintera II BVI had been available (or even known to be on the horizon) when I got this BVI, I'd have gotten the Vintera II model.
I'm not sure if you're aware but when you flipped the bridge pickup 180 degrees in the earlier video, you're now running it out of phase (which is why when you do bridge+neck it sounds kinda honky and nasal). It's a cool effect (one I often add via a switch on a few of my guitars) but I'm not sure if it was intentional here 😁
@@chiba131 I am just learning how to change out pickups and wiring. I was taught that the mini-pots were cheap and don't sound good. I have even heard experienced people say to change the electronics first before you swap your pickups out because they have a big affect on the guitar tone. That said, I am a guitar player and a beginner in working on guitars.
@@911elijah Mini pots are often of lower quality than "regular" pots, but in my experience it's a longevity and functionality deficit, not necessarily a tonal one. Changing them out is not a bad idea by any stretch of the imagination, but in this case here, I didn't find them to be negatively affecting the tone. I leave them both turned all the way up, so any tonal problems they might have are mitigated by that.
I probably would ... but remember at the time I got this, Fender hadn't made ANY BVIs for a long while, and outright said they wouldn't be adding the BVI to any of their other lines. Seeing the BVI pop up in the V2 lineup was a big surprise to many of us. If I got a V2 BVI, I'd still have to have it worked on, as I cannot stand the 7.25" fretboard radius, so at a minimum a re-radius and refret would be in order. Even with getting a V2 BVI at a good price, doing so with a re-rad & refret would put the cost at around where the Squier played out.
Long story but I’ve come to have an extra offset guitar body and was thinking of building my own bass vi, have you thought about new tuners or have any you would recommend?
