Upgrading a Squier Affinity Strat with Fender Yosemite Pickups! Despite it´s gone a little in the wrong direction it came out very satisfying. Haven´t heard a Custom Shop Strat sound so lovely since a long time. Blew me away!
I have the same guitar. A friend gave it to me along with his Peavey Rage 158 Transtube practice amp. I modded the Squire Affinity with a Dimarzio Super Distortion pickup, I had from the early 80’s. It’s now an HSS Super Strat. After a little bit of cleaning and setting up on the intonation, it sounds so much better. 🎸👍
i did similar. found a loaded pickguard from a am performer with those same pickups for $115 usd on reverb, and went from there. they really are good pickups. I just do light trem stuff with the heel of my palm, so i never have the trem arm on there so mine was much simpler :)
Thanks! ..thought about that but came up with an other solution. I think it would have been possible. However the dimentions of the pegheads are not identical as I found out. In particular the position of the saddle to the tuners differs quiet a bit.
you should of used the Wilkinson trem and left the stock saddles on it. better block and thicker plate. lot better setup than the stock squire one that came on the guitar.
@@MrJLobster another idea is to put a new tremolo block and leave original baseplate and orginal saddles. more sustain but the more balcend tone of the zinc saddles. i foud myself than steel sometimes is too bright.
The trem arm has a 10-32 thread which has to be one of the worst threads you could have used on this application. 1/4-24 would have been a much better choice. The tolerance is like night and day, however, a threaded joint should really not be used here. Should be a straight shaft with a threaded tapered friction devicethat allows for rotation of the bar while holding it in one position. A thread will not do this.
