Squier Affinity CRAZY Stratocaster HSS Limited-Edition – Major Upgrades скачать в хорошем качестве

Squier Affinity CRAZY Stratocaster HSS Limited-Edition – Major Upgrades

In my videos I have normally stuck to the Classic Vibe or Vintage Modified in the Squier lineup of guitars. I recently did a video about the Squier Debut Stratocaster that is offered on Amazon for $119. That guitar kind of opened my eyes into the possibility of what you can do with the less expensive Squier guitars as a modding platform. I recently was looking at Squier guitars on Reverb and came upon the Squier Affinity Stratocaster HSS Limited-Edition in Natural. Two things that are dear to my heart in a Stratocaster is a natural finish body and a large headstock. To me this is one of the prettiest Strat formats. I have three or four of them in my collection. This guitar is a 21 fret, 9.5-inch radius, C shaped neck Stratocaster guitar with a humbucker pickup in the bridge position. The guitar new goes for only $249. I looked to see if there were any used and found one in like new condition for $190. I ordered it and started planning what I would replace in the guitar. I have not touched an Affinity Strat before and did not know what to expect in quality. I wanted to know if the neck and body were a good set of bones? The guitar arrived and the first thing I did was weigh it. It came in at 7 pounds and 13 ounces. I removed the strings and gave the guitar a once over. I was amazed at the quality of a $249 retail priced guitar. The body and neck did not look like it came off of an inexpensive guitar. The body has a clear gloss poly finish. The neck is gloss poly on the front but satin on the back of the neck which is nice. The frets are flat without rocking and the edges of the frets and fretboard is very good for the price that I paid. I have to admit that I really like the new low budget tuners that Squier has been releasing lately. I first saw them on the Debut Strat. They are sealed tuners that function really well but the part I like is that they are split shaft tuners. I had planned on replacing the tuners on this guitar but decided not to. The electronics are comprised of ceramic single coil pickups and inexpensive electronic components. They would be the focus of my upgrades. The nut and the bridge both seem to be functional and for now will do the job. So, I will leave them alone. I concluded that the core components of the guitar – the neck and the body are a perfect low budget modding platform. They are good bones. If you have good bones, you can pretty much do anything with a guitar. Here is what I selected for the upgrades: To replace the humbucker bridge pickup, I selected the Seymour Duncan SH-18b Whole Lotta Humbucker British Rock Bridge Pickup in Zebra. This is an Alnico V magnet-based pickup with a four-wire cable so I can do some advanced wiring in the harness. Aesthetically the Zebra pickup to me is very cool looking. For the middle position pickup, I selected the Seymour Duncan SSL-1 Vintage Staggered Strat Pickup - RWRP White. RWRP means Reverse Wind Reverse Polarity. RWRP in the middle Stratocaster pickup helps with hum /noise canceling. For the neck position I picked the Seymour Duncan SSL-1 Vintage Staggered Pole Strat Pickup. Both single coil Seymour Duncan pickups are Alnico V based pickups. I wanted to build the circuit around the Free-Way Blade Switch (5B5-02-BWT). What is cool with this switch is it is a drop-in replacement in size for a standard Stratocaster 5-way pickup selector switch and instead of offering 5 positions it offers 10. I had done a video recently using a version of this switch in a Telecaster but never a Strat. This specific model of Free-Way switch is designed for pickup combinations with Single Coil and Humbucker pickups. The switch offers what Free-Way calls benches, and this switch offers two benches that are side-by-side. The top bench offers the five traditional Stratocaster switch outputs and configurations. The lower bench offers five switch positions that are specific to having a humbucker pickup. The switch can be moved in the normal way that a Stratocaster blade switch does cycling through the five positions, but it also moves side to side toggling between the two benches. Free-Way offers an extensive offering of wiring diagrams for just about every pickup and pot configuration you could imagine. I selected the one that matched me having two single coil pickups in the neck and middle and a humbucker pickup in thew bridge. It also offered a master volume, and a tone pot dedicated to the single coils and one dedicated to the humbucker. The circuit is made up of the Free-Way switch, two split shaft CTS 250k pots in the volume and front tone control, a 500k bourns split shaft pot for the humbucker tone control.