r/partscaster

£70 diy kit, £23 tuners, £13 saddles, Roller, shielding tape,

pickups used classic vibe alnico £40

Used some old squire pickguard and knobs

So £150 all in, it plays perfectly, straight neck, low action, the issue is it’s a leave alone one time to set up, the wood is very soft and light not for unscrewing and screwing more than 1 or 2 times, plus a little neck dive but for sitting down its comes to just under 2.5kg just under 5.5lbs,

Lightly Rolled Edges, sorted the frets and gave the neck some TLC

My shielding was done in a hurry and the fretboard wood is nothing major, for a beginner or hobby it has been great, and the frets are more shiny than my mexican tele now, to scared to touch the frets on my MiM,

Comparing to my mexican tele it just brings out that extra quality in the mexican when playing side by side, I guess once you have quality you feel the difference, sound wise it can get real close and more subjective imo,

The real question is what do I do with my diy guitar now?

Just wanted to show you guys what I did to my Sire S3 DR. These guitars are an amazing modding platforms, having great neck and frets - I didn’t have to do much there, except for a light fret polish. Anyway, now it has Gotoh hardware and Fen*** noiseless pickups. Painted it in Nitorlack’s Chameleon nitro paint.

This started life as a Squire affinity telecaster. I replaced everything, a little bit at a time, except the jack plug, which is the only original part.

The neck was sold to me as an 80s Japanese Fender neck, but I’m not sure. I like it though.

The body is subject to change at some point, maybe black or blonde, not sure yet. I’m not sure if it’s the body or the pick guard which is the wrong shape.

Bare knuckle ‘The boss’ in the bridge position, ‘black guard’ in the neck position.

I recently tried to build a partscaster for under $500 to see how quality of a guitar I could put together! I’d love your feedback on the video I made documenting the entire process start to finish!

https://youtu.be/jsOez4C6uMk?si=IJvFQDl6nww5e0Xz

Hoping one of you legends can help me find a similar pickguard and bridge with jazz master type whammy 🤙🏻

This is my first partscaster! Got the body off a Rondo Music thinline tele that I traded for. I took a gamble and bought the neck from a random EBay seller that seemed to have decent reviews. Luckily, the neck is wonderful! It was my first time drilling holes in a neck and I’m pretty sure it’s slightly off but it plays great so I’m okay with it lol. The pickups are a set of Fender TexMex tele pickups and they sound pretty good. Most likely going to replace them in the future and maybe add an s-1 switch to put the pickups in series but for now I’m happy with it. I’ve never played another Tele before so I’m not sure how it compares but it definitely plays nice. Just posting to hear everyone’s thoughts!

Both pine bodies, no name offset tele body and chinese neck, dimarzio super distortion with esquire wiring. The tele/strat hybrid is a nomoonlaser body and a mim 90s tele neck and lace sensor pickups

Second hand, hand made guitar, guy before me built it wrong, it can't be adjusted.

Should routing and changing screw position work?

Hello, I’m struggling with the wiring or potentially the neck pickup. The bridge pickup is loud and clear, but the neck pickup is almost dead silent. It will make noise if I physically touch/press the pickup however none when I just strum the strings. I have a four way switch on the control panel and the pickup is a noiseless fender pickup with three wires. I couldn’t find a great wiring diagram and neither the neck pickup or the control panel had a wiring diagram in the packaging so I tried to find one that looked similar. Here is a picture of what my absolutely fantastic wiring job looks like (sarcasm I know I’m not the best at wiring/soldering) but if anyone has any tips to troubleshoot what I’ve got going on I’d greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance

So i’m looking at bits and pieces to build a Stratocaster style guitar and i was wondering if anyone could tell what looks good with a natural strat finish like the pictures included and if they’d even look good together. My initial idea was vintage style tuners with cream pegs, regular silver hardware for the bridge and anything else like that and a aged pearl pick guard but i’ve started racking ideas around and was thinking gold hardware could be cool also.

Update: i ordered it with a rosewood fretboard instead so it has a more fluid look while also having the big headstock and roasted neck. The body will come when i’m payed and for pickups i’m thinking fender tex mex but if anyone has a better suggestion or any pro/con of the tex mex please do share-

Hi all, I'm looking for some advice.

I'm considering buying a partcaster project, consisting of a loaded squier SE body, a squier neck, and a replica fender neck.

My plan is to use the replica neck along with the body to create what resembles a fender strat.

Looking at the images, it looks like the replica neck's heel looks like a telecasters, square, without that classic rounding that strats have.

There's also some size differences.

How hard of a job will this be?

I'm assuming I'll need to put a curve on the replica neck, and, shave it down to fit.

Does anyone have any advice on how to go about this? And, is this worth it?

I think I can get the whole lot for less than £100, which to me is a bargain.

Let me know!

Thanks in advance for any advice.

My shell pink spare parts strat.

A partscaster that proves a strat is a strat.

my old refinished mim neck

vintera 50s pups

wilkinson trem

blender circuit

switchcraft pots and switch.

guitar anatomy body, with a couple extra coats of nitrocellulose lacquer

action is smooth at 1.5mm to 1.3mm

Wanted to share my partscaster that has become my most played guitar, the only thing remaining of the original guitar is the body (although it was modified for a deeper arm rest) and the string-tree, really proud of how it ended up, the nitro has already started to yellow and it has accumulated a fair amount of dings and scratches, besides the ugly alcohol burn in the front of the guitar, most importantly it plays and sounds great!

My first build. Thought I wanted red then I decided I wanted shell pink. Then I got this pink. Surprised how good these old ceramic pickups sound but when these strings die I’m probably gonna do the HH set up with the Duncan’s. Only reason I didn’t at first is because the pickguard was cut for normal humbuckers and my pickups are f spaced.

Can anyone tell me precisely how to add tone to the bridge humbucker using the wiring diagram above. Thanks

I have a Squire Bullet strat with nothing on it, this will be my first partscaster so I really don’t know where to start.

what would you do if it was yours? Im trying to keep the costs low, Im also not a huge fan of the tremolo bridge but is that something that can be changed on this kind of body?

Just finished up this partsmaster build. Kind of want to age the witch hat knob’s and the trem button to match the cream of the pickup covers and selector switch, but she’s complete :)

She’s rockin the following:

Fender performer body
Schaller roller bridge
Panorama tremolo
1mg pots
Mighty mite Strat neck
Kluson deluxe locking tuners
Rhythm circuit is wired so I have 2 volume controls for each pickup.