Upgrading A Cheap Guitar with Expensive Pickups - Squier Bullet Mustang with Phat Cats!

Flushed with the success of the recent Strat P90 upgrade it's time to try and finish our Bullet Mustang 'project'. So what happens if we fit expensive pickups to a cheap guitar?... there's only one way to find out so grab a cuppa and join us guitar nerds as we get stuck in!

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Loads of you have asked so here's the Ebay UK store where I get the Pickguards from: https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz

00:00 intro & coming up
01:10 this weeks project guitar
04:10 what are we doing and why?
05:07 better prepared this time
06:52 let's take it apart
08:10 soldering tips
09:08 what it sounds like now
11:09 the wiring diagram & plan
13:40 high speed switch soldering
15:02 control plate connections
17:12 let's see if it works...
18:35 it's finished let's play something!
20:46 a bit of clean & a bit of dirty...
22:07 volume & tone controls
23:50 let's compare with the original
27:12 let's play something else
28:23 on the pedalboard today
30:36 so what do we think?
32:42 why would you do this?
34:44 let's wrap this up
35:25 play out jam

Signal Chain Info:
TC Polytune / Boss CS3
Drive Pedals (when on): Soul Food / Red Muck
Boss DD7 / Boss RC5 Looper
Amp: Fender Princeton Reverb Tweed 1 x 12
Mics AKG C414 & SM57
Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 into Protools

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