some high quality electronics to support them locking tuners would also be an improvement over the originals and if we're going that far i might as well buy all the hardware parts again and gold and get this looking exactly how i want it fortunately money is no object as allegory dot co dot uk were very happy to supply me anything i needed for this project i'll be picking all of my parts from allegory dot co dot uk who do excellent pickups high quality electronics and a whole bunch of other parts ideal for a low price instrument upgrade in the basket i've got a telecaster wiring kit which comprises of cts potentiometers a very nice oak grigsby blade switch orange drop tone cap and a switchcraft jack socket to go with the new electronics i've chosen an esquire style hot bridge pickup and a paf style humbucker from allegory's hand wound selection that should give me a nicely balanced set we've got a brass nut and locking tuners a new bridge with three compensated brass saddles a divergence from the six saddles i praised on the previous video i feel this is a good compromise keeping more of the original telecaster look while offering near perfect intonation and of course all of the other gold and black parts i need to finalize the look all of which is coming somewhere to the region of NUMBER_TOKEN pounds of new parts being added onto our NUMBER_TOKEN pound glare now my biggest piece of advice for modifying a guitar is to set aside plenty of time for yourself and don't rush anything working to a deadline especially a tight one is going to lead to many mistakes which could easily have been avoided make sure as well you have all your tools and materials laid out in front of you ahead of time so you don't start scrambling around for them in the moment distracting you from your work you also want to plan your workout beforehand don't take shortcuts and above all else pay attention to what you're doing instead of concerning yourself with how it's all framing up on camera for the youtube video you're trying to make about it this should have been a very easy project for someone with my experience but because i only gave myself a day to do it hadn't properly planned out what i was doing ahead of time and was more concerned with my lighting and camera angles i made some really stupid mistakes and ruined parts on this guitar that i don't have time to replace ahead of video publication so keep your attention on your work and if things do go wrong trust me take a step back and think it through you don't want to start panicking trying to salvage it messing it up more and allowing the caulk ups to cascade to the point where it can no longer be saved let's start with the neck since that's the point needing the most urgent attention that plastic nut needs to go if you saw the last video on the glare you'll remember me pointing out the glue residue around the nut and i theorized it might be difficult to remove it boy do i hate being right all the time scraping and separating the seam lines with a knife did not do enough to release this there's a lot of glue being used here and the plastic was deforming in the jaws of my pliers when glue
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