Building a very good Strat PartsCaster (HH Stratocaster). Pitfalls, challenges and solutions.

Step by step assembly of what became a great PartsCaster (a modified Stratocaster type guitar). Using a wiring diagram from Seymour Duncan's website for a two humbucker 50s style pickup set, Gibson Les Paul wiring with two volume pots, one shared tone pot and a three way switch.

Challenges: Fitting the neck and adjusting angle, action, intonation and adding a Shim.
Pitfalls: Not getting the wiring to work as intended
Solutions: Troubleshooting the wiring of the electronics to find the culprits

Pickups: Two Gibson Burstbuckers (1 and 2)
Electronics: 500k potentiometers (two volume, one tone), .0047 tone capacitor
Body wood: Alder
Neck: Unknown brand and neck wood, with Rosewood fretboard
Vintage style tremolo system
Vintage style Fender tuners
Strings: D'addario 011 - 048

00:00 intro description of content
00:15 Presentation of the project
04:18 Let's start the assembly
05:10 Electronics, grounding, tremolo installation
08:30 Discovering faulty wiring
09:24 Troubleshooting wiring issues
12:08 Installing trem springs
12:56 Installing the neck
15:00 Selecting knobs for volume and tone
16:35 adjusting the neck and trem system
19:45 Inserting a Shim
21:48 Neck adjustments continued
23:05 Intonation
25:43 Final thoughts on the project
28:12 Playing the guitar