Which is harder to do?
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beaubrummels
Well-known member
Doesn't matter which. It's only hard the first time.
Artie
Peaveyologist
Yeah, this. Or when someone shows you some tricks.
ehdwuld
A Ficus
When I have one made i always get a back plate
But I still don't have the nerve to carve up my beautiful finishes
I have carved into my acoustics for electronics
I may at some point
Just not yet
3 of my four semihollow guitars have a backplate
the Grote didn't come with one
Give it time
When the new wears off I might just do it
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where does one get these small hands? ill setup a trem any day before i rewire a semihollow.
blakejcan
Well-known member
I rewired a semi-hollow with no F-holes. If I can do it, anyone can. Just takes time.
Floating trem--tried it like 20 times. I can never get it to a place that feels stable. That's just me though.
And yet, I'm in the middle of a Strat build where I'm adding a Floyd Rose. Ha. I'm sure that will be easy.
Floating trem--tried it like 20 times. I can never get it to a place that feels stable. That's just me though.
And yet, I'm in the middle of a Strat build where I'm adding a Floyd Rose. Ha. I'm sure that will be easy.
...Are you me? I also was in the "learn fine motor coordination" special ed classes in elementary, and I'm in the same boat -- I've set up a Floyd before (it's annoying, but not particularly hard, just time consuming), but I've never rewired a semihollow and it seems like it would be absolute hell.
EDIT: It's kind of ironic, actually -- you'd think that guitar would be a hobby requiring a lot of fine motor coordination skills, the kind that I don't naturally have, and that we'd be rare on a guitar forum... and yet there's two of us here!
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ehdwuld
A Ficus
ehdwuld
A Ficus
Where did you people go to school?
There was none of that when I came through
i have never heard of that at all
And it's no wonder you cant play piano...
It all makes sense now.....
Jk
GuitarStv
Sock Market Trader
Telling my wife to spend a few hours doing finnicky wiring work around a hot soldering iron and easily scratchable guitar finish sounds like a recipe for divorce.
I'm guessing you're not married? (At least anymore : D )
ehdwuld
A Ficus
just the mounting part
not the whole thing
"hey Hon, give me a hand for a sec....."
I am shocked at your assumption
you would wire the thing up and as you go to "get this"
just put it back in , the fiddly part, where smaller hands work
and like I said, work through the bridge pickup route. much bigger hole than the F-hole
dang I am glad I didnt say ask your small children to help
CPS would be knocking on the door
GuitarStv
Sock Market Trader
It's much easier to work through the bridge pickup route if possible. On my Epiphone (and I'm guessing other guitars as well), the bridge pickup route is not big enough to pass even a mini pot though, so you're stuck with the f-hole.
Sirion
New member
I am not you, so far as I know. :chairfall
There is another famous case: Ludwig van Beethoven. He would pretty much only shave for portraits, and if you look at the music in his own hand, you can see that much of it was written with a heavy tools: a carpenter's pencil, I have been told. And even so, he was one of the world's leading virtuosos in his younger years.
We, in other words, have only ourselves to blame if this is not the case for us!
