Which is harder to do?

Semihollow is only hard when trying to get the wiring back in place

Leave out the bridge pickup
Small hands through the hole

Easy

Trem is a pain the entire time
 
I've never done the first, but the second is eminently doable to me, who was in a special class for kids with poor motorics when I was in elementary school and barely improved since. Anybody willing do a modicum of preparation should be able to do it.
 
I'll take the trem every time, too. I hate wiring stuff through F holes. Backplates everywhere for me.

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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Semihollow is only hard when trying to get the wiring back in place

Leave out the bridge pickup
Small hands through the hole

Easy

Trem is a pain the entire time

where does one get these small hands? ill setup a trem any day before i rewire a semihollow.
 
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.
 
I've never done the first, but the second is eminently doable to me, who was in a special class for kids with poor motorics when I was in elementary school and barely improved since. Anybody willing do a modicum of preparation should be able to do it.

...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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...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!

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
 
Are you not married?
usually shorties have a pair

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 )
 
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 )

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

:P
 
work through the bridge pickup route. much bigger hole than the F-hole

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.
 
...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!

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!
 
i am married, and im not asking her to fiddle with mounting parts on a semi hollowbody guitar. now if i had an 8-10 year old kid, id totally make them do it
 
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