https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:01:33 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/#post-266119 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:17:37 +0000
It could be interesting: http://www.guitarristas.org/index.php?pid=65

The page explains how to change the pickups of a Gibson ES-335. It is not the same guitar but it is also challenging.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Nuno https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/#post-266119 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/#post-264669 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:19:28 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/#post-264669 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/#post-264581 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:35:05 +0000 If there's no removable plate on the back of the guitar, then consider how you're going to access the pots for soldering the wires. You literally have to fish for them through the f-holes, remove them to get your work done, then reinstall everything back through the f-holes. What most do, I think, is tie strings to the electronics, then pull everything out through the pickup cavity; the strings let you pull the pots back to their respective locations.

Read this thread and look at the photo of the 335 with everything laying on top:
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=1203069

HAVE FUN! Because if you don't, you'll want to smash the guitar over your own head after a few hours. :lol:

$80 would be cheap for that labor, imho.

HOWEVER, what you can also do is snip the wires at the pickups and do your work there ... much easier, and probably what the tech will do for that price.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance slejhamer https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/#post-264581 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/#post-28059 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:13:44 +0000
I hear that it's a pain in the ass to replace pickups in semi hollows. Why is that? I've never replaced a pickup before or anything. They'll charge me like 80 at the Guitar Center, so screw them.

How would I go about doing it?]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance elpantalla https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/installing-pickups-in-a-semi-hollow/#post-28059