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Richard Th
I found an old electric guitar from the 70's in my guest room closet, the electronics are completely corroded out. so I have completely dissembled the guitar.(including the knobs and wires and everything all i have left is the body and the neck.) I need a complete list of all the things I will need to rebuild it if i want to have two active pickups and a switch for them.
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Hello there,
A complete list of all the things you need? Experience in guitar rebuilding and repair.
No one can help you with the information you gave. An old electric guitar from the 70s. That tells me nothing. What brand is it? What model. What pickps are on it. What type of bridge. What is the wiring configuration that came on it. How is the body routed?
Without knowing how the body is routed for pickups, I could not even tell you whether you can use a single coil or a humbucker or a P-90 on that guitar.
If you have one of those old funky Japanese imports from the 70s, those are very challenging to work on. They are not cut to accept regular pickup mounts and you have to be rather creative to find a way to put different pickups on it.
You may well need a plunge router to cut new pickup cavities or enlarge the present ones. If you need to add a new cavity for electronics or a battery, you will definitely need a router.
The first rule for working on any unusual (to you) guitar is to make a good diagram of how the wiring was run stock. Did you do that?
EMG active pickups run $120 each. Is that guitar worth investing that much into it? I rather doubt it unless you found a 70s vintage Les Paul or a 70s vintage Fender Stratocaster. If you did, you should not be altering those.
Later,
Hello there,
A complete list of all the things you need? Experience in guitar rebuilding and repair.
No one can help you with the information you gave. An old electric guitar from the 70s. That tells me nothing. What brand is it? What model. What pickps are on it. What type of bridge. What is the wiring configuration that came on it. How is the body routed?
Without knowing how the body is routed for pickups, I could not even tell you whether you can use a single coil or a humbucker or a P-90 on that guitar.
If you have one of those old funky Japanese imports from the 70s, those are very challenging to work on. They are not cut to accept regular pickup mounts and you have to be rather creative to find a way to put different pickups on it.
You may well need a plunge router to cut new pickup cavities or enlarge the present ones. If you need to add a new cavity for electronics or a battery, you will definitely need a router.
The first rule for working on any unusual (to you) guitar is to make a good diagram of how the wiring was run stock. Did you do that?
EMG active pickups run $120 each. Is that guitar worth investing that much into it? I rather doubt it unless you found a 70s vintage Les Paul or a 70s vintage Fender Stratocaster. If you did, you should not be altering those.
Later,
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