How To Swap Pickups In A Semi-Hollow Guitar | Guitar Tech Tips | Ep. 65 | Thomann

You need a lot of patience and a few useful tools if you want to swap the pickups in an ES-style semi-hollowbody guitar. Kris shows us a few nice tips to make a pickup swap way easier by soldering through the F hole.
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Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 introduction
0:47 preparing the guitar
1:06 How to remove the knobs?
1:39 Super important: the pots
3:01 The jack
3:19 I'll solder inside the body, through the F hole
3:43 Remove the old pickups
4:28 Install the new pickups
5:15 Tools you'll need for the job
5:26 Let's solder
6:12 pull out the pots and tighten them
6:45 Time for a test ride
7:44 Outtakes

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