Anyone else absolutely HATE rewiring guitars??

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What a f-cking bitch of a job with all these fiddly little ground wires that keep detaching from pots.. with an already bad lower back this is absolutely killing me and sending me to the brink of smashing something. Add to the mix a 8 month old puppy that won't give me a second to myself and you have a recipe for disaster. Now that i think about it, people charging 60-80$ to rewire a guitar are totally earning their money because this is a major pain.

Anyway, time for the tone pot. :gethim:
 
It's not a difficult job. But you know what... I've built a number of amps and that's no picnic. But I'd rather do that than wire a guitar. Don't know why. I think the worst part is mounting pickups to the rings. The spring always goes flying. :)
 
I love it and I hate it. I'm extremely patient but when I did my last wiring job I was ready to throw the guitar out the window. I put a mini toggle in my LP with 50's wiring and one single con pickup and sometimes there is just not enough space in one cavity. I also refuse to pay a tech for something I can do no matter how tedious it may be.

Just my thoughts.
 
Exactly..it isn't rocket science, it just is finicky. Amps offer so much more real estate. Glad to hear i'm not the only one.. maybe this will be good for my patience.
 
If you do it often, look into templates so you can do it outside of the guitar and then just drop it in.
 
I still drop mine off to the tech for pickups, pots, hell even just a general setup.
 
I'm pretty efficient at it.....but I HATE trying to get a good ground solder with vintage braid single conductors.

I usually wire all my guitars outside the cavity and use lots of spare wire. When it comes time for a pickup swap, I just splice my leads and grounds......easy to do and keeps me from getting excess solder all over the pots and lugs.
 
I used to struggle with it until I invested in a good set of surgical tools. Now I can re-wire a whole guitar in very little time.
 
I've been having issues with ground wires and cold soldering lately that has been driving me nuts when replacing pickups.
I think anyways...
I'll get all the way done, put everything back and plug the guitar in, and...BZZZZZZZZ. No idea where it is coming from either...like maybe I accidentally yanked a wire from someone else?
Or the pickup sounds weak, like a single coil...means I didn't do a good enough job soldering it in...so undo and redo it all again...
Put a new pickup in one of my guitars recently, and for the life of me i cannot find the ground issue.
driving me nuts.
Damn....
 
I've replaced the active EMG systems in both of my ESP Eclipses with passive Duncan JB/59 systems over the past month or so. No biggie, as I've been rewiring my guitars for 25 or so years. But yeah... when I'm neck deep in the middle of a rewire job, I HATE it and wish I'd paid someone to do it every time I do it.
 
The worst part is when the wife comes in and distracts you.
I burned myself pretty bad a few weeks ago because I was rushing to get it done.

Bah!
 
when i know i dont have the time, or if im distracted...its SUPER stressful

but, when im just sitting around with time to kill..it's no biggie.

i feel your pain though....it CAN be a pain!
 
I don't mind rewiring at all. Then again I do it so seldom that it's just fun to sweat like a pig with a soldering iron :lol: :LOL:
 
The detaching green/bare wire from the back of the pots is my absolute FAVORITE ..get it all back in but something rubs against something and bam! wires lifted.. or the always satisfying burning through other wires when trying to reconnect the aforementioned green/bare..... good times!
 
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