Do you find guitar surgery therapeutic?

phillybhatesme said:
The most I've ever really done have been string changes and the occasional cleaning as someone above mentioned. But I recently changed string gauges on a FR equipped guitar as well as another string gauge change on a strat style bridge and it was extremely rewarding to fiddle with it until the bridges sat flush with the body when everything was tuned up.

Never done a pickup swap, but I need to. I've been jealous of my friend's Fishman's and I shouldn't have to buy another guitar just to have that sound lol.
I have another guitar here that could needs its switch fixed. The neck pickup doesn't work. In before, "why are you using the neck pickup?"
And I have quite a few volume pots that are essentially on/off switches, not tapers. I wouldn't mind eventually replacing those. My biggest hesitance is not being confident with soldering. I'ma blame it on that lol.
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Soldering isn't bad. I have a Weller station but bought a KSGER station that's a rip off of a Hakko station and I love it. Quality iron, a handful of tips, good solder, and some flux if you want and a handful of other tools and you're off to the races.

Also, alligator clamps. Get 2 of those for making it easy to get the height adjusting springs on the screws when installing the pickup into the rings.
 
I don't really work on acoustics though. Electrics? All day long. But acoustics are more involved, more complicated, easier to screw up i think.
 
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