Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! It may turn out that using an experienced luthier is the best solution, but this is a cheap (although pretty great) acoustic and I tend to balk at throwing more money at it for bench work than the guitar is worth itself. But I don't want to do a hack job on it, so I thought I'd post this thread in the hope that someone with experience doing this type of removal could chime in.Īny experienced advice would be welcome. I've done enough woodworking in the past to think that I could get this thing out of there with the right approach, and avoid a costly trip to a luthier. Others suggest working an exacto knife between the device and face, but warn that since the face is less dense than the device, you run the risk of shaving off wood while breaking the glue seam. Otherwise I'd just leave it in there and mount the soundhole p/u above it.ĭoes anybody out there have any practical experience removing this kind of system? I've done some online research some say use a solvent to loosen the glue between the face of the guitar and the control device, but warn of possible damage to the finish if not applied properly. The existing control device needs to come out, because it's so large and at the rim of the soundhole, leaving me no clear area to mount a soundhole pickup. I'd like to remove this whole system and go to a Fishman soundhole pickup. There's an under-saddle element, and an under-face, near the soundhole mounted control device with rollers for Volume, Bass and Treble, as well as the battery cavity. Folks, I own one of the Epi "Inspired By 1964" Texans, which comes complete with it's own built-in piezo system.
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