I have an LTD EC-256 which is rapidly turning into a bit of a practice / project guitar ( so I can try stuff without messing up my main instrument).
I’m using it because it’s cheap enough that I’m not overly concerned if I really f**k something up, but it’s also not a bad wee guitar for the price.
I’ve zero experience but I want to learn and so far I’ve found that I enjoy the tinkering side of things.
So I’m going to teach myself to replace passive pickups by practicing on it, but then I thought once I have that down, it might be fun to throw some actives in there too.
I know this requires replacing pretty much everything (I think). So is it something that an enthusiastic but clueless person should attempt?
Or am I asking for a world of headaches and frustration?
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The SG was slightly complicated by not including a solderless switch so I had to ask somebody to do that for me. The Tele set was slightly complicated by (if i recall correctly) the cavity not being big enough for the oversized solderless wiring and the jack plate being too small. But neither of these were as hard to me as trying to solder in proper pickups
Make a space big enough and you could play with the 18v mod too. Well if they’re Emg’s going in
The task is simple enough. Unsolder the stock pickups, pots and jack. Leave the toggle selector switch and connection cables in the guitar. These will be re-used.