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Originally Posted by Bryan L Williams
That's an interesting point about the glue drops...  |
Indeed! I have a relatively inexpensive semi-hollow electric guitar that I purchased because it felt good to hold and play and had a good fingerboard, and because I needed that particular kind of instrument for the gigs I was playing at the time: the deal was great, but the tone was a little lacking. I cleaned up the interior of all the excess glue, smoothed out where the interior joinery was rough, trimmed a couple of top braces that were on the overkill side, slightly re-aligned the pickup cutouts (yes, I took a router to the top of a "perfectly good guitar" to take 1/8 inch off the bridge side of the bridge pickup cutout and move the pickup to get a tad more "bite"), and rewired it, and now the guitar sounds as good as it looks and feels.
Don't underestimate what the interior finishing, or lack thereof, can do for, or get in the way of, good tone.