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Step 3Disassembly
The first step in building, ironically, is to tear everything apart.
To start with, the real guitar.
First, take off the strings and the neck of the guitar. This will probably be about the easiest thing you do: loosen the strings until you can take them out of the neck, and then unscrew the 4 screws holding the neck to the body of the guitar.
Next, remove the faceplate and pickups. The pickups should be attached to the faceplate, so you should be able to just unscrew all the screws on the faceplate and lift the whole assembly off. There will be a couple of wires that attach the pickups and other attached electronics to the output jack; they'll have to be cut, unfortunately. Hopefully, there will only be two or three, though, so with a little soldering, the guitar can be made whole again.
That's it for the real guitar. Now onto the fake one.
I'm using an Ashely Rock Axe guitar that I got on sale for its parts. Basically, the actual controller elements need to be removed from the body. In this case, it meant cutting and re-soldering the battery box wires, since they went through a hole from the front to the back of the guitar. Your guitar may be different, so I'm not going to give too detailed instructions for this part, only that you want to end up with everything electronic still together, but outside of the case it came in. For now, don't cut anything if you can avoid it; it most likely will come apart with some small screwdrivers.
To start with, the real guitar.
First, take off the strings and the neck of the guitar. This will probably be about the easiest thing you do: loosen the strings until you can take them out of the neck, and then unscrew the 4 screws holding the neck to the body of the guitar.
Next, remove the faceplate and pickups. The pickups should be attached to the faceplate, so you should be able to just unscrew all the screws on the faceplate and lift the whole assembly off. There will be a couple of wires that attach the pickups and other attached electronics to the output jack; they'll have to be cut, unfortunately. Hopefully, there will only be two or three, though, so with a little soldering, the guitar can be made whole again.
That's it for the real guitar. Now onto the fake one.
I'm using an Ashely Rock Axe guitar that I got on sale for its parts. Basically, the actual controller elements need to be removed from the body. In this case, it meant cutting and re-soldering the battery box wires, since they went through a hole from the front to the back of the guitar. Your guitar may be different, so I'm not going to give too detailed instructions for this part, only that you want to end up with everything electronic still together, but outside of the case it came in. For now, don't cut anything if you can avoid it; it most likely will come apart with some small screwdrivers.
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