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Post by NikGnashers on Dec 26, 2016 8:15:18 GMT
Just wondered, How easy is it to change these ? My new Tanglewood, appears to have a slightly dodgy one. Well, what I mean is, if I push the 1/4" jack plug on any guitar lead all the way into the socket, it won't make a connection (electrically). I have to pull the jack plug out about 3mm-5mm and then it works, when I get it in the exact right place, but 1mm either way and it's crackly. So, is it easy to change the socket for a better quality one ? I'm a dab hand at any soldering/wiring, just not sure how easy it is to do this, bearing in mind it appears you have to do it 'blind' ir by removing the strings and feeling your way with hand through the sound hole ?
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Post by grayn on Dec 26, 2016 9:33:05 GMT
This shouldn't be very hard. You've got a fair amount of internal space to play around in. Just some fiddly washers and trying not to drop stuff.. Good luck.
BTW, your guitar is an electro-acoustic. Semi-acoustics are electric guitars, with semi-hollow bodies, like Gibson's ES335.
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Post by francis on Dec 26, 2016 12:02:08 GMT
If you have any fish tank air tubing insert that into the jack socket before you pull it into the guitar body and pull it with the socket out of the soundhole (or your jack cable if that will pass through the hole in the body!), then when you've changed the socket it will help you feed the new socket into it's cut-out in the guitar's body.
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Post by surfguy13 on Dec 26, 2016 18:29:21 GMT
If it is a semi acoustic a la Gibson 335 then it is not an easy job to replace the socket. Whether the socket is on the top of the guitar or on the side wall the problem is that you will probably need to remove the whole wiring loom to get at the connections. This is because the short lead to the jack socket is normally not long enough to pull out through the f-hole or the bridge pickup route without the 4 potentiometers and the switch assembly having to come through first. This is the maddening thing about semis!!!
There are some tricks to getting the loom out and then back in again but it's not for the faint hearted. Someone I know is a dab hand and his tool of choice is a long pronged fork that you get with a carving knife set. Manufacturers tend to use as little wire as possible when building looms and so there is rarely enough wire to even pull the two volume pots through the f-hole let alone the jack socket.
Very best of luck with this and don't despair, a good guitar tech can do this is no time at all so it shouldn't cost a fortune.
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Post by ocarolan on Dec 26, 2016 19:22:14 GMT
... if it is indeed new as in brand new ,why not simply return it?
Or do you mean new to you, ie a just obtained "preloved" guitar?
Keith
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Post by surfguy13 on Dec 27, 2016 10:17:01 GMT
Just re-read your post and I'm pretty sure you have an acoustic with an under saddle pickup installed? if so it is relative easy to do. As you say, simply remove the strings, tape the bridge down with masking tape, and then remove the threaded nut from the jack socket on the exterior of the guitar. However, before doing this attach a piece of thin wire (or thing string, anything that's flexible) to the thread.....this will allow you to guide the jack socket back into place when you have repaired it. There should be enough wire between the pickup and the socket to gently pull the socket out of the soundhole. Maybe only just enough but enough to re-solder the socket. When you've finished gently pull the jack socket back into place with the wire and tension the nut.
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Post by NikGnashers on Dec 29, 2016 16:11:27 GMT
Thank you for the replies & help I will look out for a suitable quality replacement socket, not sure if it's 2 pin or 3 p[in though, that's my only issue at the moment.
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