CLEANING ELECTRICS
Before tackling this course, you should be comfortable with all the material from Gibson Solid Body Style

We now move onto hollow body style guitars, which can be the most fiddly when it comes to cleaning the electrics as you can't directly access them. Instead, you use a simple trick to get the job done!

Summary: Getting access!

On hollow body style guitars, you will typically have a 'f' whole where you can, in theory, gain access to the electrics to clean them. However, this is a fair bit of guesswork as you can't fully see what you are doing. Instead, you simply pull the volume and tone knobs off and apply the cleaner directly to the guitar, as shown in the picture below:

As you spray the switch cleaner, don't forget to twist the part to work in the fluid. You then repeat the same process for all the knobs, as well as the pickup selector. Simple as that!

Ready to move on? Remember to check out every lesson in this unit first – then try the next unit...

Fender Tele Style

To finish off our series on cleaning electrics, we will look at the Telecaster! Much like the Strat, the Tele has a control plate to which the wiring is attached, allowing easy access to all of the controls.