Hello everyone,
I'm a new user here and unfortunately my first post is a scream for help... I hope to be able to post more after this, though i know fairly little about guitars (except about playing them, but even at that I'm no pro).
I bought a guitar about a year ago in Israel (I'm from the Netherlands myself): the Guild CO-1C. I loved it - still do, actually. It sounds amazing, plays amazing...
Anyway, I put in some AA batteries to use the pre-amp; no problems. But a while ago I put in batteries again, this time different, rechargeable batteries, and they wouldn't come out. I have no idea what may have caused it, as the other batteries came out just fine, and I can't imagine these being thicker, and I don't think they're leaking either...
After a lot of poking, shaking, wiggling and whatever I could think of, I finally got out the first battery. But the second battery, that's in way deeper of course, wouldn't come out after ages of trying.
Does anyone have any idea on how to get out the battery? Or, as a last resort, is it difficult to take out the pre-amp (or at least the bit the batteries go in), to open it up and remove the battery? I won't do it myself, but a friend of mine is a guitar builder and can probably do that... I hope...
And we don't even have a guild service center in the Netherlands, so there isn't any place I can get it fixed...
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
I'm a new user here and unfortunately my first post is a scream for help... I hope to be able to post more after this, though i know fairly little about guitars (except about playing them, but even at that I'm no pro).
I bought a guitar about a year ago in Israel (I'm from the Netherlands myself): the Guild CO-1C. I loved it - still do, actually. It sounds amazing, plays amazing...
Anyway, I put in some AA batteries to use the pre-amp; no problems. But a while ago I put in batteries again, this time different, rechargeable batteries, and they wouldn't come out. I have no idea what may have caused it, as the other batteries came out just fine, and I can't imagine these being thicker, and I don't think they're leaking either...
After a lot of poking, shaking, wiggling and whatever I could think of, I finally got out the first battery. But the second battery, that's in way deeper of course, wouldn't come out after ages of trying.
Does anyone have any idea on how to get out the battery? Or, as a last resort, is it difficult to take out the pre-amp (or at least the bit the batteries go in), to open it up and remove the battery? I won't do it myself, but a friend of mine is a guitar builder and can probably do that... I hope...
And we don't even have a guild service center in the Netherlands, so there isn't any place I can get it fixed...
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance