Hi everyone, new here, so maybe somebody already addressed this...
For my next project, I'm going to build a semi-hollow thinline-ish something like a B&G Little Sister, and I have a question about amplified feedback vs. acoustic (unplugged) resonance.
I was wondering if I ended the internal block just in front of the bridge, and braced the rear part of the top like an acoustic guitar, could I get a more acoustic sound out of the guitar without getting into straight hollowbody feedback problems when plugged in and (lightly) overdriven?
Most semi-hollows look like they mount the bridge into the back end of the center block (some images) and the pickups onto- or into- the block like a solid-body. Is most of the feedback smothering accomplished by the block damping the pickups, or does bolting the bridge to the block really do a big part of it?
... and if anybody has tried it, how much more hollowbody/acoustic sounding could it be if the bridge was just attached to a pretty resonant top (like spruce) but the top was still glued to the center block just a little ways forward. I assume the center block would still cut the resonance of the top pretty significantly, but would it just cancel it so bad it's not worth the trade-off?
Thanks for any advice you have!
~James