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Pulling out the pickups, and using plastic tubing to hold onto the volume/tone pots as they slide in to the guitar. For one example, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p29QN4ycHMU (Putting new pickups in a Gretsch Electromatic)

I have an Epiphone 335 copy (they call it a "Sheraton") and a Warmoth-parts solid-body with "tone chambers" in it. I wouldn't describe either as having a "mellow" sound, per say. The Epiphone does have a sound I'd describe as "open" and "woody", though not as much so as my all-hollow archtop. You've heard 335's a thousand times, I'm sure, and you know how ...

Through the pickup cavities and the f-hole. I've used a mirror probe and long, skinny tools to install a pickup inside of a parlor guitar; it must be hard as hell to do this work without a full-sized soundhole. You'd need tools like an inspection mirror, tweezers or skinny pliers, long screwdrivers, and skinny flashlights.

You don't mention the OS/computer system you are using. For windows, many sound cards have ASIO drivers bundled with them. If you are not able to find ASIO drivers, then you can use FREE software called ASIO4ALL. You will need this to be able to get low latency. If you do not, you will experience a perceptible delay between what you play and what you hear ...

Yes, but be aware of the difference of microphone-in and line in: line-in () takes an amplified signal, while a mic jack socket takes an unamplified signal. Plugging an amped signal into the mic jack can damage your sound card. A strongly amped signal (like the output from a guitar amp) might also damage it even if you use line in, although it should be ok ...

Absolutely. There are many amp simulators available---I like Amplitube, but there are plenty of others. If you're using an external audio interface to plug your guitar into your computer, you will probably want to set up your software to use the audio interface for output as well; otherwise you're likely to run into latency issues.

I've had several Les Pauls, a handful of Strats, and an ES-335 and a ES-345. Those two ES bodies are technically semi-hollow bodies, but definitely have a softer, mellow, more acoustic sound, somewhere between a Strat and a Les Paul. The ES guitars I had have dual-humbuckers, and a solid maple block that the humbucker's mounting rings are attached to, ...

From my on the road experience, the best way to control feedback is to reduce stage volume. I understand this is not easy to do on a crowded stage (if you play small bars and whatnot), and especially if your bassist enjoys turning his amp to thunderous volume levels (been there) but from my limited experience, there's a couple of things you can do. ...

Assuming that it has been tuned correctly, it is not normal. The old strings were probably 11s or maybe 12s, so there should be no problems if there weren't previously.Do they buzz open, on specific frets, maybe there is another problem with the guitar that has manifested itself when the strings were changed. Were they changed for a particular reason ? Like ...

Feedback (technically 'positive audio feedback') is the noise you hear when an input (guitar pickup/mic) sends a signal to an output (an amp) and then picks up the amplified sound again, and sends that down to the output and outputs that. This loop continues, creating that sound. Feedback increases in volume over a short period of time because of the ...