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Rodney Horsfall replied to Cigar Box Nation's discussion A Better Acoustic Pickup for Cigar Box Guitar: How I Install a Piezo Rod & Preamp

"See attached pic"

Oct 14, 2019

Rodney Horsfall replied to Cigar Box Nation's discussion A Better Acoustic Pickup for Cigar Box Guitar: How I Install a Piezo Rod & Preamp

"Great concept, I use a variation by mounting the rod piezo in a grooved piece of hardwood, and capping it with a piece of chrome steel rod, part of a motorcycle wheel spoke. This assembly is mounted on the top of the box, held there by string…"

Oct 14, 2019

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How did you learn about Cigar Box Nation?: emails from Shane

How many instruments have you built so far?: about 200

What do you find most interesting about cigar box guitars? (If you do not enter something meaningful here (at least one sentence long), your membership may be rejected as a spam/bot fake account).: Love building them in my retirement and love sharing them at local markets.
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Chopping Board raided from the Kitchen

Posted on September 26, 2018 at 5:25pm 3 Comments 3 Likes

So last week, my wife bought a new chopping board which made the current wooden one redundant. so, Hell, I thought, there must be a way to turn this into something, and today, here it is:

4 string, fretted, the bridge is a motorcycle wheel spoke which locates over the rod piezo pickup. On…

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