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"Sometimes you can add a disc magnet to the pickup... It will alter the tone, but can…" John Sawyer replied Oct 17, 2019 to PVC Bass Diddly Bow	9	Oct 22, 2019 Reply by Paul Craig
"tubulums have huge pipes to get the low notes... I bet yours just resonates at a muc…" John Sawyer replied Oct 15, 2019 to PVC Bass Diddly Bow	9	Oct 22, 2019 Reply by Paul Craig
"I need to dig out my bass amp, it's buried... give me a week or so. Body? what d…" John Sawyer replied Oct 13, 2019 to PVC Bass Diddly Bow	9	Oct 22, 2019 Reply by Paul Craig
"I don't have that problem. The one end with the tuner has a block in it,and the pic…" John Sawyer replied Oct 13, 2019 to PVC Bass Diddly Bow	9	Oct 22, 2019 Reply by Paul Craig
"This is a great thing you're doing... One of my employees is in the MC Reserves and…" John Sawyer replied Oct 12, 2019 to Cigar Box Guitars for Warriors! A SOS!!	8	Oct 12, 2019 Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH
"I have a few of those reverb boards... at first test, they're ok... just ok. There's…" John Sawyer replied Aug 25, 2019 to built-in reverb	10	Aug 30, 2019 Reply by Russell Coger
"Let me know if you make it to San Diego!" John Sawyer replied Aug 20, 2019 to Trip to LA and looking for CBG enthusiasts	8	Aug 20, 2019 Reply by Dirk
"About the same... Always use ear protection, and my right ear rings all the time... …" John Sawyer replied Aug 20, 2019 to When will you stop building?	44	Sep 2, 2019 Reply by KOOL DOG HOOCH
"Brad, there's this unwritten rule that the first song has to be Bad to the Bone... h…" John Sawyer replied Jul 4, 2019 to Cigar Box Guitar How-to Knowledgebase at CigarBoxGuitar.com	22	Aug 22, 2019 Reply by Martin Simpson
"With the preamp, you don't need separate volume/treble... the preamp does all that f…" John Sawyer replied Jul 3, 2019 to Piezo active preamp question	21	Jul 6, 2019 Reply by Paul Craig

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John Sawyer's Discussions (1,037)

"Sometimes you can add a disc magnet to the pickup... It will alter the tone, but can…"

"tubulums have huge pipes to get the low notes... I bet yours just resonates at a muc…"

"I need to dig out my bass amp, it's buried... give me a week or so. Body? what d…"

"I don't have that problem. The one end with the tuner has a block in it,and the pic…"

"This is a great thing you're doing... One of my employees is in the MC Reserves and…"

"I have a few of those reverb boards... at first test, they're ok... just ok. There's…"

"Let me know if you make it to San Diego!"

"About the same... Always use ear protection, and my right ear rings all the time... …"

"Brad, there's this unwritten rule that the first song has to be Bad to the Bone... h…"

"With the preamp, you don't need separate volume/treble... the preamp does all that f…"

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