Hey Good People,
the question is fairly simple: does a lap steel need a truss rod or can it be worked out by using sufficiently rigid materials for the body?
My logic says a rigid body will work just fine but my logic has gotten me in severe troubles
Greetings, all!
I am running an after-school/summer program (tinyurl/com/r3atmase), and we are attempting to make cigar box guitars. This is my question. I have ordered Rod piezos.
Why doesn't this work?
I have connected the rod piezo to a female
Read more…I need some help from the brain trust. I have a rod piezo with a center lead for a violin and the ends are unterminated. One lead is white the other is unshielded. I want to solder the ends to a simple 1/4" mono jack. With a regular round piezo, I us
Read more…I am thinking about doing an eight string Cigar box mandolin (CBM) and had a (few) question(s). I was wondering, do I need to do a truss rod in order to counter act the force of all those strings on the neck? I'm going to be doing a red oak, through
Read more…You've shaped the neck, cut the soundholes and put all those glorious electronics inside. Now it's time to attach the lid to the box!
In the video below, I show the simple way that I attach the lid. As you can see, I prefer to use "drop in lid" ci
Read more…Get the most out of your acoustic/electric cigar box guitars with an inexpensive piezo rod & preamp unit.
In this video, I show a simple mounting technique for neck-through cigar box guitars. The sound is fantastic and really allows a great tone re
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Hey guys. Still pulling my hair out here with getting the piezo rod pickups grounded.
I had a completed build that worked fine and sounded great... when you were touching the jack or the volume pot. Otherwise, bad hum. Grounding problem! I trace
Read more…Hullo Folks. I have a small question regarding a rod piezo bridge/saddle that I intend to make.I noticed that Chickenbone John when he makes his, it is a small shaped block of solid wood with the piezo rod embedded inside with a bone saddle on top an
Read more…Was wondering about peoples opinion on where best to place a piezo rod? Internally under the bridge or externally in the bridge ? cheers
Read more…G'DAY, another ''simple" question form downunder: I bought some of those piezo rod pickups from c.b.gitty without really knowing what they were. they have a connector thingy at the end of the wire...so my question is: how to I solder it to an input j
Read more…i actually got this idea from crocbite so he gets any credit due but wanted to share with others
i found a new way to mount piezo rods without having to have direct string pressure. i know some of you may already know this but i for one was struggl
Read more…Hello guys, new here to the forums. I am currently building a solid body electric guitar, and I am wondering if this piezo rod (https://www.cbgitty.com/cubecart/guitar-electronics/pickups/rod-piezo-acoustic-instrument-pickup.html) would work as a pi
Read more…Hey all. I was hoping to build a 6 stringer on my next build, and would like to make my own truss rod for the build. I am sure there are many out there that have already done this, so can you teach me what you have done?
Is it possible to just d
Read more…I was wondering what most of you use for the neck;
(1) The usual 1 x 2
(2) Something larger like a 1 x 4
(3) Do most of you put truss rods in the neck. I was hoping to make my own.
Thanks for the replies in advance.
Douglas
