Has anyone ever tried using an automotive ignition coil as a pickup on a CBG??? Specifically the pics are of a coil out of a Volkswagen Routan (Dodge Caravan with a VW logo). The plugin has two wires and then there is the spark plug contact. Is th
Read more…Im on my 5th build. As of now I have been using pre-wired pickups I’ve gotten off of cbgitty. I bought some black humbucker type pickups and a three way pickup KMISE harness. The harness is wired together. I need help on where to solder the pickups t
Read more…I am trying to wire up a psycho knob from CBGitty up to a Snake-Oil mini humbucker with 1 volume and 1 tone pot. Does anyone have any idea of where I am supposed to hook this thing up? A wiring diagram would be super helpful. Thanks
Read more…I am building a 6 string CBG with a gold foil humbucker near the neck and one or two piezo pickups, running through a preamp/buffer circuit.
I want to use a push-pull on the volume pot to switch to coil tap or parallel on the humbucker before blendin
Read more…So I got the wiring to my new CBG 95% figured out. The kill switch is working, the knob is turning it up and down, but in the middle of turning the volume knob, I get a buzz for a second and then it goes away as I get to each end of the turn. Turn u
Read more…So I am going through what I want my new set up to do. This is what I have as far as parts..
I have a stero volume knob. I know, stero, I really just wanted a simple knob but our radio shack is going out of buisness and that is all they had left an
Read more…Anyone have a good link or a wiring diagram for a peizo, pickup cbg build. I want to be able to switch from the pickup and peizo with the switch. And a volume knob to control both of them. IF I could wire them to where I could switch them between th
Read more…two tips to share and start this debate (since everyone has their own ideas at what is best) to start the stirring of the pot (pun intended)....
Trying to solder 6 ground wires to one pot lug was hopeless, so my current technique/tip is to give every
Read more…I have been playing around with making my own pickups and have some questions that I hope someone can answer. I have made some individually wound pickups for individual strings that seem to work pretty good but I have questions on how to wire them t
Read more…My speaker wires are marked for both positive and negative where they connect to the speaker assembly at the back. I picked up some 1/4" mono jack plugs today to use on a stomp box or two that I have in various stages of completion.
I have not piddle
Read more…Howdy all...Was wondering if anyone has a suggestion about this.
I want to wire up 1 single coil w/ volume & tone, 1 under saddle piezo rod w/ volume & tone all tied into a master volume (no 3 way switch.)
This is as close as I've come
Read more…I'm trying to wire up my 3rd CBG. Every diagram I have come across for humbuckers has a switch connected. Can I skip the wire and do it like a jazz bass? It looks like I need a third Pot which is totally doable, but I'd rather skip the switch if poss
Read more…Hi, I have just built a tasty little hubcap 4 string with a three-way switch, however it only works when the switch is in the first position and not the other two?????? very confusing.....also the, when it is in the first position the hubcap seems t
Read more…Hi, has anyone used more than two piezoz in parallel? whats the limit? have used two, and they definitely improve each other, and get louder......nice bluesy sound......more the better?....thanx
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…Hi all, does anyone have schematics (that is the right word, right?) to wire up a humbucker-volume-input jack ? This wiring/electronics thing just seems like voodoo/black magic to me , although somehow I did managed to wire up a little amp with disto
Read more…I apologize if this is a basic and/or dumb question... I've googled and wiki'd and youtubed and searched the CBN forums for 2 hours now and still cannot find the answer... I'm finishing my first CBG, 3-string, with a magnetic pickup. I've never inst
Read more…I've made several CBG's using the piezo buzzer pick-up wired straight to a 1/4 jack, and I've tried the factory wired with volume and tone pots and they all work great, but my question is can you wire a humbucker straight to a 1/4 jack just like the
Read more…Greetings, I have a single coil pickup that has the 2 leads but also has wire from the shielding which I don' know what to do with. I'll also be adding a volume pot. Any advice would be greatly apprieciated!
Read more…Could some body tell me what value pot they use for tone control?
also I want to wire the controls for a pickup in a separate box.do you think that would be a problem?
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