I purchased an Alnico Mini Humbucker from ebay a couple of months ago. It was described as the Bridge end, but I am only installing one near the neck/fingerboard.
Now that it's installed, and I am ready to wire it, I am left scratching my head. T
Read more…Building my first CBG using Make Magazine plans (most recent) and I am electrifying it using a Radioshack piezo part #273-0059 (2700 +/- 500Hz).
I have two questions:
1) The piezo I have was in the plastic housing with a circuitboard. From what I ha
I had read a "How To" Building a Piezo pick up somewhere else on the net and the artical mention if "some" of the white crystal substance chipped off during disassebly of the plastic case that it would not effect its operation. Well after I took mine
Read more…Howdy folks. I'm a first-time builder. Recently got it into my head that I want to build an electric oil can guitar, like the ones you see coming out of South Africa. I've gathered all of my materials, but have one crucial question: How do you work i
Read more…Can you wire two piezo pickups in series like you can single coil pickups? If so would it work to simply wire the ground of one to the jack/switch/knob/etc. then wire that hot from that pickup to the ground of the other pickup's ground wire, and wire
Read more…and are going a bit further than a piezo connected to a jack, Artec have some really handy documentation on their site. Not piezo-specific, but worth a look if you are stuck. You can download all sorts of things here: http://www.artecsound.com/pick
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