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…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…Magnetic pickups, both single-wound and humbucker, are becoming a more and more popular addition to a CBG build. Both are now inexpensive and offer several advantages in terms of tone and absence of unwanted box noise.
Installation is relatively easy
Read more…I bulit this witch with a cheap noname single coil pickup and as you can see on the pics it is not really well positioned. I don't know exactly why but its sound is very low witha lot of bass. You hardly can hear the high E. Once I tried it in bright
Read more…There’s been some discussions bout DIY pick ups lately so I thought i´d share my two pence of it.
I´ll bump an old idea!
In 2002 I built an upright bass. It was quite a hasty build and not to serious. I needed a pick up and my dear father came up w
Read more…Brand new to this ball of wax after my wife got me a ukulele and I decided to build a DIY amp (runoffgroove little gem). It didn't work well with the uke but did with my old Peavy guitar so I started looking into different ways to fix the impedance
Read more…Hi everyone, i built 11 nice cigar box (the 4 first were ......) 3 or 4 strings, always, with a piezodisk, a potentiometer, and a mono jackl!!!
I want to put a 4 pole single coil, to replace the piezo, but don't know how to plug it to the jack!!!
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
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