Hey y'all,
I chose to ask this question here rather than the Reso Hangout forum, since I get the impression over there they are a little less DIY (erhm budget minded) when it comes to gear. Makes since, you got an expensive antique instrument, really,
So I just finished cutting out the hole to drop in a 4 pole magnetic pickup in my latest build. It's a baritone ukulele. I just remembered that I don't use steel strings for ukuleles. I see that there are some strings that are titanium or silver coat
Read more…Man, making your own pickups is labor intensive! I only got this far after breaking open a "wall wart" dc adapter, breaking out the transformer, getting the skinny wire out, snipping an altoid box, winding a thousand wraps of wire... Phew! Just have
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 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
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I'm new to the world of CBG, but eager to build my first guitar. I'm planning to craft a 4 strings one, and here is my question: i want a dirty, overdriven bluesy sound, which i known i won't get with a piezo. So i'm looking at magne
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…OK.. a green horn question.
I am looking to build a CBG with a magnetic p'up, for lap slide playing.
I have read the SmokeHouse Advanced CBG Construction manual. ONE AWESOME TUTORIAL..... GREAT WORK SmokeHouse and thank you very much for putti
Read more…was surfin ebay lookin for pickups for my next project as Piezo's feed back so horribly, ESPECIALLY when over driven, and in doing so i found a MESSLOAD of single coil pickups for 3 bucks each which is what i was paying at my local radioshack for a p
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