I am making a guitar for my Grandson. I'm putting the little tin pictured below in it, mostly for decoration. The top of the tin will project slightly through the top of the guitar. The tin is about 3 1/8" in diameter and about 1" deep. I'm wondering what kind of sound I would get if I put a piezo inside the tin. Any idea?
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Paul, that is one badass looking box, man. It kicks butt.
Why not try the piezo OUTSIDE the tin, but near it, mounted on the inside of the box. Those piezos are so sensitive, it should pick up the metal resonator sound coming through the soundhole/tin. Just an idea.
I think you will get a dang good sound out of it. Wrap the peizo in someting and see how it sounds in there, like a old hanky, sock, rag, t-shirt, what ever. Knowing your grandsone, he is going to want to try out the distoration, and that will help with the feed back. It being a peizo, he will not have to distort it much.
John, that is a sound hole trim for another guitar I started but haven't worked on for a while. I plan on giving it to my boss, a florist. It is a rose. I did it on a scroll saw. You can see another one I did of Kokopelli playing a guitar on my page here. I got to get in the mood to work on guitars again, but I've been making other things lately.
John Drake said:
Hi Paul, Just noticed the interesting piece of circular round carved timber near the pen in your photos. Looks like it would make an attractive sound hole trim in another build. Did you carve /cut it out yourself? Regards John D
Hi Paul, Just noticed the interesting piece of circular round carved timber near the pen in your photos. Looks like it would make an attractive sound hole trim in another build. Did you carve /cut it out yourself? Regards John D
Don't feel bad, I have way to many interests myself, it's hard for me to get focused sometimes, I have guitars that I haven't completed yet that I've been working on for months.
HA ha, Keith I haven't got any futher on this build. I'm a little on the S L O W side! I have just toooo many interests. Spent the last three days setting up a sharpening jig to sharpen my lathe tools with. I bought the jig last march.
Hello Paul,
The piezo will amplify whatever it "hears", so if the bridge will be placed in the tin ala "resonator" put eh piezo in the tin inside; if not this way, then put the piezo inside the sounboard.
I made a year ago a 3 string guitar with a sweets tin acting as a cone and tryed a small cheap piezo pickup on it and sounded really like a resonator; obviously a cheapo one.
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Why not try the piezo OUTSIDE the tin, but near it, mounted on the inside of the box. Those piezos are so sensitive, it should pick up the metal resonator sound coming through the soundhole/tin. Just an idea.
John Drake said:
Keith Parmer said:
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The piezo will amplify whatever it "hears", so if the bridge will be placed in the tin ala "resonator" put eh piezo in the tin inside; if not this way, then put the piezo inside the sounboard.
I made a year ago a 3 string guitar with a sweets tin acting as a cone and tryed a small cheap piezo pickup on it and sounded really like a resonator; obviously a cheapo one.
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