Can you offer some advice/plans/ideas for creating the guts of a guitar with a built-in battery powered amp and speaker? I have only a tiny bit of experience hacking radios into amps, but like the idea of a fully self contained electric CBG.
Any thoughts welcome and appreciated!
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There's a similar thread at:
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/group/amps/forum/topics/building-an-a...
If you want to give it a try then great - here are a couple of links where people have discussed this
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/pick-up-help?id=2592684%...
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/building-a-magnetic-pup-...
And there is a group http://www.cigarboxnation.com/group/skeesixcbgpickups
I never bothered as I found these cheap blade type of mini humbuckers on eBay which work with any string spacing and can be coil tapped for series,single coil,parallel wiring.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dual-Hot-Humbucker-Rail-Electric-Guitar-N...
Or for 4 string CBGs you can cut a set of bass pickups and get 2 pickups
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-String-Noiseless-Pickup-Set-For-Precisi...
Costwise I couldn't source the copper wire and magnets for less than these cost.
I have kept the copper wire Coils from a broken hair dryer but haven't got around to trying to make a pickup with it yet - too many ideas and not enough time to try them all :0)
That's great David. Thanks so much. So, now at least I know that it's possible. My first thought was to have two sound holes - one for acoustic and one backed with a speaker. I had also feared the feedback loop with a piezo. I think I'll actually try to wind my own pickup.
Any thoughts on that anyone?
Hi Dan,
I did this a few times - here is an old link with some of the info
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/build-amp-in-cbg?comment...
A small 9V amp is never going to be super loud compared to a mains amp but it does give a nice electric guitar sound with magnetic pickups so the last couple of times I did this I put the speaker on the side so when playing the player gets the volume.
Regards,
David