Stuck. How do I attach the piezo discs?

Posted by Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear on January 8, 2016 at 10:24am

I have a two-disc piezo pick up to install in a tin. I've bored the hole in the side of the tin and got the jack outward pointing and in place but what do I do with the discs? What's the best way to attach them to the lid of the tin? Sellotape? PVA glue? Any other method and I'm going to have to buy something to do it with. Would sellotape or PVA glue work? Which side of the piezo gets stuck to the tin lid? Is it bronze side down (directly on the lid with the white and bronze side visible inside the lid) or the other way around? This is my first dance so I'm totally confused lol. Excited to be amped up soon but still confused!

Thanks in advance.

Dani 'Still Need A Cool Nickname' Garside

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  • Dave Lynas January 13, 2016 at 2:23pm
    Wow Duck. What a beauty! Fabulous!
    • Thomas "Duck" Petry > Dave Lynas January 13, 2016 at 4:19pm

      I got the hubcap cheap at an automotive swap meet from a guy who had lots of assorted vintage matched sets of four.  It was an orphan and covered with dirt like it had been laying in the weeds out back of a garage so he sold it cheap.  It's stainless steel so there is no rust and has a few dings that give it character.  The body is made from some 3/4" pine that was an old work table top from the laundry room and the neck it an oak 1X2 with a 1/4" oak fingerboard.

  • Thomas "Duck" Petry January 13, 2016 at 12:30pm

    Dani, as I told a friend who plays a Dobro before I made this one for him, they just used old Hudson hubcaps.  Knowing you will ask, It has a piezo under the bridge potted in a bottle cap and sounds great.

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    • Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear > Thomas "Duck" Petry January 13, 2016 at 1:33pm

      Thomas, that's a thing of pure beauty. Thank you for the advice too. You're right, I likely would have asked. Not sure if it's because I have an innate need to learn or I'm just nosey lol

  • Dave Lynas January 12, 2016 at 12:02pm
    Hey Dani, it sounds great! Good job buddy! Has some of that real Dobro sound. I think I'll call you Dobro Dani.
    • Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear > Dave Lynas January 12, 2016 at 12:11pm

      Hey Dave. Thanks and glad you like it and think it sounds great. No idea what a Dobro is but I've seen the word around. Feel free to call me Dobro Dani or anything else. Just don't call me Too Early or Late For Dinner lol

    • Dave Lynas > Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear January 12, 2016 at 11:21pm
      You'll like a Dobro Dani. Have you heard Jerry Douglass and Allyson Crouse? Jerry's the best Dobro player on Earth.
    • Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear > Dave Lynas January 13, 2016 at 7:10am

      I've not heard them, Dave. I feel a YouTube moment coming up ;) I'll go take a look-see.

    • Dave Lynas > Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear January 13, 2016 at 11:36am
      That would be great Dani, and you see a lot of reso phonic guitars on Cigar Box Nation. The builders use pot lids, hubcaps, dog dishes and spun aluminum cones to make the resonator. A Dobro is the Gibson of resonator guitars. The best. Just take a look in the photos and videos for them.
    • Slow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bear > Dave Lynas January 13, 2016 at 1:30pm

      If you can't fault 'em, join 'em! I bought some metal bowls a while ago, to put one in another as a resonator, but haven't got a jigsaw to cut out big round holes for them to go in yet. I'm largely all hand tools, barring the drill. One day :)

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