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Permalink Reply by Roger Franklin Weston on April 6, 2013 at 10:16am

Hi Harley, I'm still a novice in cbg building but take it from me, just use one bar piezo fitted underneath the bridge, the results are brilliant with no feedback. I built three cbgs with disc piezos and thought they were good until I discovered bar piezos.

I make my own bridges out of hardwood and cut a groove in the bottom with a 2mm router so that the bar just squeezes in. Drill a 2mm hole in the box  to take the wire through directly under the bridge.

hope this is of help

Rog

Permalink Reply by HarleyTodd on April 7, 2013 at 6:03am

Thanks roger, I am planning many more builds in the future with rods and pickups as I read more about them. But for my first cbg I want to do the standard piezo disc method. Should be done in a week. Will keep posted

Permalink Reply by James Mitchell on April 6, 2013 at 10:35am

Here is some good diagrams for this.

http://www.cbgitty.com/?p=87

It doesn't show two discs with a volume pot, but I have just split the wires after the pot and sent them to the discs.

Permalink Reply by Servaas (Der Groovemeister) on April 11, 2013 at 1:37am

You can either connect the piezos in series or parallel. I initially have longer wires on them and try which way sounds best. Both ways sound a little different so try what sounds best with your cbg. And when you've decided you cut the wires to the right size that you need to install it neatly (less hum).