I looked and didn't see anything so here i go
Can I use wire bigger than 42 gauge wire to wind pickups?
would 200ft of 30 gauge work?
One more question were is the best/cheapest place to get 42 guage wire?
Thanks
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I 've just started to build my first ever cbg,wich will habve a resonator cone.I sent for a rod piezo and tone control plus volume contraole.My question is where is the best place to fit it and how.Mal(UK)
Read more…I have a cap with a snapped wire. It looks like the easiest thing would be to replace it. I have one sitting around I took off a sony 3 way speaker box, will this work or is there a specific type that needs to go on the pot?
Read more…I've decided to make my own pickup but I don't really have the right setup for pickup winding, so I was thinking if I could use already magnetized pole pieces without any winding. is this possible?
Read more…Ok first off I am new, so if this has been asked before I am sorry. I have searched and I haven't found an answer. So anyway on to my questions.
1. I am wanting to wire two piezos(Radio Shack Piezo Audio Transducer) to a tone pot and a volume pot t
Read more…thought i'd re-vamp my 1st cbg and put tone&vol control's on it, used new 500k pot's and a new capacitor, plugged it in and buzzz, if i toutch the string's it get's a little bit quieter, but not much, opened the box up to check all the wiring, every
Read more…searched high and low and couldn't find an answer so I'm asking here. I have a cbg with a hum problem. It has a single humbucker pickup in it with volume and tone pots 500 K. metal bridge that is grounded. I followed seymour duncan wiring diagram to
Read more…Is it possible to make a humbucker that only has one or two pole pieces? I'm making an electric foot drum like Ted Crocker's Terraplane Floorboard and the pickups I have installed the prototype are buzzing a lot and I don't really want to use a full
Read more…Quick question for you experts: can I ground a pickup on the metal covering of the 3-way switch? Or does it have to be to the back of the volume pot?
Read more…being an electronic dummy---what exactly will a preamp do for my cbg with a piezo or pup or both. please help make me an electronics guru
Read more…I am trying to wire up piezo pickups, volume pot and jack to my cbg. I have a volume pot from radio shack I would like to use, and am confused about how to wire it. I am a total dork when it comes to wiring. It is a 500k ohm with a push button sett
Read more…$6 for a pick up and pre-amp. Seems like the makings for a quick easy (and cheap) build. Any thoughts? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350432879853&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_2679wt_1004
Read more…I'm probably sounding totally niave right now but can I use electrical tape instead of solder?
Read more…John's stupid question No. 257.
Looking at photos of guitars with magnetic pickups, particularly those with multiple pickups, there is sometimes one pickup at an angle. Where it is angled it seems to be most often the one nearest the bridge and the
Read more…Hi. Not stricly about wiring, but about mounting magnetic pickups. Normal parctice seems to be to have two screws that allow the pickup to be adjusted for height and those are normally visible either side of the pickup. The question that I have is ab
Read more…well i got my first 2 cbg's built strung and t uned. want to add piezo but with my eyesight as bad as it is(leagally blind) ican't see well enough to solder the piezos and 1/4 in jacks---guess all mine will be acoustic. wish there was someone clos
Read more…After the recent chat about sewing machine bobbins being a cheap and quick thing to wind a pickup coil on, I had a thought about wiring a few up together for multi string instruments. THEN, I thought, if you're wiring them together, why not make the
Read more…just finished this one, when i toutch the string's i get a bit of buzzing, cant figure out why, i've earthed the string's to the jack earth point, anyone think of anything else i can do to stop it,??
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Ok this is the Idea -:
On my next build I'm wanting to use a coil pickup and a piezo
( nothing new there I hear you say)
But what I want to do is have both coil pickup and piezo on different phone jacks
so you have 2 separate jacks for each pick u
Read more…if i remove the capacitor from a tone pot, will i be then able to use it as a volume pot, ??
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