First electric build

Posted by Slow Slough Guitars on May 27, 2014 at 1:00am

Finished my first electric build today using a splitable humbucker pickup. I used a neck of a cheap knock off Fender Tele. Sounds pretty good (surprise). Already planning my next build. A 3 string with a Piezo pickup. Wondering if I should use 2 so I can sample from the front and back area of the box.

Electric CBG Completed.jpg

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  • Monterey February 10, 2015 at 11:22pm
    Nice looking CBG- good job! Very classy looking! Bet it sounds as good as it looks. I'm working on my first License Plate Guitar now using a neck off a wrecked Kapok 6-string acoustic. Going to fit it with a P90 pick-up I think...I have built one Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer prior to this, that's it.
  • Slow Slough Guitars June 5, 2014 at 9:49am
    Wow, wired.
  • Slow Slough Guitars June 5, 2014 at 9:49am
    Yes. That's how my Gretsch is weird too. Seems to be pretty standard. I just bought a Dremel tool set with a foot pad for routing. I'm hopeful it will make cleaner cuts for 3 way switches and magnetic pickups. I'll probably put together some f hole style templates in different shapes too
  • Brian Revels June 5, 2014 at 8:42am

    I am still a newbie when it comes to CBGs, but did some wiring with amps and guitars when I was younger (forgot most of it, but it's slowly coming back).  If it were me I would use a pickup in combination with the piezo.  Then use a 3-way (at least) to in one position have both wired in series, second position have just the piezo, and third position have just the pickup.  That's how I would wire it if it were me doing it.  

    I have a Japanese Squire Strat that works similarly,  It has a Dimarzio Tone Zone Single coil twin blade humbucker in the neck position, a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail in the middle, and a  Dimarzio Super Distortion Humbucker in the bridge.  Each one are wired to a 3-way, center off switch.  I either have a single coil, the pickup is off, or I have a humbucker.I can make it sound like a Fender Strat, a Telecaster, or a Les Paul or PRS. If I were smarter I would have went with a 12-way and some push/pull pots, but at the time I did this I was around 16-17 and didn't want to confuse myself, still trying to figure things out.
     

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