I built my first CBG. It's an insidious disease, one that strikes without warning, but refuses to let go. Grr.
I goofed around with guitar and violin when I was young. My best friend bought my old guitar back in high school and then over the years we drifted apart. Hadn't played since. :( Long story short, I later married his sister and while visiting him recently he pulled out his CBG. I left that day with most of the parts to build one for my wife. Between working on other things and in horrible working conditions, I managed to put my first CBG together!
Okay, I am still waiting on the tuners (machine heads) so I don't know how it sounds yet. But yes, I'm hooked. So, here it is. It is obviously a 6 string. The design is what my wife wanted. A bit rough. It's a basswood box from a craft store.
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Appreciate that Paul!
No problem, that's what we're here for.
Diagram for coil tap. Disregard the Phase reversal/later part of diagram.
Should be similar to this. Don't know the color codes for your pickup.
A nice little mod to do is a coil tap if the pickup is a 4 wire. I always heard that coil tapped Humbuckers didn't sound good, but they sound good to me. Not overly bright like regular thin single coils and you still get the hum cancellation like having a dummy coil mod in a Strat. You can find diagrams all over the net.Just need a 3 pole 2-way mini toggle switch.
Hmm, yeah I don't like too bright. The pickup seemed to have a second set of wires that were clipped. (Old stuff I got for free) Thanks for that idea.
A 4 wire pickup will have 2 wires together (that makes both coils active), a hot wire and a ground wire. If the pickup has a metal cover, a 5th wire will be for a cover ground.
If the 2 wires are clipped, then somethings wrong. They should be twisted or soldered together and taped.
Thanks, I'll have to look at it again. What it looked like was two wires coming out of each end. Each has a insulated wire wrapped in a ground sheath. The one I have connected to the one pot. the other just looks clipped of fairly close.
Stringed, tuned, and sounds good! Have to add some video when I can.
i'm hoping it is just the picture angles etc ,, but it looks to me like your bridge placement is not to scale . is the measurement from the nut slot to the 12th fret the same as from the 12 fret to the bridge slots ? if not .. you may have a problem .. or a slider .
neverth less , its a beautiful build . hoping its just the pictures
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