First beginners always have this wrong. Your strumming hand is the most important hand. That is why you play with your dominant hand. The hand you write with. The strumming hand is where everything happens. Without precision with this hand anything y
Read more…When wiring two piezo in parallel. Are the disks stacked or placed side by side?
Read more…This youtube cannel will echo what I was doing in my “Getting more out of your fretted three string CBG’ thread. Only a bit more explained and expanded. Aimed more for the beginning player. With enough meat and potatoes to keep advanced players inter
Read more…OK all you one man bands out there. You got competition!
Totally LOVE a sense of humor in music!
Read more…You can make 19 different chord sounds between open and the fifth fret. All of them by fingering one or two notes wile leaving the low string open. Even more if you start fretting the low string. But that's for another time. Instead of laying out all
Read more…Thought ya'll would like this.
CBGs are everywhere!
Read more…I don't always have a chance to get to them. But when I do I can usually come home with a bargain or two. Last night was a good night. Paid $3 for a Ryobi drill. Works! Paid $12 for 329 CDs. Out of all of them I'm keeping 47. That's still .26 a CD. A
Read more…Standard G,D.G tuning.
Four chord song. Same progression for both verse and chorus.
0...........2........2........0........2........5........
0...........4........2........0........4........5........
0...........0........2........0........0........5.
Read more…OK. We all know it's a great way to boost a signal for a solo. Or to add tone. Even change the sound of your guitar.
Here's some other great uses.
A volume controller.
I have an all tube Fender Champ. Even at it's lowest settings this amp is loud. I
Read more…this is most of what's in the 'What's on your work bench' thread. Decided best to have this in a thread of it's own. Instead of highjacking the other thread. Don't want to loose the content from the 'What's on' thread. This starts on page 59 and goes
Read more…All the beauty and love you put into a CBG isn't going to sound good through a bad amp.
If your going to play live, you need a good amp. It will make a difference.
Read more…Was messing around and wanted to see how many different open tunings I could get out of the gauge of strings i use. Went online and checked out different brands and gauges. Came up with this chart.
The top row is the open tuning for a standard six s
Read more…Back when I was playing in bands in the 80's I had a band member who played through a Peavey. It was offal. Dark, muddy toneless offal. Clean or distorted. The only time this thing sounded good was when it was off. then it wasn't offal ( bad pun ). B
Read more…Today I learned that their neck pockets are the same dimensions. I have both gibson and fender styled necks. Took measurements to get precise neck pockets. And got the same measurements for both. I said ????? So I got to looking at it. Found the reas
Read more…The build I'm working on is a semi hollow body. It will have a 1/2 inch inner layer and a 1/4 top layer of ply over a maple core. Can I embed the piezo under the 1/2 ply and on top of the core maple? Ot would approximately 3/4 of and inch of wood be
Read more…Still trying things. Don't know if this is going to help with noise. But it does give a deeper tone.
This is again sandwiched together with the ceramic sides in. I've placed it with both sides down on the body of the guitar. With a ten inch speaker
Read more…First time ever wiring a guitar with piezos.
I would like to have one under the bridge. The other in the neck pocket. Would like them to be switchable so the wiring will be in parallel. Can I have both of these on at the same time or do I have to sep
Read more…I saw a guy on youtube using tea to add tannins to wood by using the natural tannins in black tea.
This is his web site. It has the video link.
https://gadgetsandgrain.com/2016/04/08/oxidize-getting-a-vintage-wood-look/
I've got a strong mixture of
Read more…Now here's a home made instrument everyone will want in their living room.
