I’ve purchased a preamplifier which I intend to use externally for several piezo builds. I’ll eventually mount it in a wooden box but in the meantime I’m making use of a small cardboard box. I’ve removed the piezo rod and wired it’s cable to a 1/4 in
Read more…i have built several CBGs but still consider my first attempt as my best effort. However, My build included a piezo pick up wired directly to the jack. I didn’t realise how sensitive it would be and was rather dismayed when it picked up every bit of
Read more…Like many people I use bolt bridges. however recently I've been concentrating on finger picking and find that, quite often, either of the G strings will slip across the threads. My current bridge has quite a deep thread, M8 Now this may be due to my
Read more…If I fit a hard tail bridge to a new build CBG, will I be able to play it acoustically as well as electrically via my GittyBucker pickup?
Read more…I’m new to CBG playing and I’m learning to play slide blues. However when I have to hammer on, especially to my low G string, I get a lot of ringing. This ringing drowns out the effect of the hammer. I’ve tried slides of various materials to no avail
Read more…One of my recent CBG constructs is fitted with a piezo pickup and I feed it through my CBGitty amplifier, recently made. However, even with the gain turned up to max I’m not satisfied with the level of “grunge” I’m getting. Would it be possible to ta
Read more…I have recently built two cbgs, 1 fretted and 1 without. On my fretted CBG I originally had bronze wrapped strings but found them too stiff for my elderly fingers, and changed them to nickel strings. I now find that my high G string seems to be ringi
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I'm new to CBG making but I have just completed my first fretless project. For my next project I want to build a fretted version using a fingerboard which I'll then glue on to the neck. I'm looking for suggestions regarding the best order of task
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