Turns out that little plastic piece worked out great for a bridge/saddle. I did have to file off the backside to create a break angle and then of course file the groove notches to hold the strings in place... but it worked out great !!!
I've built a few with disc piezos and used a bunch of hot glue. I've seen videos of one's with the rod type so I asked them the same thing and they didn't do anything special but didn't have the same problem. Who knows....lol
Hey Bob, This particular Build has a disc piezo mounted on the bass side of the strings. this bridge piece that you see is used when using a rod style piezo... i was going to just use the plastic piece here as a bridge piece...but without the rod element. we'll see how that works out?? I have had luck "dampening" the piezo elements with an over abundance of "hotglue". Have you tried that?
I notice you're using the same rod piezo pickup as I've used on my last 6 guitars. I noticed mine seem to pick up the sound of your fingers releasing or sliding on the strings a lot louder than I expected. Do you have that problem or am I doing something wrong?
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Turns out that little plastic piece worked out great for a bridge/saddle. I did have to file off the backside to create a break angle and then of course file the groove notches to hold the strings in place... but it worked out great !!!
Hey Bob, This particular Build has a disc piezo mounted on the bass side of the strings. this bridge piece that you see is used when using a rod style piezo... i was going to just use the plastic piece here as a bridge piece...but without the rod element. we'll see how that works out?? I have had luck "dampening" the piezo elements with an over abundance of "hotglue". Have you tried that?