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Vintage Gold Foil CBG #1

Posted by Beau Davies on January 19, 2014 at 5:00pm
Hot Rodded Cigar Box Guitar - Dirty Tone1 - Preamp Boost switch 20db increase - 9V - mounted inside2 - 1 Perloid Humbucker3 - (2) Vintage 1950 ish Gold foil Single Coil4 - 27 inch scale neck - RL Burnside style neck5 - 4 String6 - Exotic Bubinga Wood Pick guard.Telecaster control that has circuit boards inside that you can choose capacitor values from . 010 uF, .012 uF, .015 uF, .022 uF, .027 uF, .033 uF, .047 uF and .059uF - You can also choose 250k or 500k pots.... all by a click of a smooth slide switch underneath.
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  • Frank Neal January 22, 2014 at 11:54am

    I haven't seen gold foils like those. Awesome. The capacitor switch is genius. Thinking of how you put it all together makes my head hurt.

  • Joe Caruso January 20, 2014 at 12:27pm

    Thanks for sharing the detail - you do us all a favour, sharing things we may not have known were possible. Excellent craftsmanship!

  • Muddy Creek Guitars January 19, 2014 at 10:10pm
    Wow! Great build!
  • Uncle John January 19, 2014 at 7:58pm

    Neat and thanks for a great description.  Wish everyone did that.

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