License Plate Guitar #1 Internals

I used a miter box to cut the sides of the box & secured them with angle brackets on the inside.I've wanted to build a license plate guitar since I first started researching how to build a CBG last year. After thinking through my approach, I made this 4 banger (my 1st 4 string) over the course of 3 days. It was built with a hand saw, miter box, power drill, Dremmel, wood glue, & sand paper. :) I used a uke bridge with a rod piezo pickup ($6 total cost!). Had to drill a hole through the plate to run the piezo lead through to the preamp. This preamp is amazing! It only cost $10, and I will never build another piezo guitar for myself without a preamp. Huge improvement on output and tone.
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  • Looks good!

  • That's a good deal. Much thanks.

  • Hi Lane, I was just thinking about that preamp because I'm going to build an external preamp box with one of these preamps for my CBGs that don't have one onboard. Here's a link to the preamp on Amazon. It comes with a rod piezo as well. LINK It's listed as 

    Andoer 4-Band EQ Equalizer Piezo Pickup EQ-7545R Pre-Amp Acoustic Guitar Preamp Amplifier Tuner

    by uxcell
    $9.58 including free Prime shipping :) 

    If that link doesn't work for you, here's the full web address: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QWF8QCQ/ref=s9_simh_gw_g267_i1_...

  • Source for the preamp?

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