Posted by Tom Schaefer on June 29, 2018 at 12:19pm
Scored a dozen of these all wood boxes on FB marketplace super cheap.Five dolla make it holla pickup from MGB, not bad for the price. Better than a piezo disc. The neck was repurposed from an earlier build gone horribly wrong along with a HD yardstick fretboard.
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Hey Uncle John-As far as the pickup goes, it’s only 3/8” thick. So it was not much thicker than the sound board. So no need to notch the neck. Just cut a groove in the sound board and support the pickup underneath. The rosewood piece on top came with it. It has a groove on the underside that holds the pickup as well. That wood piece however was 1/4” thick. I sanded it down a bit thinner to allow the strings to clear and keep the action where I wanted it.
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Hey Uncle John-As far as the pickup goes, it’s only 3/8” thick. So it was not much thicker than the sound board. So no need to notch the neck. Just cut a groove in the sound board and support the pickup underneath. The rosewood piece on top came with it. It has a groove on the underside that holds the pickup as well. That wood piece however was 1/4” thick. I sanded it down a bit thinner to allow the strings to clear and keep the action where I wanted it.
That looks great and I am interested in how you did the pickup. I use that wood for under the pickup, for a base. Good idea to do it as you did.