Hi All, I thought I would have a go at a resonator CBG. I have built full size Dobro style and solid body  resonator guitars, but this is my first CBG using a dog bowl as a resonator. The next one will use a proper cone. The box in this CBG is again made out of fence palings from around my yard. It has a Piezo pickup system with volume and tone controls. Can you find the Volume pot/control?

I'm playing with bridges looking for a suitable sound, as you can see the biscuit type bridge is on it at the moment and I'm slowly modifying it.

Any way enjoy Taff.

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Comment by Fomhorach on May 4, 2016 at 7:55am

I found that the best sound I got from my dog bowl came from balancing a screw across two dice. Could be the solidness of the ceramic/plastic of the dice, the fact that it's quite light or the fact that the footprint of the two dice on the bowl is very small. If your still tinkering...

Comment by Taffy Evans on November 28, 2015 at 7:08pm

Hi Rooster, you asked about the tailpiece some time ago. Yesterday whilst browsing in a junk shop I found another one, so I thought I'd show it. I only got one unit out of the first one and then through the rest of the bits in the bin by mistake. I thought this one though better and in the end will end up with six tailpieces, with some modifications.

Cheers Taff

Comment by Paul Craig on November 18, 2015 at 10:37am

Me too, was just referring to you piezo setup. Started with 500k volume only with my piezo but changed to 1meg and got a much better sound. Was thinking of trying a passive tone circuit on the piezo.

Comment by Taffy Evans on November 18, 2015 at 8:28am
Hi Paul, normally use 500k for humbuckers and 250k with single coil pickups.
Taff
Comment by Paul Craig on November 17, 2015 at 11:28pm

Thinking of trying that setup on my semi-hollow 339 guitar. It has 2 piezo in parallel under the bridge wired to a 500k volume and it's really too harsh.

Comment by Paul Craig on November 17, 2015 at 11:25pm

Either one works.

I found a setup here on the CBGNation that used 1meg volume with.0022 cap across the 2nd and 3rd pins and a 1meg tone with a .0022 cap.

Comment by Taffy Evans on November 17, 2015 at 10:31pm
Oops, sorry should be hi Paul.
Comment by Taffy Evans on November 17, 2015 at 10:30pm
Hi Craig, thanks for the comments. The tone works well, I forget what capacitor I used but I used 25ok pots. I run the tone on the bass side most of the time, takes the harshness of the piezo. The pickup is attached to the resonator. Tone is the knob you can see, the volume is under a sound hole grill.
Cheers Taff.
Comment by Paul Craig on November 17, 2015 at 9:27pm

Look's great. Like the Strat jack plate too. How well did your tone circuit work for the piezo and what did you use?

Comment by Taffy Evans on November 12, 2015 at 1:17pm
The tailpiece is made from an old paper napkin holder. Napkins would stand up in it, I cut a side and part of the bottom out of it then cut the shape you see. As a matter of interest the volume pot is under one of the hole grills, treble side. Thanks all for your comments
Taff

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