Cheers juju. I'm still working on a cbg to house your wonderful pick-up. I have to keep putting it on hold while I make more guitars for customers ! Bummer. I want it to be understated but a great little guitar. So far it's a plain old wooden box, nicely aged. I'm using an old hinge for a tailpiece (already tried one on another cbg). Gonna put frets on it (first time for me so need to practice on scrap first). It'll have a vol control with a plain white knob made from casing of a flourescent-light starter. The strap is a well-worn leather dog lead with a tartan pattern on one side (20p at a boot sale). I'm taking my time so it will be a good 'un and see what other ideas come up. cheers, smojo
Thanks folks. Construction is quite simple. I drilled out a pattern of holes underneath for the "mouthpiece". Glued an old telephone earpiece inside the holes. Drill a hole in the side for the jack socket and simply wired the socket to the two terminals of the earpiece. The rubber surround over the holes is just an electricla grommet glues in place. No other elctronics involved. The sound quality is actually quite clean so I just added some O/D and a little reverb on my amp.
Very awesome....I an sure I could figure it out, but how did you put it together...I think I am seeing my next build soon. That would cut back on me using a bunch of effects on my soon to be mic rig.
Thanks everyone. H.B. I dunno, I think suspenders and a bowler might add a bit of spice to the act. Yikes. Tres it was very simple. Hole cut in the bottom for the mouth opening, an old telephone earpiece glued to the inside and wired out to a 1/4 inch guitar jack socket. The reproduction was a little too good so I added a bit of O/D and reverb to the amp setting to fill out the sound.
wicked tone.
Like the bowler-I reckon some braces would complete the look.(I think the yanks call 'em suspenders but I wouldn't recommend you wear them- heh heh heh! ;)
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Like the bowler-I reckon some braces would complete the look.(I think the yanks call 'em suspenders but I wouldn't recommend you wear them- heh heh heh! ;)
im down with making instruments out of recycled parts :)
recession beating music
keep it up sir