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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on February 3, 2016 at 9:11am

My main reason for posting this if you aren't or haven't used piezo rod pickups in a cbg you should.

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on February 3, 2016 at 6:38pm

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on February 4, 2016 at 6:00am

Good trick with the washers and stoppers, I have some rods coming from Gitty right now, might try something similar this weekend.

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on February 4, 2016 at 10:01am

Thanks wes.

They sound really good clean turtle not best for distortion, but 10 time better then disks for feedback. I plug my 3 string in to my SWR bass amp turn it 3/4 volume not a bit of feedback sitting in front of the amp. Plugged in to my PA next to speaker no feedback.

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on February 4, 2016 at 10:36am

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on February 4, 2016 at 10:34am

Yup.  I've been using the flat violin style ones underneath a floating bridge for a while with pretty good results. Looking forward to a little more of a woodworking project with the rods.

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on February 4, 2016 at 10:47am

Turtle all my guitars are floating except my ukes, trying to get away from bone saddles I have used Corian on the rod pickup it work well.  might try the Graph Tech TUSQ but double the cost. But by far the best thing over disk is the feedback reduction.

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Permalink Reply by Bluesheart on February 7, 2016 at 2:02am

That looks like a great idea, must try!

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on February 17, 2016 at 8:53am

The little effort is worth the sound BH.

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