Got together with 2 friends, created a spreadsheet with parts from CBGitty.com, ordered all the stuff and turned my old New Hampshire Veteran Plate (now have personalized vet plate) into my first ever build.  Installed a mag pickup as well as a piezo pickup.  The mag is dirty-dirty...sounds just like you'd want.  The piezo is a clean sound.  The middle switch combines the two for a clean front, dirty in the background.  All in all, VERY happy with it!

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First of all, Thank you for your service.

Your CBG looks great. I've heard in the past that magnetic pups and piezo's didn't play well together without a onboard equalizer/preamp. How did you wire yours? Did you use a equalizer/preamp?

Hi, Paul...I have to say, I owe all the wiring expertise to my buddy I was doing the build with. His will be done soon, but I was trailblazing for him so he wired mine first. The two pickups are wired into a 3-way switch so you can select either, or, or both. No preamp or anything fancy. It turned out like having a distortion effects box built in...couldn't be happier. No feedback from the piezo (it's on a bed of hot glue and covered with hot glue as well). I'll post a pic of the back of the plate to show the wiring.

Here's a pic of the wiring on the back of the plate...

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Thanks for the pic. Rock on

<update> more playing with it and I found I had the pickups backwards...the magnetic pickup is the clean one and the piezo is the dirty, but it's only when running it thru a pedal with some gain added.  The piezo seems to have more volume and therefore picks up the gain more to turn it into the distortion you'd be looking for.  The mag pickup ends up with less volume running thru the same pedal and comes out clean. 

Running the guitar directly into an amp with no adds gives clean to both pickups.  Still, I'm extremely happy with how it sounds as well as how it plays.  Great add to my stable.  :-)

That's a nice git! Hows she sound?

Oh, I missed that entry. Apparently that's how.

Nice job, looks really nice, esp. for a 1st!

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