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Comment by Seth Kent on August 20, 2014 at 5:14am

I want one of those pickups for my old Stella guitar!

Comment by Uncle John on August 20, 2014 at 1:18am

Cool pickup.   People like different spacing.  Most would want the middle string centered.  It looks best and helps you set the other strings up.   Without using a real measuring tool - I think using a standard pencil- you want between 1.5 and 2 pencil thickness between the strings.

Comment by John van der Valk on August 19, 2014 at 8:46pm

yes Uncle John , thats an acoustic guitar pickup I got from a local music instrument store .I had'nt seen one like it before , so out of curiosity , I fitted it to see what gives . It has a specific 3 mm spacing to slide onto any soundhole . There are two evenly spaced ball bearings that are spring loaded into sockets at each end of the crescent in the "pinch slot". So the fit is very snug  to facilitate accurate transmission of tone vibrations of both wood and  strings .There are tone and volume wheel adjusters on the other clamp on bit , which squeezes on the same way . A 3mm jack plug takes it from here to a normal size jack plug to the amp .

I'm going to widen the spacing as you suggest , thanks for the advice :-)

Comment by Uncle John on August 19, 2014 at 1:22pm

I like that quite a bit.   Maybe widen the string spacing a bit, at least for my taste.  Is that black crescent in the sound hole a pickup?   Tell me about it.  

Comment by John van der Valk on August 19, 2014 at 9:17am

This one I call : Junkyard Dog , after the very first You -Tube clip I saw of a chap bluffing to be a sweeper in a house, he wore dungarees , and played a license plate guitar also using a slide .The sounds I heard that day really stung me bad , thrilled to see and hear what i did .The chap on the clip said : "Yeah , that's the new Junkyard Dog he's been working on ....IT'S GONNA GET YOU , SON !!! well , now i'm building them too , there is nothing more satisfying than to reap the reward after a lot of careful hard work on these instruments .