I'm trying a stick-on-top banjo with a 7.5-inch non-Danish, non-gourmet, non-premium, non-butter cookie can. For the flying bridge, I have a wooden handle salvaged from a cabinet door, but it skates over the smooth surface of the can bottom.
Would it be heresy to drill two holes through the can and secure this with 1/2-inch round-head wood screws? Any counsel on washers on the underside? Am I better off with an adhesive instead?
I like the size and feel of the can, but the cookies were so horrible I wouldn't want to buy them again just to replace a destroyed container.
Also: Any tips on placing a cheap piezo disc pickup? Or is that just crazy talk?
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Maybe if you sand a little the can and the handle, just where they reach, it will stay in place.
You can try with a drop of CA glue too.
If you fix the bridge, you must be sure of the intonation, guitars have sometime screws in the bridge...
You can put double face tape on the piezo and try the better place for your sound.
An adjustable trapeze tailpiece so that the break angle over the bridge is even on both sides will stop the skating away
Looking at the date of the post I'm guessing you already done what needed to be done.
I used a paint can for my canjo. The stick didn't go thru the can but to the inside wall of the paint can. I glued it and then fastened the string anchor using screws thru the can and into the neck stick on the other side. You could probably do the same with a flying bridge and screw it thru the tin and into the neck.
As for piezo's the skies the limit where you can put them. I mount them on the bottom side of the neck or anywhere in the box, usually upper top corner. Saddle piezo's I usually sandwich between the lid and the neck stick in the area the bridge is going...
Bottom line is experiment and then experiment some more...
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