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AGP #291 - ''El Rey''

AGP #291 - “El Rey”
(3 String Cigar Box Guitar)
Scale: 628.65 mm / 24¾ inches
Strings : .044NW / .030NW / .020NW /
Tuning : G / D / g /
The Neck is Grey Iron Bark, the Fretboard, Bridge, Nut & Headstock wings are Forest Red Gum, unstained and coated with a brush on French polish.
The 8.8k 3-Pole hand wound West Australian Sheoak “Mortal Coil” Pickup, which is hard wired to the Jack, is a bit of a departure from my usual “Tight Arse” ways of using cheap Ebay Chinese & second hand Mag Pups, and was well worth the extra money spent, and while my hearing isn’t all that acute these days, I’m pretty sure there is difference, it does sound great !!!.
Done more as an experiment than anything else, the wiring is also a departure from my normal way of doing things, in that I used Auto Electrical Terminals rather than soldering, cost a few bucks extra, but works just fine :-d

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Comment by AGP # on August 17, 2017 at 1:13pm: Thanks!!!, Jeff 'Bones' Reilly, Dave Lynas & Uncle John, was going to put a few grommet type sounds holes in the top, but couldn't bring myself to do any more than was necessary to this fine looking box, and no 'UJ', I never "Guzzle Beer" while I'm building, "BUT", I do guzzle quite a few after I'm finished for the day just to wash down the sawdust :-D

Comment by Dave Lynas on August 17, 2017 at 7:30am: Hey, where is the sound hole?

Comment by Dave Lynas on August 17, 2017 at 7:27am: Beauty AGP!

Comment by Uncle John on August 17, 2017 at 1:44am: HEY! You forgot the sound holes. Are you guzzling beer while you build? Ha, that could account for the big spending.

Comment by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on August 16, 2017 at 2:45pm: Nice I like the simple rustic look cool pics AGP#

Comment by AGP # on August 16, 2017 at 1:58pm: "Thanks Dano", when I done the wiring I also wondered about if clipping onto the Jack would be a problem, the Female Terminal Clip is a little bigger than the Male Lug of the Jack, and I did have to crimp one of the Female Clips to tighten it a tad, but when all finished it worked just fine.

Haven't done a build yet!, using a Capacitor with a Piezo, the link below should take you to a Utube Vid by C.B.Gitty (Ben Baker) and Glen Watt on how to do the Capacitor-Piezo wiring :-)

Cigar Box Nation TV (6/21/16) - How to use Capacitors with Piezos i...

Comment by AGP # on August 16, 2017 at 1:46pm: "Thanks UJ", El Rey Del Mundo is what is written on the Box, thanks to Google Translate in Spanish it means The King of the World, and I just shortened it to "El Rey" (The King), just about to order another of these 'Nice Pups', I just hope I don't get kicked out of the "Tightass Club" :-D

Comment by Dano Schultz on August 16, 2017 at 2:39am: A beaut, AGP. Did the Auto Electrical Terminals clip on the jack OK? I have been considering these and also wondering how to add a capacitor for piezo builds.

Comment by Uncle John on August 16, 2017 at 2:27am: El Rey is Spanish for 'the king'. Super nice and kind of subtle. I like that. Nice pickup you big spendthrift.

Comment by AGP # on August 15, 2017 at 5:15pm: "Thanks James O" Had this box stowed away for the last couple of years waiting for a build idea to come to mind that would do its beauty justice, the Neck Timbers and Pickup recently acquired, in my mind anyway, seemed to be the right choice :-D