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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on August 17, 2012 at 2:52pm

Nice job.

Your probly gonna get a bunch of contradictory suggestions here, but consider this..
Sound like ur real happy with it, so zip it up, call it finished.
It's an acoustic guitar, make another for plugging in. Great first effort, really great

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Permalink Reply by Clock The Wolf on August 17, 2012 at 3:35pm

Um, I looked and looked and looked and, Lord help me, I just don't see it. No matter how carefully I examined your photos, I could not find the can of worms, opened or otherwise.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on August 17, 2012 at 4:27pm

That saddle is a sharpie.>:-E

I tend to agree with Kid on this one: enjoy your acousticness, build another for your rocker side.

Clock, I think the can o' worms is what he wanted to use for a resonator ;-).

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Permalink Reply by Lonman on August 18, 2012 at 2:51am

Yup, you got bit buy the infamous CBG bug- nice build indeed. Continue to read what has been said about your topics about making it electric and go from there. Each CBG sounds different, that is the magic of this hobby- build and have fun.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Lindsay on August 18, 2012 at 3:06am

Just a suggestion, and worth every penny you're paying for it, but you might get hold of Randy Bretz and ask him about a piezo bridge for your build. That would kill 2 birds with 1 stone (bridge and pick-up) - and also free up that poor sharpie for use on the bathroom wall, like it was intended...

Great looking build! Welcome to the madness!

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Permalink Reply by Reeds Taylor on August 18, 2012 at 8:58am

My solution would be, keep what you have, it sounds like you approve. I would build another similar...and try all your ideas on it.

All the Best!

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Permalink Reply by matthew jordan on August 18, 2012 at 10:24am

ok i dont even have holes in the box! and yer rite! i should probably just open the back and throw a peizo in and call it quits! but i bet i can put a resonator in without ever cutting a hole in the top for the bridge..i figure if the sound goes through the bridge into the box..and if the resonator cone touched the top rite under the bridge it would transfer...

 I still wana know about the pickups and piezos! what about a preamp and one piezo? awwww shit! im sprung!

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Permalink Reply by wormil on August 21, 2012 at 10:41am

The piezo will pick up vibrations from everything... the box, the air, the strings, your hands, anything else around generating vibrations which is why people often cushion them inside foam or hot glue, to dampen extraneous noise. A single coil or humbucker will pickup string vibrations.

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Permalink Reply by matthew jordan on August 21, 2012 at 6:54pm

now were getting somewhere! what about the ones under the bridge? the rods? and if the sound thats coming from it now is from the strings ...i mean it almost sounds like it has a resonator but it doesnt have one...well crap ! i gotta think!

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Permalink Reply by wormil on August 30, 2012 at 4:41pm

Haven't done a rod piezo yet but a lot of folks here like them better. I bought a single coil pick up off ebay to experiment with an a set of humbuckers from a guy upgrading his Ibanez. I'm curious to see how they sound vs. piezos. 

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Permalink Reply by Robert Phillips on August 28, 2012 at 7:35am

My 2 cents, keep what you got and build another one for electric and another one for a reso. Don't be like me, every time I get an idea I tear mine apart, and rebuild. Its in a constant state of rebirth and is only strung and playable about 15% of the time. I've played more on the ones I build for other people than my own. Hey, the more the merrier. 

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