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Help with the wiring

Hello Cigarboxnation, I'm hauling my ass off in my first 3 stringed cbg build. I'm having some trouble with the wiring though. I'm going for: A jack connected to my piezo pickup with both tone control and volume control.

Ive got 2 potentiometers, 250k and 10k ohm. I have my jack output, my 0.022 uf capacitor, and my piezo ready with both lead and ground.

I have made a ground circuit from my jack to the volume pot to the tone pot. I have connected my jack lead to the volume pot, i have grounded 1 leg from the volume pot to itself, and i have connected my capacitor to the tone pot, from the third leg. This leaves me with an unconnected piezo, and 3 free legs.

How do i proceed?

My common sense says i also need to connect me tone pot to my volume pot with a lead? am i on track? I hope you can help.

I have some pictures here. http://imgur.com/a/RHFIh

I've already posted this to /r/luthier but with no luck. I hope u guys, the masters of the cbg can help me out.

Kind regards Alex

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on October 6, 2015 at 10:43am

I just used a volume pot on mine and mounted the piezos with 2 pieces of double-sided tape stacked. Started with a 500k then changed to a 1meg to get some harshness out. I plan on experimenting with a tone circuit soon.

Nothing wrong with using what you got.

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Permalink Reply by David L. on October 7, 2015 at 11:51pm

This link is to a previous post showing how to make a passive piezo tone control.
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/passive-tone-control-for...

Regards,
David L

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Permalink Reply by Alex Søgaard on October 8, 2015 at 12:39am

Thanks David, I will try to swap my 10k tone pot with a 250k pot (as its the only ones i got). And swap my 250k volume with my one and only 500k pot. Idk if i like or nah, but I'm at least try it out, if nah ill cut the tone and just wire the volume straight to jack. :)

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