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Permalink Reply by Joe Webster on October 6, 2013 at 11:56pm

Just the pickup under the saddle. However I did notice that when I was experimenting with the discs that polarity was important. The single rod is working so much better now I may just leave well enough alone, but there's the tinkerer inside me wondering "what if?"...

Permalink Reply by Jim Woods on October 7, 2013 at 4:25am

I rarely put pots on the git. For what I do, making adjustments at the amp is easy enough.

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Permalink Reply by Bert the Welder on December 8, 2013 at 1:04pm

Could the bottom of the saddle be coved to match the radius of the rod piezo and there by creating more surface contact? ( sorry if i missed this being mentioned before)

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Permalink Reply by Jim Woods on December 11, 2013 at 1:22pm

Bert, I doubt it would matter

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Permalink Reply by Bert the Welder on December 11, 2013 at 6:28pm

Ok. Thought maybe with more contact surface :)

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on December 13, 2013 at 10:16pm

you just have to mess around with each guitar with these kinda pickups they will never sound like a mag but you can get a good cbg sound if you want.

One thing I read  Oily is right about your bridge and saddle , mass eats vibration.

You don't won't a wide flat saddle if it's just a little bit high in the back it will mute the strings.

You want a clean edge going to the nut. many guys use banjo or fiddle bridges with good results. I like mando or arch top floating bridges no mater what string you use and can get the intonation right.

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Permalink Reply by Richard G Caudill on December 16, 2013 at 3:46pm

I,too,am working with the rod piezo and have been somewhat disappointed ,, but followed this thread and I must say when u put in that bone bridge it lit up like a Christmas tree ,,,,,,, I am taking a lot away from this one guys ,, tks to all that jumped in,, I got a little something from all of you.

Q Joe ,, man U gonna b a good builder with the tenacity u showed working this out !!!   Good on Ya !!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Darren Addy on May 29, 2014 at 3:55pm

I appreciate this discussion. Could anybody point me to (or provide) a cross-section diagram of the optimal rod piezo/bridge/saddle configuration?

I'm trying to figure out if the rod piezo is laying in a rounded-bottom slot in the bridge, and if the bottom of the saddle also has a radius to match the rod... or is it OK for one or both to be flat? And I guess I'm trying to see if the rod is in contact with the soundboard or has bridge material between it and the soundboard. (etc). 

A picture is worth a thousand words, and all that....

Thx in advance!

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