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AGP #287 - ''Blend Pot''

AGP #287 - “Blend Pot”
(3 String Cigar Box Guitar)
Scale : 457.2mm / 18 inches
Strings : .036NW / .026NW / .018NW /
Tuning: D / A / d /
Every now and then I do build an actual “Cigar Box Guitar”, the Neck is Grey Ironbark and the Fretboard is White Oak.
The main idea behind this build was to use one of the 5 Dual Blend Potentiometer’s I purchased quite awhile back but never took the time to look into how they were wired or worked, a 3.7k Lipstick Pickup and a 27mm Piezo Disc are wired through the “Blend Pot” and Tone Pot to the Jack, I think I got right???, as everything seems to work as required, but not overly impressed with the outcome, but this could be due to the fact that I’m not a big fan of Piezo’s, currently working on a build with a Single Coil, Humbucker, Blend Pot, Tone and Volume.

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Comment by Jim Morris on July 20, 2017 at 10:24am: No plant based jokes from me. I'll only say it looks great. I'm not a big fan of piezos either but I've heard builds by other folks and they sounded fine so I figured it must be me. So, I purchased 25 piezos pretty cheap and I've done a series of experiments to find a mounting system I like. I'm on experiment #11 now and I might be getting close. But I digress, excellent build AGP!

Comment by Uncle John on July 20, 2017 at 9:27am: So purty. Love the headstock. A big LOL, Jim!

Comment by James O Lunsford on July 20, 2017 at 5:15am: Another fine Build AGP# Good job You sure build a lot guitars I got to get off My ass and finish Big Red got all the parts now

Comment by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on July 19, 2017 at 5:49pm: Is it 4:20 yet .....super sweet looking AGP#.

Comment by the anonymous pick on July 19, 2017 at 5:42pm: "BLEND POT " .....PUN INTENDED ? ;-)

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