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My father and I are two different kinds of craftsmen. My dad grew up on a farm where you did what you had to do with whatever you had. The tools weren’t the best and often not the right ones but he…Continue
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I posted this in the NE group but wanted to make sure anyone who is interested in attending gets a chance. I am hosting a meet up on Sat Jan 26 at 10 AM in Westminster MA. PM me for details or…Continue
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Ok, I've been away for a long time. Life came a calling a while ago and I needed to take care of other things.So as catch up, I am answering long asked questions that no one probably wants the…Continue
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Hello NationI am looking to see what kind of interest there is in a local builders guild. I know in the woodworking hobby there are such things where like minded people pool knowledge and resources…Continue
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When I started out making pickups, I had just bought a bigger lathe and had one of those mini one that I was just going to sell. I instead turned it into a winder. I added a counter and made a platen to mount the bobbins to. Has served me well but it is heavy. So perhaps it is time to revisit the winder.
This is going to be a simple design consisting of just a DC motor, a PWM motor control (courtesy of Dan Sleep) and a counter.
Still picking out a motor but have ordered the…
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I love brass all nice and shiny. Here is a completed prototype of my version of the Thin Pickup. This is one of a few sizes I ended up designing. This one is wide enough for a 6 string and measure in at slightly over 1/4" thick. For my typical builds, it is not a problem mounting this on right on top of the box. Like this one.…
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A fairly productive day. I got one of my favorite standard CBG builds completed for use as a test platform and wound a few variations of my baseline design. I picked up 4 different magnet sizes and so far have experimented with 2. So far I've wound 7 different coils ranging from severe under wound to slightly overwound.
In the above picture I used a small square of…
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Like many, Shane's post/challenge put my creative side into overdrive. I had made some attempts at a thinner pickup but really didn't like the way my experiments turned out. A lot of time and learning has passed since these early experiments. What I have learned in the last couple of years has to do with why some parts of pickup design just doesn't directly translate when you make them smaller. There are a bunch of reasons that a 3 pole single coil pickup wound with the same number of…
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hey Don thanks for your friend request, you are welcome in my house blues
Thanks for friending Don :-)
Thank you Don for your friendship. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. Enjoy.
Hi Don.
I took part in the Skype conference call last Sunday. During that call there was a mention of a slim pickup that looks like this.
I wrote down the name so that I wouldn't forget it. Unfortunately I didn't write down where I was going to put the piece of paper with the name on. Do you remember what this is called?
All the best.
John
I did quite well over the years buying old 1930 Stella, but recently I bought an expensive wallhanger. Yikes!
Restoring Is really is a labor of love that can be a money pit.
You can find them cheap and may have the smarts to restore, but like you said, buying sight unseen is a shot in the dark.
I just thought I would post some finds from time to time. Maybe to stimulate builder's imaginations or help them find a treasure worth bringing back from the brink of death. Parts may be useful. Patterns can be made. Etc.
I just have a romantic love affair with old guitars. They may have issues just like old people, but I love them just the same. Something about holding the same guitar, that was played in the period is very empowering. Having said that, a brand new guitar is great too, just like a hot knife cutting through cold butter.
Thanks again for sharing. Enjoy, Keni Lee
Up in the Free Resources menu at the top, you will see a number of plans for building and playing cigar box guitars/ukuleles/banjos/dulcimers/violins. I encourage you to download any of the plans, take a look at them, and ask questions from there. Also our site is VERY searchable. I bet you your questions have already been asked, so take a few moments and look around.
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