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Comment by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on April 7, 2010 at 3:23am

Nice looking guitar Sam, I wonder what the next 100 will be like. Your piezo bridge is a nice design, I like the scalloped look really hides the fact there are 2 big round discs in there. Classy

Comment by Wichita Sam on April 6, 2010 at 1:00pm

Thanks Dianne, BTW, your pentatonic strummers are big hits... I did a workshop for kids building one stringers, I've done several 3 & 4 stringers ... they are great learning tools for blues playing... thanks again for the assist.

Comment by Dianne Woods on April 6, 2010 at 8:16am

Very nice CBG, great job. Keep it up.

Comment by Wichita Sam on April 5, 2010 at 1:41am

Wes,

Serial connection was what I tried first, worked, so ..... no problem to try the other way, I'm just not an electric junkie, so left good enough alone....

Sam

Comment by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on April 4, 2010 at 3:46pm

:-) Thanks Sam. Sounds like you are somewhat familiar with computers (Open Source is a popular means of development and sharing knowledge freely). I'm kind of a Linux wienie.

So one thing you mentioned is serial connection ( +---(+/-)---(+/-)--- -). I found a section in Google Books (Getting a Bigger Sound: Pickups and Microphones for Your Musical Instrument By Bart Hopkin pp53 that talks about connecting them in parallel. Didn't know if you tried that? Seems he's saying that piezos are very high impedence and serial connections sum that impedence whereby parallel divides the impedence. I might try that.

Anyhow, I'll let you know.

Gracias!

-Wes

Comment by Wichita Sam on April 4, 2010 at 11:32am

BE my guest.. I've never believed that we do anything more that extend the work of others and that what we do in the CBG community is "open source"... if you need details, let me know... the best,..San

Comment by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on April 4, 2010 at 9:02am

Mind if I experiment with that design? thanks!

-WY

Comment by Wichita Sam on April 4, 2010 at 4:19am

no pre-amp.... I have gotten in the habit of using 2 piezos wired in series... It gives a nice tone and I set them up in a sandwich between the bridge plate and the box top (just under the brass bar).... almost no feedback...

Tons better than just gluing a single piezo under the box top and makes for an otherwise simple install....

the best,

Sam

Comment by Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates on April 4, 2010 at 2:53am

Sam, are you using any pre-amp inside? I assume it's a piezo (no mag pup I can see).

-WY