-Scott
Statistics: Posted by cheepaxes — Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:34 am
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Statistics: Posted by johnnyb — Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:49 pm
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I ended up installing the magnetic pickup by mounting it in one of those rubber sound hole plugs. My first thought was cut a hole in the plug the size and shape of the bobbin, push the pickup through from behind and use pickup mounting screws to hold it in place. That resulted in the pickup too far from the body. I ended up enlarging the hole to the size and shape of square magnets on the bottom of the (Squire) Strat pickup. I pushed the pickup down into the plug and the rubber holds it firmly without fasteners. I cut a slot in the rubber to feed the pickup wire down into the body.
Here's what the pickup installation looks like:
http://www.scottmcknight.com/EPIPUP.JPG
And here's a bit of recording, using my cell phone as a recorder and plugging the guitar into a Crate bass amp that I had handy. Note that the thunky deadness of the bass strings is a function of the flatwounds:
www.scottmcknight.com/EPIPUP.mp3
It's not a beautiful acoustic guitar sound, but I think it could work well as a rhythm guitar in a band.
I think I should figure a way to ground the strings, no? Ideas?
-Scott
Statistics: Posted by cheepaxes — Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:08 pm
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-Scott
Statistics: Posted by cheepaxes — Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:19 pm
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If no one has any better ideas I'll probably pursue this approach more later.
-Scott
Statistics: Posted by cheepaxes — Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:17 pm
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www.scottmcknight.com/EPIPUP1.JPG
www.scottmcknight.com/EPIPUP2.JPG
-Scott
Statistics: Posted by cheepaxes — Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:40 am
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I made a wooden mount for the pickup, installed an endpin jack and wired the pickup to it. I still haven't figured out how to hold the pickup in place. I took it to a gig Saturday and used clear packing tape to hold it in place. It's in this picture:
www.scottmcknight.com/JRMDEEJ.JPG
Note also the bandaids covering a hole that got punched in the top about 33 years ago.
The guitar didn't sound that great going straight into the board. I liked it better through my Deluxe Reverb when I was playing around with it at home.
I'll try taking a closeup pic tonight. Any nifty ideas for how to affix this in place without messing up the guitar?
-Scott
Statistics: Posted by cheepaxes — Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:24 pm
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