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I opened up my driver again, and I found a couple of things that made the driver not work propperly. First of all, the magnet is 7mm wide, wich I think is a little to much. I'll be splitting it into two 3.5mm for my next try. Second, the wire of the coil was not wound tight enought, and there was lots of air in there. Guess I have to tighten things up on my next build. Third, the woodglue used for potting had not dried, but it had shrunk. I therefore wander if you guys can recomend me something for the potting-part. Would epoxy be good? Should the potting dry up completly? Anyway, I guess you were right about the internal vibration. Luckily I got enough magnets for 20 more coils, and I'we ordered one of these so I guess I can afford a few more tries to get it perfect. I also have a batch of 386s' comming in, so I can build a more suiteable amp.

Well, I'm back again with a new driver, and this time it works. I just made a driver from two stacked magnets fro one of those magnetical knife-holders, and it does sustain. The magnet is about 5mm wide and 5 mm high, made out of some kind of soft material, and I'm using 30awg wire. However I get a lot of feedback and squeeling when I move it to close to the neck pu. I also get a weird ticking sound, and I can actualy feel the driver vibrate when the ticking arrives. The driver also gets burning hot. I suspect a lot of this problems are due to me hooking the driver to the speaker out of my Samick SS amp. I'm looking forward to make a smaller driver and get this stuff to work.

I'we been following this post for as long as I remember, and decided yeasterday was the time to start building a sustainer. I constructed the driver like this: The bobins are cut out of black plastick. I taped six neodym magnets with a diameter of 1 cm each to the bobbin with double-sided tape. All magnets have the polarity on the same side. I the n taped the top-bobbin to the top of the magnets with the same type of tape. I then winded the coil with 150 rounds of 30 AWG wire, resulting in a resistance of 6.4 OHM. The whole thing is potted with wood-glue. Ended up with a tiny driver, wich suited well under the strings on my strat. I connected this to the output of my fetzer ruby, and it did nothing..... I could see the driver affecting the strings, but just in the same way as a single magnet without coil would. Any ideas why it did'nt work? I am still a little unsure what the polarity of the magnets should be. I also suspect that the tape and bobbin on top of the coil places the actual coil to far from the strings. I hope to get this thing up and running later today, so any tips and hints will be welcome. The magnets used. Mine does not have holes in them, though. A quick drawing of my driver.

Oh yeah, pictures rock!!! Thanks so much for those pics. They were realy helpfull. Now i got to find a place where they sell electret capsules and ship to norway.

This is great news!!! You have been so helpfull, and I thank God you finaly found this tread. When you tried mounting the piezo on the glass and got amazing sound, what element did you use? As english is not my main language, I have some slight problems with understanding how you hooked things up. I would have loved it if you could draw up a quick scetch of how you hooked things up. I'm planning to buy 20 piezo-buffers, so that I have some spare ones for my guitar. I'm also going to buy som e spare parts when I order the parts for the preamp, so that I have enough to a couple of preamps. A j201 is 10$ here in norway, and verry hard to find, as is all the other parts needed. That means that I'll order all the part from the land of the brave... Anyone knows of a good place that ship internationally?

Wow! Congrats on the graduation!! It would be great if you could tell me how you experimentations turns out. I've thought of tuning the glasses with wine myself, but I've figgured it wont stay tuned for long if I do. I belive the wine will just dissapear in some strange way.... On the other hand, it would be great to have a drinkable instrument!! As for the sharp notes, I'm not quite shure what I want. I'm gonna use this in a progband, playing music like the early king crimson. Our sound is realy mellow, so I kind of hope I kan have a clear, mellow sound, if you know what I mean.

gripper: You have actuly tried it, and got it to work? Is the pintec pickup a piezo-style pickup? Man, this got me exited, and I can't wait to try this out! Thanx for great input. Biz: I have also thought about using just one pickup under all the glasses, but I belive the vibrations in the glasses are to small for this to have any effect. That is why I have decided to use one pickup for each glass. I belive this will make it easyier to get a good sound from the glasses. I also belive it will look much better on stage, with all the knobs and stuff, wich is partly why I'm making this thing. Anyway, I'm thankfull for your input! Keep it comming!

Hi again. I was wondering if it is possible to change the 2N3819 Junction FET transistor with a j201 in this little mixer.

No reason why it shouldn't pick up the sound - they can reproduce frequencies from near DC to 100kHz. The real problem may lie in being able to attach the piezo element efficiently enough to the glass to get any good sound/sound levels out of it. Maybe a better place for a piezo element might be right where the stem meets the bell. That shouldn't affect the sound of the glass too much, I think. I'm not sure if the piezo would work on the bottom or not as it may not get enough vibrations transferred down there. I think it should work, though - but I won't bet the farm on that... ← As soon as I get the piezo transducer, and get the preamp asembeled, I will try sticking the transducer to the glass in different possitions to see what makes the best sound. As you said earlier, this will be a try and fail situation, and I hope I eventualy will end up with something that makes a good enough signal.

Hi, I'm realy thankfull for all the help this far. Just a fast update: I have decided to buy theese galasses. I allready have a couple of them, and they sing wonderfully Glasses They are also tuneable to an octave. I have also decided to change the preamp to the Fetzer valve from runoffgroove, with a master volume ant tone-controll. Have anyone tried this with piezo pickups? Are there any preamps that are better for this purpose? Here is a quick drawing of what the instrument should look like. Any ideas are verry velcome.

Yeah, I guess I just have to try out different places to put the pickups, and hope I end up with something useable... As for the mixer, What a great idea!! Thanx a lot for the link. So, this is what I have decided on: 12 glasses from ikea, witch will be tuned in c major 12 piezo buzzers, cut them open and use them as transducers 12 channel mixer with 12 potts controlling volume. Also thinking of adding tone pots. Internal preamp (http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=21091) Jack out Anyway, I still have some questions. What will be the best way to mount the glasses to the board? will the glasses sing if I glue them on top? Is there any piezo buzzers that are better than others as transducers? should it have any special configurations for voltage or anything? Looking forward to this project, and hope that it eventualy will work. Kan jo think of anything cooler than singing glasses through a bit of delay and reverb? Thanks for help this far.

Ohhh.... I haven't thought of that. Any good ideas for how this could be taken care of? Thanx for the input.

I know this is the wrong forum, but I thought you might could help... I'm planing on building a glass harmonica, with twelwe wine glasses tuned to pitch with water. Would it be possible to use piezo-pickups under each glass and make it electrical`?

I love my danelectros, as you probably can see from the pics. I first bought the fab OD, and it quickly replaced my modded TS9. I guess it all depends on what sound you want, but I love these things. For 15$ they are well worth trying. They deffinitively helped me in my search for the perfect tone.

I sprayed all finnishes with aerosol paint, and cleared it with several layers. I then polished with polish from the same manufacturer as the clear.

Well, I just wanted to hear what y6ou guys have to say about my Hondo. This is what I have done with it: *Reshape the neck *Change all hardware *Route the tremolo-pocket to fit a fender sized trem *Sand the body and neck, and refinnish it *Changed the inlays *Scalloped the neck from the 7th fret and up *Changed all frets Everything turned out great, exept the refinnishing part. It was all going verry well, until I started polishing it. The pollish I used Stiffened on the surface, leaving the paint with a greyish film over the perfect paint. Still looks good, but the paint is not shiny and reflective the way it was before trying to pollish it. Anyway, even if it still looks bad, it plays like a dream now. The action is realy low, and I love the scalloped fretbord. Here are the pics: Front Front Back Neck I'll also use the oppertunity to showoff my pedalboard, wich is under progress. Top wiev Side Back Bottom So, what do you think?

I love pedals, and last month I built my first pedalboard. Looks great. I run guitars->Vintage Jen Crybaby->Danelectro Fab2 OD -> Danelectro Daddy-O OD->Danelectro fish & Chips EQ and Boost-> Danelectro Fab Metal dist->Danelectr fab delay->Boss volume pedal->Digitech GSP 21-pro with footcontroller for reverb, delay and chorus->2 Kustom tube 12 amps. Everything between The wha and the volume pedal is connected to a single bypass switch with a bleed know witch sends the signal back into the chain, much like the Death By Audio Total Sonic Annihilation pedal. This gives some weird, weird noises. Check http://killerrockandroll.com/deathbyaudio/...nihilation.html for clipps. The Fab pedals from digitech are amazing. Sound as good or better than any Boss pedal, and costs 15$. You should check them out.Demos at danelectro.com So yes, I love my pedals, and I take pride in finding cheap pedals that sounds great, just to show them butique guys, that is possible.

Hi was just wondering who you guys think make the best guitars, without hand-building them? From what I've tried, I'll say ESP makes some great guitars, if you buy their more expensive guitars. Don't know if they are worth the money, though. I don't like fender for anything other than the looks, and think both Gibson and PRS are deasent, but overpriced. The best guitars I have ever played was a Carvin ct6m, a framus ka 1974 and a samic jz3 with duncans. The carvin was absoloutly amazing to play, but could need new pickups, the framus was the guitar of my dreams, and still is, and the Samick was my biggest suprise ever. Other than that I love the schecter c1.

I would love to see that!!!

JohnH, Thanx for a quick reply. I don't know anything about my hondo, other than that I have modded it into a totaly different guitar. Still got that heavy headshape, sort of like a jackson. It has a pickguard like the one you described, and looks verry simular to the one in your picture. The only difference is that mine have a rosewood fretboard. I've scalloped the neck from 7th fret and down, reshaped the neck and changed all the hardware with new stuff. The guitar is simular to this one http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...&hl=hondo]Hondo but with rosewood fingerboard. The biggest problem i had is that my new bridge was fender sized, and the nut on the hondo is gibson-sized. This made it hard finding pickups where the pole-pieces matched the string spacing, hence the splittable rail-type mini-humbuckers. I would love to try this setup. this would mean 8 miniswitches, and would look verry hi-teck, witch is what I want from this superstrat. I would just use the oppertunity to thank you once again.

Hi. I just love this idea, and would like to do this with my 80-s Hondo. Man, I wish I had the brains to work out such fantastic ideas!!! Credit!!! So, here is a couple of newbie questions... The problem is that I have splitable mini buckers, and would like to keep the possability to keep the splitting option. Is there anyway this wiering would work with spittable Minibuckers? Anyone care to draw me a schematic for this? I was also wondering about the dpdt switches used for each pickup. You write that theay are on/of switches. I've never seen a dpdt on/off, and I am verry confused. Is this the on/on type, but wired so that the second on actualy is off? I was also wondering about the 4pdt switch... I guess this is a ON/ON? And where did you buy that blend pot? Could you describe the pot-mod a little closer for a dumbass like me? I'm really looking forward to doing this mod. It will be like playing with a totaly new guitar. Allready ordered the new pickguard. Thanx for a great idea, and great inspiration.

Well, the guitar needs new pick-ups, as it is my favourite guitar at the moment. Only thing that has bothered me, is the low output from the fender PU's. Guess that won't be a problem with these, so I'll give them a try. I'm gonna use this guitar through a Jen wha-wha, a danelectro Daddy-o, a homemade Tubescreamer,Danelectro fish and chips EQ and a boss fv200 volume pedal. This goes into a Digitech GSP21pro for chorus, flanging and delay. Right now I run this into a Samick LA40R amp, witch soon will be replaced by two Kustom tube 12 amps for the stereo the digitech gives. Finally I'll have tubes too!!! Looking forward to hearing the result. I'm looking for that dirty 70's rock sound, and that brilliant gilmour-style clean. I'm also using this guitar for my arpegios and sweeping in a 80's metal-band. From what I'we read this PU's will do the jobb on both. Guess I'll give them a shot. I'm also wondering if anyone have any idea for the wiering diagram for this guitar. I have a switch for each pick-up where you can choose on, out of phase and of. I also have one volume, one tone and the last tone controlling a schottky-diode overdrive. There is no pickup switch. How would this wiering be with splitable pickups? Anyone have a diagram for a setup of this type?

There is quite a few rewievs on harmony-central, but I don't realy trust them. I don't expect high-end stuff at that price, but I do bevive they are better than the ones I have lying around. I even think they are splitable? Today I have 13 different on my pick-up combinations on my guitar. with splitable PUs I'll have even more... I'm starting to loose controll here...

I'm looking for a set of new pickups for my corean strat-copy, as my friend wants his Fenders back. The guitar has a Fender-sized bridge and a gibson sized nut, so normal pickups with bobins don't match. I'm therefor looking for rail-type single coils. Since I am a student, I can't afford diMarzios or Duncans. I've heard about GFS pickups, and read that they get good rewievs. I'm thinking of buying the lil' killer pickups. Anyone tried them? I'm a litle sceptic, as they go for 55$ for three of them. Sound to good to be true.... The PU's

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