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I was waiting for someone to ask me this...Unfortunately...NO. (I am even exploring ways to encapsulate the circuit so as to prevent it being ripped off and copied, and deliberately obscuring components, etc. I have even got a couple of false traces on the proposed PCB for this purpose and possible tweaking if there are problems after PCB manufacture. If I am to succeed in making this available and at a reasonable cost, some things, like the coil machine, will have to be kept secret. I have no doubts that the availability of the coil will inspire more knowledgeable people to develop their own designs and post them....so development will continue in an "open source" kind of way as exemplified by this thread. I have thought about this, and have an alternate design, without the limiting and drive function of my circuit that is likely to be simple, yet an improvement on the fetzer/ruby. The basic ideas were tested and so could be mocked up for the public. This could also be a side project, since I am buying parts in bulk, to make a cost effective "kit of parts" for people to DIY this design. Good point, and I know Col was thinking of doing something similar with opamps as a DIY standard circuit. Sorry...that is the state of play there... Given the problems and expense many have run into acquiring the components and getting the circuit running, I think the purchase of my pre-made design will be preferable. I am aware that I need to compete commercially, not only with the other makers, but the DIY'ers too. Hope you understand...pete I totally understand what you mean. I realize how much work you've put into this, and I understand how pissed off I would be if I did all that work then some little punk makes the same circuit and starts selling them under his own name. I guess I'll build the fetzer/ruby, then tweak it myself. An alternative design would probably be cool as well. And I see that the most prominent part of the diy thing would be designing better drivers. If you were gonna have people test them I'd be more than willing to be a beta tester and give a lot of feedback. Also I think a thread is in order for all the layouts and picture of people's new drivers, sustainer guitars, designs, concepts that have been posted all around this thread. They're all really nice and helpful but hard to find. That's all IMO, but I think it'd be useful (or a table of contents). Thanks anyways -John

are you going to be posting a layout of the circuit you've created? I've been awaiting one, putting off building a fetzer/ruby because I assume your circuit is better, or is there already one somewhere that i missed somehow?

kahler and hipshot both have 8 string bridges. EMG makes an 8 string pickup.

How do you do toothpick frets? Just stick them on and cover it with a crap-load of varnish?

I think this thing would look awesome with spalted maple

Not really a guitar but this is something kinda stupid I did on a rainy day I've dubbed it the stratocanster, it's basically a little electronic drum. I just took a guitar pickup, mounted it to the inside, ran it to a jack. it's really fun running it through wah and stuff like that. (I also added a tone control to add to the pointlessness of it.

I think he means actually making one. like all the hand made ones on those old silvertone and teisco guitars.

do you suppose you could do this and make it 8 string?

^what do you mean put the switch under a piece of metal? would i wire it normally and do that? what position would the switch have to be in? and what about "relaying", how would i go about doing that?

i saw the idea for this somewhere and it sparked my interest. would it be possible to hook up a small metal plate as a killswitch so when you touched it it would kill the sound? The idea i heard before was to run the ground lug to the plate, so you touching it would ground it, but i heard that would only work if you didn't have shoes on. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?

hate to say it, but it looks exactly like the wes borland signature guitar to me...

^sorry, i didn't mean to be rude. but the way i'm setting up the talkbox is that i have a modified combo amp which speaker wires run to a jack instead of the speaker. i'm running a cable from that to the input jack on the talkbox i'll be building. i know this method works because that's how mine's set up now (it's just a ghetto talkbox built out of a crappy computer speaker). This method is working for me with no problems, i just want a higher quality talkbox to get better sound out of it.

^i know all i need to know about talkboxes, for the last time, all i want to know is if i'm running a horn driver (just like a speaker) to an input jack, would a dpst switch be good for it as an on/off switch?

^the wiring they show in that isn't how i want it. their design has two jacks so it goes inbetween a head and cabinet, or in the effects loop, that isn't what i want. I think the switch i need is a DPST, am I right?