![]() ![]() If I didn't or couldn't get satisfactory sound from a piezo pickup, then it gets back to finding a conventional pickup with a fairly small "footprint" and putting it right at the base of the neck. The real question is: What kind of sound quality might be the result? I suppose I could order a half a dozen, then try it out on a junker, but then I thought, "What they hey - there's about a thousand years of accumulated knowledge on S.T." Making the tiny rout in the pocket, and getting good contact with neck and body seems do-able. But, I've not come across much about the results of putting in the neck pocket. That Piezos are widely used as bridge pickups in acoustic guitars is a good sign. Many of you have more experience with pickups than I do, and also with acoustic guitars (of which I know nothing). These things are not expensive, but I thought I'd ask my fellow Squier-Talkers if there's something I've missed, before I started carving wood. Running wires on this guitar is not a problem - the pickguard runs right up past the neck, and the control cavity is on the lower side, between bridge and neck. My thought is to unbolt the neck, make a very shallow circular depression in the guitar body, centered between the four bolts that hold the neck on, then put whatever glue or material the makers suggest on or under the disk, then bolt the neck back on. But I've never found a mention of using on at the neck. On EBay, piezo pickups are often listed as add-on sensors for the bridge of an acoustic guitar. So, I'm assuming from their using them that the piezo sensor works on a guitar to reasonable satisfaction, or else they wouldn't keep using them.īut, I've not found anyone who's actually used one as a guitar pickup. ![]() I've heard, 2nd-hand, that people have tried using these when making cigar-box guitars. In an evening class at our local Lee Valley Tools store, one of the classes is about building a "cigar box" guitar, and these use piezo sensors at the bridge. (there are surface-mount "film sensors" - but I don't even want to go there, LOL). I've found catalog listings for larger and smaller diameter discs, and some thicker, all acoustic pickups, but this one seems about as thin as a disc sensor gets. So, it's a pretty small element, especially in thickness. There are piezo disc acoustic pickup in various sizes - about the thinest one I've found is about 20 mm (`3/4 inches) in diameter, and about 0.22mm thick (about 9 thou in inches). However, I've wondered about using a piezo disk acoustic sensor, installed in the neck pocket between the bolt-on neck and the body There are a few "small footprint" pickups, single coil or stacked humbuckers, that might fit into a location right at the base of the neck, with a small body rout. I've been giving some thought to putting a neck pickup on my Hofner Short CT guitar, since at the moment it has just a single monster open humbucker at the bridge. I'm throwing this out to the group because I've not found any good references or articles or blog posts on the subject. ![]()
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