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07 Jan 02 - 06:16 PM (#622940) Subject: Got an old pick up? From: DonMeixner I'm looking for an old, workin magnetic pick up. Any style. FRom some old cheap solid body Cloneocaster is just fine. I am trying an experiment. Don |
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07 Jan 02 - 09:14 PM (#623046) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: 53 my son might have one, i'll check and get to you. BOB |
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07 Jan 02 - 10:05 PM (#623081) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: DonMeixner Thanks Bob, but I found a source where I can buy a new so cheap it's silly not to. The experiment? A solid body 5 String banjo in the Banjocaster tradition. Why solid body? I want to go for just a little more sustain. Don |
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07 Jan 02 - 10:10 PM (#623085) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: 53 OK, DON. bob |
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07 Jan 02 - 10:28 PM (#623094) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: Steve Latimer Hey Don, Hook it up to a Marshall Stack and crank it to 11. How about a whammy bar while you're at it. I mess around on the five string and that's my dream. |
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07 Jan 02 - 10:42 PM (#623098) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: Rick Fielding Now watch your friggin' hand Don! I built something like that years ago, and guess what? It worked! Played it for a while and then gave it to someone who actually had a USE for it. Good luck. Rick |
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07 Jan 02 - 11:08 PM (#623116) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: Jeri Rick and Don, maybe you guys already know this, but I've seen solid body banjos for sale. Weeeeeird, man. |
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08 Jan 02 - 01:39 AM (#623178) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: rangeroger Jeri,for years Greg Deering has produced the Crossfire solid body Banjo. When I lived in San Diego, Greg brouht the protoype out to a desert campout. We hooked it up through a Pignose and had a ball with it all weekend. Bela Fleck has one he runes through a synthesizer. Amazing sounds. rr |
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08 Jan 02 - 02:37 AM (#623193) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: Bert I got an old Chevvy I need to get rid of. |
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08 Jan 02 - 08:40 AM (#623293) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: GUEST Jeri, Why buy what you can build yourself. I need a winter project and this sounds like it may take a week end. Don |
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08 Jan 02 - 11:04 AM (#623388) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: Jeri Ok, ok...so solid body banjos are old news and it'd spoil the fun to buy one. Will you use wood for the body? Metal? Metal and wood? |
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09 Jan 02 - 09:46 AM (#624070) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: Amos Well, there's sompn women love about a pick-up maaan! |
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09 Jan 02 - 10:54 AM (#624107) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: katlaughing Bert, what year is it? lol |
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09 Jan 02 - 05:29 PM (#624340) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: beadie Pickup ? Hell, I married one. And, speaking of solid body five-strings, it seems I've seen the Dixie Chicks use one on some of their more "out there" pieces. |
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10 Jan 02 - 03:44 PM (#625092) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: beadie Now I remember where I saw a solid body! The picker for the Blue Canvas Orchestra (house band for the Lake Superior BigTop Chautauqua (The Carnegie Hall of Tent Shows] in Bayfield, Wisconsin) plays one. Check them out, they're on the net. |
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10 Jan 02 - 07:04 PM (#625342) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: CraigS Man in London tried to sell me a National tenor. Lovely instrument, only 1000 English pounds. Better than any banjo I ever played (includes Gibsons, Bacons and Abbotts). Still might be more useful with a pick-up. But what's wrong with converting an electric guitar to five strings - less work, I might think. |
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10 Jan 02 - 09:52 PM (#625479) Subject: RE: BS: Got an old pick up? From: DonMeixner Jeri, I'll use some old Rock Maple I have lying about for the instrument. I'll make a slightly shorter scale length to be kind to my crippled fingers. The finger board will probably be Rosewood, possibly Purple Heart or Formica. Everything else will be as basic as is possible. BUT! I am tempted to route from the back side a channel that will coincide with the bridge location. I'll rout it down so the top of the banjo is abour 2 MM thick at that point. Then I'll fasten in a transducer for a bridge pickuo and embed it in Epoxy. (Will it work? Don'y know. Thats why its an experiment.) But I will have at least one magnetic pick up near the finger board. And maybe just for shits and giggles I'll build in a spare Sabine tuner I have kicking about. Don |