Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Michael took up guitar in the fourth week of September 2010 (by his own admission elsewhere). Please show respect. What the? how and where did you find that out lol No need to tell the guys here to show me respect Puff, it was my fault and i shouldn't said the things i did, it was me that had to sh...

First of all id like to say sorry to everyone, i know you guys are helping with my questions and im just saying "you are wrong" when infact you are right about all it from when i read this... As far as Piezo's go, yes they are blind to what type of string you have on, they merely interpret the vibra...

.... you still haven't explain how the piezo does pick this up. How does it know what material string im using for it to produce a different signal? Kind regards Michael A piezo doesn't have "know" anything.....it responds to the vibration it receives from the string..usually via the saddle or in s...

Sorry i wasn't talking about compensation, i was just merely saying that if a steel, bronze or nylon string was tuned to lets say A4, every string regardless of material will be 440hz or cyles.. however you want to put it. Can you please care to explain how different material strings would affect t...

Ok first of all, great thanks to Martin for the find.. i searched for a couple of hours trying to find it and had no luck! What both Jeff & Martin were commenting on is the fact that you are replacing steel strings with Nylon. Nylon strings operate at a much lower string tension than steel strings s...

You might "get away" with using acoustic sound hole "dogbones'. You may well not "get away" with the bridge depth for intonation change from steel to nylon. You are taking something specifically designed to do one thing and asking it to do pretty much the opposite. You may well end up with the heav...

the vibrations in the body of the les paul are not going to be strong enough to drive body mounted piezos. You are going to need a piezo bridge to sense the string vibrations more directly. ever clipped on a acoustic tuner to a les paul guys? it works just fine.. acoustic tuners usually have 2 meth...

Hey guys i was just wondering if some people could shed some light on this. Im in the process of building a solid body classical guitar from a old les paul copy i have that is no longer used so i thought i'd put it to good use. My question is, im looking to install two piezo pickups embeded into the...