Acoustic guitar pickups

[Kim]

It was made by a swiss guy and had a in-built rod with some ebony on one side (like a cam).
When you rotated the rod the ebony pressed against the top to dampen it.

A quick and dirty to try if caught in a pinch would be to inflate a balloon or condom under the bridge plate...perhaps a football bladder or something else more durable would make a more permanent solution which one could inflate via the input jack...

Passing on-looker to friend: Wow!...Now there's a bloke whose taken his passion for guitars a bridge too far...Look at him! He's giving the bloody thing a blow job.

Cheers

Kim

[Tod Gilding]

You worry me Kim, but I like your way of thinking

[charangohabsburg]

You worry me Kim, but I like your way of thinking

Don't get worried Tod, it must be just the beer.

[Kim]

Jokes aside, I think some sort of small bladder may not be such a bad idea. At least you would have variable control over the amount of damping being applied to the top and its not going to rattle or buzz. Discrete valve access would be easy to achieve, being a stage guitar perhaps the front strap button could be used. To meter the inflation of the device a small hand pump could be kept in the case...

Cheers

Kim

[Tod Gilding]

Yes Kim, I think the Idea has merit, apart from what effect the deflated bladder would have when not required. I just got a kick out of the passers by watching a guitar get a blow job.

[Dennis Leahy]

I too have seen that manually dampened guitar top via cam action damper somewhere. Could it have been Fred Carlson? There are about eleventy-five luthiers on this forum that could simply take that concept and do it on the first try - but I have to say Nick popped straight into my head.

I just had to scribble-sketch it out, and yeah, it could be done.

Dennis

[Tod Gilding]

Feel Free To Post Your Sketch Dennis

[Clancy]

There are about eleventy-five luthiers on this forum that could simply take that concept and do it on the first try

I won't be impressed till one of you takes a responsive guitar and.... plugs the soundhole, sticks a valve in the tailpin, & uses a vac pump to extract all the air from the body without catastrophic failure.
That'd kill most feedback!

[Kim]

There are about eleventy-five luthiers on this forum that could simply take that concept and do it on the first try

I won't be impressed till one of you takes a responsive guitar and.... plugs the soundhole, sticks a valve in the tailpin, & uses a vac pump to extract all the air from the body without catastrophic failure.
That'd kill most feedback!

Too much buggering around Craig..be easier to just fill the sucker up with epoxy I reckon.

Cheers

Kim

[Dennis Leahy]

Feel Free To Post Your Sketch Dennis

Well, the scribble on scrap paper was too crude, with too many extraneous scribbles... so I did a CAD sketch:


Section drawings showing two different ways, depending if you want the damping to hit near the soundhole, or back behind the bridge.

If the player experiences stage feedback, they just sort of give the guitar a hug. :~)

Dennis