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Post by andys on Feb 12, 2015 21:31:38 GMT
Got this nice Busker Chicago a few weeks back and it has been getting some play time recently, (along with a very nice Baja Tele I have been playing a lot recently) My old MM Blues had a neck mount pickup attached to the cover-plate but the geometry of the Chicago prevents me from doing this. I didn't want to carve into the guitar, but I did want to attach a magnetic pickup. I had a spare, rather scratched coverplate, that I couldn't use for anything else, so I started to wonder if I couldn't make up my own interchangeable cover-plate with a pickup in it. So I set to work with files, saws, etc and made my own version of a Hot-Plate. I have dispensed with controls for now, as even with my electric I rarely use guitar controls So I made this......  And I plan on sometimes putting it onto this, like this;-)  |
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Post by robbie on Feb 13, 2015 9:15:52 GMT
that looks like a really nice job , suppose at the end of the day how does it sound ?
regards
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Post by andys on Feb 13, 2015 10:45:51 GMT
Sounds pretty good to me.
The whole thing is quite microphonic so that gives it more of the resonator sound coming through the pickup. I have a slightly hotter Tele style pickup I may try in it.
It just gives me options for now, and is completely reversible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 13:42:27 GMT
Nice job. Does anyone knw what type of pu is in the national-doweling hot plate?
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Post by karlos on Feb 13, 2015 14:43:23 GMT
Lollar
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 14:01:34 GMT
Thanks. Lollar tele neck pickup. Lollar site shows their special t as being wax potted. Wax is intended to cut down on microphonics, but I recall NRP thin pickup is intentionally made to be micro phonic to enhance the resonator tone...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 14:33:41 GMT
With the NRP etc thin pick-ups, so they pick up any body sound, e.g. if you are using the boddy for percussion?
And, what are the 'cheap' equivalent to NRP thin pick ups - which would pick up body sound?
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Post by alisterhrae on Feb 14, 2015 15:19:48 GMT
The Jason Lollar for the National Hotplate is not just a standard Tele' P/U. It was specially voiced with help from Mike Dowling. I used a Hotplate for a few years and it sounded good plugged into either an acoustic amp or a Fender Twin. I dobt that a standart Tele P/U would be quite as sympathetic?
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Post by pete1951 on Feb 14, 2015 16:14:41 GMT
With a DIY Dobro hot plate (OK, I have not cut in the pick-up), you can put a small pot. and jack socket in without extra drilling. Take care when choosing the jack, you don`t want it to hit the cone.  PT |
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Post by Keith Ambridge on Mar 25, 2015 20:49:56 GMT
Andy, I like that hotplate much!
I've just got back into playing Rembetika with my old friend Spiros and I've been using the reso in standard with 12's (sounds fab), the reason for using the reso is that we're not allowed to use amps in bars and tavernas without special (expensive) licenses!
Anyway, we've been given a slot in the Kardamyli Jazz Festival and I'm going to have to plug in. I've just bought an Artec jazz humbucker as you've used before (not got it yet)! But I love the look of that hotplate. Just wondering which you prefer the sound of?
I know I should use a mike but there will be alot of running around and I just want to plug in and be done. Also competing with Spiro's magnetic bouzouki pickup will be difficult!
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Post by andys on Mar 25, 2015 22:23:40 GMT
Actually, while this hot-plate version I made was a real success, I now have gone a slightly different route. I now have one of these wonderful thinline humbucker pickups made in Austria by www.original-flatpup.com/  Great sounding and a great maker to deal with as well And a very non-invasive way of amplifying an acoustic resonator |
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