Shop Tips                      

• How to cut our PZT wafer NEW!

• Making connections to PVDF film

• Building a Shielded PVDF Sensor 

• Interfacing circuits with piezo materials.

• How to build an under-the-bridge pickup  NEW!

• Repairing Small Cracks and Dips in Rosewood and Ebony

• Build a one-string magnetic pickup
  This makes an interesting, single string pickup. This might be useful for instruments with odd numbers of strings, or to make a pickup for each string. The output of this pickup is not very high, probably due to the small coil and the location of the magnet.

• Guitar Wiring Diagrams

• Humbucker Color Codes and Switches
  Here are the color codes for some major brands of humbucking pickups and some ways to use switches with these pickups in order to get the most out of them.

• Guitar Setup . The basics.

• Truss Rod Adjustment.  How to do it.