Recent content by sporks

I've finished the tailpiece.  It was WAAAY more work than I'd imagined.  Ebony is such a pain to work with. Archtop tailpieces are essentially a slab of wood, slightly shaped.  Whereas stop tailpieces need to be carved and shaped a LOT.  I'm guessing this is why nobody makes them - such an...

I'm just going to ground the bridge posts. It's a fishman TOM piezo, and they say it needs to be grounded anyway (in addition, and separately from the shield of the extra signal wire to the circuit under the bridge). Edit: btw, i had an archtop with a rosewood tailpiece (but not a stop one...

Yea, the shield needs to be grounded. Again... i think there's a lot of confusion here. Please read the original post. The question was about inadvertently creating a ground loop due to multiple paths to the ground. For example: 1) volume pot -> ring connector -> jack 2) conductive paint ->...

I did  :icon_smile:  But these are all cool ideas. I'll post an update with pics once i get started.  I got a nice 12" block, so I figure I've got two shots at it.  But with as dense as this stuff is, I think it would be pretty difficult to make an un-recoverable mistake. If nothing else...

It's totally common to have wooden tailpiece on archtops... Why is it that nobody makes wooden stop tailpieces? I'm carving one out of ebony, and going to put a little inlay on it.  It's more for fun than practical reasons. Anyone ever seen one? Or have thoughts on the idea? Possible pitfalls...

Whoops, no you weren't confusing. I just didn't read the first part of your reply correctly (for some reason I had it in my mind that you said I "might want" one). Hah, It's too early for me. Thanks again.

In case it wasn't very clear, I just want to point out that I'm *not* trying to use the paint as a ground connection.  I think a few people got the wrong idea here. I was trying to prevent a ground loop by ensuring the paint does NOT provide another path to the jack. Mayfly, thanks for the...

Well... you can, in fact have ground loops.  The fact that there is one ground is irrelevant.  I don't think there's any disputing that. Now the question of how significantly ground loops affect the sound quality is another matter. I'll take your experience (that they're insignificant) in...

I apologize if this information is available elsewhere and i missed it... If i paint the control cavity with conductive paint, and it comes in contact with the jack (which is the ground)... will this introduce a ground loop since other components (pots, switches, etc) are touching the...