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Electrifying your cigar box guitar or other homemade instrument build can be a very rewarding experience. Being able to plug into an amp not only gives you more volume, but it opens the door to a huge range of effects that would not otherwise be available. And it is a proven fact that having a pickup in a guitar makes it easier to sell - being able to plug in and rock out evokes images of Eddie Van Halen and Slash and is sure to get any would-be rocker's blood pumping.Our Disc-o-Tone pre-wired p …

See how Shane Speal turns dead yard-sale guitars into an outrageous Frankenstein build with C. B. Gitty parts.The FrankenTulip is one gnarly slide monster!  Loaded with a snarling P90 pickup and strung with heavy gauge strings, this axe is a slide guitarist’s neutron bomb.There’s something special about single pickup guitars. When you pick one up, you know its voice will be limited to that one hunk of electro magnet in the body. Most guitar hackers create one- pickup guitars similar to Ed …

So you want to electrify your cigar box guitar. Should you use a piezo pickup? How about a magnetic pickup? Exactly what are the differences between them, anyhow? To better understand how to electrify your cigar box guitar, this article will teach you about piezo and magnetic pickups, and the differences between them.Differences between Piezo & Magnetic Pickups When it comes to electrifying a cigar box guitar, there are two basic options: either a piezo pickup (sometimes called a contact …