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Grambo
10-28-2005, 02:07 AM
I've been on the Santos Martinez Web site, and the're advertising electrified acoustic classicals with nylon strings.
Normally steel strings are needed to cut the magnetic flux around the pick up magnet and induce a tiny current in to the pick up coils
Much Curious ?
3fingeredblues
10-28-2005, 03:51 PM
piezo p/u's don't function in the same manner as a conventional pickup. They operate off of pressure and vibration. this is why you would never shim an acoustic bridge that uses a piezo, as contact from the bridge to the p/u is crucial. Any work to raise (requires a new bridge, preferably bone) or lower a bridge on a pieze equiped acoustic should be left to an experienced luthier/tech.


Godin makes a line of exceptional electric/nylon stringed instruments as well.


If you need more info I would suggest e-mailing the manufacture.
Grambo
10-29-2005, 07:39 AM
Many Thanks
PonyOne
10-29-2005, 02:57 PM
i've thought about getting a warmoth carved-top LP body with a really nice flame top and matching neck at some point, and just having a piezo with the electronics not routed through the top, so it's completely clean... that would be really cool looking, and sweet for fingerpicking.

although since it's an acoustic sound it will come through differently than a regular electric, it could still be put through into a regular amp and fed your usual effects.
aschleman
11-01-2005, 08:38 AM
Check out the Slash Custom Les Paul.... that's a sweet axe... I've been wanting to build a Warmoth just like it. Classic LP electronics with a Piezo in the bridge... Its a cool design. The no-pickup LP with a piezo would be pretty slick too..... it would look like one of those Line 6 Variax guitars...
PonyOne
11-01-2005, 07:27 PM
The no-pickup LP with a piezo would be pretty slick too..... it would look like one of those Line 6 Variax guitars...

think this (http://www.gibson.com/products/custom/custom/LesPaulModels/LPAcoustic.htm) minus the knobs, and you're getting there.

I think that would be totaly balls-out. I like the cherry burst, and an amber burst would be hot too, but I'd probably go for spalted maple over mahogany, maybe with a paua center stripe.