[sdiy] Guitar Synth boards ready...

[Paddock, Toby]

All Electronics has cute little piezo discs #PE-45.
The crystal itself is about 0.4" (1cm) dia.
But I'm guessing that's still too wide.

I just cut one with scissors and it looks like a pretty 
clean cut. (As far as I can tell with these old eyeballs.) 
I expected it to crumble and shatter and bend and such. 
I'll take it to work and look at it under a microscope.

Later,
Toby Paddock
http://www.seanet.com/~tpaddock


Harry "dipped in BBD's and rolled in cornflakes" Bissell wrote:
> 
> Mono Piezo pickup... sure.
> 
> HEX piezo pickup....  woah that would be tough.
> 
> If I had to try it... I would check out some to the piezo stuff made my
> Measurement Specialties (Digikey)... but not the little plastic piezo
> benders.   They did not work well for my drum application, and would
> be SURE to be worse for a guitar app.
> 
> The Brass benders have a very brittle piezo ceramic... I think its
> possible the
> heat of cutting them with a dremel tool might harm them as well.  But
> hey...
> for the price of those benders why not try it ???
> 
> How about taking apart old crystal phonograph cartridges ???
> 
> H^) harry
> 
> Ingo Debus wrote:
> 
> > Am Sonntag, 20.06.04 um 23:51 Uhr schrieb nils pipenbrinck:
> >
> > > I'm lucky 'cause I own a guitar with a piezo pickup.
> >
> > Has anyone tried to diy a piezo pickup? Can these piezo discs (from
> > buzzers etc.) be cut, with a dremel perhaps?
> >
> > Ingo