MitchellB - Posted - 12/09/2008:  20:43:15

Just a quick work about what I been tinkering with that may be of interest to y’all. Tonight I happened to remember I had an old (dated Jan/1984) Dean Markley acoustic guitar magnetic sound hole pickup I bought many moons ago (and never used much). I dug it out of the dusty draw to check it out. It was flat and might fit under the strings of my Dobro because they are so high above the fingerboard without modifying my Dobro. I had to do some modifications to the pickup however like removing the felt cover on the back (that was when I saw the date) and trimming the bottom of the wooden ends so it would lay flat between the sound hole screens, but I never used the pickup before anyway so I did not mind trimming it. At least now I can use it for something. I used some of that sticky clay stuff to hold the pickup in place on the top, to prevent it from rattling and tried it out with my amp. It is not as hot as my electric guitar pickups, but it doesn’t feedback (like my Fender electric/cutaway Resonator guitar does) and sounds pretty decent (for an electric). I can easily take it off and on, but if I can shorten the long attached cord on the pickup, I may be able to mount it semi-permanently. Need to come up with a female ¼”phone jack I can splice into the cord that I can clip to the top of the metal cover plate somehow. Then I can leave it on all the time. I’ll wait until I try it out live sometime before I cut the cord though. Like the carpenter said to his buddy with the saw, "You've cut this 2x4 three times and it is still too short!"

M i t c h e l l

fxk - Posted - 12/17/2008:  11:51:29

You know, they have those 1/4 male to 1/4 male adapters for extending a regular instrument jack cord. That, with a nylon cable clamp could be the mount you were looking for...