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Installing a Piezo Bridge in a Harley Benton Fusion III
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2023
- This is the next video in my series on the Harley Benton Fusion III guitars. In this one, I install a Fishman PowerBridge and PowerChip (which involves routing an extension to the rear cavity as well as a battery cavity and making a new rear cover). I also reinstall the Roswell pickups after I modified them with handwound slugside coils and new magnets, then give everything a proper setup.
Video on the pickup modification is here:
• Disassembling and Modd...
This makes me want to quit guitar for good, hahaha. But joking aside, this seems like a perfect solution for messing around with both clean tones and the more rocky electrified distortion sounds. And this way you don't have to worry too much about pedals or amps, it's very simple ans comes down to your right picking hand and string attack. Great, thank you for sharing
Honestly, I felt like giving up the day I recorded this video, but my fingers healed and I could play again by the end of the week. Well ... as well as I can normally play, which is only a little!
It's a really useful guitar. I've been gigging with it a little and it's very versatile (as long as I remember to keep a spare 9v in the gig bag).
great work
Thank you so much!
Wow - beautiful routing! Nice work!
Thanks!
Thats marvelous work but I'd consider it really annoying having oposite pickupswitch.
Thanks for this video. I can see your pleasure overcoming the pain playing 😅 Thanks.
It's really become a go-to guitar. So much so that I'm contemplating doing another as a backup.
@TomboLP I don't know how many times I watched your modding video. I have bought a Fusion-III. I am satisfied by her. I will install a piezo apparatus, but without carving the body. I think I will make a box to be glued somewhere, and a double jack male+female linked to the box.
@TomboLP hi. May i see the circuit you made?
I made mine and the pre ampli output is soldered to the jack, obviously the volume acts as a master one. How to keep volumes independent?
I wish you would move the camera to the other side, so the audience can allso se it all. Apart from that it was rather interesting.
I agree with you - I'm a terrible cameraman! In fact, I don't plan shots at all (honestly, I don't expect anyone to watch these things really, and they're not monetized, so ...). Filming is always secondary, so I'm lousy at it. I see other people's UA-cam videos and am always amazed by the skill and effort they exhibit in camera work. I should try and do better!!!
@@TomboLPNo need to be so modest, I found it interesting, because I have tried to install a piezo in a project, and it did not work. That is why I watched your video, and it was not a bad video, but I could not see all.
@@waagner Thank you for your kindness. Piezo installation can certainly be quite tricky, and even a tiny broken wire can make things difficult. Given how much abuse guitars generally receive in their playing lives, it's always astonishing to me that some parts of the electronics are so delicate. Pickup coil wires on strats, for example ... how on earth do those usually manage to survive?
@TomboLP how can we see wiring diagram as is?
Good to see you doing vids again mate
Cheers, mate. Loving your builds, which seem to be getting better and better - awesome stuff!
Genius!! 👏👏👏
Too kind!!!
Waiting for suhrs ✌🏻
Me too ... but they're over six grand new in Tokyo at the moment, and close to that used.
Nicely done, sir! Not a big fan of clean sound, but this guitar sounds so sweet in your hands! Now I just want to install piezo on mine, but I'm new to guitar electronics 😄Is it possible to connect piezo to push-pull and control it's volume or piezo/magnet mix % with knob?
Hi! Thanks for the kind words.
As to your questions, yes, it could be. The question would be where you put the preamp in the signal chain (if you have one at all ... you could always also have the piezo signal running to an external preamp of some kind). There's a great FB group which talks about this stuff called "Guitar Electronics and Wiring" - facebook.com/groups/2052258481574450
They're probably a good place to go for detailed discussion of how to do what you want. Good luck!
No reson to put oil. This neck, including fretboard is laquered with a tiny matt layer. So if you feel it too rough you could polish it.
Lemon oil or similar are not indicated in this case
Thank you for your comment, which makes perfect sense. However, the oil somehow penetrated and improved the feel of the dry fingerboard immensely (as well as reducing the tendency to chip and dent). I don't know if it is always the case, but it has been on all three Fusion III guitars on which I have worked.
Hi! I really want to practice the rhythm 365 book. Can I have the pdf for that. Because I can’t buy this book in my country. Thanks
I am sorry, but I only have the printed copy.
Does the Piezo pickup have a tone adjustment?
Not as installed here, although one could be added.
niiiiiiice
Cheers! It's quickly become a go-to guitar for me ...
i decided to get one for chrismas i had my eyes on the
fusion t@@TomboLP
You can't go wrong!
Why
Why not?
Great plan, another cool video. & 100% correct FB dry and fret ends can be a touch scratchy..I oiled the FB on mine 3x, and I had a cpl. very slightly rough fret ends but almost perfect. I do need to do a proper polish on them next string change. Hell, I've also considered getting the thing PLEK'ed (!) it's THAT good.
I would say the pickups are decent if not awesome but, their sound can be tweaked a bit with caps. I am REALLYy curious about the Piezo thing... I keep thinking I need to try installing 1 on one of my other guitars.... VERY clean routing and cavity work there...
My anal retentive ass would have made a new trem. cover so both rr covers match... i'd have no choice... its a sickness....lol.
**Pro Tip...(Thx. Matt at Texas Toast Guitars:) adhesive Copper foil is fine but u cant beat good shield paint!! SO, after you shield paint the cavities, lightly spray a clear coat over the shield paint.
It protects, and keeps the shield paint from getting those "marks" it gets when you touch it with basically anything once its dried. Helps keep EVERY thing in the cavities looking clean, uniform, dark black, and "sano" as we used to say.... YES you have to mask off the body if doing this to a finished guitar,...BUT.....
...here's My 'Pro Tip'...I do this to all guitars I'm upgrading where I am doing shield paint, I use a kitchen "cling film" product called "Press and Seal" to quickly protect the body etc, it's a very light plastic food wrap product with super light adhesive on one side. the adhesive allows it to stick properly to a clean surface, vs "clinging" like the original plastic wrap does. But it removes immediately and easily. Stretch it tightly and smoothly over the cavities and an X-acto/razor blade makes for a super clean cutout so everything BUT the cavities is fully protected & you are good to Spray away!
Looking fwd to your final comparo with all 3 guitars ;-)
Thank you so much! Both of those tips are great - I will definitely try them.
The piezo is amazing and this one has become my go-to guitar. It's kind of a pity, as I prefer the look of the Bengal Burst, but the versatility of this one makes it a no-brainer.
I have definitely thought about going back and doing a new rear cover. However, a bunch of people have played this and looked at it closely since I did the work ... and not one of them noticed the difference. Even if I point it out, they're puzzled. It's actually a lot less noticeable in real life than in the video.
In fact, a fun game is to hand the guitar to someone and tell them I modified it. They then have to guess how. The closest anyone has gotten so far has been "new pickups and a fret polish?"