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Cheap as shit goldfoil-style pickup

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For $13.49, this might be horrible or awesome:
http://www.cbgitty.com/cigar-box-guitar ... -amp-cord/

Caught wind of this the other day. Only demo/review content I've found on it is a cigar-box guitar evangelist who mods these by taking off the mounting hardware to mount to boxes. Can't tell how good/bad since all those hipster shitboxes sound pretty shit to me. Odd that I haven't found a sound-hole use demo.

FSM knows how close or far to a real goldfoil these are. Those were about as cheap and easy to make as possible. I might just impulse five in if no one else has been there yet.

update: this has got to be the same thing but with different cosmetics for half the price with cheap slow shipping from China: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acoustic-Guitar ... 5aeee77534 A bunch of similar listings come up for "soundhole pickup" and I saw some similar looking thing with a chrome or nickel cover in a picture at OffsetGuitars. Totally the thing for an old American made department store guitar from Goodwill--I wish my first guitar had lived to see one of these.
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Ordered! :idk:
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Interesting! Keep us updated with how they sound!
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I plan to throw it into a Gretsch Jim Dandy so I'm sure it will sound like hell...hopefully in a good way.
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Anyone end up trying these?
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Yeah, I got one and it sounds OK. Nothing overly Gold Foil sounding about it though.
It's worth the $10 but not much more than that. Which is what I expected.
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Dang. It seemed possible--there's nothing much to the originals, just a coil wrapped right on a barely insulated cheap magnet.
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