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Old April 1st, 2008, 09:34 PM   #15 (permalink)
studio1087
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Installing K&K Pure Western or Fishman Thinline passive only calls for reaming the endpin hole slightly larger to fit the input jack which also becomes the strap holder or endpin.

I have K&K's in a D-15 and an OM16GT.
I have a Thinline in a Martin 12 string.

I have the K&K Pure Preamp that I clip to my belt or amp. There are no dials or slide-fades on the guitars.

A good luthier can remove the endpin electronic jack and match the mahogany or rosewood and plug the end pin hole back to normal size some day. They glue in a tiny wooden dough-nut.

Pay a luthier to do the install. It's cheap ($35). Do not ream the end pin hole on a Martin by yourself.

K&K Pure Westerns are fantastic......about $135 installed.



http://www.kksound.com/purewestern.html

If you are playing acoustic guitar (unamplified) in a small group of people...they cannot even see or tell that the guitar has electronics.
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