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I bought a Fishman Classic 4T blend pickup/microphone combination on Ebay and am thinking of installing it into one of the guitars I am making. I have basic instructions from Fishman but am somewhat leary. I called Fishman and they were less then helpful, explaining that they had never made the unit...

Dave,
This seems like a simple solution. A couple of questions...How do you attach the hockey puck to the motor shaft? Have you reinforced the edge of the dish where it rubs against the hockey puck? Does it slip? Any idea what the RPM of the disc is?
David

Thank you so much.

Hello Greg,
The type of drive belts that I am familiar with are V-belts which wouldn't work against the flat edge of the radius dishes. Do you have another type belt in mind? Or would it be possible to rout a V channel around the circumference of the dish that the belt would fit into?
David

Hi David. You'll need to use some sort of bearings to support the outer edges of the dish. You could use "Lazy Susan" bearings, or a series of castor/universal bearings around the perimeter. In order to get the speed correct, you could use a belt and pulley system, with the outer perimete...

Does anyone out there have any idea how to hook up a radius dish on a spinner to a motor so that it will turn 50 RPM or so and I can lower a side assembly onto it and sand it even?