Connect the frets
With the external kit, we’ll be creating pads on the back of the guitar neck with copper tape so that the external kit can be clamped over those pads in order to connect to the frets. This means that on the back of your guitar neck, you’ll have a series of copper stickers running up the back of it. This is the easy way.
- Find the smallest tape ‘L’. This will go on the first fret.
- Peel the backing all the way off the short side of the ‘L’ and midway off the long end, so that only the top half or so of the long end of the ‘L’ will have the backing. This is so you can position that end after you attach all the stickers.
Press the tape onto the first fret so that the long end of the ‘L’ is starting to run along the side of the neck and up to the head, leaving plenty of room to add the later ‘L’s.
In a similar manner, apply the other copper stickers from smallest to largest to frets 2 through 5, making sure there is space between each sticker and that they touch nowhere.
Hold the kit enclosure up against the head to see where the conductors on the box will touch the guitar’s head. Optionally, mark these spaces with a pencil so you know where to space the conductors coming from the frets. Remove the enclosure.
Peel off the final parts of the sticker backings and stick them to the neck so that when you press the enclosure up against it, the fret stickers each only touch one of the conductors on the enclosure.
Now you’re almost ready – All you have to do is attach the strings and plug it in!
