Electric Violins

So I probably should have posted it a month ago when it was actually happening, but whatever. I got onto the Make Magazine website! Way cool. To bad the video sounds like crap – terrible temporary pickup, lots of background noise, and the crappy camera mic really destroy the violin’s tone.

Anyways, the violin has not progressed much. I’m back at school now, and getting off campus to buy some gloves and masks so I can paint the violin is proving tough. On the plus side, the only thing standing between me and the finished violin is painting it, so I’m close!

My electromagnetic pickups are being problematic. Basically, I need some stronger magnets to make them work efficiently, since they don’t output a strong enough signal currently. Right now I have alnico 5 bar magnets, and those arent strong enough. Need to find some superstrong neodymium bar magnets.

Also, I’m currently working on migrating to a new photo gallery: New, easier to browse photo gallery located here! http://skudmunky.com/gallery/main.php maybe I’ll figure out how to integrate it into wordpress some day.