Electric Violins

Just click on this to see!

Anyways the new violin is coming along great – the new neodymium magnets on the pickups get the output nice and strong, the circuitry is working nicely (gotta fix a buzz on the tone control) and everything fits together and plays well! All the blue tape on the violin is temporary – I still havent attached the fingerboard yet, and im trying to keep the paint around the jack from getting to scratched up right now.

Just have to finish shaping the fingerboard and fit the bridge now, so close to completion!

http://skudmunky.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=569

Here is the very first sound clip of my hand wound electromagnetic pickups – http://www.skudmunky.com/handwoundviolinpickups.mp3
be gentle!
The pickups are pretty microphonic (hand wound, unpotted), and the strings arent perfectly balanced volume wise yet, since the distances from the strings to the blade arent all correct, but for my first try I think it’s not bad at all. Sounds like a violin at least!