Building the Electric Violin Guitar Amp Pickup

[ufoimtc]

AWESOME!!!



[whatbrains]

You remind me of a young Billy Bob Thorton...

[brianfitzrock]

Would certainly like to hear it with that pickup through a proper clean amp. Nice craftsmanship and a well-put-together video.

[batistabomb619wwecar]

dude.these carpenters have got a tool for every shit you could imagine

[georgemnrs]

7:50 - 7:54 ahhhh my ears!!!!!!!!

[bbmc92]

oh my! Bad boy. Surely many classic violinists will be mad at you because of ruining that lovely acoustic violin,. !! and i'm one of the MAD concertees. X(

[brianmay65]

jesus you like to sand . . the guitar violin is beautiful well done

[ManasJeuneFilleX]

@brianmay65 lol

Making a solid-body electric instrument usually requires two things:

Lots and LOTS of sanding. Did I forget to mention more sanding?

Gratuitous amounts for applying grain fillers (then more sanding), and then sanding sealers (more sanding), a few more coats of sealer.

Then you've got your base coat, your gloss, and whatever urethane that you use.

Also: Time for spraying and drying (As shown in video) is loooong...

[rudoman22]

dude you can get this sound by taking a tissue box, and putting rubber bands over the hole. hahaha

[emanuelsuperford]

That was so cool :X I love the way it looks and sounds

[LeDZeppeliNFreaK1968]

That is so sweet.

[AncientItalianSecret]

Im glad you went with electric violins and not evil death robots, cause your a mad genius.

[thefreaksful]

so cool man ...

[aaron3325]

I was wondering if anyone could give some advice on this violin training program? It's put out by a violin teacher named Eric Lewis. I was given a violin for christmas and was given a stupid book that I can't figure out. Looking forward to your comments: Here is the link I found on google:w w w (dot) getgoodreviews (dot) com/go/violin_lessons (dot) php

[LyricalPoet777]

1:35

Now THAT's a sander!!

Good job dude! real good!

[elmeuquarto]

nice :)

[tampabaybutterfly]

Outstanding documentation and a beautiful instrument! Thank you so much for sharing this. I even learned a few things. Well done!

[IcechickenSr]

ROFLMFAO Dude! Hahahaha that was so fuckin awsome when you pluged her in and started playing it in all them positions, then started on her electric guitar style, then moving along into uke style. Love it lol. Seriously though, that was a very pretty looking pice you made. As long as it isn't too heavy I'd have bought that thing if it sounded good in a larger size amp, which I'm betting it sounds great in person. Nice work, blood and zebera wood worked perfect together. Cheers, IC.

[wagalashi]

how thick does the body and neck need to be?

[TheAustinWalls]

Looks like on some spots you sanded against the grain.

[byejason]

Everyone's an expert. Yawn.

[kenedy626]

a complete custom electric guitar

[sweetsweepbeat]

This was awesome work. I did alot of woodwork in the past and really loved your technique. Well made I must say :)

[dorado213]

damm man i thought the video was never gnna end.....nice work

[walkerorr]

i already thought it was awesome then you added the violin amp... you are truly an amazing artist

[muzzleray]

Very very cool, excellent. most pleasing

[MrRemeLou]

What kind of joinery do you use on the body?

[harmonairbass]

You held my interest until you explained about the amplifier. You did a fine job crafting the violin. Then you made a back yard amplifier by destroying what might have been a perfectly usable acoustic violin. Seems to me, if you devoted all that time into making a quality instrument, shouldn't you have used a quality amplifier to boast the tone of the violin. Sorry, but that violin sounds like crap. Beautiful Violin though! I'd like to hear it some day, for real. Keep on crafting

[ccimediums]

I thought this warranted a response. The event required that artists use the donated student violins somehow in our pieces. Don't worry, a fine instrument was certainly not destroyed. I built the amp really just for show. The violin sounded great through my guitar amp.

[jgimco]

really good man !! congrats!!! U MAKE THE PICKUPS lol.. REALLYY GOOD!!

[thenameiwantedwasnta]

didnt like the body but i did like the zebrawood

[longlivesurfrock]

the body is made of zebrawook u dumb fuck

[averyshikanai]

I think he meant that he didn't like the shape of the body, but did like his choice of wood

[psychodelicdragon]

absolutely geourgous!!!!!

make me one please!! HA HA !!

why not oil finish the whole thing?????

[sawgydawg]

This is a great find, I plan on going to luthiers school after college so this is great.

[DUY1337GUITAR]

aw no fair, I want to go to a luthiers school after college...

[nicodanger13]

Fantastic!

[iglitchhalo2]

lol tape on the drill bits, i thought i was the only one! love the zebra wood btw

[briantedder]

its good to see people making things as nice as that

[assa123assa123]

this is anything but NOT the violin definitely

wrong materials, wrong design

[t1mmy13]

Think diffrent

[wheetman]

nicely done, makes me want to make an amp out of a shitty acoustic guitar!

[kikekamara]

maaaaan you are so fucking amazing!!!!

make me a guitar!!! xD

What's the price?? ahahahah

[SARE128]

Do you make normal acoustic violins too? And if so is it possible to use blood wood on a normal violin?

[FrothySpoons]

at 00:59 what tool is that?

[ccimediums]

Small Stanley Hand Plane.

[FrothySpoons]

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lilmath]

cool vid, cool editing, amazing work, great looking violin, but sounds a bit strange lol

[conor1148]

get a distortion pedal!!

[todd0000420]

best violinist ive ever seen

[isaac100000]

amazing

[raffins000]

no one will buy it.. i bet you.

[ohyeahtotally08]

You are a God of a luthier, and overall, an impressivly intelligent person.

Nice video.

[ngpreunion]

RAD!

[johnmcnair]

what was the putty you used to fill the holes????

[ccimediums]

Initial walnut colored wood fill + grain fill during the finishing.

Thanks.

[PestVic]

lol loved the editing

[wongsmokesbong]

awsome editing!

[Edu2503]

@PestVic Yeah, me too.

[Cougerbat]

oh and dude, u actually get called from different musicians? from a philharmonic?

[onewingedangel789]

Electric Violin Guitar, it sounds so crazy...

[Anon0Arschi]

good violin you made but you ruined the other one making it into a speaker TT^TT

[Cougerbat]

it was proly a cheap violin anyways haha

[Cougerbat]

u made an ampolin? awesome man

[faerografo]

congratulations!!

:)

[DoctorFiddle]

You are a genius! And I thought that we were doing innovative bowed strings.

Don R. from Rickert & Ringholz Musical Instruments.

[onevoiceonelife]

that was fucking amazing.

[NewYankee01]

youre the most efficient builder ive ever seen.

[gobelinou]

yeah, the instrument is really beautigul

[OptimusRhymeLive]

brilliant. blood wooooooood. Raise the grain and make me a mic you freak. Hit it with 320.