Electric Violin

The second instrument almost complete. The violin body is one solid piece of birdseye maple. The tuners are from an old guitar I found on a trip to the dump

Still to be complete are the shoulder rest and pick-up. I have yet to acquire more magnet wire.

Cello

For the past two years I have been working on a few musical instruments. The first is an electric cello.

The neck and body are red oak (awful choice, but was all I could find at the time) which I shaped using a coping saw and some files in my college apartment. The body support struts are old aluminium tent poles so the whole thing disassembles quite easily.

The pickup is a magnetic coil hand wound with awg 40 magnet wire and rare earth magnets attached to screws for adjustably. this is the third pickup assembly the first was too quiet and lacked adjustably, The second included an active amplifier which ended up pumping out 3 volts of signal over whelming every amp or mixer it was plugged into the third was just right.

I was a little too cheap to spring for machine tuners at the time so I improvised with some bolts and wing-nuts that ride in groves to make a rather effective linear tuner that rarely goes out of tune.

I have given up on any attempt at aesthetics at this point in favour of pure functionality. I will try to be more artistic on the second model. (coming soonish)

Trevor has been knitting

Some of the things I've been knitting in the last year or two

These mittens are a repeating snowflake pattern on size 1 double point needles

Fair Isle mittens

After 10 years of knitting I have finally figured out how to make well fitting hats. The patterns and colours are mostly made up on the fly.

Some hats I've made recently

Cable socks I made a while back and have been wearing constantly

 My almost complete sweater, I still have to make the collar and join all the pieces, I've been taking a break from it after putting in a hundred hours or so. Size 4 double point needles for sleeves, size 4 single points for body