Electric Viola Build - Starting to come together

[Eric Knapp]

Hello,

I have enough pieces of the puzzle that I can set it up like this. Making this up as I go is a bit nerve-wracking. Seeing like this makes me think I might pull this off.

Even the shop gnome seems to approve.

On to the head, I'm not doing a traditional scroll, just something that will hold together and not look too ugly. I'm thinking of this as more of a prototype/first build where I'm using decent material. The body is a single piece of very hard maple. The fingerboard is some kind of ebony, maybe Macassar. The tailpiece is a different ebony of some sort. The bridge is maple and is roughly shaped at this point. I'm not sure what else I'll do with it.

-Eric

[JC Whitney]

"Fascinating", to quote your little supervisor's slightly more famous cousin.
What are you planning to use for a pickup?

[Eric Knapp]

"Fascinating", to quote your little supervisor's slightly more famous cousin.
What are you planning to use for a pickup?

I am going to try a piezo pickup from StewMac first. I have a preamp I made that should work with it. This is definitely an experiment and we’ll see how it goes.

-Eric