Tag Archive | fablab
December 10, 2011  

Pickups + neck prototype

November 25, 2011  

Second prototype

The second prototype on milling the body

November 2, 2011  

Home made pickups

The first thing to do for the Sharkbass project is winding the pickups. For this we ordered 42′ GAG wire and a two pickup kits. To be sure the pickup sounds similar to the pickup of a Fender jazz bass, there are two methods to compare:

  1. The total impedance of the pickup
  2. The number of windings
October 6, 2011  

Fablab

Today I got a tour at Fablab Amsterdam, a 3d prototyping facility at Waag. I got in touch with Alex Schaub who was working on an interesting project, creating his very own custom Shark bass guitar. He asked me if I was interested in helping him with this project. Of course I am interested in that! From next Friday on I will help him with his bass. This is a great opportunity to combine electronics and 3d prototyping / material behavior in a project. Read More…