Boards and Fingers and Necks
I’ve got my supplies, as you can see below. Although I hate to burst any bubbles about my amazing craftsmanship, I must admit I purchased those two parts online. I did however draw the design, and will be routing that myself, out of wood not pictured here. I would’ve posted a pic of that too, but it’s just a couple of pieces of plywood glued together and struck me as a very boring picture. I’ll be installing frets on the fingerboard soon, so we’ll see how that goes, more on that later. Some people might ask, isn’t putting frets on a cello cheating, and to those people I say, who cares?
I’m using this fantastic instructable as a guidline more or less, because my goal is to make something really authentically electric, instead of all the bizarre looking instruments out there that are called “electric cellos.” What the heck is the point if it looks like some kind of crazy mechanized weapon, or a bizarre avant-guard piece of art. Not to say that I don’t intend for this to be art, but the point is for elegance and functionality, not some sort of utilitarian implement.
Tags: electro cello
November 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
No, you can’t put frets on a cello! you’ll disturb the balance of the universe! haha..
Looks great! I love the upper left part of it. And the whole design looks a bit like a prs guitar (not that i know much about guitars, but the guy from Porcupine Tree uses those guitars and I love how solid and elegant they look)
What are you going to do with the tailpiece?
November 17th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I’m going to skip the tail piece and just use ferrules like on an electric guitar with the strings coming through the back. It seems unnecessary to have a huge bulky body since there will be no acoustic properties to it.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
hello! Can I ask what theme are you using in your blog? thanks!