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Bassy guitar and pickups ?

Hello, I wanna make guitar what deafs and hearing impaired can also enjoy.

Deafs can feel vibrations. Hearing impaired depends on how much is hearing

loss or they have ear implant .

Seome hearing impaired persons can hear loud or very loud sounds.

I know someone who as implant in one ear and with second ear she listens something from headphone. A nother girl I know has implants in both ears. I don't know how much she can enoy music. I have read that listening music with implants is hard. Newer implants makes music more enjoyable.

Thanks to the electricity things are more easyer.

I was thinking something like a lowebow and diddleybow..

One idea is to make 1 or 2 string bass guitar.

Second idea is to make something like a lowebow.

1 bass string and 3 lowest guitar strings.

Third idea is to make bass what I can play like a guitar

or someting between bass and guitar.

If I can buy lowebow and it's not to expensive for me

I can make something more original. My problem is that I live in estonia.

First I need to make pickups.

I have some magnets.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-A-Guitar-Pickup/

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Bass-Pickup/

Tags: bass, bow, deaf, diddley, ear, guitar, hearing, impaired, implant, loss, More…lowebow, magnet, pickup

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Permalink Reply by dj.xsusb on May 1, 2012 at 11:27am

I was thinking to clue bar maganets on thin plywood. I have some simple thin copperwire.

I wrap wire around magnets ?. Johnny lowe pickup idea looks great and simple. I have complitli no idea how he makes pickup. I know he uses circular blackboard magnets or etc.

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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on May 1, 2012 at 3:03pm

Thin plywood is good. Cigar box wood is also good.

If your wire is thin enough, you will probably want to come up with a winding machine. This can be as simple as a drill. You need to get about 8000 wraps of wire around the magnets to get a good loud sound. 42 gauge wire is best, but it will still work with thicker wire.

John Lowe makes single pole pickups from sewing machine bobbins. He puts several of these on each Lowebow.

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on May 1, 2012 at 3:24pm

yep, listen to this lady, shes got a few clues :) ...

ive also made pickup bobbins from all kinda other thin materials that dont conduct electricity..

eg.. cigarette packets, yoghurt buckets, wooden veneers (be careful those are easy to break). get lots of sticky tape, sticky tape is a pickup makers best friend. his second best friend is super glue

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Permalink Reply by dj.xsusb on May 6, 2012 at 1:43pm

I drew my pickup idea

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on May 6, 2012 at 3:36pm

That'll work. Maybe wrap that magnet in a bit of tape before u wind, sharp edges are not a good idea in coil bobbins

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Permalink Reply by dj.xsusb on May 7, 2012 at 3:04pm

I was thinking to sand magnets smoother.

My pickup ide is basically 4 bar magnets together. Thin plywood clued up and under magnets.

Something like that http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profiles/blogs/thin-pickup-an-open-so...

One magnet height is 10mm, length is 22mm and width is 5mm.

Smaller magnet what I have only one height is 11mm, length is 14mm and width is 7mm

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on May 7, 2012 at 3:19pm

dont sand em. you want all to be same strength. also some (rare earth)have a protective coating and if you break thru that, the magnet breaks down in only a few years. just wrap it in tape, trust me.. wrap is reasonable tight too, if its loose you invite microphonics (which is bad)

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Permalink Reply by dj.xsusb on May 12, 2012 at 3:04pm

I clued two pieces of plywood on magnet with contact glue. Plywood is not high quality plywood.

Under plywood magnet was littlebit weaker. I don't think that effects Pickup

I have some electric tape, aluminum tape and simpel tape.

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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on May 13, 2012 at 2:15pm

Scotch tape (clear cellophane type tape) is good for wrapping magnets. You want the kind that doesn't turn yellow and get brittle over time.

You might want to clear off that extra glue on the magnet.

Have you considered how you're going to make the connection between the magnet wire and the hookup wire?

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Permalink Reply by dj.xsusb on May 14, 2012 at 2:29am

I wraped magnet in electrictape. I can remove it if it's not very good. I need to think how I make connection between the magnet wire and the hookup wire.