My GitFiddle

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Comment by Dave Lynas on June 17, 2012 at 7:56pm

Wow, i listened to the demo. This is really great. Nice to have a good picker to do it right. I love it. Fiddles beware... I've been getting fiddle cases for ukuleles. I redo the inside. I've got 3 fiddles that came with old cases. I may have to try something. Neckecktome...

Comment by Randy S. Bretz on June 17, 2012 at 7:33pm

Jay from Tinyguitars made one of these fiddle body builds a few years ago

Comment by Mr.C on June 17, 2012 at 6:34pm

That is nice i nont dare call my self a luthier. Looks great.

Comment by Diglydog on June 17, 2012 at 4:25pm

Excellent - I may just have to go into town tomorrow and pop into the antique shop !

Comment by the anonymous pick on June 17, 2012 at 4:08pm

yup  you got that right ..  also,   it   should be noted .. that  rib  is  not down the center ,, it is   more off to  one side  .. thus a smaller  width   neck  like a diddly  or a 2 stringer   would fit  and slip in beside it with no  issues .

Comment by Diglydog on June 17, 2012 at 4:01pm

Thanks pick, that's really useful, especially the 'exploded' violin photo.  So, as I understand it, you ran the neck through a hole at the front and attached it at the tailpiece so that the through neck would take all of the string loads. That makes sense, and I can see that getting the electrics in there would be a challenge.  I had thought of using a microphone pickup of some description.  However, I'm sort of getting ahead of myself (again) because I need to finish the Cohiba Behike before I start anything else. Thanks again for taking the time to help.

Comment by the anonymous pick on June 17, 2012 at 3:03pm

you  can see the  rib i was talking about  on the  top   piece that is  showing the reverse side .

Comment by the anonymous pick on June 17, 2012 at 2:57pm

i'll   try and add  to  digly's   question , as i said i built  a few similar before  .

most   violin/fiddle bodies   have a  long rib  inside the   the body that runs the length of it  .  it is tapered  at both ends and  usually glued with saddle glue to the top  . this may be  very hard to remove without damaging the  thin violin top .  you  may be able to snap it  off and sand the hell out of it etc.. 

for my  builds  it was not much  of an issue  since they were only sliders and not fretted, i   actually  used the   rib  as  a ramp  and  set my neck  ontop  of it along the one side , and ran iy all the way to the back  .. this gave the  neck a forward tilt  compensating for the high  body  . it   kinda worked out .

i  used a new violin body  and did not want to seperate the top  ..   only big problem  was  fishing the electronics  in with a magnet and  fishing line   through  the neck  hole  ;-)

so , yes  you "can "  go right though to the back  ,, but  removing that rib  may  be an issue .  or  gor around it and use  it like i

did .

here's a vid  of my swampwitch lil   hag build,  ill post  a picture to  show you the rib i am talking about in a min

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Comment by Diglydog on June 17, 2012 at 2:26pm

That's a really nice instrument.

Can you see how the neck attaches - does it go all the way through ?  It's just that there's a scruffy fiddle in our local antiques shop and, if I know what to do with it, I may go and see if I can do a deal.

Comment by David Graybeard on June 17, 2012 at 1:44pm

Thanks, Keni Lee!  Contacting him now to say thanks and check on building a larger version!

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