Videos for Vienna - Cigar Box Nation

simple homemade "flat pup style" cbg guitar pickup

2017-01-03T23:52:26.251Z

See how easy it is to make a "flat pup-style" cbg pickup? No secret. Except one: I used sheep cheese cans before. If you build your own, good luck! Please find your own recipes and give it a proper name, except "Flatpup" which is my brand.

Liquid tremolo from wooden toy

2015-10-10T09:19:14.084Z

First attempt - it works! Inspired by the De Armond liquid tremolo control 601. Would it be nice as cigarbox guitar gear..?
Due to a lack of time & resources I don't build frequently, but this build was real fun, apart from making pickups.
www.original-flatpup.com

"Get behind the Mule" - Alex Miksch & Philipp Moosbrugger

2013-11-03T08:12:49.546Z

@ Café Mocca, Vienna. a variation of Tom Wait's "Get behind the Mule". Alex playing his handmade guitar - a guitar neck on a whatevah box with a "Flatpup" pickup on it. www.original-flatpup.com

raunchy axe saturday night

2013-11-03T06:54:22.078Z

Alex & Phil in a raunchy suburb bar, these guys rock!
I sold the 3 string axe right there after the show :-) Time to build another www.original-flatpup.com

"Kupferbock" handmade copper guitar

2013-10-22T21:16:19.540Z

I saw the recent pics of awesome, elegant copper builds of Timothy D and thought I re-post this short vid from 2010 (I don't use the name "klangbox" currently)

Copper has it's own charme, there's like a fire burning in…

Guitar pickup winder with auto-transverse wire feed

2013-10-17T19:35:11.330Z

www.original-flatpup.com - After more than 800 handmade pickups the automatic wire feed is a big step ahead: Gear drive of a dumped printer * especially shaped cam drive disc * adjustable winding range by shifting the eyelet back/forth * string tensioner from 2 clothes pins and a piece of cloth

Magnetic Violin Pickup

2013-01-07T20:20:19.537Z

Hey.... new stuff here! This pickup system consists of two components: The electromagnetic sensor (a Flatpup) and a ferromagnetic clamp to transmit the vibes from the body to the sensor. I've submitted a patent today. Happy me!

Cigar Box Records: "Summer's end" by Slowhound CBG

2012-11-27T00:24:19.672Z

This is the engraving process, not the replay.

Slowhound posted a vid playing a his cigar box guitar. With his permission, I engraved that track on an old CD. The cutting/engraving lathe has it's issues, but I like the Lo-Fi aspect of…

Cigarbox Record Cutting Lathe: Meena Cryle - Try Me

2012-11-25T01:15:10.042Z

Experimenting on cutting audio tracks into obsolete CDs. The cutting lathe was built around cigar boxes.

The previous cutter heads were crap - this time i kept it as simple as possible: A Visaton EX 45-S Exciter with a sharpend drill glued on it. That loudspeaker doesn't have membrane but a plastic mounting plate which vibrates.

The soundfile was equalized with the Audacity program; high frequencies above 6kHz were cut off, the rest was equalized with an inverted RIAA filter. The next step is to install a feed screw (the cutter head was moved by hand for this recording).

The track I used for experimenting is "Try Me", taken from Meena Cryle. Check them out, they're great! www.meenacryle.com

DIY Grammophoning - Georgia on my mind

2012-11-21T18:42:35.210Z

You might think: WTF?! - And you're right. This vid shows the trial works of self-engraving records. The audio tracks are cut into obsolete CDs on a cutting lathe built around a cigar box. Lowest-Fi ever, I hope to get the quality up during the next tests. The big challenge is the treble...

DIY single coil pickup from a relay+neodyn magnet

2012-10-23T22:53:54.248Z

Recently I've seen Brian Saner posting a diy pickup - I had to try it also ;-) We cut off the iron coil to let the magnetic field pass to the string.

Just a relay + neodyn magnet, tried out at the Vienna Metalab…

DIY MIDI Organ - first tryout

2012-08-16T00:35:07.502Z

No, not a cbg... At the Metalab, a hacker space in Vienna, we tinker around a MIDI Organ. This vid shows the first tryout of a 16 tones-module, another 16 tones will follow.

Solenoids: hand wound, 2200 turns, ~0.5A at 12V, a nail with permanent magnets on the top and bottom, rubber valve cut from a broken bike tire, the green LEDs are fueled by the inductive kickback :)

Pipes: PVC tubes 20mm diameter, lowest note: B (plugged)

Wind chest: plastic food storage box

Wind supply: still an issue, at the moment a 12V air pump

Electronics: MIDI signal to Arduino to Shift Registers to MOSFETs to solenoids
Arduino source code: https://bitbucket.org/wizard23/arduinomidiconroller/

Built at Metalab, Vienna http://metalab.at

DIY MIDI Harpsichord

2012-07-30T22:42:32.974Z

I wasn't in the mood to CBG... Here's the first sound check of a DIY harpsichord with 16 (now there are just 5, yet to be finished) Setup: MIDI signal to Arduino to Shift register to MOSFET drivercard to magnetic solenoids.
Inside each coil there is a nail which acts as a jumper, bearing neodym magnets at each end. The tongues are cut from an old plastic bottle. Later I attach felt pieces as dampeners. Stay tuned..

Meena Cryle & The Chris Fillmore Band "In my Father's house"

2012-07-03T23:21:57.066Z

live at Spittelberg, Vienna... Chris playing a 3string cbg with a Flatpup on it... www.original-flatpup.com

Klangbox n°71: Experimental Cigarbox Guitar-Harp

2012-06-07T17:28:43.641Z

Bluesman Chris Fillmore testing his new instrument * 3-string CBG * 4 bass strings * Guitar pickup: Flatpup 3 shiftable between neck and bridge position (!!!) * basspickup: Flatpup 4 * www.original-flatpup.com

Klangbox n°70: "Bismarck" 3 string CBG

2012-06-07T17:20:50.649Z

Chris Fillmore test driving this Klangbox CBG with a magnetic Flatpup 3 Humbucker. This instrument is rudimental, I tried to make it with the least possible effort. www.original-flatpup.com

Chris Fillmore: Handmade guitar "Stray Cat"

2011-08-19T11:15:57.599Z

No cigarbox around, sorry. Just a log... with sideburns, just as the test pilot Chris. Powered by a handmade Flatpup 6 Humbucker, www.klangbox.at