#frankenfiddle

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34" + case = too big for AmericanAirlines carrion baggage

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Volume Control, Output Jack, Transducer, Wiring, Paddle

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Lessons Learned from the Prototype, ... so far

Viola parts are really rare, compared to Strad. standard, school-quality violin parts.

Viola parts, particularly 5-string violas, extended downward a fifth, are even more rare.

Mark Wood's Viper is a really popular design. A lot of people are playing them.

Hardware is a good investment.

Fiddles are pretty modular.

It's the hide glue.

It's fairly reasonable to swap-out a fingerboard or a neck, or a body and just transfer over the custom hardware.

I really love making musical instruments and acoustical sculpture!

https://mathart.org/portfolio/SPD_Acoust_portfolio.html

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Stewart Dickson’s GoFundMe Profile

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Cutting out heart redwood for v0.3, the left-handed Gaboon Vampire

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OK. Viola practice progress: Pizzicato callus on my index fingertip, check! Better fingering muscle memory? (Maybe?) But my intonation has been drifting bizarrely. Enter Suzuki Method tapes on the fingerboard! I think it really does help the student succeed! I totally endorse it.

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v0.2 on an interior wall hanger

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Making The Violin / Shaping The Neck ROUGH Maya NURBS Wireframe Perspective, Ortho Front and Top views

It's pretty rough. This will take a lot of 30-day Maya evaluations to get anything usable. (If I can export STL from Maya evaluation license) And that's just for the first run on a CNC machine milling curly Maple. (And I still don't have a workflow to go from an STL file to G-code cutter paths. It is almost target machine-specific, I think.) Getting it right in wood will probably take a few more iterations after that.