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Violafon, V4 Bass project Germany, collaboration with Mike Floreth, Senior Luthier for Nippon art GmbH Pickups hand made with arched tops to follow extreme fingerboard radius, hand made bridges in plain & silver plated brass
VIOLAFON 6 stringed electric viola, produced with senior luthier Mike Floreth in Kolbingen, Germany for Nippon Art GmbH
Pickup system, Neck; single coil with Neodymium magnets and hand scatterwound 42awg, heavy formvar coil wire.
Bridge; piezo pressure sensitive active bridge built from Padauk tone wood,
Dobro tail piece; single coil mono-pole hand scatterwound with 42awg plain formvar coil wire.
Body woods, Cherry and Walnut.
Neck woods, Cedro Mahogany and Maple
Fingerboards, Indian Rosewood, Ebony, Padauk.
Factory electronics have been replaced with a passive circuit of 2 volume and 1 tone, these are great sounding instruments to begin with and this one is especially quiet in operation due to the earth shielded pup.
Prototype contact piezo pickup, built from padauk & rosewood.
Standard jack connection to input amp directly.
One of our winding machines, with adjustable speed & wire tension settings which have since been up-graded . I have built this machine to incorporate a quiet and efficient drive unit with a super accurate turn-count sensor & Low noise Military Spec Motor to cope with the high speeds it is capable of. The solid iron chassis helps it to stay put on the bench & Swiss precision bearings on the drive shaft make it smooth running & vibration free, critical to production & to stop our neighbours complaining about any noise pollution . A noticeable difference than when winding pickups on an "off the shelf" machine. Although both of our Winding machines are essentially a collection of parts, each part is the best suited to it's function that we could find. These machines are continually being improved when needed.
