DIY 2-string electric cello - from old furniture wood

Jocke* gave me some fine pieces of old furniture wood. So, I thought; "why not make an electric cello?" After all, I had watched ‪@DavidHilowitzMusic‬ excellent video several times... • I Made A Cello
I started experimenting... made a Diddley bow
• DIY Diddley Bow (one s... .
Then, from all my mistakes when making my very first string instrument, I figured I need a LOT of help. And better tools. And I can't make a cello in my kitchen.
My very kind friend Pelle** helped me and we made the cello (well, he did most of the making, I mainly designed the thing).
I got guitar tuners 2nd hand, and some cheap cello strings from Amazon. My kid sister gave me some used violin bows for Xmas years ago.
Cello measurements were found here: woodsoundstudi...
I was surprised as to how much like a cello just two strings and no "box" sounds like. The sound is just picked up by a piezo mike clipped on the bridge into the EHX-95000 looper pedal. I guess it might be sympathetic resonance. en.wikipedia.o...
* Joakim Lindengren is a genius comic book artist. Check out his amazing model railroad (i.e. model tram): www.svensktmjf...
... and his comic book albums: coboltforlag.s...
The wood was left over from Joakim's art-project Arboretur (word-play, arbo (tree), retur (recycling)).
A forest (and a reading skeleton) made from furniture parts.
• Arboretur
** Pelle Evensen is another great talent who makes bowls and loads of other stuff: • Pelle Evensen snurrsva...
Thank you all! Peace

[@AsleepPig98]

i will now be building a cello after seeing both yours and David's videos.

[@jacobsteel]

Wow! Great! 👍👍👍🌟

[@MarkFromTaiwan]

wow you did what i need , great job man

[@jacobsteel]

thank you! We had great fun making it!