Video Studio Journal, 6 min 10 sec, 43 MB flash video
I shift to working on the website, but realize I have to multi-task, not focus on single projects. So I start working on video again as well. I start making videos about building the first wound pickups for the dulcimer. I can’t help being a pioneer it seems. And a final Tour Journal to provide background for the studio journals.
Archive for July, 2009
VSJ 7-15-09 Video Studio
Thursday, July 16th, 2009The Bobbins for Winding Pickup Coils
Wednesday, July 15th, 20097-15-09, 2 min 3 sec, 20.4 MB flash video
The coils are made by winding wire onto a bobbin mounted onto a winding machine. The bobbin controls the size and shape of the coil, but is separate from the machine, so has its own story, and video.
The Pickup Winding Machine
Wednesday, July 15th, 20097-15-09, 3 min 42 sec, 38.4 MB flash video
A quick but detailed description of the machine I built for winding coils to make magnet-coil induction pickups for the electric hammered dulcimer, basically the same as electric guitar pickups, but much longer. I show each part, step by step, what it is for and how I did it.
The First Coil Winding Machine
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Back in 2007 while restoring the house, I tried to start on the pickup winding project late at night after work. While this turned out to be a mistake, I used a couple parts of this machine in the one I built next.
VSJ 1: In the Beginning was the Video
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Video Studio Journal: June 15th to July 1st, 5 min 4 sec, 67.7MB, flash video
The first video Studio Journal. I get the studio up and running, but focus on producing video first, and the website upgrade. I am here to tackle the whole pile of back-logged music projects, though the recording is the big priority, it is part of the life I want to show with the new video journals, so I need to it running first, as the pipeline, and I need the content to start it with, initial video journals,
