Wiplstix Mod

So remember that wipplestix from a few blogs ago..... Well it arrived two days ago. It handles jsut like a regular violin but 1/4 the volume and tricky to hold as it has a curved base and rotates when you string cross SO out with the Leatherman. My plan was to replace the tail piece with a 1/16th size one with fine tuners, replace all the strings with dominants, attach a pickup, conjure up a way to attach a shoulder-rest and make the container (2" PVC pipe) look less like a bomb.

 

Here is a detail of one of the tuning pegs, which you adjust with a penny, or in this case a 1 cent euro which I have white-tac’ed to the peg-plate, so in other words, quite awkward to adjust on the fly.

 

And here is the tailpiece detail. Beautifully made, but in order to change a string you have to take the whole thing apart SO my first task was to replace that.


 

So off with everything, the bridge popped right off and the endpin (which is an A pitch pipe (genius!!)) also popped right out, luckily it didn’t pop IN or it would have been a hell of a job to retrieve it.