Have you ever wanted to modify your EBow? Make it stronger, change its sound, get it to work on a piano. Run your EBow directly into an amp, bypassing your guitar's pickup? Need a place to put your EBow when not playing? How would you like to 3D print your own EBow clip. Need a hardshell case?
All this and more in our new EBow MOD section for Do it Yourselfers.
EBow Clip - A belt/guitar strap clip to hold your EBow. 3D printable.
PianoBow - Sand off feet to make a piano EBow.
Magnet Boost - Add more power to your EBow.
Coil in the Crook - Connect your EBow directly to your amp.
Wireless Attachment - The EBow goes cordless.
Phantom Pickup - A pickup that only responds to EBow.
Lower Voltage - For interesting effects from octave divider to strange tones and sputtering audio.
Hard Shell Case - Hard shell cases on Amazon that work for your EBow.
Would you believe? You can 3D print your own belt/strap EBow clip.
Download the stl file here
We recommend adding some clear shipping tape to key areas of the clip to avoid scratching your EBow, depending on the type of plastic you use in 3D printing your clip.
To make a PianoBow, you need to sand down the EBow's feet allowing the drive channel to get closer to the piano strings which are under great tension. Of course, this will void your warranty :-)
Add a magnet to the crook of the EBow.
Let it snap into proper orientation on it's own.
Use a strong rare earth magnet for biggest effect.
No need to glue it in place. It will magnetically align and stay put.
Basically, you need a small coil sitting where the magnet is shown in our magnet boost mod above. This takes some doing. We’ve used old fashioned suction-cupped telephone recorder coils but you have to strip them down to the bare coil to get them small enough to fit. If you can wind your own, use tiny magnet wire to approximate a standard high-impedance guitar pickup. You are basically placing a small “pickup” coil, connected directly to your amp, above the drive coil in the EBow which is at the LED end. (Pictures to come)
The previous MOD requires a cable from your EBow to your amp. Instead, you can modify a wireless guitar transmitter to connect to the Coil in the Crook (previous MOD). eliminating the cord. You don’t even have to plug in your guitar. The signal goes from your EBow directly to the wireless receiver on your amp. (Pictures coming)
It’s like a guitar pickup but without the magnets. Just the coil. You mount it next to the rhythm pick up if you have room. It can’t respond to the metal guitar strings without a magnet but it will still pick up the EBow generated field. This eliminates all the noise from adjacent string clanking. (More to come)
Use rundown 9V batteries or add a potentiomenter for interesting effects from octave divider to strange tones and sputtering audio.
