An Open Hardware DIY Guitar Sustainer 

Haha the inductors... have polarity because they aren't used here for their inductance, they're used as driver and pickup voice coils. It should be immediately obvious to everyone that speakers and microphones have polarity, and these are fundamentally the same, just without the acoustic bits. Well polarity might be the wrong word, phase perhaps. Maybe if you rename them to voice coils instead of inductors, people will stop putting them in every which way and being surprised when the device doesn't work?

Homemade Ebow...neat. Now to print a housing for it on a 3d printer.

What an amazing project with excellent documentation/instructions! Thanks for putting this out!!

As you mentioned this is Ebow technology. I think a lot of your answers will come from investigating The Sustaniac. It is an integrated guitar sustainer.

Wonderful, ordered one - can't wait! Well done and thanks for sharing

very cool of you to open source this, this will be high on my way to long list of projects to start

An outstanding build!

Try using a bar magnet pickup. A single long magnet with windings around it would create a much better field for sustaining all the strings evenly. If you can get this to work then adding a pair of extra pickups that sustain might be an option for incorporating this style of sustain directly into a guitar.

Thank you for the video and all your hard work that's gone into this project! I would buy at least one right now if I were smart enough to know with confidence how to wire this into a guitar.

Great job! Very clear and thorough

Elegant design, lots of potential. Great work.

youre the man! u give perfect instructions! i wish i wasnt too dumb to try it.. but i subscribed. ill keep learning from u until a project pops up i feel capable of hopefully2 thanks again.

Thank you sir! 😁 Fantastic work!

Impressive project!

Wow that song at the end! Can't wait for the full version (please release it soon :P)

Nice going my dude. Very cool.

Gotta make a nice case for this. Nice work!

Bravo!

Wouldn't it be a good idea to use the guitar pickups as the source of input signal? And you could also induce the vibration of the strings with a big single coil installed underneath the strings somewhere around the neck (or above them, if you don't want to cut a hole in your guitar). Then the next step would be just to hide the circuit inside the guitar and you'll get a fully functional guitar with accessory sustain mode

Awesome!

Yep, you've invented the eBow. I love those fucking things.

So it's a make yourself e-bow? 🙂Cool! Great idea mate 👍

cool project! :)

The chords! Sounds are amazing. I'm imagining a set up on an autoharp. Wouldn't that be interestingly tedious. But I bet the chords would sound awesome. EDIT Or am I just being the victim of my own hubris? lol Great job, genius bro.

I had to go back in time to get that shot at 0:44 after I uploaded the video

Top bloke! Gr8 idea made simply with what appears to be "idiot-proof" instructions. I would like to put that to the test. All I need is one of your kits.

more windings for the thinner strings, the Sustainiac or the Fernandes Sustainer splittet the DriverCoil...

Off topic, but nice 7620VK. If you ever decide let it go, I call dibs.

LOL! I actually had an original E-bow, years ago... nice piece of kit

I really want to try and hook one of these up to my synth rack via CV.

is it more powerful than original ebow? in terms of it's ability to engage strings

Can you do a comparison to the circuit in the VEYZ sustainer kit, which seems to work as reliably and musically as the bigger names?

Could you replace the "Regular" button with a two-pole switch so that it also enables the circuit?

Doesnt things with polarity, on alnico pickups, mess with it and get yoj out of phase like... Forever until you have to use big magnets to fix the polarity?

I built my infinite sustain mod with a 1 dollar pam audio amp board. I rewound the middle pickup for 8 ohm because i never use it

as an alumnus of University of Surrey (and born and bred Guildford) i am so happy rn

Ничего со слов не понял, но идея хорошая. Вечшый сустейн, шестиструнный орган))

New Sub from me! and just ordered mine! I will be trying to design some different enclosures with height adjusters and such. So if i get something solid i will shoot it over to you!

roundelay patents, by floyd rose and rick knotts

Hiya - Trying to order this but your store won’t allow UK check out (gets stuck at ‘add State Province’). Do you ship to UK? Really want one of these!

Can you relocate the inductors into a dummy humbucker?

This already exists, it's called a Sustaniac.

can you build a bigger one ? my guitar is 12km long

You must make play this guitar to a good rocker

why not just build one into a guitar body or pickup

Is this like an ebay.

You said this works with a pickup wound to 8ohms as a driver. Have you seen this diy driver? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5LDmc8TkSKg.html If so, have you tried it with your board? It is wound similar to your coils and is a knockoff of the sustaniac driver. It looks to me that you're simple board with that driver could be the ticket.

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so, an ebow, not a sustainer. :(

I would not face a magnet to a pick up, as it changes the magnetic behavior of the magnets in the pick up and ruins their voice.