To make a very brief summary, I’m a professional musician and novice/hobby fabricator (my Thingiverse designs), and largely use 3d-printing to make things for musical purposes.
I’m wondering if anyone would be interested in helping me come up with a better way of mounting some of my 3d-printed controller mounts on my snare drum.
Basically, I have a few different things that I mount onto my snare drum. So from the top it typically looks like this:
The mounts themselves are fairly primitive (some more detailed pics below), but what I’m really struggling is with how to mechanically mount them on the snare. Up to this point I’ve used hair scrunchies for everything as it’s simple, cheap, and fairly quick to do. There are obviously lots of problems with this, but I’ve really struggled with how to improve the mounting system given that a lot of the dimensions at play can vary (snare diameter, snare height, amount of lugs, etc…).
This solid black one has been particularly tricky since what is contained in that little enclosure is a transducer which needs to be coupled to the snare body in order to work well. The scrunchies only barely do this. Some of the other mounts don’t need this amount of pressure and tend to kind of “stay put” so the scrunchies have been strong enough for those. I’ve thought about having something with some kind of spring mounting or adjustable fasteners (bolts?) where I can tighten it to the body but because of my Fusion skills, and more importantly lack of design imagination I’ve been stuck on this scrunchie approach for a couple of years now.
I've sketched out a couple of different ideas, but I've really struggled coming up with something that works better than the scrunchies.
Since I want to get better at Fusion/CAD I'm mainly looking to have a few Zoom/Skype lessons off someone who can help me through this project/process, which I can then hopefully complete it myself or just be a better designer on the other side of it. Someone with some musical/instrument knowledge would be great, but I don't think it's completely necessary.
