Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

The ibex fret ruler is indexed off the position of the high E, NOT the middle of the saddle. It says that on the ruler.

Great video Robbie- ive been using this method as im trying to get away from the CA glue pore fill and im sick of burning my eye balls...

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top- 28 radius. 25 should be ok but perhaps draw up a scale drawing to make sure it all works with the spanish heel. Back- 15' radius (same as modern guitars) tenor bodies are 12" long with a 17" scale and (usually) 14 frets to the body. Saddle is 8.5" in from 12th fret plus about 2-3mm for compensa...

Another welcome Beau. Beautiful details, looking forward to more pics at your site. yes indeed- i need more professional pics but too busy to work on my site. Ill try to do this in the coming weeks. Check out my facebook site https://www.facebook.com/beauhannamguitars which has heaps of pics in spe...

Doing it without removing the binding or purfling is the hard way, but reasonably straight forward when you get your head around it.

G'day and welcome to the forum Beau, some nice inlay design on your site. Jim Thank you kind sir, None of my inlays are from Gurian. The flowers I do myself and the letters are from Andy Depaul. At $4 each, I can't buy the shell for that let alone time! I've been meaning to get on here for years bu...

I work(ed) at Gilet Guitars in Sydney and we get ours done by George Gurian. He does both inlay and headplates with NO gaps. I think each head plate comes out at about $35 or $40 each (inlayed mop logo and wood). Not much for a perfect job with everything done. There are initial set up costs though....

Also, I think quality of tape has little to do with fiber lift. High tack/strong stickiness is not great, but is unrelated to tape cost/quality. Low strength/thin tape is annoying as the tape breaks. Again, unrelated to cost. There is only a few thousands of an inch between thin and thick and really...

Sand to 120 or 180(ish)
wash coat of Shellac (helps with router tear out)
Use Down cut spiral router cutters
Pull tape off slowly across the grain or slightly in the opposite direction of any grain runout (helps with fiber lift)