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- Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:32 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: A long time between drinks.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 225
Re: A long time between drinks.
Gezuz Peter...there some serious bling going on there mate! A beautiful instrument.
- Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:12 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What’s your favourite neck carving technique?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 499
Re: What’s your favourite neck carving technique?
Frickin spindle moulders.....I'm shit scared of those things! Machines like that should only be operated by blokes with tattoos 

- Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:05 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What’s your favourite neck carving technique?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 499
Re: What’s your favourite neck carving technique?
Cheers guys! Have you ever tried knives to carve the heel or volute etc? I bought a set of violin knives with the intention of using them for heel and volute carving but only used them once. I tend to rough out using Dragon rasps. the dragon rasps don't chew off as much material as a chisel with ea...
- Fri Jul 11, 2025 8:50 pm
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Feathered braces v tucked braces
- Replies: 6
- Views: 865
Re: Feathered braces v tucked braces
If I were the maker of that guitar I'd be confiscating it off the owner. What sort of person leaves a Gore creation lying on the floor????
- Fri Jul 11, 2025 8:38 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Brace yourself another repair...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 472
- Fri Jul 11, 2025 2:16 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What’s your favourite neck carving technique?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 499
Re: What’s your favourite neck carving technique?
1. rough out heel with bench chisel. 2. shape heel with dragon rasps. 3. rough shape neck shaft using spoke shave (flat sole) working along facets marked along neck shaft in with pencil 4. rough shape headstock/neck shaft with dragon rasp and small wood files. 5. final shaping of neck shaft working ...
- Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:05 pm
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Feathered braces v tucked braces
- Replies: 6
- Views: 865
Re: Feathered braces v tucked braces
"survived a drop from waist height onto a wooden floor, landing on the lower bout treble side binding and survived virtually damage free."
But has it survived the ultimate test of resilience.....a full on bar room fight?
But has it survived the ultimate test of resilience.....a full on bar room fight?
- Sat Jul 05, 2025 7:50 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Using Plastic Tub for humidity control
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2195
Re: Using Plastic Tub for humidity control
Think that rule would apply for green wood.
- Thu Jul 03, 2025 8:12 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4563
Re: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
I reckon most of the bad workshop fires involve paint thinners.
TomBicknell wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 8:06 pmGood point about the insurance, Nigel. There’s a number of fire resistant panels on the market, thankfully.
- Thu Jul 03, 2025 12:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4563
Re: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
The issue here is cheap mainly Chinese made SIPs that don't meet the building code as far as inflammability rating of materials used in the SIPs. Of particular concern are panels with inflammable skins as well as internal insulating styrene that doesn't have a fire inhibitor added. Prior to construc...
- Wed Jul 02, 2025 4:33 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Using Plastic Tub for humidity control
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2195
Re: Using Plastic Tub for humidity control
Its my understanding that an instrument drying out is generally worse than having it take on a bit of moisture. For that reason you try and build at a RH that is lower than that of the final destination of the instrument. 30-40% was always my target humidity here in The Adelaide Hills. As I understa...
- Wed Jul 02, 2025 11:03 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Using Plastic Tub for humidity control
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2195
Re: Using Plastic Tub for humidity control
The cheapest and simplest dry box I ever saw was a cardboard box with an incandesant light bulb. Heat from the bulb was enough to keep the humidity at a reasonably low level.
The problem of course is finding an incandesant light bub these days.
The problem of course is finding an incandesant light bub these days.
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 7:57 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Oregon myrtle and Italian spruce J45-ish build
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3053
Re: Oregon myrtle and Italian spruce J45-ish build
Anyone with the balls to post up warts and all photos of his very first gets my full respect.
You're doing fine for a first build.....looking good.
You're doing fine for a first build.....looking good.
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 6:43 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4563
Re: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
I want to build it out of insulated panels - think what coolrooms are built of. The basic version is two sheets of Colorbond with 50mm of polystyrene between them for insulation, but you can get versions with PIR foam, which dramatically improves the insulation. They're self-supporting so you don't...
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 3:18 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4563
Re: Shed Advice
We're using the word "shed"......a term that conjures up images of cobwebs, dust and piles of stuff you should have thrown away years ago.
Workshop is a better term....
Workshop is a better term....
- Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:45 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4563
Re: Shed Advice
Wayne writes up a detailed plan complete with full scale drawings before eating breakfast each morning
Love the attention to detail.

Love the attention to detail.
- Mon Jun 30, 2025 8:00 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Slow burn 17" archtop
- Replies: 24
- Views: 83932
- Mon Jun 30, 2025 5:01 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Shed* (Workshop) Advice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4563
Re: Shed Advice
If humidity is an issue then you have a choice of controlling same in the whole shed....or isolating a small part of the shed (ie a cupboard) for humidity control at critical stages of guitar construction. I obsessed a bit about humidity here in The Adelaide Hills and started off with a dehumidifer ...
- Mon Jun 30, 2025 3:37 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Backstraps
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2598
Re: Backstraps
Had to do a double take there. Thought the thread title read "jockstraps"
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- Sat Jun 28, 2025 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Englemann & flame maple archtop
- Replies: 7
- Views: 49658
Re: Englemann & flame maple archtop
Pallet loads of tonewood.......LOLlamanoditrento wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 4:30 pmAlthough I do normally know the pallet of woods I want to use.
- Sat Jun 28, 2025 4:38 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Baritone uke
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4695
Re: Baritone uke
Nice work Wayne....a unique looking instrument with a lot of "personality".
- Fri Jun 27, 2025 3:08 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bass uke bridge intonation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7154
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:41 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Archtop considerations and hello
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10034
Re: Archtop considerations and hello
I have a first edition of The Books up for sale on Buy and Sell.
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 7:00 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Reliable Freight Service Adelaide to Brisbane - Recommendations?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4551
Re: Reliable Freight Service Adelaide to Brisbane - Recommendations?
That's what happens when you let WAS get out of control.
- Wed Jun 18, 2025 1:59 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Your experience of being a luthier in Australia/New Zealand, and moving a wood stash over there.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5488
Re: Your experience of being a luthier in Australia/New Zealand, and moving a wood stash over there.
I think most of New Zealand is already over here in Oz..last one to leave please turn out the lights
