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- Sun Aug 18, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Ideas for breaking locktight
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9155
Re: Ideas for breaking locktight
I know you've asked us not to ask you what you were thinking...but it's what we're all thinking so I'll ask the question!! :mrgreen: What were you thinking? :shock: Short answer: I thought I was smarter than I was and acted more stupid than I should be. Long answer: I prepared a captured nut in blo...
- Sat Aug 17, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Ideas for breaking locktight
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9155
Re: Ideas for breaking locktight
A tricky one. You could try heating the jack with a large soldering iron..heat should travel up the threaded barrel without causing too much damage to surrounding wood. Thanks Martin, its the surrounding french polish I would worrry about... need to get locktight up to 200 degrees, so I think that ...
- Fri Aug 16, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Ideas for breaking locktight
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9155
Ideas for breaking locktight
Rushing, I did a stupid thing and used locktight on a flush mounted output jack. Now the jack cannot be accessed from the inside and I of course have a lot of deep regret :oops: . If anyone has any ideas about how I can break locktight from the outside, I would be eternally grateful. This is the typ...
- Fri Aug 16, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: F-hole feedback busting
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7587
Re: F-hole feedback busting
Awesome. Added to my bunnings list!Mark McLean wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2024 9:44 pmI just saw some flat interlocking sheets of that type of stuff at Bunnings, sold as flooring for your caravan annex or Ute tray. Cheap.
- Sat Aug 10, 2024 12:48 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: F-hole feedback busting
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7587
Re: F-hole feedback busting
You know how you can buy feedback busters for acoustic guitars with traditional round holes which are just a rubber plug that blocks the soundhole. Well, there was a guy who had a business in the USA called Doug’s Plugs and he made f-hole shaped plugs for archtops. His website had a hundred or so a...
- Sat Aug 10, 2024 12:44 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: F-hole feedback busting
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7587
Re: F-hole feedback busting
Hi Trent, As a long time f hole electric player I feel the pain. Benedetto states ".. .there is no way of being certain if a particular guitar will feedback. Some guitars (archtop) feed back, some do not" I have found in higher volume scenarios a notch filter or similar works to reduce the offendin...
- Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: F-hole feedback busting
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7587
F-hole feedback busting
Has anyone heard of f-hole feedback busting other than stuffing with foam or taping them up (which seems to be the only google answers I get)? I've only carved the top, not braced or holes cut. Actually they won't exactly be f shaped either. But is just enough to slow the airflow? I have a halfcocke...
- Fri May 24, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: QLD maple silkwood & paulowinia LP style carvetop
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8268
QLD maple silkwood & paulowinia LP style carvetop
Here's another guitar I finished recently that I also haven't posted here. This one I built as a bit of professional development and a fear that I would be needed to cover for the instructor of the solid-body classes at some stage. I've made a couple of electrics but I thought a carve top and a set ...
- Fri May 24, 2024 5:03 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Measuring bridge rotation before closing the box.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 22933
Re: Measuring bridge rotation before closing the box.
Hi Colin, I've seen the jig you are describing or something very similar. I though it was in a thread on the ANZLF but I haven't been able to find it. I think it was an instructor at RobertoVenn and did a quick search on google and IG but couldn't find it. The difference in the jig was the SB was no...
- Fri May 24, 2024 4:36 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: BH Sassafras & Silver Quandong Tenor Uke
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10950
BH Sassafras & Silver Quandong Tenor Uke
I thought I had posted this already but I must have dreamed it. This is a recent-ish commission of a tenor ukulele (or perhaps its really just a really small four stringed nylon guitar). It has a silver quandong SB, blackheart sassafrass B+S, QLD maple silkwood neck, mulga FB, has a K&K Aloha pickup...
- Fri May 24, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Solid-body Instructor Wanted (Brisbane)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19835
Re: Solid-body Instructor Wanted (Brisbane)
Any takers for the position Trent? Sorry its taken me so long to put up an update. Yes, actually. Louis moved from Melbourne and joined the team and is now enjoying the headscatching the rest of us do when trying to answer the question "If I didn't know where 'x' belonged where would I put it?". Sc...
- Fri May 24, 2024 3:46 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Where has everyone gone?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18206
Re: Where has everyone gone?
Thanks for putting up all those spreadsheets Greg. I think its an amazing thing to do. But then again, I have to google how to use vlookup every couple of years or so when I have to use it. I've saved them all for closer inspection later but I will definitely be delving into the compensation sheet. ...
- Fri May 24, 2024 3:26 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: New Flamenco Blanca
- Replies: 10
- Views: 40688
Re: New Flamenco Blanca
Lovely and great sounding Steve, and wounderful to see and hear Paco put it through its paces.
- Fri May 24, 2024 3:20 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Archtop build pics
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8655
Re: Archtop build pics
Absolutely beautiful Frank. How did you attach the pickguard? Only from the side of the fretboard or do you have another support ?
- Fri May 24, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Tassie double bass
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14169
- Fri May 24, 2024 3:15 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Nut / saddle compensation / tricky verification
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6536
Re: Nut / saddle compensation / tricky verification
I have have a folder of apps I've downloaded over the years and spent a bit of time comparing them to a bunch of tuners I have. Of the tuners hanging around, I looked a polytune pedal, an over priced peterson clip-on that claimed 0.1 cent accuracy, a korg with 1/4" aux or wired clip-on and a d'addar...
- Fri May 24, 2024 2:42 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: pinless bridge question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8583
Re: pinless bridge question
I put a pinless bridges on a number of falcate builds including this multi scale. Screenshot 2024-05-24 at 2.24.55 AM.png Screenshot 2024-05-24 at 2.24.38 AM.png I didn't have any trouble keeping it under 20g and I even included an extra inlayed wear bone for the ball ends. 17g from memory but then ...
- Fri May 24, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Nut files modified.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 24893
Re: Nut files modified.
I find tuner posts and strings are in the way of the correct slot angle on a strung instrument as well with those files. Thanks Taff, good idea I think I will make a handle too.
- Fri May 24, 2024 1:56 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Acoustic side height calculation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9758
Re: Acoustic side height calculation
Hi, Does anyone have a tip on calculating side height contour for various back radiuses? I have seen a spreadsheet (Dooling guitars) which is pretty tedious. Or is it common practice to approximate and then scribe the sides while the braced back is in the radius dish and fine tune with a block plan...
- Fri May 24, 2024 1:33 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: current reputable intensive workshops?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12071
Re: current reputable intensive workshops?
Thanks for the plug Martin. We don't do intensive courses at the BGMS at the moment just weekly classes (although I am working on a ukulele course). I'd second the recommendation of Steve's school. If going south is a problem, the lads from Hancock Guitars also run an intensive course down the Gold ...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Solid-body Instructor Wanted (Brisbane)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19835
Solid-body Instructor Wanted (Brisbane)
Hey lutherie lovers The Brisbane Guitar Making School is looking for a solid body instructor to join our team. Initially, this will be to take over an established weekly evening class, but there is scope for more as we have some expansion plans. The class runs from 6pm to 10pm and enrolment is curre...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: King billy & Amboyna nylon
- Replies: 14
- Views: 30061
Re: King billy & Amboyna nylon
I've been so busy this year that every time I try and catch up on the forum I never seem to get to the bottom of the unread posts and so never post anything. Got there today
Here's a couple of sound samples of this guitar:
youtu.be/9qjLabk0N60
youtu.be/lVR-KVn3L1c
Here's a couple of sound samples of this guitar:
youtu.be/9qjLabk0N60
youtu.be/lVR-KVn3L1c
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:18 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: hello and a first question for King billy pine top thickness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10663
Re: hello and a first question for King billy pine top thickness
I find KBP is very floppy across the grain and you need to keep it at least as thick as cedar. So for a ballpark on an OM, I would be keeping it about 3.5mm.
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Mandolin in Engelmann Spruce and RIver Oak (redux)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 44286
Re: Mandolin in Engelmann Spruce and RIver Oak (redux)
Even tho the pic of the back is a still image, I can almost see the shimmer of that river oak and the the finish. Well done
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: 2024 luthier course?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 28678
Re: 2024 luthier course?
Hi Kit,kiwigeo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:55 amhttps://www.brisbaneguitarmaking.com.au/
Trent Palelei who runs the school is a member on this forum.....drop him a message/email.
Sorry, we only run weekly classes, not intensives at this time.
Cheers
Trent