Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

That is a nifty jig Taff!

Wonderful Martin! I'd really like to do this one day.

I recommend under saddle over transducers for falcate as the falcate braces can prevent ideal transducer location. Mind you I did install a K&K trinity pro recently and it sounded NICE.! But it only worked because I used a pinless bridge which allowed me to play with falacate placement in the design...

Looking good! 14 builds in 3 years is great going. Well done!

Where are people getting their gluboost in Australia? Im using mostly starbond, I'd like to give gluboost a try but if I like it, Id wanna buy in bulk.

Beautiful Martin

Thanks for the heads up Martin, my stash is a bit low on FB

That's some nice jig making there Taffy

LOL..sounds a bit like the multiscale commission I did a few years back. I did follow that build quite closely and then reread it a couple of times while I was building this one. I have to say, figuring out how to make the pinless bridge for proper string fall and then locating the bridge was one o...

How did the blue gum work for the top? The SB is Silver Quandong. The B&S are Southern Blue Gum and they bent without a problem., sanded well and had reasonably small pores. There were some sap pockets, but that is what attracted the client to the wood. So it was included not just in the back but a...

This one took me a long time! Over a year, 15 months from when the client picked out wood to delivery. Mind you he also had a very specific, detailed and long list. The new owner is a consummate player and I found it really enjoyable being pushed by the specificity in addition to some new areas. Fir...

I keep seeing it pop on insta, looked like a really good time. Maybe in two years time

Very nice Bob! Great looking Mandolin.

I haven't been doing much building much lately, but I have been doing lots of jig-making. Sooooo many universal spreaders inspired by Beau Haham's vids, I surely will never need spreaders again. Oh and saw guards and clamp storage... yawn! But I have also had a great time building a new adaption to ...

The amplitude of oscillation is entirely dependent on the pluck displacement. Of course, it takes less force to displace a lower tension string for the same oscillation amplitude of a higher tension string. For the same feel you have to go to a higher tension string set, i.e. heavier strings, which...

My multiscale commission built for Kym was to be used in a variety of alternate tunings. I ended up just setting up for standard tuning. You're compensating at saddle only or saddle and nut? It plays beautifully in standard open e at the moment but it just can't work in C# standard. Funnily enough,...

I thought I had posted this thread the other night, but it looks like I closed the window before submitting the post. Anyhoo, that post was ramble; as a second swing: I am setting up a multiscale that the client would like the setup to C# open. The scale is 679. mm bass and 647.7mm on the treble (26...

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Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:44 pm

Trevor is a piss poor cult leader but he's a gun leading edge guitar maker

It's probably from having too much on his plate with a whole army to run. I mean we are at war with large guitars as we speak.

Lovely little instrument there Bob. The finish looks really good in the pic too. I'm hanging out to hear your v brace thoughts once you get strings on it. I saw a builder post a v brace build on another forum but it unfortunately got hijacked by armchair IP and legal arguments before getting shut do...

Thanks Martin, I've sent you details and links. If you can use the tester-3 tab

I am just about to launch a new site for the Brissy school, if anyone has a spare 20 mins or so and is willing to do some user testing, can you please drop your email address? It's just a matter of reading and clicking all the links and logging anything that doesn't work in a spreadsheet. Had a coup...

Very nice and lovely inlay work on the headstock, Peter.

In the clip TJ Thompson advises not to order anything from Australia..try to get it locally (ie from the US). Is he talking about these"?: https://www.thesandpaperman.com.au/sia-single-sided-foam-sanding-pad-fine.html Couldn't find any reference to bar frets in the video clip... I think these https...

My fret saw is 0.5mm, my fret tangs are 0.5mm wide so why when I install the Frets do I get a back bow on my fretboard I wonder? I'm guessing that the 0.5mm measurement doesn't include the barbs (or the frets would just fall out). The barbs will force a bit of back bow, especially if you're frettin...

Hi Bob, The ratio of alcohol to shellac isn't significant. A 1:4 ratio just gives you a two-pound cut which is a good practical bench cut. After I mix a bench cut I will then cut it down further with additional alcohol depending on what I am doing. I french polish with something more akin to a 1/3 t...