Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Thanks Blackwood.
I don't think water based will mix with acrylic or nitrocellulose lacquers though (?).

Hi , I like restoring 70's Yamaha guitars, but have not found a very close vintage amber stain to add to the acrylic lacquer spraygun finish. I use Dulux Prooftint stains, of which I have a lot of different colours. For amber, I mix yellow, (golden teak), red (maple) and a bit of brown, but usually ...

Hi , I like restoring 70's Yamaha guitars, but have not found a very close vintage amber stain to add to the acrylic lacquer spraygun finish. I use Dulux Prooftint stains, of which I have a lot of different colours. For amber, I mix yellow, (golden teak), red (maple) and a bit of brown, but usually ...

Hi, I have a Cole Clark FL2 that needs its bridge hump flattened before fitting a new bridge . The soundhole dip needs to be flattened too. I have a beam jig to do the hump area and jacks for the dip. I intend to add a stiffening brace afterward in the rear of the bridge area. However, Im aware of t...

Has anyone here ever tried to fit a bridge doctor device to a Fat Lady 2 ? With the larger piezo under bridge sensor ? Which might just be in the way. I'm currently flattening its belly bulge and would prefer after that to try the bridge doctor (which I can remove without damage, except for the brid...

Howdee, So I made the change from Wattyl Stylewood 95% to Miratone 3220 for my latest batch of soprano ukes and I thought I’d share my comparison of the products. In no particular order of importance- • They smell very different. Stylewood has (to my nose) the typical auto lacquer smell but the mir...

I try to run the fret surfaces and the nut in the same plane, so fretted (or capo'd) at fret 3, the string just clears fret one. According to the analysis I mentioned before , the intonation error is more sensitive to fretting pressure than nut height. [/quote] [/i] Thanks Trevor. I have noticed tha...

Is that reference from one of your books ? Which one ? Yes, the Design book as Col mentioned. Apologies, I jumped to the assumption that as you were messing with nut compensation you would already have them. There's a 25 page chapter on compensation and intonation (Section 4.7, Design) with a few d...

colburge wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:40 pm

It is a 2 volume set, one of them is the 'Design' volume and one of them is the "Build" volume.

Col

Thanks Col.

Trevor,

Is that reference from one of your books ? Which one ?

Thankyou Trevor. Amazing stuff. I have a lot to digest and learn, but it keeps life interesting ! First up...re the scale length, where does the number 1.0595 fit with quote "12th root of two and some are real rule of 18" ? I used the multiplier I quoted above (as stated by Stephen Delft in his arti...

At the risk of being a nuisance with multiple posts.... I decided to start again. Fitted another new set of strings 010-046 D'Darrio Fitted a new blank nut and filed slots to similar string heights of original nut Set up intonation from open to the 12th fret, not by the frets 1-13 method this time. ...

Thanks for that reply. I see you're in Brisbane. I'm at north Gold Coast . Yes, the guitar is my personal favourite (atm !) and is set up nicely, as I have all the gear for that part (Stew Mac love me), a precision based mechanical background, a lifetime of guitar playing in bands, but not a lifeti...

More information which might be helpful . Just rechecked all measurements. First the scale length. Epiphone Dot Nominated Scale Length : 24.75 " (628.65mm) Actual SL measured from 1st - 13th fret: 314.14mm x 2 = 628.28 mm = 24 47/64ths" = 24.735" Actual SL measured from nut face - 12 fret : 313.50mm...

Thanks for that reply. I see you're in Brisbane. I'm at north Gold Coast . Yes, the guitar is my personal favourite (atm !) and is set up nicely, as I have all the gear for that part (Stew Mac love me), a precision based mechanical background, a lifetime of guitar playing in bands, but not a lifetim...

Thankyou Kiwigeo.
Ill see if I can find the book online.
Regards,

https://i.imgur.com/nnhjIcf.jpg Hi, Im in the process of making a compensated nut for an Epiphone Dot, which is set up well overall, including minimum string clearances over the 2nd fret to help address some sharpness on all strings when fretted on the first 3-4 frets. Especially the 6th string (eg ...