Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

you and me both brother.

Starting in October last year we (the Brisbane Guitar Making School) began a project that eventually became the "Fire and Rain" guitars. During a break in one class the idea was raised - "what can we, as luthiers, do to help people through the drought in rural Queensland and New South Wales?". We ma...

Nice one Trent.
Looks like a great guitar - I'm a bit disappointed I didn't get to hear it.
May there be many more.

Very nice.
I like the shape and it sounds sweet in your vid.

Great job.

Signed up and eagerly waiting.

Wow.
I'm just in awe of your work Allen. That's beautiful.

Yep, I agree.
I like that it has it's own character and I don't see the colour variance as a bad thing.
It's attractive and distinct.

Nice guitar Krzysztof. I'm looking forward to a sound snippet :-) It may be just the light in that photo, but the soundboard looks a little mottled and there seems to be some colour difference between leaves. Is that a feature of Norfolk pine? or is it just the photography? I don't think these thing...

Others more knowledgeable than me may have more/better advice. With that caveat, I tend to take very light passes (1/8 of a turn on the machine in our shop) and clean the paper between passes). I also run pieces through twice at the same setting if I think it the paper is struggling and allow 20 to ...

very nice - I especially like the safety notes, cause I would definitely put a coffee cup there.

Thanks Rod, I made some raised tiles 3 different thicknesses to get a 3d effect. Wayne I saw (and admired) that. But how did you go about the burl(?) face plate and get the numbering labels done and the holes cut? I had to go to a mate who had a cnc machine to do mine and am interested in any alter...

Very Nice. How did you do your face plate?
I ask because I am making a 18Wat TMB clone and have done something similar to the front.

Nice Rod - Beautiful sounding and looking.

Hi Rod, That's a nice guitar. It gives me a whole lot of inspiration and motivation for my own Archtop build. With the exception of the fret board, your guitar is very similar to what I want to achieve (mine will be a multi-scale with a few 'out there' design details that will mostly be visible on t...