Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

If you have it, a small pinch of pumice dust after you spread the glue helps prevent movement.

Get in touch with Trent or Andrew from Brisbane guitar making school.
They have various dishes for sale and can get custom ones made.

It was great to meet everyone yesterday - Looking forward to the next one.

Nice.
I've been toying with the idea of one, but don't have space in my workshop.

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...