Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Thanks for all the kind feedback guys.

Having seen this one in person I'm pretty sure a few of your customers would be over the moon to own it. But what they hey who doesn't want a nice workshop guitar .

Thank you, it was a lot of fun to build and I love how it sounds.

Further to my previous post regarding the Tiger Myrtle OM, I wanted to attach an improvisation by Anthony Garcia. It appears this is not possible due to format? Any one who has Instagram and would like to view videos by Anthony Garcia or Jordan Brodie playing on this guitar please jump onto my site ...

Hi everyone, I wanted to share my finished Tasmanian Tiger Myrtle OM, in gratitude of the help I received. Early in 2020 I sought advice on using a hybrid lattice brace for an OM acoustic I was building at the time. Wayne Mcphee was incredibly helpful in sharing his bracing layout which I used, as w...

Hi Wayne, I did a search on your user name and found many great videos of your instruments, so no need to drop in a link. Thanks for your advice I'll deffinately be using it as a guideline. I guess the CF option can be a back up plan, though I'm keen to do with out it. My original instinct of 4mm x ...

That's fantastic, do you have any recording I can listen to?

Wayne just out of interest are you using carbon firbre under your lattice?
In the photo on the bottom left corner the lattice arm feathers out to nothing. is it a shadow I see or carbon fibre under the braces?

Hi Wayne, Thanks for the specific dimensions and the all important brace angle I was after. They sound very similar to what Trevor uses on his Classical guitars from memory. How does the top hold up to destortion over time? and what kind of top activity are you achieving in simple terms using your m...

Hi Martin, yes I have both sets of books and really love them. Somogyi doesn't discuss dimensions though I've built what I consider to be some very successful dreadnoughts with standard Martin X bracing using them. As for lattice dimensions they are currently 10mm high by 6mm wide. Which is some thi...

Hi Ross, thanks for your reply.
The X will be let in to the linings both upper and lower bouts.
The lattice will float freely, not even coupled to the X but will be attached to the bridge plate.

Regards
Remi

Hi every one this is my first time posting. I've been a member for a little while now and have really enjoyed the discussion topics I have managed to search on and read. I'm keen to get some advice on bracing a 12 fret OM acoustic. I would like to play with the Somogyi style bracing, Hybrid X lower ...