Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Thanks Martin, I have emailed Trent with an enquiry.

Kit

Does anyone know of anyone running a guitar making course in the Eastern states of Australia in the early months of 2024? This is a very tentative enquiry at the moment, but my wife is considering attending one of a list of completely different, textile related short courses on the mainland (we have...

My 2nd hand Ed 1 books arrived yesterday. They look brand new and untouched. Now that I have my own books I can scribble pencil notes in the margins and fill them with Post-It notes saying "Go onto the forum and ask Trevor about this"

Kit

The problem I had with maths at school was that nobody ever explained what use it all was. It wasn't until I joined the BBC as a trainee transmitter engineer 7 years after leaving school and 3 years after your photograph was taken that I found out that school trigonometry could explain most of how r...

I've gone ahead and bought the 2nd hand edition 1 set of books. The price is perhaps a bit high but I did it partly as an act of charity to others... having made this purchase today I'm expecting Trevor to get notification tomorrow that a palette-load of ed2 is on it's way from the printers 😁 Now I ...

Second hand set just listed on Facebook Marketplace. I do not know the seller, but they appear reasonably priced https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/766321355194873/ Bob, Thanks for the PM regarding this. I've looked at the listing and these are a 1st edition set. Is there enough extra wisdom...

And you get 50% off books and plans. With a list price of $520 AUD they can easily afford to give 50% off! Add the cost of joining StewMAX and this still puts their price at well over $100 more than the local price and I'm not sure how other much other use I'd make of the StewMAX offers over the ne...

If the owner claims his books I have a back up set of books I can lend you for price of postage. Im in Adelaide. "Current supply chain conditions" preventing purchase of the book seem to have been in place on for a very long time now. Any chance of an eBook edition so that I can give back the borro...

"Current supply chain conditions" preventing purchase of the book seem to have been in place on for a very long time now. Any chance of an eBook edition so that I can give back the borrowed volumes? I'm going to have to start hiding from their owner soon.

Mark, You just have to work out the correct search term! Than you for that link. I need the knobs to be quite thin (more thumbwheel than knob) so those plastic bushings ones will be easier to cut to size than metal ones. Trent, The Bourns spec sheet (and my digital caliper) says the shaft diameter i...

Thanks Wayne. I do have a metalworking late I can use to make something similar to your description if necessary, but I was hoping to find a supplier of inserts designed to fit the knurled shafts of the pot. Plenty of other people seem to have access to them, but I can't find any link to a supplier....

I want to make my own control knobs for an electric guitar but cannot find a source for brass or plastic inserts to fit the 6mm, 18 flute split shafts of the Bourns potentiometers I have. Plain, 1/4" inserts are available but nothing to suit these very popular pots. Bourns themselves have not bother...

I am so pleased you have linked to this video. With regard to solid body electric guitars played through distorting amplifiers I am very sceptical when it comes to the audibility of such things as choice of body timber, or how much you paid for the bridge, saddle or knobs. Based on this one offering...