Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Thank you very much for your help and your spreadsheet. All the credit goes to you on that one :D Well, my first acoustic had a moon spruce top with a weight of 153g and it does sound really good so I would like to stick to that range. I do understand that sitka is heavier however my piece doesn't s...

Hi, I am going to build my second guitar and I am going through the process of selecting tops using Trevor's method. I have a Sitka spruce top "master grade" that is causing me doubts about its weight. My sitka top have a predicted weight of 186 grm. Since no data are listed on the table 4.5-3 on si...

Thank you Trevor.

Your book is true gold. I’m not sure one life is enough to understand it all! Having you helping us is a massive help! Thanks for that

By the way, here is the guitar currently being built.

I’ll keep this feed updated when the guitar is complete.

Hi, Thanks for your answers :D I have closed the box and ended up at: the main air 88hz Main top 170hz Main back 209hz. It looks like I’m too low overall but I will follow Trevor’s advices in the book. Next Time I will follow the first advice and don’t scallop too much… I have made the mistake to sc...

Hi kiwigeo,

Thanks for your reply.

I’ll follow your advice and continue my build. If worst come to worst I’ll pop the back out later.

Thibaud

Hi, I'm currently building my first acoustic and I went for an indian rosewood live back. Today I have completed step 12.4 "gluing the back panel". At the end of the paragraphe it says to adjust the uncoupled back frequency. It turns out that mu back is at 169hz. Looks like i'm way too low? Any idea...