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by duh Padma
Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:53 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: WARNING
Replies: 2
Views: 3118

WARNING

::::::::::::::::: WARNING!! :::::::::::::::::: As of today http://www.anzlf.com will automatically start dragging the Earth into the Sun. To change this option, go to User Control Panel > Settings > Planetary Settings > Trajectory then UNCLICK the box that says 'Apocalypse.' blessings duh Padma
by duh Padma
Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:45 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Grain filler
Replies: 28
Views: 27192

Re: Grain filler

even sperm as a binder Jees padma , ..... got me thinking I hope Dah Padma you don't take to making chelo's , ..... Paul. Um, sorry Paul duh cello is already on the drawing board...here is a sketch.... http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p46/padma_photos/F5Cello.jpg but don't be holding your breath ...
by duh Padma
Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:41 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Grain filler
Replies: 28
Views: 27192

Re: Grain filler

Puff wrote:I thought it was a simple typo.

well Puff...
as Millarepa said...

"Do not think,
do not act,
do not meditate!
Leave your mind in its natural state."


blessings
duh Padma
by duh Padma
Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:18 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Grain filler
Replies: 28
Views: 27192

Re: Grain filler

Congratulations Puff,

3 punten voor het vangen van het en


Yay Jim,

krijgen uw onbelangrijke dingt vaardigheden u de gouden ster en vijf punten voor het rekenen van die één uit.

Zegeningen
duh Padma
by duh Padma
Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:28 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Grain filler
Replies: 28
Views: 27192

Re: Grain filler

Toxic epoxy...what can one say? My philosophy is simple..."if it gets the pig clean ...use it" In other words...whatever you can shove into them pours that will stay put and not look like they been filled un less of course you like that "filled look" is a valid pour filler. Yes "toxic epoxy" will ge...
by duh Padma
Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:11 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Another aussie built archtop
Replies: 18
Views: 14189

Re: Another aussie built archtop

Real nice carving you don did there Rod...real nice.


blessings
duh Padma
by duh Padma
Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:31 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Editing and deleting posts
Replies: 38
Views: 30665

Re: Editing and deleting posts

So in practice, once you've posted you've lost control..... Or, more simply, the forum owner is God. If God says "all play nice" then we must do so, or be banished to outer darkness while the evidence of our misdeeds remains on the forum for all to see, licensed and therefore not in breach of copyr...
by duh Padma
Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:33 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: String Life Under Tension
Replies: 7
Views: 6422

String Life Under Tension

(the following is a partial excerpt and originally appeared at http://www.luthierforum.com/index.php?/topic/3899-string-life-under-tennsion/) String life Under Tension In the inner sanctum of our shops while in communion with the transforming wood... Me thoughts drift to the string and how our live...
by duh Padma
Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:36 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Ozzie Built 17" Archtop
Replies: 48
Views: 37826

Re: Ozzie Built 17" Archtop

G'day du Padma, Thanks you for your interest in my build. I too would like to see some further progress on your Archtop build in the future. You are certainly a fine craftsman and reading your threads there is always some great wood working method or idea I can plagiarize. Cheers Alan Thank you Ala...
by duh Padma
Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:26 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Ozzie Built 17" Archtop
Replies: 48
Views: 37826

Re: Ozzie Built 17" Archtop

ozziebluesman wrote: But how deep it too deep?

Too deep is when you break through the wood. Me ruined a few plates till me learned to listen to what the wood she is saying.


blessings
by duh Padma
Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:10 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Ozzie Built 17" Archtop
Replies: 48
Views: 37826

Re: Ozzie Built 17" Archtop

Really a nice looking build Alan Hope Padma comes back!!!!! like to see the rest of his. Cheers, Paul. Yo Paul thank you but me has not gone away...just starting a new thread in a few more days to continue from me left off building. No matter which of the various luthier forums you go to, my build p...
by duh Padma
Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:44 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Cello Build (Modelled after the 1712 "Davidov" Stradivarius)
Replies: 22
Views: 23768

Re: Cello Build (Modelled after the 1712 "Davidov" Stradivar

Hi...welcome....nice build you got going there. Hope you got the ends of that maple all sealed for air drying. Me cut up a log that wasn't sealed properly with intentions of cellos and an upright. Every plank cracked. Now me gotts plenty of tops and backs for fiddles and violas...go figure. Please k...
by duh Padma
Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:32 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.
Replies: 25
Views: 22660

Re: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.

Ok dudes Is obvious that this thread has done gone run off the track. No guilt, no blame, shift happens. However me will no longer be posting to it. In a few days you will find the rest of this build continued in a new thread called "Carving a 17" Arch Top" thus spaketh duh Padma oh ya... Blessings
by duh Padma
Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:18 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.
Replies: 25
Views: 22660

Re: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.

Thank you Marin, however no apologies necessary.


blessings
by duh Padma
Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:33 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.
Replies: 25
Views: 22660

Re: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.

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by duh Padma
Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:28 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.
Replies: 25
Views: 22660

Re: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.

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by duh Padma
Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:09 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.
Replies: 25
Views: 22660

Re: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.

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by duh Padma
Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:07 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.
Replies: 25
Views: 22660

Re: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.

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by duh Padma
Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:58 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.
Replies: 25
Views: 22660

Re: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.

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by duh Padma
Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:01 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.
Replies: 25
Views: 22660

Me build a 17" Jazz Arch Top.

. Yes!...is true! Me gonna build an arch top. Ok dudes...here we go... A 17" carved topper for me Chilean curendero buddy who sings the Icaros with an angels voice and is one heck of a jazz picker too. This ain't gonna be no copy of a Benedetto or D' Angelico. Yup, its another Padma Built Special. U...
by duh Padma
Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:22 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Pear Burl for Inlaying.
Replies: 1
Views: 3540

Pear Burl for Inlaying.

Das right! Pear burl for inlaying with. See for years now me been harvesting burl an other twisted stuff like me for to use as inlay. Well today me finally got a round tuit and decided to slice up some pear. Here how she looks. http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p46/padma_photos/PICT1113.jpg http://...
by duh Padma
Fri May 27, 2011 12:50 am
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: Twelve Builds All in a Pile
Replies: 20
Views: 20122

Re: Twelve Builds All in a Pile

Great pictures there padmah, what a nice scene , with the house in the woods, do you ever see any bears around there ? Rob Yup Rob, Black, brown and Cinnamon bears....and the occasional grizzly, though not often as they live higher up. Bears come down in the spring and then again in the fall lookin...
by duh Padma
Thu May 26, 2011 9:32 am
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: Canadian ~ Australian Temperature Conversion Chart
Replies: 2
Views: 4564

Canadian ~ Australian Temperature Conversion Chart

. Canadian ~ Australian Temperature Conversion Chart 50 Fahrenheit (10 C) Australians try to turn on the heat. Canadians plant gardens. 40 Fahrenheit (4.4 C) NZnders shiver uncontrollably Canadians Sunbathe. 35 Fahrenheit (1.6 C) Italian Cars won't start Canadians drive with the windows down 32 Fahr...
by duh Padma
Thu May 26, 2011 9:23 am
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: Twelve Builds All in a Pile
Replies: 20
Views: 20122

Re: Twelve Builds All in a Pile

Weather ... right Nick, its been pissing here since me cut that stuff and will be for another week...they call it our "Rainy Season"...more like monsoon season, and we get 3 of them a year....the last one , this one and the next one. With any luck we get sunshine and lolly pops or a blast of snow so...
by duh Padma
Thu May 26, 2011 4:58 am
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: Twelve Builds All in a Pile
Replies: 20
Views: 20122

Re: Twelve Builds All in a Pile

Yo, Jim me heard of rubbin em down with petrol or oil,...but saran wrap...gee dude thats kinky alright. me wood is lucky if it gets a splash of paint on the ends. What type of wood is that you spliting up....me likes the colour of it...perhaps in a few years down the road we might do some horse trad...