Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Seb, Most of the famous makers introduced their own variations on Torres' designs....eg number of fan braces, slanting tone bars, carrying outter fan braces through to waist area etc. A Vanilla Torres is one with 7 fan braces, upper and lower cross braces and an upper transverse brace. Cheers Martin

Grant what youre after is technical grade or IMS meths. The stuff you get from Mitre 10 is denatured and contains a certain amount of water. The IMS stuff doesnt have the water in it and isnt denatured. I get mine from a furniture restoration joint here in Adelaide. IMS grade meths discussed at leng...

Allen, you'll have to come down here to get your beer. Accomodation, food and beer however will be laid on.

Didnt they have any purple paint at the hardware store?

Classical number 3. Im not adventurous when it comes to classicals...at the moment Im concentrating on basic building skills and comparing different tops. No 1 was Sitka, No 2 was Lutz and this one is Englemann. No 2 had Hauser style bracing and hasnt yet been strung up....it needs bridge attached.

Shop owner throws till at robber A teenager who allegedly held a broken bottle to a Tahunanui store-owner's face on Saturday got more than he asked for when Terrance Sharpe threw his cash register at him. Mr Sharpe told the Nelson Mail on Monday morning about his dramatic response to a would-be thie...

Progress pics of the latest build...a vanilla flavoured Torres based classical. Going to a friend over in Sydney. Top is Englmann Spruce from Graham Hein...its as stiff as. Sides and back are opp grade IRW from allied and neck is Spanish Cypress which came from Gilet Guitars. Bracing is Englemann fr...

Welcome to the forum Youve got a few choices....you can go for one radius for entire length of the fretboard or a compound radius. I graduate radius on my steel string fretboards from 9 1/2' through 12' through to 16' radius from nut to soundhole. I divide the fretboard roughly into thirds and radiu...

Did jack sh*t this weekend.....glued in two braces on a classical and spent the rest of the weekend pulling out weeds in the garden. Watered the garden on Sunday morning and on Sunday afternoon it rained.

I use mainly ebony and for only one reason.....IT'S BLACK!!

Looking good there Dom.

I notice youre using that blue coloured non slip matting. I was just reading a post over on the OLF where someone had problems with silicon based mold release agent left on some of these matts causing problems with finishing. Lillian I think put up the post.

Cheers Martin

Hardness, dimensional stability, proneness to splitting.

This weeks special at Allied includes a couple of 1000 unit lots of RW fretboards (A and B grade) going for $US2000 each. Thats $2US per board base price.

Anyone interested in the mother of all group buys?

With all due respect if Alvarez are selling "hand made" guitars for $299US then I dont know how the hell they hope to make a profit out of the exercise.

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Some wood headed woody from the east coast must have pounced on the thing.

Your computer has anthrax?

Thats cracking fast service Bob.....wish some of the local suppliers here were that fast at getting orders out. Thanks again to the two Bobs...this is definitely getting your two bob's worth My sincere thanks to all that participated in the Cocobolo group buy. The order left today via USPS and shoul...

This guitar retails for US$299 new in the US. Details as follows: The AD60K features Figured Dao on all body surfaces, back, sides and top with an equally stunning Rosewood fingerboard. The body and neck are bound in a white/black multi-layer motif with a White Pearl rosette. The Alvarez Artist Seri...

Someone had to operate the on/off switch on the CNC machine.

Sold...

Allen,

If its going to minimise delays to the order then Ill fork out for Sebastiaans and AP's order and they can square up with me when convenient.

Sebastiaan/AP...let me know if this is okay with you guys.

Cheers Martin

Sometimes I wonder who has the bigger obsession about shagging sheep.....you Ozzies certainly spend alot more time talking about it then the poor old Kiwis.

I guess some people talk about doing something while others just go and do it!!

Nah..the dunny is the only place in my house where you can read more than half a page without being interrupted by SWMBO.