Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Gerry Coon wrote:Sexy...! Tailpiece looks suspicious though. How does it work?

Suspicious? Like it stole something?

There's three holes per string. It works the same as an 18 hole classical guitar bridge.

A single tricone, is that the oxymoron for the day? :D The cone and biscuit are a national resophonic ukulele cone/biscuit from elderly. The coverplate is from republic guitars, although national sell these too. I added a custom tailpiece/string anchor as I was unhappy with the way the republic ones...

Little kluson copies Jim.

The only build pic I could find Miguel

I've been very busy lately building a website and learning photo editing but have somehow found time to complete another resonator uke. This is a tenor scale resonator uke featuring: Cone: National Body woods: Spalted white cedar Neck: Spanish Cedar Fretboard: Curly Aust. blackwood Bindings: Curly A...

Provided the cracks are not going anywhere, I wouldn't be filling them with anything. Maybe just a light bit of blond shellac to seal any raw wood.

it's nice but with a 3hp single phase motor costing around the same as 1 x brand new in the box, not installed, 3 phase power outlet, Cheers Kim Where on Earth do you shop? Where can I get one of these $70 3hp motors? A mate of mine is a sparky turned electrical engineer working at designing circui...

Kim wrote:it's nice but with a 3hp single phase motor costing around the same as 1 x brand new in the box, not installed, 3 phase power outlet,

Cheers

Kim

Where on Earth do you shop? Where can I get one of these $70 3hp motors?

I wouldn't use that top piece of Blackwwod in the cutaway area either.

Get the guru to articulate the actual problem. You don't need to understand it but if he can't write the problem down so that an average electrician can understand it I'd be getting a second opinion.

kiwigeo wrote:Stumbled

Hilarious.

I certainly think it's worth while to search out alternative timbers, it's just that if they don't stack up, I won't pretend that they do.

As I said, cypress certainly floats my boat for back and sides.

Hi Liam, may I ask which exactly was the problem? Way too floppy both across and along the grain. Had to leave it thick and therefore heavy. The instrument sounded ok but not great. When spruce and cedar and other timbers are so readily available and work so much better it's a bit of a no contest. ...

I've used it for a uke soundboard. I wont make that mistake again.

How's your drafting Alan? I don't think there'd be any complaints if you did up a set of plans.

Well I hope you're not going to stop hanging around the forum? You'd be sorely missed.

Edit: It is of course April 1st, so I'm waiting with baited breath for the punch line.

I'm keen to have a go at one of these in the near future. Bob, what are the dimensions on those braces?

The joy of being a uke builder is that they fit in a standard woodworkers vice

I've got the same species of dust bunny hiding in my guitars.

I'd love to get one of these too but the shipping cost is a little hard to swallow.

An overly expensive, overly complicated solution replicating something thousands of teenagers can do at home. Pretty much exactly what I'd expect from a ginger beer.

I used to set out and cut my uke fretboards (in a mitre box) by hand. One day I lined two or three hand cut boards up against each other and they didn't line up at all. After that I got a template and not long after that a table saw.

Which one holds tighter?

Awesome. And Elmore James is for any time of day, any day of the week.

I've never heard an argument against repurposing old ivory that made any logical sense and wasn't rooted in emotional (non)reasoning.

The elephants would probably not be upset if you used it.

Here's a tenor uke I've had on the go for a little while. It's ziricote and lutz spruce with maple trim. The fretboard and moustache bridge are in ebony. The neck is spanish cedar. I kinda feel like all the hard work is starting to pay off. Photography credits go to the man who can't not do anything...