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Now that is a good use of waste

Hey Steve, Beautiful guitar, sounds great. Keep up the inspirational work, great for armature builders like myself to aspire to.

Great looking and the accolades suggest sounding beautiful Uke. Wonderful testimont to your craftsmanship.
Andrew

Hi, I add this only because the discussion on chisels gets to hard and soft in terms of edge retention. Done some hardness testing in my shop with a rockwell tester and find Irwin, Narex, Robert Sorby and a Japanese set I bought from Southern Tone Woods are all in the vacinity of 60HRC (within 1 or ...

What a lovely guitar. Great work Remi. Love the little unique touches you have added.

Very nice Wayne. Oh for a workshop!!

Beautiful as usual Peter. Very tastefully done.

Only a newbie here Alan. Have you tried putting a drop of water on the tear out> Have had success with it on a couple of deep dings on a top. I used demieralised water. Had to do it about 3 times before it raised sufficiently.

Well done Joel, Looks great!!

Great job Jim, Love to build one of these myself.
Got a sound sample?

Hi Robbie,
A question in regards to this video. That was a restoration and I guess hide glue would be the glue of choice? Is this system fast enough for that process?

Hi Steve,
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
However not for the customer or your brand in this case...
Might need to publish the serial numbers and guitars you have made on your website. At least you will have made a genuine attempt to stop the fakes.

Andrew

Hi Wayne,
What a beautiful build. Is it a semi hollow like a 335? Love to hear how the P90's sound in it.
Thanks Andrew

Hi Steve, We were successful in manufacturing. Applied for it on grounds of completely hands free manufacture process for a part of our production and totally paperless workshop. Got the former, not the latter. It is a lot of work. We have a fulltime accountant who put it together and also used a co...

Beautiful work Trent.

"To further clarify, i certainly wasn't meaning as a pro vs amateur thing, in fact what i was proposing would include everyone who was a registered user on this forum."

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding
Cheers
Andrew

I guess the question from me, a non luthier would be do you and the the other luthiers keep input into both the pro-forum and amateur-forum. I can't speak for others but I don't expect to get anything for free and if my questions to the forum lead me to get the outcome I desired I make effort to get...

Hi Steve, really nice work there. Thanks for sharing.

Notice you are in Perth. I'm in Sorrento WA are you close?

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2021. Lets hope this vaccine works...

Hi Trevor what a great guitar and video demo. love it!

Question: So would all edges have the radius of the arm on them and if so, does it matter?

Hi Ric, Was concerned about the cost myself, did some research and found what was readily available in Perth WA. Then went to the local bearing supplier and bought the closest bearing to the size required. The 2mm step was easy as the 22mm cutter and 18mm outer dia of bearing was easy to get. For th...

WOW impressive! A wise friend told me its a notifiable disease (luthiery that is) so is wood collecting by the looks of it.

Thanks for sharing Allen, these gems are so valuable to armatures like me.

great balance to the build Peter.