Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

He hasn't been on the forum for yonks!
Does anyone know if he's OK or just got the shits with us?
I've had a PM to him sitting in my Outbaox since September.

G'day Nick.
I too have perused your website & youtube posts over the past whatever time it's been.
Glad you've decided to join us.
Grab a coldie & pull up a seat!

Oh, & like the the others have said - talk about eye candy!!

Gee, those bottles are big!!

I recently had a rather enjoyable half hour playing this fine instrument in the hallowed halls of Parliament House. While noodling away on a bit of The Oils 'No Reaction', I started to wonder if Pete would poke his dome in through the doorway & give us a dance. :lol: You've done well with this one B...

My ukulele club (Ukulele Republic of Canberra -URoC) is attending and performing at the festival.
Unfortunately I can't join them, so I can't join you guys either
Have fun though!

Had a few fingerboards to cut today so I decided to give this little jig a try-out on my 'well behaved' bandsaw. I had to do a bit of setup first. The fence needed to be extended out front & back as did the table surface. So I added on a straight piece of Tassie Oak & some mdf scrap and all was read...

HOT, HOT, HOT

That's a Matthew Artinger effort.
http://www.artingerguitar.com
Been a fan of his headstocks since way back when.
Yet to try anythig like them yet though.

Freshwater Ukuleles wrote:...preferably the Northern Beaches area..

I take it your in Harbord?
There's got to be somewhere in Brookvale that'd have it, surely.
(and I've seen it it Bunnings here in Canberra as well)

All class Jeremy. Did you use the Hard Shellac for this one?

Crikey!!!

Post a message/question at the bottom of the page.
All who think to buy will see it.

Yeah Nick, I had to get clarifaction on that as well.
My initial design had a pair of "bush coconuts" (from the bloodwood tree) supported in a flimsy sling of macramed spinifex grass.
Apparantly I had the wrong idea......

It wasn't just the odd uke that I was called on to create during my stay in Alice Springs. Just another way I've enjoyed making my little mark in this world. I used central australian timbers mostly (gidgee, mulga & desert oak) with a pillar of ebony inlaid with figured mulga. The top of the pillars...

Ive been searching and found some electronic devices that monitor temp and humidity, they then via alarms switch independant devices on and off to maintain. This is what I do for a living. Present & past clients include.... - National Archives of Australia - National Museum of Australia - National ...

If I made a list of the dollar value of every workshop item & piece of tonewood..... and my wife saw it.... I think she'd send me to the grave.

My brother-in-law has spent his life forging & casting for a living. His hobby used to be making anvils. For reasons that will sound familiar, he gave it away. Seems people weren't prepared to pay the cost of a high quality, personally built, item when they could buy a cheap overseas made one. I jus...

You can drink Guinness through a straw

Yeah, but how would you 'finish' the 'date' properly?

get a small party balloon and inflate it in there That's what I do whenever I spray a finish - even works for 'f' holes. Incidently, I 'discovered' the washboard effect when I first stared using shellac. I thought I had a problem, turns out I didn't. Done 12 instruments this way now. http://www.anz...

Thanks Graham, I'll take you up on that offer.
Just got to find the time to drop around. (Having a day job again really sucks!)

Another approach I saw was to extend the upper bout further up the bass side of the fretboard.
this looked a little odd, but not too bad & added some volume to the body without increasing the lower bout dimensions.

Thanks Bob, the wedge has certainly been in my thoughts. Could any of you bass players here consider how your wrist position would be with an angled top & let me know what you think. Would it make a difference? good/bad? I've also been thinking along the lines of an archtop, where around 5" can be a...

Thanks Dom, I was going to start a "help me" thread anyway. My client is a professional musician, a product of the Australian School of Music here in Canberra, but is based in Sydney earning a living gigging & teaching. He's a true bassman, being just as accomplished on the Doubble Bass as on a Fend...

Hi, my name is Craig, and I'm a luthier-holic. I started out as just a recreational abuser in 2005, spending the odd weekend doodling with tools I didn't really understand & timber I understood even less. Quicker than I thought it became addictive. I started thinking about it at work, spending my ti...

There was beer??? Where??? When?????? Damn!