Search found 193 matches
- Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Neck Taper
- Replies: 16
- Views: 24086
Re: Neck Taper
For some reason the safety planers make me feel a little uneasy.... The safety planer wont throw you across the room if you try a climbing cut like a router will. Lower the cutter by a few mms with each pass and pay attention to the direction you run the neck blank past the cutter and you won't hav...
- Sun Oct 03, 2021 5:34 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Craig Lavin video
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3050
Re: Craig Lavin video
Thanks for sharing.
I have recently got into marquetry and this was a very useful pointer. Unfortunately I don’t use much ebony, my woods are lighter so they require more precision, I think, as back filling will be easier to see.
I have recently got into marquetry and this was a very useful pointer. Unfortunately I don’t use much ebony, my woods are lighter so they require more precision, I think, as back filling will be easier to see.
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:28 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bandsaw recommendations
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21550
Re: Bandsaw recommendations
+1 for Martins comment on dust extraction.
Without it your workshop will fill up completely in minutes.
Without it your workshop will fill up completely in minutes.
- Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:31 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bandsaw recommendations
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21550
Re: Bandsaw recommendations
I have an Axminster saw similar to the Record one you listed, it was cheap and is still running quite well. The downside of cheap is setting it up accurately, getting it to run smooth and parallel to the fence is an issue occasionally. If the opportunity cost of buying a better bandsaw is forgoing a...
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 3:18 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Video tutes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6100
Re: Video tutes
I bet those videos are going to be brilliant Steve. I’m sure we all look forward to watching them. I had the same idea myself a while back, I got a few iPods recording work from different angles and edited them all with Final Cut Pro. It’s amazing how much work goes into them and annoying how easily...
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:36 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Member
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6166
Re: New Member
Humidity is the invisible enemy! The goal is to match the Relative Humidity in your workshop to the RH in the room where the instrument will live. The ideal is to store your timber in the room where the guitar will spend its days. Takes the wood out when it is being worked on and bring it back to se...
- Sun Jul 25, 2021 7:10 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Beginners question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6243
Re: Beginners question
I like to notch in my Xbrace and upper transverse brace into my kerfing. The main benefit for me is that it makes lining up the plates a doddle when I have to glue the sides to the top. Some well respected luthiers believe that this is essential if the braces are to act efficiently on the soundboard...
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:41 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Stewmac Intonator
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4618
Re: Stewmac Intonator
A bit of brass block combined with the M3 bolts works just fine. A version to suit Trevor’s bridge design would just need the bolts to be longer at the Outside strings, the brass block could easily sit behind the D and G pegs as there is very little forward pressure. £10 worth of parts, bit of work ...
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 6:14 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Stewmac Intonator
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4618
Re: Stewmac Intonator
The intonator is designed for straight pin patterns and works beautifully. I take a photo of the finish positions and translate this to my saddle. I didn’t buy an intonator, I built my own out of brass bits and Bobs, it’s easy enough to do this I looked for the following on eBay M3 M4 SCREW DOOR HAN...
- Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: How do you profile your bridge?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7437
Re: How do you profile your bridge?
Page 20-8 in the Build book. Make a convex sanding form by either laminating veneers into the top dish that you used (then dress any spring-back by sanding in the dish) or just sand a block from scratch in the dish. I start with 80 grit and it never takes very long (no more than 5 minutes total) to...
- Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:24 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: How do you profile your bridge?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7437
How do you profile your bridge?
I have always loathed profiling the underside of my bridges to match the dome of my sound boards, I think I always will, unless someone can tell me an easier way. My set up so far is to hang the guitar by the sound board using a clamp and some stilts, lay down some 120 grit and grind…. And grind ……a...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tear out
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6869
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:25 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tear out
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6869
Re: Tear out
Gentlemen, thank you very much for the advice, I agree that filling it with splinters will always look bad, I will seek out some water colour pencils.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
- Thu Jul 01, 2021 6:10 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tear out
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6869
Tear out
In a moment of absent minded stupidity I pulled off some binding tape to quickly and took strands of the soundboard off with it. The missing fibres also got damaged. The tear out is too deep to sand out and I’m fresh out of good ideas for fixing it invisibly. I have tried repeating the tear out on l...
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:12 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Vacuum clamping bridges
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14904
Re: Vacuum clamping bridges
Vacuums are powerful things. How do you stop the guitar from imploding? Do you put in violin style sound pegs?
- Fri Jun 04, 2021 5:59 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Neck extension
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4495
Re: Neck extension
That Godin vidéo was amazing! I simultaneously found myself wanting all of his tools/machines and none at exactly the same time. The controls he has for consistency were enviable. Just imagine having a machine that would radius your fingerboard at the same time a slotting and drilling. A whole day s...
- Wed May 05, 2021 5:58 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Voicing a Soundboard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3365
Voicing a Soundboard
I know its a dark art and I know that there are no answers but ......... I want an answer. :D I have build a soundboard with standard X-Brace spruce. I am pretty near my optimal point but I have an anomaly that I can't quite make sense of. The X is scalloped, as opposed to tapered with peaks around ...
- Sat Apr 24, 2021 4:34 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Logo on the back
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3055
Re: Logo on the back
Great link thank you
Dave is just chronicling a build of a fender telecaster on this forum, I noticed the logo moved to the front again. I shall ask him there.
https://acousticsoundboard.co.uk/thread ... est?page=1
Dave is just chronicling a build of a fender telecaster on this forum, I noticed the logo moved to the front again. I shall ask him there.
https://acousticsoundboard.co.uk/thread ... est?page=1
- Sat Apr 24, 2021 5:36 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Logo on the back
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3055
Logo on the back
Logo on the back I’ve just inlayed my PG logo in woods onto the back of an acoustic guitar and I think the results will look fantastic when the box is completed. The back of a guitar is so much more personal than the front, the face is something for the entire audience to admire, the grain pattern i...
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:45 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Pore filling methods question (non-epoxy preferred)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13966
Re: Pore filling methods question (non-epoxy preferred)
If you don't want to use epoxy and I don't blame you, Mark's suggestion of timbermate is a good alternative, I've got aquacoat here and I don't like it at all maybe I'm using it wrong although I don't see how you can. The shellac method is pretty labour intensive, ok for young guys with good should...
- Sun Apr 18, 2021 6:35 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: First steel string build - Martin 5 style small guitar
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4781
Re: First steel string build - Martin 5 style small guitar
Compensate the saddle. The guitar has taken a lot of effort and looks great by the way, the least you should do now is make the notes sound close to perfect. Stew Mac make the Intonator which is brilliant for getting your saddle spot on. You can easily make one yourself. https://www.stewmac.com/luth...
- Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:13 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Pore filling methods question (non-epoxy preferred)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13966
Re: Pore filling methods question (non-epoxy preferred)
Just your regular mix for shellac is fine. I agree with you Mark, it should be the first question, wood is beautiful, do I need to make it look like plastic? For me there is something about the darker woods, Rosewood et al, that lend themselves naturally to a high gloss, the lighter woods , lacewood...
- Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:02 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Pore filling methods question (non-epoxy preferred)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13966
Re: Pore filling methods question (non-epoxy preferred)
My preferred method is shellac and wood dust. The dust is the sanded down end grain from the leftover back and sides so the colour is perfect. I then mix them into a very very fluid paste on a plastic board and rub it in with my finger. It’s relatively simple to sand back, it does take at least two ...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Falcate Classical #2 Build (in NZ)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25280
Re: Falcate Classical #2 Build (in NZ)
My linings have been around 5mm thick. If I were to make mine 10mm thick then I would effectively lose 65 square centimetres of vibrating plate all the way around the guitar. I wonder whether this ‘loss’ would be balanced out by the ‘gain’ of the soundboard sitting on a much more rigid set of lining...
- Sat Apr 10, 2021 3:42 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Falcate Classical #2 Build (in NZ)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25280
Re: Falcate Classical #2 Build (in NZ)
Love your super thick linings John, that should give a real sturdy rim for the soundboard to vibrate off, how big are they? They look 10mm wide and 25mm deep. Have you thought about using cocktail stick instead of panel pins to line up your fretboard? You won’t have to worry about removal afterwards...