Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

My latest Luthier Tips du Jour video is now on Youtube. This one is about using the Safe-T-Planer to thickness bakcs and sides.

Enjoy!

Click here to see the Safe-T Planer video

Jeez Robbie.....for a while I thought you were going to fold that side in half!! I love the way youve got the guys in the background spending what seems like a lot of time mucking around getting set up on their bending form while in the foreground the Maestro quickly whacks out a fully bent side on...

Allen wrote:That looked pretty easy Robbie. Looks like you bent the bouts dry? And that was a good tip about the wet rag. I'm going to be using that one from now on.

It is not as difficult as people think.
I bent the sides dry except for that wet paper towel on the waist and that is to keep it from scorching.

Thanks Sebastiaan. The gloves are just leather work gloves.

I just uploaded my latest Luthier Tips du Jour video to Youtube.
This one is about side bending by hand.

side bending by hand

Enjoy!

Robbie

I have been working on a new project called luthier Tips du Jour. These are small instructional videos hosted on Youtube. I have a couple up already and will be producing and uploading more as time permits. Here are the links: Thickness Sanding Scrapers You can subscribe to my Youtube channel and be...

I am pleased to announce that the fine folks at LMI and Stewart Macdonald are going to sponsor the lutherie courses at Red Rocks Community College in Colorado. Stewart Macdonald has made a sizeable financial contribution and LMI, like John Hall, is making a sizeable donation in the form or merchandi...

Recently I asked John Hall if he would be willing to sponsor the Red Rocks Community College Lutherie Department were myself and others offer building, finishing and repair courses. John was enthusiastic about the idea from the start. Today I arrived home from the school and there were three large b...

Steve,

I visted your web site. It was a very enjoyable experience. Congratulations on a job well done!

You got it! This is very useful information.
Thanks.

Bob, Your end wedge thread got me thinking about another idea for the forum. I particpate in a Brazilian guitar building forum too and they have put together a thread on tonewoods in Brazil. There is a picture and some properties about each species. Maybe someone in Australia, perhaps a tonewood dea...

Very Inspirational!

Tap tuning...hum, where do I begin? This subject I address thoroughly in my guitar building classes. Like Mike said, it is very advantageous to have another 15 or 20 tops to tap throughout a semester. It takes some guys years to be able to have this type of experience. It is fairly easy to understan...

I can vouch for this bloke named Mike. He walked into one of my classes at Red Rocks College in Colorado a few years ago and has done such excellent work that I asked him to be my teaching assistant. He then started teaching the electric guitar building class. His classes are very popular. We just l...

Thank you Bob for graciously allowing me to post this here. I have just started an invitation only google chat room. It is open to anyone who has taken one or more of my classes or anyone who has one of my DVD's. I use this chat room to talk about my current and past classes as well as any upcoming ...

Wow! Thanks for the welcome everyone and the glowing review by Gregory. BTW, I have asked Gregory to be one of my teaching assistants for the upcoming Fall semester. He does some fine work. I am glad to hear that my DVD's are being useful. For those wanting to take your building to the next level, I...

Howdy folks. I heard about this forum from one of my students, Gregory Fulgham. He recently posted some pics of his tiger myrtle classical that his is building in one of my advanced guitar building courses. I recognize a few of the names here. My name is Robert O'Brien, some also know me as Robbie. ...