Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Tantellones in..... Yes....those outer fan struts are a bit closer to the sides than I would have liked. Shouldnt be a big problem as the top is thinned towards the periphery of the lower bout. http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/19_IMGP4150_1.jpg http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/19_IMGP4152_1.jpg

The last one lights my fire.

Apparently sales of semi automatic fire arms have sky rocketed.....for some reason people think they should be armed if Obama gets in as President. Same thing happened when Clinton got in.

I use the credit card on back and sides. If youre going with the grain and the sides arent perfectly flat then you can get uneveness.

Grant youll need a minimum of two coats of full strength Zpoxy. On my last guitar I did three neat coats and then a 50/50 wash coat wiped on with a cloth. As already stated I sand all coats back to bare wood. You need to first decide if youre going to do this or your end aim is a smooth coat of zpox...

Got the ribs glued in today.....no major problems. I still think I could have stuck a few more clamps on that butt block. Tomorrow....I stick in ze tantellones!

I dry sand zpoxy prior to french polishing. I take it down to bare wood but others just lightly level off the zpoxy.

Jaco Patorius ripped the frets out of his P bass and then gave the whole fretboard a coat of marine epoxy....rough as guts but it did the trick Many thanks for all that info Kim. It's given me an idea :idea: Failing Larry's Acrylisation method , What if I flood The fretboard surface with thin C.A. ?...

Yes this is for the vanilla Torres...or "Doctor Ruby's Classical" as it has become officially known.

Great tutorial but only one criticism.....the glass should be full of Guiness

Made a bit of progress on the current build in between domestic duties and a long Geologists Lunch. Pics are of the right hand rib being bent....went alot easier than the left rib which started splitting around the waist. A little bit here.....(pre lunch) http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/19_IMGP4...

Bugger the double......just ask 'em to hand over the bottle. Drinking from a glass is for pansies.....drink straight from the bottle and it saves on a whole lot of washing up.

All I can suggest is some large fretboard material....dont know of any instrument with a fretboard over 1m in length. Matthew might know of a source of long pieces of ebony.

Sam, I suspect smokey coloured eggs are a phenomenon perculiar to Wales. I believe foxes are a big problem in Wales and as a result people there often take their chooks with them when they head off down to the local for a pint. Just a word about egg whites...some egg whites have a bit of tint in the...

If you cant be blowed making a featherboard then youd better get one of these:

Only if you want to pop the grain. You could try using egg whites as a seizing agent as Colin does. I dont bother with Zpoxy on my spruce tops....I french polish them all the way. Does anyone think a washcoat or full strength of Z-poxy be a good way to go on the top? cheers thanks a million everyone.

Keep the cap on the bottle and dont stock pile the stuff. I buy a couple of bottles at a time and if the bottle doesnt get cracked after a few months it gets relegated to window cleaning duty. If as Paul says the stuff has benzene in it then keep it off your hands. Ive been merrily french polishing ...

It wouldnt be hard to modify this method to allow for the slight angle that fan braces usually intersect the bridge patch. Im incredibly anal and use a bevel measurement taken off the brace line on the soundboard to get the notch perfect. It wouldnt be hard to transfer this bevel measurement to the ...

Seb, Most of the famous makers introduced their own variations on Torres' designs....eg number of fan braces, slanting tone bars, carrying outter fan braces through to waist area etc. A Vanilla Torres is one with 7 fan braces, upper and lower cross braces and an upper transverse brace. Cheers Martin

Grant what youre after is technical grade or IMS meths. The stuff you get from Mitre 10 is denatured and contains a certain amount of water. The IMS stuff doesnt have the water in it and isnt denatured. I get mine from a furniture restoration joint here in Adelaide. IMS grade meths discussed at leng...

Allen, you'll have to come down here to get your beer. Accomodation, food and beer however will be laid on.

Didnt they have any purple paint at the hardware store?

Classical number 3. Im not adventurous when it comes to classicals...at the moment Im concentrating on basic building skills and comparing different tops. No 1 was Sitka, No 2 was Lutz and this one is Englemann. No 2 had Hauser style bracing and hasnt yet been strung up....it needs bridge attached.

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Progress pics of the latest build...a vanilla flavoured Torres based classical. Going to a friend over in Sydney. Top is Englmann Spruce from Graham Hein...its as stiff as. Sides and back are opp grade IRW from allied and neck is Spanish Cypress which came from Gilet Guitars. Bracing is Englemann fr...