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- Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Heres "Madeleine"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15201
Taffy, she is an absolute beauty. I love the customized detail which has just the right amount of restraint for my taste. Especially the end grain inlay and the one on the heel cap. I bet the guy will be stoked! He won't swap it for another D-35 in a million years. Please tell us more about how you ...
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:41 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Project PIG the F1-11 'Matey'
- Replies: 101
- Views: 89209
Fantastic thread Kim. Thanks for taking us on the journey. The end result is a fantastic retro guitar, and you have taught us all heaps. I am impressed by your inventiveness and vision. In years to come someone is going to get hold of that guitar and sing the praises of the old Maton factory for mak...
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:15 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Project PIG the F1-11 'Matey'
- Replies: 101
- Views: 89209
Thanks for this thread Kim. It has been fascinating and taught me a lot too. I have a Taylor Big Baby with a a similar neck joint - no heel and 2 screws straight through the fingerboard and into the headblock at the 16th fret. It makes the guitar a lot lighter and helps with access to the higher fre...
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:43 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Some Stinkin Guitars
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17471
Far out! I'm sitting here with my sunday morning coffee and you give me that as a wake up message. Hesh, that is one eye-popping collection of guitar flesh. You do stunning work mate. A match of beautiful woods to great classic designs. What is that dark coloured top (no, not the black one) - is it ...
- Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:52 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What's On Your Bench?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 51215
- Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Murphy's Law
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3724
- Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:26 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: a molly duker
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7638
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:24 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Autumn Leaves II
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6583
- Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:27 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: radius dish in oz
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5945
- Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:00 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Cool New Material
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7488
OK, I am starting to get interested. Dom - that is a nice looking top. What width did you use for the rosette, 0.047" or 0.064"? Have you put a black strip alongside the flexi-shell stuff or is that black accent part of the product? Does it have hard or flexible sides? If it has a little bit of give...
- Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:41 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: numero uno
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13479
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:27 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: here is my #2
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22089
Dominic You asked about the soundhole binding. I followed the technique that Nigel Forster shows in this Youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f_t-wGo30o&feature=related The top was about 3mm in thickness and I added a reinforcement ring around the soundhole instead of using popsicle soundh...
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:24 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: On Y'r Blocks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8359
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:40 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: here is my #2
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22089
Thanks for the encouragement folks. I will definitely lose the pickguard. I play fingerstyle anyway so I don't really need one. Nick - the L-00 is a great classic Gibson small body style that has been around since the 1920s in various guises. I think the shape is nice but some of them sound a bit we...
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:53 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Number 2 Finally Finished
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18030
Hi Ricardo, I love your number 2. The timber choices are very elegant and the headstock veneers are a really nice touch. What did you use in the rosette? It looks nice but I can't get a good enough look to work it out. Great work. Will you be starting number 3 soon? This gets really addictive doesn'...
- Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:55 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: here is my #2
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22089
here is my #2
Last week I finished my number 2 build. I learned lots more making this one and I think it is a much better guitar than my first effort. I still have a long way to go, but this is becoming a lot of fun. Thanks so much to everyone on this forum for sharing your hard-earned knowledge. It is a 13-fret ...
- Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:37 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Saddle Slot Routing Jig
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11902
- Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Thicknessing by hand
- Replies: 47
- Views: 36132
The Wagner Safe-T-planer is a very cost effective (<$50) way of getting backs, sides and soundboards close to final thickness, then you complete the job with a cabinet scraper. It is very easy to use if you have a drill press, faster and less effort than hand planing, and minimal risk of tearout on ...
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:28 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tim Nicol - Soprano Ukulele number 2
- Replies: 22
- Views: 20693
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:18 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Zpoxy warning discovered-so what now?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13754
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:47 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: rookie mistake?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16640
Sorry Jeremy. We mean the same thing but we are using different words. Here is a picture just to be sure. These are maple with BWB purfling. If you arrange them like this you will get the right orientation of the strips after bending. I put two strips of tape close together on either side of the are...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:56 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Zpoxy warning discovered-so what now?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13754
Why are we so sold on pore filling anyway? It was Bob Taylor who said, "A long time ago, some guy figured out that if you keep spraying and sanding a guitar, you can make it really shiny. We need to exhume that guy and shoot him!" Most guitar buyers now think that an instrument should have a finish ...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:34 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What's you your workbench?
- Replies: 203
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- Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:29 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: rookie mistake?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16640
Sorry, I should have been clearer in my description. I did mean stacking them. If you have strips of 2mm thick and 6mm high it will be a stack of 2mm X 24mm. That way they all get exposure to the same heat but the increased bulk is a bit stiffer - it makes you slow down and avoid over flexing them. ...
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:31 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: rookie mistake?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16640
I don't know about that timber, and I do it on a bending iron. But in my limited experience with cocobolo, mahogany and koa I have found it best to tape all 4 of your bindings together and bend them in one go. When I try one at a time they snap like twigs. Lay all 4 on the bench. If they have purfli...