Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

After a bit of reading I decided to go with Titebond original which I have used before. I ended up buying a bottle of Liquid hide and used it to glue the new bone nut into the job. Hopefully the bond will break easily for the next bloke who has to remove it.

currently refretting an old Gibson explorer and tossing up whether to use LHG instead of CA gel I usually use. Reason is the CA is tricky if you get it on the Gibson finish. It is easily dissolved by acetone I have used Titebond original in the past for this reasonj.

Any one used LHG?

i've used both and they are similar. in the boards ive had the fiji tends to have more swirly grain and the african a bit denser with ribbon patterning.. I have used the African for a few necks with excellent results

personally I like CA gel. Used Weldon a few times and didn't bond with it :lol: even bought a couple of large tubes which I bought at a plastics place out Braeside way. It still sits unopened in a drawer in the workshop/ The CA can be a little challenging at first and after you glue your fingers to ...

I've used staples shot in from a hand powered staple gun and nipped off with pinchers leaving tiny little teeth to hold things from sliding. Whenever I've done it though I've wondered about them rusting and staining the veneer after a few years. It's been my practice to use titebond. Using epoxy as ...

I need to glue 4 layers of veneer to the back of a head stock. The caul has been created and matches the curve at the head stock to neck transition pretty well. There will eventually be a carved volute similar to this one I did late last year so there is a curve that the veneer needs to fit. http://...

nice to see an electric build -
might be worth while reading this http://www.wood-database.com/sweetgum/ before you get too much further with the neck.

impressing fellow travelers in the Qantas lounge or trying to mathematically model the universe. hee hee - just making sure you blokes know that 90% of available resources is used just to get windows on the screen - as long as what's left does the work you need its all good - i've re-purposed many ...

yep this is a cheap laptop or notebook as they are more rightly called. It's running an ancient processor on an end of life mainboard bundled in a substandard case. The OS it is running requires approximately 6 - 8 times the processing power and memory available . This machine is an excuse to sell a...

I use a piece of brass bar .015" - .025" thick by about !/2" wide across the back of the pocket to get the neck angle right if necessary. Ive seen bits of cigarette packet, sandpaper, credit card etc etc. Never really noticed a difference in tone or sustain. It is my belief that good compression in ...

Ray, a compensated saddle is fine for most of the fretboard but the lower frets will still not be correctly intonated with just a compensated saddle. Having setup many 100's of nuts and bridges on electric guitars I find chords in farmers corner very sweet when I'm done. Certainly you can go over t...

I have bought bar from these blokes a couple of times - not sure what the spec is but its very tough stuff
http://www.carbonfiber.com.au/index.htm

looking great as usual rod

best i found is shellite [naptha] which is cheap and available anywhere. it will clean off pretty much any crap and and i see a lot of very cruddy old electrics through here. It does not damage old or new finishes or plating. it evaporates quickly and sometimes will leave a residue which is a whiff ...

Woodsy23 wrote:My experience with Stewmac is that they will send replacements for defective parts, no questions asked. Worth a try, even if the order was large.

I did request replacement and they sent more of the same

any one buy wood from here?
http://parekhexports.co.in/home
looking at bringing in a small lot of fingerboards - I have bought quite a few from s***m*c in the past but the last lot were rubbish

If you are employing some other form of intelligence to do the work, isn't that the same as buying it from a supplier. anyone who's had anything to with computers would know that there is no "other form of intelligence" involved in computer driven machinery. in fact a computer has no more intellige...

My definition would be built entirely by one person. As soon as tasks are let out to others you have lost touch with an instrument. As far as using power tools would a potter for arguments sake using an electric wheel still be making hand made pots? To be fair you would have to say yes. A luthier us...

Truss rod in the neck in progress atm snapped - just glued on the fingerboard - luckily it failed its first test and not the 5th or 10th - seemed ok when i give it a good twist prior to installing it. I have some coming from LMI maybe two weeks or so away but I really need to get on with this job sm...

turns out richard has a pretty good reputation in america

Langridges are still making pigments for the art trade and unlikely to dry up any time soon. Finest quality in many many colours. buy these at any serious art shop - you might be surprised at what other useful things you'll you'll find when you go to one

anybody had experience buying from this mob?
http://www.rarewoodsandveneers.com/

that would be guitar porn i spose

btw it would probly go pretty well with linux mint loaded

the advice on stabilising the edges with CA is good. if you get lacquer on the fingerboard it usually will scrape off with a razor I usually leave some lacquer pooled on a waxy bit of paper and once it goes off you have a thickish chunk of it. It can be lifted off and sliced into small pieces that c...

main thing is not to overthink things - Leo was a man of action and expedience and that was the key to the success of this particular design - Use what is at hand and if it is top quality and built carefully it'll work. here's a decent layout of a model T neck i PDF format - if you get that printed ...