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- Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Martin Parlor design queries
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1441
Re: Martin Parlor design queries
I did a parlour build a few years ago and arched the top....30 foot radius from memory
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Top Deflection rig
- Replies: 41
- Views: 76839
Re: Top Deflection rig
Welcome to the forum David, Yes I recall spending hours on your website back when I started building...the site was and still is a great source of information. Aloha from Hawaii, It's so interesting to me to see how mainstream measuring top deflections of various sorts has become since I first tried...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Nut files modified.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2341
Re: Nut files modified.
Theyre bldi expensive those files. I use the Japanese files and run them through a piece of candle to lubricate them while cutting slots.
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Installation of the LR Baggs Hi Fi and Lyric Microphone Custom Blend System on new Guitar Build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 38034
Re: Installation of the LR Baggs Hi Fi and Lyric Microphone Custom Blend System on new Guitar Build
Thanks Wayne for some excellent detailed guides
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: When not working on guitars...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 122359
Re: When not working on guitars...
I don't think it fair that I should be saddled with that responsibility.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Notches for braces in the rims
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4044
Re: Notches for braces in the rims
I thin ends of my main transverse braces down to 2mm and run them through the sides.....as per Gore and Gilets books.
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:58 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: When not working on guitars...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 122359
Re: When not working on guitars...
Careful what you say.....we don't want a cross braceTaffy Evans wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:50 amHi, i'll put that comment to one side and try to get on top of things....so brace yourself...
Taff
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: When not working on guitars...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 122359
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Attention all Lurkers
- Replies: 90
- Views: 577016
Re: Attention all Lurkers
Thanks for touching base with us jjh....your account is safe. Hope all is well with you mate. Drop us a post when you can with news on what youve been up to of late.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: When not working on guitars...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 122359
Re: When not working on guitars...
I don't think I like the intonation of that statement.Taffy Evans wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:58 pmHi, Martin I don't wish to harp on it but are you calling me a lyre?
Taff
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: When not working on guitars...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 122359
Re: When not working on guitars...
The Police took the plans off you? Harp squad?Taffy Evans wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:58 pmUnfortunately a customer saw the plans I had and took them off me. Sorry about that.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: When not working on guitars...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 122359
Re: When not working on guitars...
Website address for Sligo Harps: https://www.sligoharps.com/
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Shop listening recommendations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 47353
Re: Shop listening recommendations
Tasmania....might as well be a foreign countryPat.Hawkins wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 10:09 amSorry to disappoint Martin, but Lower Barrington is in Tassie.
So the search continues
Cheers
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Shop listening recommendations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 47353
Re: Shop listening recommendations
PS.....I found the Goons on BBC archive, but wow, they are hard work and demand constant attention. They were so quick I was often just getting a joke that was one behind their conversation). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072vdz/episodes/player Congratulations Pat....you're the first American ...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: When not working on guitars...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 122359
Re: When not working on guitars...
Yeah mate youre flying close to the line putting up pics of banjas on this forum!!
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 3:12 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Christmas Greetings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18586
Christmas Greetings
To all forum members Jeremy and myself would like to wish you all a great Christmas and New Year.
To the regular posters a big thanks for your valued input to the forum. To those of you who just lurk.....consider introducing yourselves via a short post....we don't bite
To the regular posters a big thanks for your valued input to the forum. To those of you who just lurk.....consider introducing yourselves via a short post....we don't bite
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:57 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Spraying Hard Shellac
- Replies: 8
- Views: 32192
Re: Spraying Hard Shellac
I had issues with french polish on an early build which I suspect was due to the rubber mat I had under the guitar. I suspected the mat after reading comments either in here or in GAL magazine. Silicon is often used in spray on release agent used in molds. So Martin is this a fact about the non slip...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Vale Frank Ford - luthier and teacher
- Replies: 5
- Views: 18400
Re: Vale Frank Ford - luthier and teacher
RIP Frank.
Great story about meeting the man Mark
Great story about meeting the man Mark
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:45 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Cole Clark guitar rattlle
- Replies: 11
- Views: 40149
Re: Cole Clark guitar rattlle
Is it just me or do the braces on that Cole Clark look pretty rough. Looks like they've come straight off a band saw and been plonked on to the top.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Cole Clark guitar rattlle
- Replies: 11
- Views: 40149
Re: Cole Clark guitar rattlle
If you're gluing metal to wood then epoxy will be required. You might have got the Titebond to hold but it wont hold for long.
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:45 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: New Flamenco Blanca
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33183
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:26 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Cole Clark guitar rattlle
- Replies: 11
- Views: 40149
Re: Cole Clark guitar rattlle
Welcome to the forum.
Perhaps a photo might help visualize the issue youre dealing with.
Perhaps a photo might help visualize the issue youre dealing with.
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: OM size Nylon String Crossover
- Replies: 35
- Views: 105438
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:48 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: twin side bender
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11899
Re: twin side bender
Nice work Nigel.
I got sick of the blankets and forms and have gone back to bending my sides on an iron. Nothing beats having the swear job full and a nice set of fresh burns on your arms after a bending session.
I got sick of the blankets and forms and have gone back to bending my sides on an iron. Nothing beats having the swear job full and a nice set of fresh burns on your arms after a bending session.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Spraying Hard Shellac
- Replies: 8
- Views: 32192
Re: Spraying Hard Shellac
Another potential source of contamination is some of the non slip mates that people seem to love. Some of the mats are contaminated with the silicone mold release used during their manufacture. Hi, I haven't sprayed hard shellac, but generally the causes of these craters and fisheyes will be somethi...