Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

http://www.7thSenseMultimedia.com/Imagez/NewTunnelBridge1.jpg Here's a couple of CAD scribble sections of my new bridge, working out the placement of the rods and string tunnels. Note that the saddle (in this case, 1/4" wide) will be slanted somewhere between 4° and 6° for intonation compensation...

... just find a waterhole in the Northern Territory with a good sized croc in it then wade around in the shallows feeling with your feet, they don’t tend to swallow the larger bones. I once saw a nature special where they filmed a croc spinning its body 180°, in super slow motion, then calculate...

Tim! Please put my Birdseye Sheoak back on my pile! Someone's going to think it is for sale! :lol: Oh, and I should have put a smiley face next to my comment about Jim Olson's "factory", because I know he uses a lot of CNC (like the Fadal ) and jigs to produce extremely nice guitars - far beyond the...

Hi James, I like hearing that you'll start working on your design! Please post progress shots, and commentary. Somewhat parallel thinking... Heheheheh! :lol: I thought about brass, but decided against it. (A combination of the corrosion/patina, and thought it might be a bit sound damping.) I have so...

Really nice work, Graham! You're right, those are some very cool rosette and purfling selections. If you have those pages scanned in high-resolution, I'd really appreciate getting copies of the hi-res files, if possible. HateJunqMale at Hotmail dot com is one of my email addresses. Maybe some North ...

Shouldn't you be down on the floor, rolling in the guitars, Hesh?

What a freakin' arsenal!

Dennis

Serge, Challenge accepted. (I've been saying the same thing to myself, but not listening.) I need to finish one programming project, then I will re-start 5 experimental guitar builds just barely started: 3 "Basia" (named for my daughter) stretched parlors: 25.4" scale, 12 fret to the body, double so...

I know it's a "factory" guitar, but Jim Olson's mini-factory sure does produce some awesome looking guitars. Look at the detail in that headstock and rosette!

Nice set of Tiger Myrtle, Tim!

Dennis

Hi Dave, Yeah, it's funny, what I thought were "innovations" in Angelina, I later found were mostly things that have been tried in one form or another. I was ignorant of the Tilton Improvement (from the 1800's) when I engineered the suspended bracing and tunnel bridge, and was ignorant of the Steinb...

...I think it is reasonably accepted that most of tone of our current guitar designs comes from the lower bout so the forces that are being exerted in modern guitar design are actually desirable to load the soundboard so that string vibration is efficiently transferred through the bridge into a lig...

Allen, those are beautiful rosettes.

I love your further stretch of the oxymoron "small jumbo" into "petite jumbo." Petite jumbo has a bigger ironic payload, something on the order of jumbo shrimp.

Well said!

Dennis

OK, OK! Not bad......for an amateur, that is. Under 4 pounds? Sheesh, my neck probably weighs close to 4 pounds! How did you keep the weight so low? I mean, I have seen the lightly braced tops, but that's just a few grams, maybe an ounce savings. Are the neck and tail blocks made of helium balloons?...

Hi James, I'll post a couple of pictures, then I need to run and will be away from my computer today. http://www.7thsensemultimedia.com/Imagez/AngelinaTail.jpg http://www.7thsensemultimedia.com/Imagez/BridgeWithCompensatedSaddle.jpg I encourage you to experiment. I believe that the break angle over ...

... Newb question, looks like you ripped and laminated 60mm sections. Is that correct? Sebastiaan Sebastiaan, it does look that way, but somehow, the tree grows those spider-web whorls and grows a relatively straight grain line every so often too. Ziricote is absolutely one of the most beautiful ti...

Serge, I should not have mentioned you by name. I know you have said before that you don't follow a religion. I guess I was sort of apologizing to you because I was about to say something that a lot of Christians would not want to hear. In addition to not being American, the shoe doesn't fit you, so...

There is potential trouble in voting "against" rather than voting "for." I campaigned (for the first time in my life) door-to-door for John Kerry in the previous US presidential election. Kerry probably would have been OK as president, but I was really campaigning against Bush/Cheney. Lobbyists and ...

... I think he is either so devious, he wouldn't care, or he's so stupid that he it wouldn't register. The malaprops, lowbrow and ineffectual attempts at verbal improvisation, and lack of oratorical skills do give the impression of a dolt, but I believe this black hearted marionette possess just en...

Keith Olbermann speaks the truth

Dennis

Well, Dave, I had fun with the guess the wood and body style thingie, though I find it hard to believe someone (Kirby?) "knew" it was a Mahogany top. If he really knew, then I doubt my ear will ever "get it." I thought I could hear a small box, and because of the quick attack, sort of ruled out the ...

Hesh, how wonderful to have someone honor you this way! And, you didn't even have to die first!

Dennis

Dave, that's a great looking guitar! Beautiful workmanship. Hey, you know that photo that shows the side port looks so natural, I think my brain just flipped. I have seen a lot of ports, and I think this one pushed me over the edge. Now, this looks so natural, that not having a port would look "wron...

Just wanted to give a cheer to Tim Spittle for offering so many alternative tonewoods. As I learned when I had a tiny exotic lumber company about 15 years ago, (which was all lumber from the Rainforest Alliance's Smartwood program), usage of these lesser-known alternative species takes pressure off ...

Thanks, Jaz

I have looked around a bit on your site, and see that you do have a lot of it documented in photos. I'll bookmark your site, and if "someday" ever gets here and I actually build a cello, I'll really study your documentation. Thanks!

Dennis

OK, sorry to cast aspersions on Bundy. From this sentence "...I thought it smelled like beer farts after a night on Bundy ", I thought Bundy was a location, like maybe Bundy was a place sort of like the Mexican Riviera, known for lots of parties fueled by alcohol. Now I realize it is the fuel. Shows...

Well said, Kim!

Well built, Hesh!

Dennis