Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Hi Graham! I'm new here too (well, I guess we all are.) Anyway, welcome!

Dennis

... i am not saying that i will not talk about the Lord since this section is one of the reasons why i willingly joined the ANZLF and was excited about meeting and posting with old friends once again... Hi Serge, I'm not suggesting that you should stop mentioning your religious beliefs, merely maki...

...My pride led us all into this debate and hopefully, Dennis can still forgive me ... Your bro Serge Hey Serge, Take a big deep breath, and when you let it out, let it come out in a surge of laughter. You have done me no harm, and are in no need of my forgiveness. If you ask my opinion, I'd say yo...

Tim, the 2 schools of thought (that I have read) on that are: Stiff, highly reflective back = projection Looser, more vibrational back = more radiated sound near the guitar especially to the player Now you'll have to build one of each and see what you like better! Of course, I guess there are a mill...

Bob, your Fat Bottomed Girl is a beauty! I'll bet that she is going to have some serious bass. Is that particular set of Blackwood really that dark, or is it the lighting? It looks rich, dark, and chocolaty. Someone mentioned that putting a white purfling strip against the Spruce is a gutsy move, be...

Yeah, Bob Zootman Cefalu had some incredibly beautiful figured Narra a while back. Gorgeous stuff!

Dennis

With Australia's proximity to Papua New Guinea, do you Aussie luthiers (and/or tonewood vendors) see very much tonewood-quality lumber from Papua New Guinea? A number of years ago, I had a tiny company selling exotic lumber that was all Rainforest Alliance Smartwood certified. One of the importers I...

If you can't find it locally... One of the luthiers on the Luthierforum ordered a while ago from Franklin Fibre . They have a $75 (US) minimum order. " Vulcanized FRANKLIN Fibreâ„¢ is available in sheet, rod, tubing and roll or coil stock. Standard colors are Red, Gray and Black. FRANKLIN Insulating...

Hi Hesh,

Others, wiser and more experienced than me, say to allow your freshly cooked top to come fully back to equilibrium. How long will you wait before bracing and/or gluing the top to the body?

Dennis

What could go wrong, with "saint Billy" overseeing the project? Hesh, I notice that you sold off your Watkins lining clamps, and are using office supply spring clips. I know the office supply spring clips are mighty strong - is that what you like better, or was there another reason to abandon those ...

I had to look up "schmick" from one of Bob's posts. I don't have a chance in hell of passing this test. Who knew I was such a fucking drongo?



Dennis

It would probably difficult for a group buy because many of these guys live thousands of mile away from each other. Australia and New Zealand are pretty big places! ... I think there's only like 20 people in Australia! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Kim has a wife and 2 girls: that makes 23 Australians. Y...

Are there US vendors that will not ship to Australia or New Zealand? In addition to that, I'll bet there are times when some variant of a "group buy" or at least "group shipment" makes a lot of sense. For example, I am letting my pile at Tim Spittle's grow until the amortized shipping makes more sen...

Allen, That guitar is beautiful! So many great looking features... The top is amazing - we'll have to hear some sound samples and hear from some of your (honest) mates who are players just what they think of the tone and sustain coming from the Cypress. I love the lace Sheoak bindings! Oh Tim, Tim! ...

You can also use veneers of any sort, or one or more thin pieces of wood. There doesn't seem to be much all-black Gabon Ebony veneer on the market (or else it is VERY expensive), so if you want wood rather than fiber/paper, you can get black dyed wood. I have purchased veneer a couple of times from ...

Happy Brithday, Hesh!

You don't look a day over 51!

Keep laughing, and you'll live to be 151! (of course, that would mean you'll be in diapers with no teeth and no hair - just the way you came into this world!)

Dennis

Wow, I wouldn't want to go thinner than that either. Must have been one hell of a strong tree!

Dennis

...I think most of my guitar building in the future will be an investigation into local timbers. Paul, after seeing what Tim Spittle has, I'd say some of your local timbers are among the finest and most beautiful in the world. The tiny bit of experience I have as a player, playing similar instrumen...

Hi Bob, I have only bent 2 sets of guitar sides (EI Rosewood, steeped in hot water for 20 minutes) and Bubinga (with a silicone blanket setup.) So, anything I say here is mostly conjecture... I wonder about the thickness of the material. Was it thicker than .080"? I though it was interesting when I ...

Seems kind of silly to quote myself, but " Some folks need a neat and tidy answer for everything, and evolution, with its randomness and fluctuations, is simply not tidy. " I was not familiar with the names Eldridge and Jay-Gould, nor the term "punctuated equilibria", but knew of and accepted the co...

The Angle is adjustable via bolts in the neck block. The fretboard and extension is floating and free of the soundboard, it is let into the guitar top and the heel of the neck pivots back into the neck block as it is adjusted and is let into the sides of the guitar. The mechanism is held in tension...

Here are a couple of shots of an adjustable neck joint, at a compound cutaway. One shot (the non-cutaway side) is not quite even "in the white" but more in progress, and the other shot is from the cutaway side. The neck is let into the body by about .100", and the cutaway side has to have binding th...

I loved it! I played around with animation software (trueSpace) a bit, (toy software compared to the good animation software available), and have a clue what it takes to produce even the first second of an animation like this. It is a big project. Anyway, this is just great, and worth the download. ...

I'm betting that's a Weissborn (sp?) guitar shape.

Dennis

and if I work on your refrigerator I will wear a belt. Welcome to the forum Dennis! Ah! Where you gonna keep your pencil then? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Billy, thanks for the welcome. You know, a lot of people love to include LOL or ROTFLMAO in their comments, but I'll tell you that you and Kim have ...