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- Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:21 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Carbon Fiber Use In Lutherie
- Replies: 49
- Views: 43990
Re: Carbon Fiber Use In Lutherie
Craig you do some of the most beautiful work that I have ever seen! :cl :cl :cl Kim yes but.... :D there are many examples of approaches and some notable builders who buy into the idea that the top real estate north of the UTB has potential to add value to the sound of a guitar. There are builders w...
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:14 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Carbon Fiber Use In Lutherie
- Replies: 49
- Views: 43990
Re: Carbon Fiber Use In Lutherie
Thanks Kim! Actually for my application here I am not after maximum strength. Instead I want to add more strength to the UTB but still have it flex slightly but retain some memory and return to it's neutral position. If a CF augmented guitar brace did not move at all we would not have a very respons...
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:11 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Carbon Fiber Use In Lutherie
- Replies: 49
- Views: 43990
Re: Carbon Fiber Use In Lutherie
Oh Rick and others using CF wanna weigh-in here and photos would be great too!
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:11 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Carbon Fiber Use In Lutherie
- Replies: 49
- Views: 43990
Carbon Fiber Use In Lutherie
You are viewing a re-constructed thread by the ANZLF helping team. For more information click here . Recently I started using a bit of CF in my upper transverse braces and I will be very interested to see how the finished guitars sound. To my ear the tap tone is about the same if not slightly highe...
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:13 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bracing on a King Billy Top
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21858
Re: Bracing on a King Billy Top
WOW Bob that is one beautiful job of bracing a top.
I agree too that there is a balance or symmetry that just looks like the guitar will sound killer.
Keep us posted on how she sounds - I suspect that you may not wanna give this one up.
I agree too that there is a balance or symmetry that just looks like the guitar will sound killer.
Keep us posted on how she sounds - I suspect that you may not wanna give this one up.
- Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:36 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Work Bench and Gobar Deck
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12992
Re: Work Bench and Gobar Deck
Great post Kim and I too really like that integral light in your go-bar deck.
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:12 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: es-335 contour templates
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17208
Check out Ron's beautiful CS 336 http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?t=774&highlight=336 Dom I love that guitar and have arrested development from the days when Clapton played a 335 complete with Hari Krishna stamp on the back of the head stock with Cream and later blind Faith - my two all time favo...
- Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:05 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: 000 Guitar NGR and Engleman
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15424
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:19 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What grit in radius dishes?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10886
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: uke class uke
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17044
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:56 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Fret Board Taper Jig - Table Saw Method.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 33976
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:55 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: New car
- Replies: 31
- Views: 21703
Martin one of my bros has a Yaris and he loves it more than any other car that he has ever owned. He has had it for over 6 months now and the only thing that he has had to do is put some gas in it every other month.... :D Interestingly this guy is a big guy too, 260 lbs, and he finds it to be very r...
- Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:35 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: bridge pin taper.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3538
Liam buddy what Jeff said: unslotted pins force the string ball more onto the bridge plate flat surface and less onto the edge of the bridge plate pin holes. The obvious benefit is less plate wear over time. The debatable possible benefit is more of the string is in direct contact with the bridge, t...
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:40 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: what's on my work bench
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5384
- Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:32 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Auction - Wandoo Set
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15054
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:35 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: My New Fave Video
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7147
- Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:12 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Auction - Tiger Myrtle Parlour set
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14469
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:32 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: I cant give you a woody but this guy can.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4455
Allen M8 I am afraid not - even though the commercials are very funny and IMHO something that I would not mind seeing on the tube here they would never fly in the states.... There are too many groups here that would object to the sexual reference. If you noticed even our CDs have "parental warning" ...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:47 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: It's All About The Players!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3635
It's All About The Players!
One of the things that Rick taught me was that guitars are tools and it's all about the players. As mentioned previously a friend of mine cut an album that was just released this week. This is the group that had me be the photographer for the album pictures. My buddy, Eric stopped by last evening to...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:38 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: bridge designs or lack thereof
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11245
Nice looking bridge Michael. I went through the bridge design need/process several years ago trying to find my own way and design. Back then I was in touch with Scott Van Linge too and he was very generous and helpful to me with this process. Before I started hacking any wood I made a list of goals ...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:29 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: I cant give you a woody but this guy can.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4455
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:27 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: G'day
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8966
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:17 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Swine Flu
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4267
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:00 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What's on your bench? - October 2009
- Replies: 43
- Views: 37386
That's some beautiful Blackwood Bob my friend!! So you used Titebond to laminate the sides - interesting. The main thing that has been holding me back from double sides is that I was not looking forward to using a large quantity of epoxy and I thought that I needed to build a gluing form (solid) to ...
- Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:42 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Calibrating Hygrometers (Pics)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20772