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- Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:31 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Golpeador material/options
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4317
Golpeador material/options
Hi All, I am getting close to finishing my first flamenco and will soon need to start thinking about the golpeador. I have been using the stewmac clear self-adhesive mylar for pickguards and string guards (just below the tie block). Is this the material ok for a golpeador. Do people have alternative...
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:17 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New build advice, on plans I've drawn.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16902
Re: New build advice, on plans I've drawn.
Hi Martin, I would think 110mm depth is quite deep. You may like to have something more like ~85mm at the neck and ~95mm at the tail. As Allen said the waist is tight, so will be a challenge. Also speaking of challenge, a cutaway introduces a lot of thought and work on a first build. If you don't pl...
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:13 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Homemade fret/fingerboard leveller
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7904
Re: Homemade fret/fingerboard leveller
I saw a cheap one on etsy the other day. I haven't bought one so I can't speak to the quality etc but the price is very appealing: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/275466570/fret-leveling-aluminum-beam-luthier-tool?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=luthier...
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:08 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Huon Pine/Queensland Walnut Classical
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6625
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:50 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Spectra question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16210
Re: Spectra question
You can use a online generator on your phone like this http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ or one of the million apps available to a blue toothspeaker as a stop gap. I find they work ok if you have a loud BT speaker and or on the lower frequencies like you are looking at. I don't believe it the...
- Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:11 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Spectra question
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16210
Re: Spectra question
I was of the understanding that the dip is a frequency where the top is not excited. So if you were to do clandi patterns, no tea leaves would be hopping at 201hz. I may be wrong on this but the reason it is so low is two shouldering peaks are coupling to push the dip lower. On the higher side the t...
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:27 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Hollowbody electric
- Replies: 25
- Views: 27326
- Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:57 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: My first 4 flamenco guitars
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11581
Re: My first 4 flamenco guitars
Very very nice! Are they your rosettes? I love the end graft on the negra. Well done
- Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:45 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Home/workshop recording studio setup help
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18038
Re: Home/workshop recording studio setup help
That was very interestingblackalex1952 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 2:08 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6KJocTtxFs
These are all examples of these guitars by a range of famous makers and all vintage instruments.
- Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:44 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Home/workshop recording studio setup help
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18038
Re: Home/workshop recording studio setup help
Thanks Steve. I had settled on this https://www.zoom.co.jp/products/handy-r ... y-recorder and put it on the xmas list. Might be too late to update the list
- Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:38 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Blackwood Spruce Classical
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6931
Re: Blackwood Spruce Classical
Nice Steve. Great sound and I am looking at your heel profile with envy and thinking I need to make mine sleeker.
For all the time I spend in the workshop, I swear my building is getting slower.
For all the time I spend in the workshop, I swear my building is getting slower.
- Mon Dec 10, 2018 8:20 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Englemann and Sassafras 000
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7096
Re: Englemann and Sassafras 000
Very nice Jim That Casurina has amazing grain. Your inlay work has really improved too
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:23 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Nice bit of Gidgee
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14445
Re: Nice bit of Gidgee
Wonderful looking guitar Allen. The wood from Pete is so great that I have to check my bank account balance before I open Instagram these days. I like the cedar gidgee combo and your photos are looking really nice showing both how nice the wood is and your finish.
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:12 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Figured Maple
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10465
Re: Figured Maple
Great pair of guitars Dave! The finish on the maple back looks gorgeous too
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:04 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Prototype Gore Guitar Freq Request
- Replies: 21
- Views: 23638
- Mon Nov 26, 2018 4:12 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Flamenco Negra
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7965
Re: Flamenco Negra
That's awesome Steve. So great to see it properly in use so quickly. What weight did you come in at?
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 9:28 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Selling my Luthiery wood and tools - retired
- Replies: 17
- Views: 38461
Re: Selling my Luthiery wood and tools - retired
I'm also in Brissy and would be interested, thanks
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: First ukulele......
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8527
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 1:01 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Tiger Myrtle and Ancient Spruce Tenor
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4620
Re: Tiger Myrtle and Ancient Spruce Tenor
Much better transitions on this vid Allen. And of course beautiful uku
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:49 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Bunya/Sheaok - best AU woods Classical
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11346
Re: Bunya/Sheaok - best AU woods Classical
Lovely. I really like the colour tone of that bunya
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:37 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: More on dust extraction
- Replies: 18
- Views: 24585
Re: More on dust extraction
Ross for the winblackalex1952 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:41 amI don't worry about the static myself, I might be a reasonable musician....but I'm a poor conductor!-Ross
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:35 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Disharmony in SS Guitars
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5891
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 4:01 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Maple or Sycamore for purfling
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9643
Re: Maple or Sycamore for purfling
I am sure others will weigh in, but I wouldn't have made a decision on aesthetics and deal with any of the problems that may have arisen from that. A single purfling is going to be very easy to deal with despite the hardness and bending a single strip on a cutaway would be relatively easy. So much s...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 8:20 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: B/wood parlour
- Replies: 15
- Views: 24129
Re: B/wood parlour
We all make mistakes I don't mind owning up ( when I get caught out :lol: ) . The arm rest is glued on Trent. Wayne I am sure we all make 'em and have that sinking feeling as you realise you have two treble sides or compensated nut I made on the weekend turns out to be left-handed :oops: . But I al...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:50 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: The compact workshop challenge
- Replies: 24
- Views: 34528
Re: The compact workshop challenge
The bottom of a lake! Luxury!