Fixed.
There was some extra rubbish at the end of the URL Robbie. I just deleted that and - well - Bob's yer uncle
Regards
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- Thu May 18, 2017 11:31 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Drilling tuner holes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4647
- Tue May 16, 2017 3:26 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Very slow weissenborn wip
- Replies: 22
- Views: 27914
Re: Very slow weissenborn wip
Hi Steve
The notching will certainly make it stronger but it's not something I typically have done when building lap slides.
Regards
Bob
The notching will certainly make it stronger but it's not something I typically have done when building lap slides.
Regards
Bob
- Thu May 11, 2017 8:01 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: A belated hello
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6878
- Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:31 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Blackwood guitar
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15340
Re: Blackwood guitar
I've built several, both Hawaiian lap slides and conventional guitars and currently have an 12 fret 0-16 style under construction which is all Blackwood. I think it sounds great. It has fewer upper order harmonics than Spruce and thus has more of the fundamental note in the tone. Thin it a little mo...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:03 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Current Build - Falcate Braced Multiscale OM cutaway
- Replies: 217
- Views: 202884
- Sat Apr 01, 2017 5:59 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Performax 16/32 Sander - belt tracking
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24371
Re: Performax 16/32 Sander - belt tracking
I've had one of those Performax 16/32's for years and never had any trouble with the tracking.
Regards
Regards
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 3:48 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Adjusting sound
- Replies: 38
- Views: 33868
Re: Adjusting sound
What sort of wood is the fingerboard? And are the frets securely seated? I built an instrument a few years back that was destined to hang on the office wall of a sawmill so I made the fingerboard from highly figured Blackwood. The frets didn't seat securely in the relatively soft Blackwood and the t...
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 8:04 am
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Bending Sides in a Fox Bender
- Replies: 17
- Views: 44987
Re: Bending Sides in a Fox Bender
Blackwood doesn't play nicely with aluminium. Koa does the same. It really depends on how deep the green tinge is on whether it'll sand out. In my experience it should sand out. Over the years I've used less and less water while bending to the point where I now use no water. But that's due to using ...
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:20 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Adjusting sound
- Replies: 38
- Views: 33868
Re: Adjusting sound
I built this Sassafras and Engelmann 0-18 14 fret about 5 years ago.
Sounded nice and balanced with none of the symptoms previously described.
I'd be looking elsewhere for reasons other than wood combinations.
Regards
Sounded nice and balanced with none of the symptoms previously described.
I'd be looking elsewhere for reasons other than wood combinations.
Regards
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:03 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Port Fairy Folk Festival.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9130
Re: Port Fairy Folk Festival.
I'm still building stuff for Port Fairy Rod.
Methinks I'll need a beer to settle meself down when I get there.
Regards
Methinks I'll need a beer to settle meself down when I get there.
Regards
- Sat Jan 28, 2017 10:04 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Build a mandolin
- Replies: 40
- Views: 46149
Re: Build a mandolin
Lads - can we keep this post on topic.
It was started by Rod as an enquiry on mandolin construction and seems to have morphed into a discussion of where to buy mandolin ferrules.
Please start a new thread ratherr than hijacking someone elses.
Regards
It was started by Rod as an enquiry on mandolin construction and seems to have morphed into a discussion of where to buy mandolin ferrules.
Please start a new thread ratherr than hijacking someone elses.
Regards
- Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - radiusing braces
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7247
Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - radiusing braces
Nice video Robbie.
I usually do mine in the radius dish, 2 at a time, but I like the idea of the jig.
Some pencil "witness lines" on the radius face would also help to tell when everything is trued up.
Have a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year
Regards
I usually do mine in the radius dish, 2 at a time, but I like the idea of the jig.
Some pencil "witness lines" on the radius face would also help to tell when everything is trued up.
Have a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year
Regards
- Tue Dec 13, 2016 7:35 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Hollow body with a difference
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42782
Re: Hollow body with a difference
Gorgeous.
Will we see it at Port Fairy next year?
Regards
Will we see it at Port Fairy next year?
Regards
- Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:01 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Southern Cross banjo Uke Latest Build
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14237
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:56 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Rosewood and CITES
- Replies: 71
- Views: 76366
Re: Rosewood and CITES
Good thing we've got heaps of Blackwood here. I reckon you'll see the price of that increase.
- Fri Oct 28, 2016 7:47 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Side bending with Fox bender
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26204
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:32 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Parlour Guitar - Rush Pics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8036
- Tue Oct 18, 2016 7:53 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: In Lieu of Lurking
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16197
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:50 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: My daughetrs 10th Birthday present
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11268
Re: My daughetrs 10th Birthday present
Nice work Paul. I'm sure she'll be stoked with it.
- Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:00 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: It's Bob's Birthday
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7680
Re: It's Bob's Birthday
Thanks gents.
I'm not happy though. No one was dropping off billets of Brazilian Rosewood as a birthday present.
Regards
I'm not happy though. No one was dropping off billets of Brazilian Rosewood as a birthday present.
Regards
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:09 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: 00 Size Florentine Cutaway Guitar - 14 Fret Neck
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18867
Re: 00 Size Florentine Cutaway Guitar - 14 Fret Neck
I've had the pleasure of playing this instrument and it sounds as good as it looks.
Regards
Regards
- Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:39 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What is "Hand Made"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 65532
Re: What is "Hand Made"
No matter where this thread wanders you can be sure of one thing....The Australian/New Zealand Luthier's Forum is and always will be 100% hand made. The server the forum runs on is valve powered.....the valves individually handmade by highly skilled Russian boffins. The power to run the server is s...
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 7:41 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: blushing with 3220
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7598
- Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:38 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Spraying - what gear is everyone using?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16301
Re: Spraying - what gear is everyone using?
I've been using a Sata minijet for about 10 years. Great little gun.
Regards
Regards
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 7:42 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Otways Blackwood
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9230