Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

got a couple of projects underway that call for a colour next to a clear finish -eg black headstock face and vintage tint headstock. I am using mirotone and 3220 and and mohawk solid colours. I am experiencing the colour bleeding into the the clear. Dewaxed blonde shellac sprays on pretty good over ...

i rout them with the material on top of the template. how can it get scratched?
dont use too much ds tape - some ds tapes grab harder than others

looks like the trick clip on the performax is on the lhs looking from infeed side.
the carbatecs is on rhs and largely obscured from view. i find a mirror quite helpful and if the paper breaks off at the clip i simply stick it to the drum with contact adhesive.

thanks martin - its not a dovetail but a long tenon + mortise join -
a reasonable size glue surface compared to a dovetail which apparently done properly requires glue only to hold it in position

epoxy or wood glue? i have used titebond original in the past building necks and not had problems hoping some one can chip in with some good reasons for me to change to an epoxy system the one i am building currently is a set neck stacked laminate design of 3 sections and two veneers i am wondering ...

on a router table cutting and beveling a pick guard is a few minutes work
i use an mdf template and a straight flute pattern follower to cut the shape
a 45deg bevel pattern follower to cut the bevel
the most time consuming part is setting the bevel bit at the correct hieght

update to the info on the guitaraust double action truss rods.
these look very similar if not identical to the new stewmac low profile double action truss rods

If they're the ones I'm thinking they are, they're one of the cheapest and nastiest truss rods on the market. About a centimetre wide give or take and nearly as deep? First of all, that much timber removal in the neck is something that i'd like to avoid, which is one reason the welded LMI or Allied...

just got a two way in from guitaraust. similar to other two way rods in design with a handy little twist it is enclosed in a sheath of plastic and the adjusting head is inside a chromed metal tube - the attraction is that the mechanism is protected from the incursion of glue - downside is you cant s...

what is everyone using?
what's available locally?

just been on guitaraust website and notice they have greatly increased their range of finishes
in particular i am interested to hear from anyone who has tried the mohawk or rothko & frost WB lacquers

If you are filling it and routing the opposite way then fill it and string it up. Place a small price of wood as a substitute for saddle position to achieve string height at the 12 th and tune open and check 12th, move the small piece of wood back or forward until intonation is achieved, just like ...

venturing a little further into working on acoustics and have an old guitar that i want to convert from lefty back to righty i did the numbers based on some gargle research and marked out my intonation line 5/32" over scale for bass side and 1/16" for the treble side just to play he devils advocate ...

tru-oil cures by oxidation and will not redissolve with solvent. i tried it myself a few years ago on a maple neck and i didn't like the way it built up around the frets i had around 8 coats of the stuff off that neck in 15 minutes flat using acetone - the one that is damn hard to get off is danish...

garryalb wrote:Once a customer returned a guitar custom made for him with a totally smashed top saying he had put it down at a party and someone stood on it. I later heard from his mate that the girl friend found him in the embrace of another and used the guitar to deliver a headache.

RAOFLMAO

any one know of a local source ?
thanks

Wonder if any knows the size of this adjuster head? looks like i might have to cobble one up out of tubing- maton have the new one listed got a beat up old bg808 in for a clean up got a crack in the side so while out on loan the owners mate put contact over the sides to cover it up "to look better" ...

thanks for the tips - will be seeking out some inox as the general bench lubricant -
on this job will use some lanolin grease -

I have an old SG gibson in with an up bow problem - got the TR adjuster nut off with the application of heat but find the truss rod itself is rusty for around 60% of the thread - just wondering if i should use a rust converter to stabilise it - my fear is that it may react with the brass and form a ...

this is an electric guitar -

I have had a few strange requests for builds over the years and this one is in that category this one requires a 6 string guitar with the bottom E and A strings tuned one octave lower than normal the enquirer proposes using bass strings with a 25.5" scale length a player called charlie hunter uses s...

interesting - yet more fuel for the fire in my brain - i have pm'd you in the other place
cheers
ray

gday paul thanks for the offer - at this point one guitar is planned - it is a wet the the feet exercise - depending on how it goes others may follow - tooling up will be minimal and setting up to do plates is premature - seeing as you are almost there with molds perhaps you might consider pressing ...

yep the mckay kit would be the way to go but NA - i can buy a complete body and neck from ken but sadly not enough budget - i should build it myself anyway - looking at steve holst, acme and ron olsen in the states for plates at this point not sure about doing the lams myself - not rocket science an...

any ideas on sourcing these?
i need decent quality preferably maple hopefully with figure
looking at European and US sources currently
not averse to using Asian product if it is of excellent quality
thanks