Anyone out there got a good jig for notching linings for fitting braces? I'm set up so my braces are in the same spot each time but I've never made the next step - a jig for routing the linings to fit each time.
Anyone out there made one?
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- Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:53 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Back brace/linings jigs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9035
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:21 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Now more difficult to export
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16139
Re: Now more difficult to export
Who do you insure your instruments with when you ship Peter?
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:19 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Veneer Softener
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7228
Re: Veneer Softener
There is always the cheapskate version - fabric softener. Pick a white one.
- Thu May 30, 2019 8:46 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: relic lecky
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8521
Re: relic lecky
I didn't finish it. There is an old feller where I hail from who spent the last 40 years or so making "replicas." So he's pretty good at making them look old. He did it. But as far as I can gather, the tools of the trade are a freezer, a sandblaster and a bottle of bitumen. You'd have to look on the...
- Fri May 24, 2019 1:36 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: relic lecky
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8521
relic lecky
Every now and again I make an electric. This one was made right at the end of our spell in Germany - I made it in late 2017. Pine body, maple neck, Bare Knuckle P90s.
youtu.be/Dn6yXpk8NUk
Sadly, it was one of the ones nicked from the workshop about a year ago. Oh well.
Nice guitar though.
youtu.be/Dn6yXpk8NUk
Sadly, it was one of the ones nicked from the workshop about a year ago. Oh well.
Nice guitar though.
- Thu May 23, 2019 9:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Alternative to a Stewmac buffer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15534
Re: Alternative to a Stewmac buffer
Make the time - it'll save you time. I just wheel this outside when I'm using it so the crap doesn't go all over the place. A feller on Gumtree made the rod for me - its a 1" hardened steel rod, just over 1000mm long. I had him turn a RH M20 on one end and a LH M20 thread on the other. M20 Nuts - RH...
- Wed May 22, 2019 3:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Alternative to a Stewmac buffer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15534
Re: Alternative to a Stewmac buffer
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IyAhTzf65iM/XOTjYYP6KWI/AAAAAAAAGA8/n4nVtBDJX5gmeFBzurJTIGYZeltiVk9EgCLcBGAs/s400/guitar%2Bbuffing%2Bmachine.jpeg Done! For about $400 including the buffs and menzerna. Its cheaper buying them from England and shipping it over...I bought a cheap drill press from Bunnings,...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:43 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Acoustical effect of back woods
- Replies: 25
- Views: 32201
Re: Acoustical effect of back woods
Yep, Nigel you are right. Rosewood guitars sell, other woods are harder to sell. Hopefully this study and the publicity it has received might start to shift that, but it is like shifting the Titanic with a tinny. I have not had the same problem with mandolins. Australian natives sell just as well a...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 8:58 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Acoustical effect of back woods
- Replies: 25
- Views: 32201
Re: Acoustical effect of back woods
A more useful study might be to see how easy it is to sell a guitar for decent money if it isn't made from traditional woods. And then to see how easy it is to sell 20 or more guitars a year made with non traditional woods for decent money. Spoiler alert: It's not easy. This experiment, flawed or ot...
- Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:02 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Side bend question...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 21375
Re: Side bend question...
If you've never bent sides before, or haven't bent many, you do need to practice first. Practice on any pieces of wood you can get your hands on.
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:24 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Side bend question...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 21375
Re: Side bend question...
Here are a few videos I made on the subject:
youtu.be/9jf8J6rt6ng
youtu.be/1NMxMO93v8s
youtu.be/nm420mtesnU
youtu.be/9jf8J6rt6ng
youtu.be/1NMxMO93v8s
youtu.be/nm420mtesnU
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:49 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: shipping overseas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9466
Re: shipping overseas
www.interparcel.com.au
They will give you a variety of options, and you can pay for additional insurance.
They will give you a variety of options, and you can pay for additional insurance.
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 5:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Alternative to a Stewmac buffer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15534
Re: Alternative to a Stewmac buffer
The local Brisbane distributor of 0.55 Kw motor $173 Sourced a 4110 hardened 1" shaft 36" lg, ends threaded, for $120 Bearing supplies $34 for P205 Buff wheels out of Melbourne $50 - $75 ea depending on cloth grade were to much for my hip pocket. So purchased buff wheels & flanges from Stew mac for...
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Alternative to a Stewmac buffer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15534
Alternative to a Stewmac buffer
Hiya fellers. Anyone out there got a homemade buffer? I'm looking for an alternative to spending $1000 on a Stewmac one.
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:02 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Acoustic cases
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6076
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:30 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Acoustic cases
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6076
Acoustic cases
What cases do you lads recommend here? When I lived in Germany and England I used Hiscox cases unless the customer asked for something different. What's the standard decent case here?
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:20 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: HVLP set up
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8548
Re: HVLP set up
Ta chaps.
Now I've started reading up on this, I've ended up with more questions than answers - anyone out there tried LVLP guns?
Now I've started reading up on this, I've ended up with more questions than answers - anyone out there tried LVLP guns?
- Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:04 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: HVLP set up
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8548
HVLP set up
Well, my stuff from the UK finally arrived last week - including my Fuji HVLP setup - except I seem not to have packed the gun. Bah. Looking at the price of a new gun here I could probably start from scratch for less. I'm spraying waterborne top coats over brushed epoxy. Waterbourne lacquer tends to...
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:04 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: AAAH! The internet....luthierie on a budget
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19359
Re: AAAH! The internet....luthierie on a budget
It only costs Stewmac if you click on the ad. Otherwise, it costs nothing. The ad shows because you've looked at the site in the past, or because you came up in a data list for people similar to other Stewmac customers. If you use remarketing you can choose between remarketing to people who have loo...
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 8:40 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: AAAH! The internet....luthierie on a budget
- Replies: 14
- Views: 19359
Re: AAAH! The internet....luthierie on a budget
It is something called "remarketing" Google have been selling it for some time. You look at a site, Google makes a note of this, then sells this info by allowing advertisers to advertise to people who have already looked at their site. Its good for advertisers as the click-through rates are very hig...
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:27 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: American Lutherie 118
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4092
American Lutherie 118
Anyone got a copy of American Lutherie #118, Summer 2014? It's out of print and I'd quite like to read the John Greven article.
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:17 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Compensated nut WIP
- Replies: 19
- Views: 40567
Re: Compensated nut WIP
Welcome Donny. Something is awry with your calculations, as 5mm forward on the bottom E is way too much. But the overall shape of the curve looks close. You can make the calculations with an accurate tuner and a new set of strings. But the rest of the setup needs to be right first - the nut/zero fre...
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:06 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Go-bar rods
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15704
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:31 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Lathe neck carving
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3953
Re: Lathe neck carving
Yep, the first few hundred are fun! This is a batch of ukes - I'm making them whilst I wait for more of the stuff to arrive. One of the ways I keep myself interested in the job is to keep trying out different ways of doing the same tasks. Doing necks on the lathe is a bit of fun, but yes, it is supe...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:11 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Lathe neck carving
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3953
Lathe neck carving
I tried this idea out yesterday and it worked a treat - http://www.nkforsterguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/necks-on-lathe-3.jpg A pair of necks done in about 5 minutes flat. It took me longer to make the jig. Now, the jig size, or rather thickness, dictates the end result. I worked it out wi...