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- Tue Mar 26, 2019 3:31 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Sorry...I am a bit chatty! I have made a Uke version of the plates joining press from " The Books". Gore has said that this device is an old luthiers trick. I made mine from Tassie Oak. I did a trial run using nylon cording. It worked but there was a lot of slippage due to man made fibres....Nylon s...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:00 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
If you have a really hard piece of wood and want to plane the end grain, by applying water to it wth a small paint brush it softens the wood at the end and makes planing it easier.
Pete
Pete
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:57 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Martin....Thanks. I am on a new learning curve and well into it! The Japanese planes need some setting up and nurturing. I am still learning how to use them. My blades are honed on only up to 3000. I need a 6000 or 8000 waterstone to get shavings micro thin. I am more than happy with what I have and...
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:53 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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- Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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- Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:49 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 83810
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:48 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 83810
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:47 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 83810
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
So it took two days not one but I am delighted with my Japanese style planing, scraping and sawing board. Don't know how I managed without it. It is a good heavy solid piece of kit which can be used on the floor or bench mounted. I prefer the bench mount. I am just starting to get used to the Japene...
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:05 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Thanks for your kind comments. Yes I suppose it is like making a baby!..then it turns into something that plays a lot and eventually leaves us! Other exciting news for me. I have just splashed out $600 dollars on tools and wood. I think I have spent wisely. My bench top now instead of being a disgra...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:48 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
The bridge needed to go to the right a few Millimetres!
I find bridge set up really hard.
I used a protactor from the 90 but still buggered it!
It plays nicely though.
Has a good bark although Cedar wood top.
Intonation bang on!.
My ear tells me in an instant if its wrong.
Pete
I find bridge set up really hard.
I used a protactor from the 90 but still buggered it!
It plays nicely though.
Has a good bark although Cedar wood top.
Intonation bang on!.
My ear tells me in an instant if its wrong.
Pete
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:34 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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- Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:33 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 83810
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Today I strung up my second Soprano Uke. When we string to pitch...be honest now! Do we anticpate the bridge twanging off? Well I did and fortunately it held! I will leave it a week or so to bed in before giving it away to a friend. It is very personal. I have spent my time and money building it. It...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:29 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Sorry just getting used the photo bit. The above image is what I had in mind but the shape just was not there....and the pegs fouled!. Here is an image of the new shape non fouling pegs. It is " This shape" that was in my mind. Often we visualise something but cannot get it down on paper??? Now I ha...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:10 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Well...they say ( Mistakes!) Happen for a reason. I had in my mind a nice roundy woman like curvy head stock. I tried to design it so the strings would run in a straight line to the periphery of the pegs. Completely blind to the fact that the pegs also have the other end on them apart from the immed...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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- Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:10 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Here's my new mould.
Getting excited now.
Nothing new as Ken Timms has covered this.
Just wanted to show how I am getting on.
Pete
Getting excited now.
Nothing new as Ken Timms has covered this.
Just wanted to show how I am getting on.
Pete
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:36 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Rope bindings advice please
- Replies: 17
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Re: Rope bindings advice please
Thanks Guys for all your feedback and pics of what you have done. I also think Trento hit the nail. The outside strip of veneer is used to keep it all together and then removed afterwards. What a Gem of a secret that was! And it is precisely this that excites me. Please...I do not expect to be spoon...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:28 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Rope bindings advice please
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19119
Re: Rope bindings advice please
Yes!!!.....that is exactly it!... Brilliant. Thanks for the low down on that Trent. I will watch the P R vid again and again. Two questions if I may?.... Did you make that Beautiful instrument? Should I use hot glue or will Tite bond bend just as good under heat?. The idea of the veneer strips each ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:33 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Rope bindings advice please
- Replies: 17
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Re: Rope bindings advice please
The rope binding I referr to is on photos of the various Nunes Instruments but I am unable to send a picture. Might be ccopyright rules so I have drawn what I mean. The rope is made up of brown and creamy coloured wood and on the inside there is a thin veneer strip. It is quite chunky and to get aro...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 3:47 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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- Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:49 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 83810
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:46 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 83810
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:29 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 83810
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:26 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
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Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
And this one ...a birds eye of " the outline ".
I am just learning how to edit!....
I am just learning how to edit!....
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:19 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 83810