Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I'm building an O-18 at the moment - I'm in for one case. I build so slowly that this doesn't translate into guitars/year, but I'm keen nonetheless. Good on you Bob - hope it works out.
Steve

Hi guys i have been researching wood.i can get a Monkeypuzzle tree that has been cut down " few years ago" and is still lying where it fell.i know that Makala make ukes from it (agathis wood). Has anyone built instruments with MONKEYPUZZLE wood please and have info about this wood? Also i'm looking...

Good on you Jeremy - this was a very classy tutorial...great to have it back.
Steve

I know that it has all been said already, but that really is a gorgeous little uke Allen. The bands of colour in the koa are spectacular.
Steve

As a further point of clarification. Would you be referring to this... fat-yak.png ...or something derived from this... yak.jpg As a non-drinker, I'm more interested in the trans-fat content of yak fat - apparently makes good cheese, and great for the old ticker. And, if it does go rancid, the Tibet...

Where do you get/ how do you make the dishes? What ever happened to that old tutorial by Graham Mcdonald? Thats how i did mine. Thinkin'[ about making a smaller, more manageable, uke sized dish using the same method. Me too. It's still there, but it looks like a lot of the tutorial is missing... ht...

I was doing a bit of research on violins & happened across this. If you weren't already feeling inadequate, check out the lady cutting the f-holes in the cello at the 6 minute mark...


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Steve, have to wonder if the chainsaw operator wasn't someone just helping themselves to a bit of wood. It's pretty wet here at the moment - I've heard since that a tree had developed a nasty lean and was looking like falling on a car in the middle of the night. Apparently it was our local council ...

I agree - those sort of severe reactions can be terrifying. Glad to hear it all worked out ok. We had an interesting experience (although it pales to yours) - got woken at 11:15pm by the sound of a screaming chainsaw. Although we do live adjacent to a koala corridor, I would still consider it the 'b...

This looks more like spam from Google? I recall not long ago that when I checked my Gmail account, I was getting prompted to join some sort of networking function - it may have been the same one as the one that you've been invited to Martin. If it's anything like Skype, when I used my Outlook contac...

kiwigeo wrote:No running water and no dunnies for 6 hours.

It could be worse - I think that these guys were out for a couple of weeks while they sourced spare parts. It'd be one hell of a long-drop swinging your bum out the side of this one...


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Nice work Markus - looking forward to the next installment. I've never seen or heard a charango so I'll be following this with interest.
Steve

I did a search on them when I first saw this. It appears that they are different species. Red Mahogany - Eucalyptus resinifera, E. pellita. Family: Myrtaceae Rose Mahogany - Dysoxylum fraseranum Family: Meliaceae ...and then there's a third species in the Red Mahogany suite: E. scias which occurs d...

I see a group buy as being one way to minimise costs. ...I've had a bit more of a look. At $5/lb for the hide glue, it's going to have to be a... sh*t load of glue ...The bastards are charging a minimum of $165 just to submit the (3-page) application for an Import Permit. Should your application be...

Like most of the others here, my package was opened/inspected by AQIS & put on its way. I agree that the inconsistency is one of the most infuriating parts, so I thought that I'd jump onto the AQIS website - after all, you can pick up dried meat in the form of jerky/biltong down at your local superm...

Absolute beauties Bob - that Myrtle is spectacular.
You're going to have to put an extension on the house to put all these weissenborns.

It does look like a spotted gum. There's a few sub-species, but it looks not unlike the one that I have leaning over my back fence. The older leaves on our one have a great lemon smell when you crush them (hence the botanical name Corymbia citriodora ). Historically, they have been a pretty common s...

Mmmmm...jaffa-flavoured fretboard. What is that Liam? It looks great with the blackwood.
Steve

Not too worried about metal in the tree(s), not much tree shootin happnin in these parts Will Funny you should say that Will - in my last job, I did heaps of tree shootin'. It's a very common way to collect seed samples from trees. Not sure that it would have gone down too well in suburbia though. ...

willcall wrote:I just had a look on the wood working forum and think that the species is bluegum (eucalyptus tereticornis).

Will

It's a bit hard to see in the picture, but bluegum (aka Forest Red Gum) often has a distinctive blotchy bark with patches of darker grey & silvery white.
Steve

Lillian wrote:What the hell is next, plagues of locusts?

Are you crazy Lillian?
Shhhhh...the last thing that we need is for someone to start throwing in fresh suggestions while Mother Nature is considering her next move.

Didn't know that Merbau (aka Kwila) were the same thing, but it looks exactly like the Kwila I've got kicking around here. Quite heavy, huge pores with some having those mineral inclusions. There are some very big boards of it at the Cairns Woodworkers Guild. I'm with you - I had thought that they ...

Another vote of Merbau (aka Kwila)

Everytime you look, this one seems to get worse. Take it easy guys. SEVERE TC YASI IS A LARGE AND VERY POWERFUL TROPICAL CYCLONE AND POSES AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY WITHIN THE WARNING AREA, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN PORT DOUGLAS AND TOWNSVILLE. THIS IMPACT IS LIKELY TO BE MORE LIFE T...

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