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by auscab
Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:36 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Wood drying ovens
Replies: 12
Views: 13875

Re: Wood drying ovens

I did a little search , plenty here on solar and wood fired drying.

Your sizes sound close to a 44 gallon drum .

http://www.woodweb.com/KnowledgeBase/KB ... ction.html


Rob
by auscab
Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:17 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Wood drying ovens
Replies: 12
Views: 13875

Re: Wood drying ovens

I was down in Geelong a few months back , I was picking up a mortiser off a nice married couple who had got rid of there staff , closed the doors and stopped dealing with the public ,and only quoted commercial work doing big winery fit outs of doors and Tables using second hand wood. All very impres...
by auscab
Fri Mar 07, 2014 12:09 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: what wood ??
Replies: 13
Views: 13159

Re: what wood ??

Nice one . That does look the same. I will check for the smell when I get to work on it .
Thanks for the help :D
by auscab
Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:47 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: what wood ??
Replies: 13
Views: 13159

Re: what wood ??

The smell test is the way to go , and I probably can do that because some of the mouldings are loose and have to be removed,so they can be put back on right. Ive never seen BRW with that figure but I believe what your saying Bob because since becoming interested in guitar construction , the level of...
by auscab
Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:48 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: what wood ??
Replies: 13
Views: 13159

Re: what wood ??

I know what you mean , I saw him cutting that timber up in the UK :) .
I even helped him get an Antique to cut up. This thing is mostly veneers though .
And too nice.
I couldn't cope seeing such a piece put to the saw.
by auscab
Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:27 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: what wood ??
Replies: 13
Views: 13159

Re: what wood ??

Thanks Kim , a nice match . Crazy looking wood . The first time I saw such timber about three years ago, I hardly believed that grain pattern . Zircote has a similar thing happening to that cocobolo but that Mexican cocobolo looks closer to the old bit I have here. Are they related ? and are they ba...
by auscab
Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:05 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: what wood ??
Replies: 13
Views: 13159

what wood ??

I have this Davenport in for some work to be done on it . At first glance I thought it was BRW because most of the ones that I see that are this early are BRW. I told the client BRW. Now I don't think it is though. It looks like the grain I have seen in Zircote used in instruments . with the colour ...
by auscab
Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:18 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Classical No 13
Replies: 63
Views: 56238

Re: Classical No 13

Nice clamps . you used other ones on the kerfed lining .
Do these extruded Aluminium ones not work as well for kerfing ?

I thought they were designed for the job for some reason which I cant remember ?
by auscab
Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:08 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: accelerometers as sensors for FFT ect.
Replies: 3
Views: 4853

Re: accelerometers as sensors for FFT ect.

Hi Alf ,
I cant answer electronic questions . I'm not mentally equipped in that way :D

But I will say Welcome here , and I like you user name too . I have some machines with that name which I'm very fond of.
So I'm bound to read all your posts.
by auscab
Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:02 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Buzz Aldrin
Replies: 10
Views: 10736

Re: Buzz Aldrin

The guy took Buzz to court over the punch .


youtu.be/

This is how I found out about the punch . the 3.57 mark is where they talk briefly about the court case.

" The judge threw it out of court and said " You Had it coming "
by auscab
Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:11 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Buzz Aldrin
Replies: 10
Views: 10736

Re: Buzz Aldrin

Dekka wrote:"...one giant PUNCH for Mankind."
:lol:
by auscab
Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:04 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Buzz Aldrin
Replies: 10
Views: 10736

Buzz Aldrin

Buzz gives the perfect answer to a moon landing skeptic D**kHead

Clocks Him one :lol:


youtu.be/
by auscab
Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:42 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: A cammera falling from a plane, which lands in a pig pen.
Replies: 3
Views: 4949

Re: A cammera falling from a plane, which lands in a pig pen

Yeah , I imagine lying in there unconscious waking up to a pig sucking or chewing my head . Whats going on as the camera falls , I wonder? it's spinning faster and faster till the frames,{ are there frames in digital ?} line up with its rotation ?? and films its own landing. NASA could never do a la...
by auscab
Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:19 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Classical No 13
Replies: 63
Views: 56238

Re: Classical No 13

It's looking good ,
Ive got the books , but I will ask one more cause I'm lazy but interested right now .

The Neck block is not cut at 90 degrees is it ? It has a relief angle of 5 degrees ? or is it 2 degrees ?
by auscab
Mon Feb 17, 2014 3:34 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Classical No 13
Replies: 63
Views: 56238

Re: Classical No 13

I have not read much on classical building , I skipped through one book quickly , So I thought you will be telling me something I did not know. When you radius the sides for the top, and then flatten the upper bout , how do you know when it is flattened enough ? does it have to match the UT brace in...
by auscab
Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:53 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: A cammera falling from a plane, which lands in a pig pen.
Replies: 3
Views: 4949

A cammera falling from a plane, which lands in a pig pen.

An odd sight .
I wouldn't go sky diving over pig pens after watching this.



youtu.be/
by auscab
Mon Feb 17, 2014 12:21 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Classical No 13
Replies: 63
Views: 56238

Re: Classical No 13

25 ' radius on the back , what radius will it have on the front ?
And the sanding with the yellow paper on the flat board , that just gets the flat treatment down to the sound hole ? is that right ?
by auscab
Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:59 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: A Coombe Mandolin spotted on the TV
Replies: 3
Views: 5570

A Coombe Mandolin spotted on the TV

Nice one Peter.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-31/j ... he/5230516

Does any one know what make that guitar is?
by auscab
Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:48 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: I wonder what the tap frequency of this one is?
Replies: 1
Views: 3405

Re: I wonder what the tap frequency of this one is?

Different :) At first glance I thought someones dropped/ lost a guitar off the side of a boat and it has come ashore six months later half way around the world and its still in one piece.
by auscab
Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:39 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Classical No 13
Replies: 63
Views: 56238

Re: Classical No 13

:lol: Sounds like a good idea .

I don't know why I thought you had air conditioning ?? I must have misread something a few years back.

The build pictures look good.
by auscab
Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:42 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: ebay purchase , What do you think.
Replies: 6
Views: 6436

Re: ebay purchase , What do you think.

kiwigeo wrote:Those clamps would be perfect attached to the nuts of some of the idiots I have to work with in my job.
:D Yes ok ,
Although , when they break free from the clamp to the nuts , how many places are there to hide on an oil rig ?? lol .
by auscab
Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:22 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Classical No 13
Replies: 63
Views: 56238

Re: Classical No 13

You have an air conditioned workshop for the humidity , does it not cool it down as well ? :D
I'd love an air conditioned small work space.
Id like to see the new neck jig pictures . I Have the plans and will do one one day.