Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Like that, it's always good to recycle old files .

Love Melany that's were a lot of my family came from shame were going to miss it but I thought I would mention there is a beautifully preserved protected original growth forest that has never been touched other than the walking tracks, although small it shows you what the whole region looked like be...

I needed that

Looks great to me, you should be proud of that and Nick is spot on "if you havn't made a mistake you have never made anything". As I am on my first have made three necks two sets of backs and sides, I just keep chucking stuff in the bin and it's only been 6 months or so how long did you take with yo...

Thanks for putting the pics up Steve, colours are a real nice choice for the cedar top, they work together buitifully.
Must get some abalone!

Christian that's magnificent your have a good eye for detail, as already said a "STUNNA"

Fantastic looking guitar, love to see a close up of that rosette as well. I now know some wood I purchased as Figi Mahogany was actually NG Rosewood I actually took back to where I bought it and he was insisted it was mahogany, I didn't mind as I am building #1 with it and it's looking great.

Well done, they look great, how do they sound?

i know I have little experience with linings however my first build uses laminated linings (4x1.1-2) making the lining around 4.5mm -4.8mm, It was achieved by making a two part mold clamping the lining between the result is a perfect fit and all exactly the same, if interested I could post some pics...

Fantastic looking instruments, I was talking to the wife onle a couple of weeks ago about putting something in the sound hole like a tube, now I know what it's called a tornavoz! Could you elaborate and let us know what they do, for example do they increase volume or alter tone etc. I am very intere...

I thought the same about electrics untill recently, I have now been educated, electrics change with varying types of timber but most difference was with the design of chambers within the body, in the next month or so I plan to build one, as I will be flying blind I will post picks etc for all to pul...

Wow that's a nice little instrument thankyou for posting I enjoyed it greatly

I'm looking forward to this

Silly question, where can I but a copy of the book and how much are they?
If someone older than me can get the gist of it there could be some hope for me, they say learning something new prevents alzimers, maybe this book could help me!

Great stuff

Must be a big chunk of wood but very nice

I really like the cats paw, I ask about the internal soundboard because when I was younger much younger I vaguely remember something similar but used in a percussion instrument, I think it was to do with volume, I could be totally wrong of course, if only the memory worked!

good one Nick

Looking terrific, I am all eyes and ears.

I have never heard of a guitar with a internal soundboard! What does it achieve, volume, tone, I would really like to know more. The combination of bracing etc etc etc it's obvious you have spent a lot of time on this one and I'm sure it's going to be fantastic when your finished and the repair will...

It's funny I have a very old hand made not expensive Gianini The sound quality is amazing everyone who plays it agrees, well recently I aquired a video camera on the end of a cable sort of thing so I put it inside the gianini to have a look the camera also has a light on the end and what did we find...

I like that thing; do you mind if I copy your idea and build one for myself?