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Nice save Taffy

I noticed you have laminated the upper brace, is it for extra stiffnes?

Thanks for all the input, it has really helped to get over this relatively minor but near fatal blunder :cl I have made an inlay that matches the rosette (jarra, mahogany bordered by Tassie blackwood) that covers the offending area:) Its glued in with titebond (thanks for all the glue tips). Its not...

Thanks guys. Pretty frustrating I just got the box closed a few weeks ago, and been making various jigs to rout the end graft and bindings- first cut and the sleeve on the router slipped I can try to inlay a decorative piece in there. I was also thinking to scoop out an area around the cut and glue ...

Luckily I still have fingers.

I did manage to rout the top on my guitar while routing the channel for the end graft




Any tips on how to fix this one? The top wood is cedar, and I have some offcuts to fill it in.

Hi Luke Welcome to the forum. I also have dupuytrens in my right hand which means I can't finger pick too well anymore :| and I have switched from playing to building partly because of this. I am halfway through my first build at the moment. If you're not setup for building yet with tools etc I woul...

You're going to clean up with that!

Looking Good, the perspex template looks good. The one I made out of 3mm MDF is getting a bit scruffy around the edges

Have a look at this link for another way to make a radius dish.

http://www.kitguitarsforum.com/archives ... 79_0_6_0_C

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLGat5bOWI


"we don't need no stinKin band"

"we are the stinKin band"

"Take it boys"


OMG the guy's a monster!

Is this the scraper you use?


http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/bahc ... raper.aspx


How important is it to use a hard burnisher eg carbide versus something handy like a HSS drill shaft or screwdriver?

I always noticed this forum loaded 10 times quicker than other forums I frequent. A bit of downtime and its up again fast as ever.

Thanks for the efforts Bob!

May your Esky server remain cold and full of beer!

Ive been making one as well. Its nearly done. The table doesn't tilt but its fully built other wise.

It doesn't have any guarding on it yet which which give me the heebies , so i haven't done any real cutting on it yet.

I'll post some pics on it in the jigs section when im done

Thanks for the welcome Kim

Hi I'm Matt, I live in Healesville Vic east of Melbourne- luckily close to a pile of wineries:) I found this forum about 3 years ago around the time i started my first acoustic build, a blackwood/ceder OM. I post here every now and again but visit a lot for a regular dose of humorous sanity :mrgreen...

Thanks Matthew

After looking and reading I'm looking at getting a 17" 2hp to start rather than try to resaw with a smaller saw, but its still a while off yet. And a dedicated resaw blade for doing that stuff. Probalbly a pain to change blades here and there but probably worth it

Another quick question,Whats the difference between a resaw blade and a normal blade.:D. Im planning to get a bands saw so have been researching what I need. A rip or resaw blade has teeth with a more square, wide cutting top like a chisel, to cut through the kerf width of fibres all at once, to al...

Those two have the same style as the religious nuts on at 4 am on channel 31, they could just as well be asking for donations to save the gits soul

One can not prevent people from wanting to buy snake oil, and they will not buy olive oil instead

-Charango 2012

You're UP for an award Tod

Hi all Just spotted this webcam on sale for $4.05 at the Templestowe officeworks. I bought 5, 1 of which is to use as a scope to look inside guitars using a spare computer i'm about to setup in the shed. I already have one of these webcam for the last year or so, they work fine for skype etc. http:/...

Big enough for a Yacht Rocker's house

OMG

Who on earth thought that up?

At least the chute wasn't painted Brown

If you matched the fretboard, bridge and binding woods so they all matched it wouldn't look out of place, if the colour tone worked with the myrtle. So rosewood, ebony, wandoo, ironwood etc. would work.

maybe carefully dissolve it in more metho, but don't scrub or the fabric will wear in that spot.

No problem

Here's a pic of mine

Ok, after some pretty major financial setbacks, I am FINALLY getting around to starting on my first uke... Money is still very tight, so I'm trying to save some money where I can. Being a carpenter I have most of the tools I will need (or at least ways and means of improvising) but one thing which ...

A few years ago the company I worked for was moving premises. I got a mercury calibration thermometer, 5kg brass calibration weight, and a bag full of lab grade plasticware. The thermometer is 0.1C accurate, the 5kg weight (which is now really out of calibration :)) is really useful in the shed for ...