Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Allen. I live close to Carbi-Tool, and I've seen brad points there. If you like I could get you some and send them on Monday. They are good quality. The ones I've got are crap. Can't remember where I got them. Probably Bunnings.

See here.

Cheers Hip.

Brilliant contraption Dave.

Hey, you're not that bad lookin for a pom.

Good luck for the upcoming Ashes. You'll need it.

Hip.

Just repaired a couple of 1930's ukes for a mate. Both had ebony fretboards, and when it gets that old, apparently all it wants to do is crumble into dust.

I thought I'd seen you before. Must've been Fannie Bay :!: Do they still have the Mindil beach market on Wednesday night? Don't suppose they have any tools there. From memory it was just trinkets and shawls and tucker and flies. There's a Sunday market here in Bentleigh. I usually go, but today I'm ...

I've got maggies too. My neighbour encourages them. Now that she's away they pester me. She says they must have minced steak!

Brain snapper.

Things that go wrong. http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/5765/clamping01.jpg Clamped it up like this last night with no glue just to try it out. I was getting a bit tired, so I went to bed and left it. Un-clamped it this morning, then glued and clamped it up exactly the same way, and after a good in...

Thanks fellas. We are kinda proud of ourselves, but I wouldn't go to sea in it. The bolt on neck and screw on bridge turned out quite rigid, in spite of the fact that there is a tiny point of light under the fretboard, and the heel section didn't go as flush to the body as I'd hoped for. Several thi...

Finished it today. Screwed the bridge on, filed the nut slots and strung her up. http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/1645/finished01.jpg http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/623/finished02.jpg http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6222/finished03.jpg http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/599/finished04.jpg T...

Allen, I was looking at the rosette when I wondered about the downcut bit. It looks a bit like pixels, but I suppose spruce does that. When I was a young skinny hippie I had a Norton Commando 750. Rode it to Cairns in 1970, and camped at Holloway's Beach. My hair was down to my bum, and the Qld poli...

That looks fantastic. Wish I could feel it.

Does the fretboard just lay on the top?

Did you use a downcut bit?

Did you ride the bike to Geelong and back?

Hip?

Nice job man.

Love the wood. Hard to find it with the figure perpendicular to the grain like that.

Cheers Hip.

I can see the joins. About 20mm from the back on the lower bout to about 10mm on the upper bout.

Don't quite understand the gluing procedure, but if you clamped them down in the side bender I kinda get the picture. Thanks.

Hip.

Hi Dominic. Nice looking guitar.

Could you explain how you went about laminating your sides.

I was thinking of trying the Zootman curly rosewood tops which apparently needs to be laminated.

Haven't seen soft hardwood used on backs before - except maple. Suppose it must be similar.

Cheers Hip.

whale hunting?

Assembly instructions included... http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8608/bits.jpg This thing is for marking the fretboard. The slider part fits the fret-cutting mitre box. The 13th fret isn't quite right, but that's not the only thing... http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1409/fretjigqn0.jpg And I ...

Good deal going on ebay for this book. He'd probably sell for $45.

From home-brewing to woodworking. My back porch where I bottled my brew into stubbies at least once every 2 weeks. I still make a brew now and then, but now I've got a keg, and I only have one beer a day - if any. The most annoying thing about this workshop is the uneven floor. I can't push myself a...

I bought a Gold Tone banjo-uke once (nylon strings), and the 3rd string acted just like that. Too loud and the sustain was way out of proportion to the other strings. It came good when I changed the strings.

Cheers Hip.

Tasmanian news report - Protesters march into old-growth forest

Whose side are you on?

I'm about to spontaneously combust.

Hip.

Here's another recycle. Took a slice from a scrap piece of plywood, sanded the glue off and I've got a nice soundhole patch.



Hip.

Did a mad Taswegian bite you on the toe Bob?

I'd cut it off - he could have rabies.

Hip.

Here's the result of last weekend's little exercise. I finally got a piece of shell (washboard mussel) big enough for the tree trunk. http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1533/palmtree01ko2.jpg http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6584/palmtree02cq9.jpg It was rather dark, because Mark had the blind dow...