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I am glad I am not alone!
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- Sun Apr 28, 2019 2:56 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 84195
- Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:28 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 84195
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
A question re routing the binding channels. Do you guys ever get the goose pimples when you have made a beautiful guitar with expensive woods and spent ages only to be faced with ROUTING!. Personally I crap myself and am still nervous of it. The irony of it is that you cannot have a good drink befor...
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 9:34 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tele Thinline Build
- Replies: 48
- Views: 62678
Re: Tele Thinline Build
Nice work.
I like this thread.
This is going to be superb.
I like your selections of wood.
What PUPS are you planning to use?
Pete
I like this thread.
This is going to be superb.
I like your selections of wood.
What PUPS are you planning to use?
Pete
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:22 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 84195
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Thought I would share how I make Rosewood bindings go further by splitting them in half without the kerf of the saw robbing me of the wood. I like to use very thin dainty bindings that do not stand out in the face too much. It's important to keep the fourth and fifth fingers as in the pic so as to s...
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:37 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 84195
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Sorry...forgot the BOW BAR pic...
Pete
Have a good day Y'all.
Pete
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:36 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 84195
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Further to the plot re my Tenor Uke build. Here is the back being glued to the main body. I know!...where is the radius dish? I know it's the right way but for one Uke ( for me) I found another way around it. It is flawed I know. The marrying strip has the grain the wrong way but honestly, for a Uke...
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:23 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Light Bridges
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24535
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:03 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Light Bridges
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24535
Re: Light Bridges
Mark. Many many thanks for that tute. I was oblivious to this. It sounds like an A. Stradivari secret!. I am very grateful to be let in on this. I will now get very excited about being a chemist. Smells are brilliant but so long as doesn't go " Bang" ! My father in law, now 92 was a very clever chem...
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:39 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Light Bridges
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24535
Re: Light Bridges
Trent Nice bridge! Now some questions if I may? Is your bridge made up or one piece? Is that a Ukulele? May I see the whole picture as I like what I have seen, your outline. The Rosette is beautiful. I will have to source some blackwood and also iron a acetate. Do you mean Liptons Tea? Please excuse...
- Thu Apr 25, 2019 12:36 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Light Bridges
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24535
Re: Light Bridges
I will be using ebony fingerboard, nut, bridge saddle and tuning pegs so I think an ebony bridge is a must. Either that or I dye some Gidgee which I have. But I dont think I will be gaining much by doing that. As t you say, a Uke bridge is a lot smaller. I was just starting to get paranoid about lig...
- Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:21 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Light Bridges
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24535
Light Bridges
I am always reading various blogs about fitting a light bridge. Having lashed out on Koa for my Tenor Uke, I do not want to make a mistake. What confuses me is that top grade classical guitars are fitted with ebony bridges which kinda makes a mockery out of the concept. Can someone please enlighten ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:13 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Queensland Maple and Queensland Maple?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6449
Re: Queensland Maple and Queensland Maple?
Ach Mench!
Dan muss es Qveenslend Mepel sein Ja?
If a German named all the trees then that let's me off the hook just a little bit?
Seriously...that was interesting.
Thanks
Pete
Dan muss es Qveenslend Mepel sein Ja?
If a German named all the trees then that let's me off the hook just a little bit?
Seriously...that was interesting.
Thanks
Pete
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:58 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: French polishing
- Replies: 30
- Views: 35429
Re: French polishing
I have looked again and again at your wonderful French Polishing. I have another side to this! I think you are trying too much! Your guitar looks glorious. My take on this. I harp on about this but in the sixties when I played a 1933 Santos Hernandez Flamenco guitar .. It was not glass finished but ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:14 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Queensland Maple and Queensland Maple?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6449
Re: Queensland Maple and Queensland Maple?
Cheers Bruce. And dont tell me you have a wife called Shiela!! Ha ha. So it's the Godammned Pommies to blame. Bloody lot!!! Thanks for clearing that up. And yes...I agree...it is a beautiful wood both figured and unfigured. I understand it is getting scarce now so I had better panic buy. It is lovel...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:20 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Queensland Maple and Queensland Maple?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6449
Queensland Maple and Queensland Maple?
Hi. Bit of help please. In my Bushwhacker Ukulele thread you will see that the last Uke built was from Queensland Maple ( figured ) I am now mastering a neck for a Tenor Ukulele from Queensland Maple ( not figured ) The two woods bought from the same supplier who I really like, are totally different...
- Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:52 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Go Bar Rubber feet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16480
- Mon Apr 22, 2019 12:41 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 84195
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
I think I have OCD. I have French polished my Japanese planes! I like tools to look like tools and cherish them as they are expensive..( well to my mind anyway ). It makes them look nice. It makes them feel good. It prevents them getting grotty. It shows my appreciation and proves I deserve them. Th...
- Mon Apr 22, 2019 11:37 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Go Bar Rubber feet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16480
Re: Go Bar Rubber feet
Bunnings have 9.5mm hard wood rods and also the 9.5mm white rubber feet to match.
Why 9.5 instead of 10?...I cannot answer.
Anyway they work fine
Pete
Why 9.5 instead of 10?...I cannot answer.
Anyway they work fine
Pete
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 12:59 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 84195
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Think I understand the humidity thing!
We are on 90% today.
It is like planing/ scraping card board.
Bends and warps like hell.
I think I can actually " feel " it in the wood.
Am I getting there?
Pete
We are on 90% today.
It is like planing/ scraping card board.
Bends and warps like hell.
I think I can actually " feel " it in the wood.
Am I getting there?
Pete
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 11:55 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: French polishing
- Replies: 30
- Views: 35429
Re: French polishing
Ps.. I am not professional but for the record I no longer use cotton wool enclosed in a square of cotton because I cannot control the amount of polish to the cotton wool. I also find that the cotton wool after several runs goes hard and therefore even more difficult to gauge the polish application. ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 11:36 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: French polishing
- Replies: 30
- Views: 35429
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:08 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 84195
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
Well I really now do not know what to think! There was me harping on how brilliant the Veritas Scraper is ( and on the wrong thread...sorry admin ( and I have done exactly what Martin has done.....gone back to using another favourite Scraper. To be clear I am not knocking Veritas ...I am knocking my...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:46 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Go Bar Rubber feet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16480
Re: Go Bar Rubber feet
I was waiting for that one Martin. Ha ha. Point taken re go bars for bridges. I didn't tell anyone but my first uke bridge pinged off after being set up for five days. Clean ping off so easily fixed. I used Gorilla glue instead of Titebond. I mean pva type gorilla glue. The bridge bottom was not as ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 6:26 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Go Bar Rubber feet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16480
Re: Go Bar Rubber feet
You mean......?????......
Like this? Good old Bunnings.
Didn't know they were also a Luthier supplier!..
Question
If I made a block of wood exactly the right height and located it directly under the bridge position can I use Go Bars to glue it down?
Pete
Like this? Good old Bunnings.
Didn't know they were also a Luthier supplier!..
Question
If I made a block of wood exactly the right height and located it directly under the bridge position can I use Go Bars to glue it down?
Pete
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 7:58 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Go Bar Rubber feet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16480
Re: Go Bar Rubber feet
Brilliant!
That solves my question.
Many thanks for the alternative solutions.
Pete
That solves my question.
Many thanks for the alternative solutions.
Pete