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- Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:24 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Highrise accommodation for guitars
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9629
Re: Highrise accommodation for guitars
Hey Jim, I made something similar, called my "poor man's dry room." I made a blackwood guitar with no dramas, but when I used it to work on a Rimu guitar, even with 10-15minutes of time with the front off the box, it turned inside out on me after removing the back from the go-bar..... Now Rimu is no...
- Fri Nov 01, 2013 5:56 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Drying timber properly? Sealing the ends?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7453
Re: Drying timber properly? Sealing the ends?
Pete, if it was me, I'd cut it or split it into oversize billets and paint the ends with something. I've heard the blue plumbers glue is good, also water based paint. Smaller chunks will be usable MUCH sooner than a log....
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:30 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Working out the string tension on a Tenor Guitar.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4883
Re: Working out the string tension on a Tenor Guitar.
mcdonaldstrings.com has an on-line calculator Allen. Just plug in the numbers, and it'll give you the tensions, to at least double check your results....
Given my very limited eperience, I have little more to offer, but look forward to seeing how yours turn out.
Cheers,
Nick
Given my very limited eperience, I have little more to offer, but look forward to seeing how yours turn out.
Cheers,
Nick
- Tue Oct 22, 2013 2:19 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: NSW bushfires, OCT 2013
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10729
Re: NSW bushfires, OCT 2013
Tried to add my signature, but the site won't allow it unless I give them more personal information than I'm willing to. Keep up the good work, Tod. You lot are heroes in my eyes, especially the vols....
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 8:14 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Melbourne Guitar Makers Festival
- Replies: 112
- Views: 86929
Re: Melbourne Guitar Makers Festival
I find it interesting that those who started the same way as the jigsaw and file guys can cast aspersions upon those that haven't, perhaps, reached the same level of accomplishment a s the critic. Everyone starts somewhere, and, as Dekka says, I salute anyone who wants to give it a go. I bet their f...
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:07 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: First acoustic builds.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 36449
Re: First acoustic builds.
Mine look like Soulman's. They are cedar strips, about 6mm by 18mm. For no other reason than the cedar was what I had on hand. They do snap at times, as Martin suggests, and you need to be a bit careful.....
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:57 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Opinions on my small jumbo
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15616
Re: Opinions on my small jumbo
My opinion is it looks like a small jumbo. Look forward to the build thread.
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:57 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Telecaster and Hello
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10949
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:53 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Officially an old fart!!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15871
Re: Officially an old fart!!
Congratulations Craig. I've got a few extra years up my sleeve, but there are days I FEEL like an old fart already! Hopre you had a great day.
- Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:11 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: bracing
- Replies: 30
- Views: 41806
Re: bracing
Keep in mind that that $400 bill from Alaska Specialty Woods will get you enough bracing for 20-30 guitars, I'd say....We did a group buy and I've done 3 with my 1/4 and have enough for 6-8 more. Considering that a super foot is $28 or so bucks, that's pretty comparable...
Good stuff, too......
Good stuff, too......
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Old Smoke ( OM Qld maple)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14511
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 4:48 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Group Buy Maybe
- Replies: 115
- Views: 92432
Re: Group Buy Maybe
Meerkat! TOD'S MEERKAT!
This is gonna get ugly soon, and degenerate into lots of silly inuendo and double entendre......
This is gonna get ugly soon, and degenerate into lots of silly inuendo and double entendre......
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Group Buy Maybe
- Replies: 115
- Views: 92432
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:00 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Group Buy Maybe
- Replies: 115
- Views: 92432
- Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:35 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: compound radius fingerboards
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2798
Re: compound radius fingerboards
Do it yourself. I did my first with a compound 10-14(12th).
Used a block plane and a sanding beam. Easy. took ten minutes or so......Kinkade's book has it, and I'm sure you can find it on youtube.....
BTW Also not too impressed with the difference(?) if any over a regular radius.....
Used a block plane and a sanding beam. Easy. took ten minutes or so......Kinkade's book has it, and I'm sure you can find it on youtube.....
BTW Also not too impressed with the difference(?) if any over a regular radius.....
- Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:25 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: britton timbers & tassie blackwood
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14368
Re: britton timbers & tassie blackwood
Britton Timbers is a wholesaler, mostly. I don't know if you would be able to go in and check out the inventory. Wouldn't hurt to give them a ring.....
- Fri Sep 20, 2013 5:30 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: The deep thinking male
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10916
- Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:43 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Group Buy Maybe
- Replies: 115
- Views: 92432
- Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:25 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Two Ugly Guitars
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7233
Re: Two Ugly Guitars
They look good to me from here. I'm still learning how one shouldn't make them.....
- Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:09 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: At least we aren't Gunsmiths
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5756
Re: At least we aren't Gunsmiths
Yikes. Thank goodness for gun control laws.....
OTH, some of the guitar stuff looks pretty reasonable, after a quick scan....
OTH, some of the guitar stuff looks pretty reasonable, after a quick scan....
- Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Group Buy Maybe
- Replies: 115
- Views: 92432
- Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:20 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Classical #2
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7492
Re: Classical #2
Looks good to me, too........But then, most of mine have a sort-of squished/melted look to them anyway, so what do i know? +1 on the mistakes. Whenever I show one of mine to someone, I cringe, waiting for the inevitable "What happened here?" They never come. Rest assured that your mistakes and corre...
- Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tenor Guitar help
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9640
- Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:38 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tenor Guitar help
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9640
Re: Tenor Guitar help
Allen, I don't really know yet, as it's not finished. But, having always read that his plans are over-braced, I've reduced the dimensions a bit, and as is(photo), it has a nice sound tapping the top and back. Nice separation between the two, and a mellow tone from the top, which is huon pine. Anothe...
- Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:50 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Timber for Guitar Making Jigs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6765
Re: Timber for Guitar Making Jigs
$20 a sheet. I wish. Not in my neighbourhood. I have used MDF, but generally use anything that is a t hand. Plywood, not smaller than 1/2", MDF, Pine boards, scrap stuff from my building days. Stuff I want to use a number of times, other than forms. is usually from hardwood left over from those days...