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A very clever solution Allen, thanks for sharing!

Wow, that's a piece of crazy looking wood, I absolutely love it (how not).
And the usual neat workmanship.

How are you doing the inevitable "pore" filling? Epoxy?

Nothing new under the sun, but I think this is not yet in the ANZLF's jig collection (or I haven't seen it). The title is a bit exaggerated, but in any case dust production is quite a bit less than when using a drum sander. It is similar to planing a piece in a groove, but the setup is much quicker ...

Nice work as always Rod! :) also i'll just add that KBP isn't one of the best timbers i've seen for scraping!! I never have worked with, or even touched King Billy Pine, but for scraping any conifer wood I prefer very thin scrapers, more precisely these French scrapers which - quite oddly regarding ...

That's one little great looking guitar Peter! :cl Glad to read it sounds great as well. To leave the bridge in its original place while altering maybe the whole rest of measurements would have been my choice too. I think "opening up" has more to do with the natural release of built-in tensions than ...

Haha!
I especially loved the rosette part!

That's a very nice guitar, just don't tell you wanted to have it look differently! 8) It looks a bit like a very old guitar in pristine condition. I'm not at all an expert on archtops, but other than (for my taste) a bit a brisk re-curve I can't see many flaws, if any at all. I never have made an ar...

This fretboard must have been a lot of work! Beautiful wood with nicely contrasting colours too. Well done, congrats.

I guess your customer is now renaming musical notes to planet names and so. For example, d# would be "Saturn ring's lower right seen in current astronaut's perspective".

found a luthier shop. Unfortunately it was closed but I knew Nick Oliver would be interested as there were half a dozen Maccas (grande and petit Bouche) in there as well as what looked like a 1920's National steel and several ancient Gibson Mandolins as well as some very old Martins. It looks like ...

I have done the repair. The minor dings are now invisible and the big ding is almost invisible. Thanks for all the advice. [...] My friend dropped in on his way to Cobago folk festival yesterday and could not believe how well the dings had disappeared. I expect that I am the only person who can see...

Sorry to hear that.

But this...

rocket wrote:, the guys best suggestion was for me to take delivery and after all damage was assessed get it replaced,,,,

...is just too much!

Stu, I was referring to the comment of his friend, the expert, not to the comment of the expert's friend who posted the expert's comment.

Congrats to your stash entry Martin.

What to do with BRW? What a question. Make a whatnot of course!

charangohabsburg wrote:Interesting paper though

And here an interesting comment.

As a non-newzealander I had to listen to this twice:

"We don't want a 500 year old Kauri to be cut down for a [...]" ...for a what??? Ah, for a deck. But of course she is right in any case!

https://youtu.be/SJr0ez_p104?t=51s
(Don't embed, starts at second 51)

I'll stick with my theory that they originate from a luthier who peeled a tangerine or two this way.

Interesting paper though (the real link is this one).

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/67120887/residents-rally-to-save-500yearold-kauri What the f*%K is wrong with these people (bureaucrats) when a local council gives the go ahead to fell a perfectly healthy 500 year old Kauri and a 300 year old Rimu just so that a couple of houses can be built?!! The...

the examples he gave are terrible. A matter of taste and tradition. what music uses this? Some traditional oriental music uses radif and other non-western scales. http://www.luth.org/images/backissues/al101-104/al102_shirazi.jpg I am not an expert on this, but I believe (without having had the pati...

kiwigeo wrote:

charangohabsburg wrote:Aren't there easier ways to make a guitar that never plays in tune?

Yes there is....leave the strings off

A new service offered by the luthier! Similar to this pencil sharpening service.

peter.coombe wrote:[...] I bought it in 1994.

Congrats! That's before they moved production to a cheaper place where quality went downhill before the finally dropped out of the market.

Aren't there easier ways to make a guitar that never plays in tune?

[...] I think Peter was referring to a 'kink' in the belt drive (from the motor to the lower wheel) as opposed to the blade. I assume you are referring to the blade that you loosen off by a few turns if unused? I have not seen a bandsaw with an easy feature to loosen off the pulley system "a few tu...

I've read the rules for this forum and I know plugging your own wares is frown on but since no one in Aus or NZ has purchased one previously (sold only to US) no one is going to be on here to recommend them . . . so it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario - so I apologies if I am breaking/bending ...

vandenboom wrote:[...] but cannot get enough up/down movement either side of the crack to get some titebond in there. [...]

For those who have done this before, how would you go about it?

Use hot hide glue instead.

... spruce shavings can get really sticky, and they even jump back onto the bench when I try to shake them off my hand to the floor!