Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

That is just awesome Jim. Your guitar is a real beauty, but geez the track that you put down sounds really professional.
I reckon you need to do a few more of these,
Steve

But the kind fella said there was some australian quarantine issues to getting the hide glue in to australia. I called Quarantine and was given the impression it'll cost a 100 bucks (or something like) to let it through, which is too much. Hi Jake, I just bought some hide glue from overseas (from T...

matthew wrote:Bottom block area shows previous repairs as you’d expect from a bass of this age.

Without a maker's stamp, I guess it would be hard to accurately date this bass. Would you hazard any rough guesses?
As the others have said - a really interesting thread. Thanks for being so thorough.
Steve

Thanks very much everyone for your responses. Sounds like either option is fine, if done well. Well, I got into this position because I wanted to get the neck glued up before lunch - not my best effort. I'm going to re-do it.
Steve

I'm sure that this hasn't happened to anyone else here before, but I've just made an impromptu change to my neck design (some may call it a cock-up). Rather than having the scarf joint under the peghead veneer, this one's going to be under the fretboard. I was just reviewing my design (discovered my...

That's scary. It didn't appear in the lists above. Perhaps we were relying too much on Google to serve up everything in the cache without us searching deeper. I wish I had a bit more time on my hands to help some more. Paul Paul - I guess that's inevitable that some things will get missed/lost, but...

Hi Frank,
Check out the Milburn tutorial (http://www.milburnguitars.com/fpbannerframes.html. There's a section on dissolving the shellac.
I dissolved some flakes recently & it took about an hour before they were fully dissolved.
Regards,
Steve

Reply by " Isabelle " @Allen... Rumor has it that Ellen got the oil to you... third party rumor. This product I'm using for sure seems to dry much faster than the straight tung oil.... And smells so good I'm tempted to drink it... don't do that Isabelle! These first two photos are with two coats of...

Reply by " Isabelle " Jim... I'm sure Rick and/or Allen would have said something about how to use tung oil during the session on finishes... problem is... there was so much information given in the class on so many things and I wasn't taking notes most of the time... Or... maybe they didn't .... g...

Reply by " Isabelle " Hi folks, I'm new to the forum and had my first experience building an instrument in this class. I feel like a bit of a phony because I didn't do all of the work on the uke I got to take home. When I heard my old friend Rick T would be here from California and teaching this cl...

Reply by "selby"
Hi all. I am new to this forum, having joined recently.
Anyway, I would just like to say thanks Allen for your total support and helpful advice. Darn good course, great company, what more could a good kiwi say...... Very Happy

Reply by " Tigermyrtle " Well done, and such a shame that you did not get back down to Tasmania to do more courses as I have lots of people ask if you were coming back to tassie, never mind such is life. Tassie Bob Leftie. Rick Turner wrote: Rick here...loving every minute of being here and enjoyin...

Thanks Allen - that gives me another option. The last time that I bent some binding/purflings, I thought that I got a whiff of something more araldite-ish when things got a bit warm. Nice to know that I can go with the options that I've got at hand. Steve In this thread this is the last re-construct...

Jeremy, what glue do you use - not that I've had trouble with purfling delaminating, just haven't known how to tackle this one?
Thanks,
Steve

If it's not one of the silky-oaks, how about Banksia something-or-otherus?

Thanks Steve - that does answer it. I have been pondering the method lately & was wondering how people get it done with a stacked heel. I had been contemplating laminating the flat board, but wasn't confident that I could manage to line up the laminations at the scarf joint. I'm going to give the dr...

Steve - from the pictures, you laminate after your neck is cut to roughly to the right shape. How do you go about getting the cut surfaces on the neck dead-flat, prior to gluing? These pieces go through the drum sander?
Steve

I can't even pretend to understand how Google works with it's caching, but the number of displayed pages that it has cached is expanding. I've just picked up another 27 cached threads that we didn't have in our list yet (have added them to the list above). There's still hope that we may pick up the ...

Check out Robbie O'Brien's video on sharpening here. There's a section on flattening water stones at around 3:25.
Steve

Did anyone save the big monster thread on adjustable neck joints? Please, someone say "yes." Dennis Bob got that one in the back-up: http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?t=474 . You know, the funny thing is - if you try using the Search function, & put in 'ANZLF Adjustable Neck Joint Group Discussion...

Right you are. Markus, I'm not sure whether to feel grateful or appalled that you have so much experience in recovering from forum hacking - probably both. :wink: Here's the compilation with your first batch Markus, plus Paul's batch... As of Oct 26, 2010: "Heaven Sent".htm "Stand By Me" 10,000 hour...

Okey-dokey, I've worked through pages 22-33. I've combined my list with Markus'. We're up to this: 10,000 hours.htm A Binding question .htm A Concert Uke A little neck work... A loss to the lutherie community A new resin for lutherie? Acoustic guitar amps Ahh... bugger.htm Al's Special Les Paul Juni...

Nice work boys. I'll grab a copy of the search pages off you Puff - will PM my email address. In the meantime I'll start at page 33 & work my way backwards. Bob - with the back-up failure, I don't suppose that there's any way of recovering even a list of topics so that we can keep track of what we h...

Jim, I've used acrylic paint & Bondcrete - both seemed to work ok. We've had our share of rain down here too - 400mm so far this month. The mango tree in my backyard is still flowering - our harvest is months away. The first truck-loads from Humpty Doo have been arriving, but not much flavour yet. S...

Maybe you could get some of that blue plumbers glue and put a coat on the ends as well. That's where a lot of your moisture will get out first. Bondcrete also works a treat. We've often used it at work on log-ends to reduce end-splitting. Dries clear, so not quite as attractive as the plumbers glue...