Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Dave, lovely looking Tele, any chance of more pics????

Here's a question for the repair gurus I have been asked to glue on a piece of white plastic binding about 75mm long that has fallen off the side of an Ovation neck,, between the third and fifth fret markers. The only time I have used this kind of binding material was on a Stewmac kit build and I us...

According the "other" forum, its Christophe Grellier's birthday today - just in case he ever drops in I'd like to say Bon Anniversaire and merci beaucoup for the great guitar plans available from his (very nice) website. I have used them for several guitars and they look great on the wall too. If yo...

demonx wrote:I may have read too much into it

Yes, that would be dead right. No offence intended. Nice workshop.

Cheers

Allan, I think you can take it from the number of responses to your post that you probably have the biggest workshop on the forum! Mine would fit in there about 25 times. If you search the back catalogue of the forum there are a few workshop threads, its always interesting to see what other people d...

Martin, can I ask about the way the sides are joined to the spanish heel - I havent seen that before. Are you going to put wedges in the final joint or are they temporary?
I like the bindings - they look very neat and tidy - I'm going to try them on my next one.

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Hi Paul You have an online supplier of pickups and bits very close to you - http://www.guitarparts.co.nz They do a range of pickups - obviously they import them and you are paying the postage but there are some economies and they have stock close at hand. I have bought a fair bit from them and the s...

That looks lovely Martin - I bet it sounds good too - any chance of a sample???
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Richard

"Eleven ukes a-uking....."

Well done Allen, must be quite a buzz to feel the collective excitement of the class as they see their instruments come to life in so short a time.

Cheers
Richard

Hi Nick You have a Gordon Harris store in your fair city, at 34 Southwark Street, Christchurch 8011. I havent been in that one, but I would hazard a guess that you will find all sorts of white pencils (pretty sure I have seen them sold individually) in there plus many other wonderful goodies that yo...

Once again, great ukes Alan - truly spectacular - one of these years I'm coming over to take one of your uke courses. Speaking personally, I'd take being considered average on this forum as a compliment! And Nick, engineers can do anything.... but they are especially good at eating pizza and :gui (c...

Jeepers Allen - thats a bit different. Stunning finish as always.
What is Ukezilla's the scale length?

When it comes to making guitars, I consider myself a beginner but making mistakes with bits of wood, well thats different, in that I am an expert. So you wont be surprised to hear I have done a similar thing too. Happily it was not so bad that I needed to remake the (figured blackwood) bridge on my ...

Thanks Kim, good advice and good reference. I'll aslo keep looking on line

Cheers
Richard

Anyone got one of these (generic taiwanese 6 inch jointer) AND still have the owners manual? I bought this at the weekend 2/h and the outfeed table is both misaligned and loose. 218456557_full.jpg I understand the gib screws need adjusting and tightening but as all websites with info on the process ...

Jeremy Thats 20 minutes of my life put to very good use - just watched a few vids of your guitars on you tube, they sound fantastic, even through my crappy PC speakers, so they are probably even more amazing in the flesh. What I really like about your guitars is the bold and completely individual lo...

A little scraper blade also works very well in those compound curves - my favorite tool in tight corners.

not only a jacket on but colour matched booties as well, the poor dog looks as miserable as all hell.

I'm glad you would never dream of doing anything like that Nick. Good of you to spare your sheep's feelings and give her constrasting shoes....................

Hi Peter From a relative newbie.. I agree with Allen, most of the planers I have seen have a minimum thickness of about 3 to 5mm and you will be taking a risk - depends how cheap your wood is.. If it has bottom rollers and top rollers, then the wood will bend and the ends will catch - with possible ...

That looks great Wayne
I really like the clean lines and big shape.
I would expect that to sound very nice and get better with playing.
The finish looks great too - what did you use?

One to be proud of, nothing quite like the first one! (until you finish the next one of course)

Cheers
Richard

The nut to first fret distance is typically something like 35mm and that is equivalent to a semitone pitch change, (100 cents pitch change). If you move the nut toward the first fret by, say, 1.0mm, you'll get ~3 cents pitch rise (100/35). If you then drop tune the open string 3 cents back to conce...

I freely admit to not studying this at all and have not read Trevors no doubt excellent book, so I guess I am leaving myself open to being told I am asking a dumb question, but before I do spend a lot of time trying to understand nut compensation.... What happens on a nut compensated guitar when you...

Cal me squeamish if you like, I treid to watch but had to stop - he's playing a Yamaha - I cant bear to watch someone smash a guitar like that. Does he whammy the Yammy?

I'm sorry, but there is something you are all missing here. If there is ANY meat in those pies Lillian is eating then they wont come from Oztrayler, they will be from UN ZUD!! Its a known and proven fact that the Ockers cannot make a decent meat pie to save their lives and succesive governments have...

Yo Jeremy

Interesting looking tele you have there! We can never have too many Teles
Whats the philosophy behind that build?

Cheers
Richard