Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

So what you're saying is flamenco players are generally slimmer then classical players :lol: :lol: Which leads to the question of whether Flamenco builders deliberately make their backs more active ('live' in G&G parlance)? Do we have Flamenco builders or people with experience of such guitars here?...

If I take it off the back side of the head stock I should be right! Just how to do It? I could set up a jig and cross cut with a panel saw down to the thickness, then chisel and plane. Just use a block plane and plane off the back, going across the grain down near the join. If worried about chip ou...

While we're showing off jigs. Here's my neck shaping 'jigs'..... Repeatable, and precise neck shaping & tapering in ~10mins everytime. :gui :toi 2017-04-03 15.03.44.jpg I often go "manual" but when you've got a truss rod channel (I use rods in my classicals) you sometimes want to go as close as pos...

While we're showing off jigs. Here's my neck shaping 'jigs'.....
Repeatable, and precise neck shaping & tapering in ~10mins everytime.

I cut the scarf joint and then plane down the shorter surface of the headstock to thickness. Once the scarf is glued up i plane the headstock area flat.

You wont be disappointed... get them and get them now !

For me... Diamond plates and a strop is all i use (along with the same veritas honing guide). I have Course, Extra Fine, and Extra extra fine plates. Course is only ever used to setup new tools. I use the strop pretty much daily - i like my edges razor sharp. When the strop alone stops getting my ed...

6 weeks really isnt that long, especially at this time of the year (7 weeks ago was christmas). My suggestion is call the customer, if they're having financial difficulties - which might be the case - and are often embarrassed to say that. Offer them to pay you in small regular amounts eg. $100 week...

Didn't torres (or fleta, or hauser, or another of the big name makers) was found to be useing flatsawn spruce on all transverse braces...?
I think i read this in a semi recent GAL.

Bachiano wrote:Looks like a clean break.
HHG it and it should be invisible.

That crack was from about a year ago. I filled it with epoxy, clamped, cleated the inside, and all good, ended up invisible.

So.... I may have just put my shellac brush into my glass of scotch.. They do look very simular... :toi :gui Anyway, after Martin's recent effort - http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7614 , got me thinking, we all do it, what's the worse f#ck up you've made? BTW: the scotch was 21yo Glenlivet ...

The main advantage i see is that fish / hot hide dries harder.

A long shot, but you could veneer the neck.

Anyone interested in a group buy?

I understand that the nut needs to be tilted up to achieve the correct string height at the saddle. To dispell the myth..... It doesnt 'need' to be. I build my classicals with the upper bout of the soundboard co-planner with the neck. Flat all the way from the nut to the soundhole. Useing tradition...

My missus grew up in Fern Bay

Steve

Nothing of master

Just a tad warm & dry in the workshop today.... (Newcastle NSW).

Hope everyone's tops and backs and other work in progress are staying straight...

I'm off to the beach.

I can answer your Wife's question: donate it the users of anzlf.....

While i dont have a will, i told the other half to give my handtools and wood to my nephew - who is currently showing a keen interest guitar.

kiwigeo wrote:Gerard Gilet?

Gerard himself is now in Gulgong. Darrel Wheeler works from Gerards old workshop in Botany.
Google: wheeler custom guitars.

While not in Sydney. I post my boards to Jens in Canberra - http://jensploesserguitars.com.au/ Nice guy, good price, great work. Im not sure of his setup but he does an awesome job, super clean cuts (i think he uses a resaw king blade). He can saw to within 1mm of required useable thickness with min...

kiwigeo wrote:I run my file through the same piece of candle wax I use for my fret saw.....

I do the same ^ .
Its amazing how much the wax makes a difference. Ever since it was mentioned somewhere here i've been putting it on my plane soles too (for surface's that aren't being glued)..

Awesome Perry.
I've been following the anticipation on your Facebook page.
Great work!

This....
Built by my father and I (ok, mostly the old man)..
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2nd pic looks like bog standard qld maple

Thanks Peter,.
Wow, thats going to be a huge pain to anyone selling instruments to overseas customers. I cant see a photo being enough evidence (photography date stamps are easy to fudge).