Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

What a stunning guitar - it even looks Australian - all the same colours you see when you fly over the place

If thats a first guitar that means I'm about 4 behind!! I'd better get going on number 3.

Great job!

Richard

I guess the point of these forums is to show eveyone else what you are doing, in case its useful, so here goes........... When I was spraying the guitars I was building (with spraycans, dont have a compressor), I had problems with runs and having to hold them still, tried all the tips in the books, ...

Thanks for the welcome messages again, having now spent quite a lot of time footling through the various topic threads, I realise that there are some very tlanted people out there, its really inspiring to see what can be done. Dave, I have not managed to get the PM working, so the number is 473 5171...

Stu, you asked about the Tele? Being a leftie, I struggle to find nice guitars to drool over in shops, and I especially wanted a Tele so I thought I would have a go at building one. The theme with this is its supposed to be all recycled timber so the heart rimu body is part of a bed I liberated from...

Pretty impressive response, thanks guys. I am (hopefullly!!) posting a couple of pics, these were built from kits, both from ALS, one is a Stewmac dreadnought, the other is a german spanish acoustic. They have taken 9 months start to finish, cost a fortune in tools (that I always wanted an excuse to...

I just found this forum and was so impressed I have joined. A host of very useful topics and threads for someone very new to the art of building guitars! I have just finished two and a have a couple more under way, and I am sure I will be sorting a few problems by searchnig this site, Thanks to who ...