Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Guitar courses are expensive but having someone teach you stuff that would take years to pick up by yourself comes at a price. I did Paddy Burgin and Dave Freemans course over in Wellington, New Zealand and enjoyed it. They follow the Jim Williams method (Spanish method) so you dont have to deal wit...

Yeah..Robbie for next President of the US!!

Kim wrote:Folks,

I have a project on and need some graphite sheet stock suitable to laminate between spruce for braces ASAP

Kim, I woudnt mind seeing a tutorial at some stage on how you make up those braces.

Cheers Martin

Nice one John.....ANZLFers helping each other out, thats what its all about.

Nice shot. Makes me want to go back, too. I can see "Half Dome" in your photo. Back in '81 ( 19 81), I spent a whole day photographing in Yosemite. I spent two weeks out there in Carmel at an Ansel Adams workshop and came back through Yosemite. A two week block of my life that I would love to reliv...

Thanks for the pix Paul (bastard! :) ), I'm sitting here at work wishing I was outside now :) When it's winter,cold and horrible I go up to the 8th floor of our building here at work and look at the snow capped southern Alps, the view stretching from one end of the building to the other and beyond,...

He he..Ive just come up with a very evil plan...Im going to make wooden guitars that look like CF guitars.

US police say a man posing as a waiter collected US$186 (NZ$331) in cash from diners at two restaurants and walked out with the money in his pocket. Diners described the bogus waiter as a spikey-haired 20-something wearing a dark blue or black button-down shirt, yellow tie and khaki pants. Police sa...

Pretty awesome rock features there Paul, they say photo's can never do it justice so it must have been one helluva view! Time they flatten those tree's & whack some condo's up for the tourists, erect some golden arches, should be just about right. We could send some Kiwi developers over there if th...

Yup, I figured a Geologist would know the place right away. I've been wanting to come here since I can remember. Some classic glacial features...check out the beautiful hanging valley on the right (its got the waterfall). I dont think youll find many Stage I uni Geology text books without at least ...

Hesh1956 wrote: Every time I see the thing I think of a bed pan......

Only one thing to do then......just dont get your a****e stuck in the soundhole

That is correct Seb

Granite...glaciated U shaped valley...Yosemite. You lucky so and so. Thats one place on my list of places to see before I die.

Fast connection....ya gotta be joking mate. The IT out here is painfully slow. If I have my laptop plugged into the network it takes 15 minutes to open a Word document. I work with the network unplugged and only plug it in when I have to send an email or map to a network drive. Been trying for a wee...

Nice work Ron...love the bearclaw on the Dreadie.

Youre giving these lovelies to former students??? Its normal for the student to bring the teacher the apple isnt it?

What can I say....YOURE BANNED!!!!

Got busy with the credit card and picked up some nice looking Amazon Rosewood B and S sets.

Bldi hell.....its already bad enough with the tosser next door firing up his leaf blower at 8am every Sunday morning.

Currently running on Allieds weekly specials is an 15% discount. Might be worth checking out.

Cheers Martin

Building a composite guitar would be as boring as batshit.....each piece of composite lovingly created by a machine in a sterile environment to exactly the same specs as the last one....no character...all clones. The guitar is assembled by another machine and eventually out the arse of the factory p...

Like one comment read...the composite guitar lacks warmth.

My understanding is the positive rake is designed to achieve the same end purpose as neck relief dialed into a steel string via the truss rod. My fretboard is same thickness along its length to maintain the effect of the positive rake.

Welcome to the forum John. Nice work on those guitars....unique looking instruments.

LN's Australian site doesnt list the Aurios. Would be worth ringing them up though and checking if they can get some in...if were buying a few of them it might work out cheaper with shipping etc. The supplier is actually just up the road from me in the Adelaide Hills. Might pay him a visit when I ge...

Definitely mate. Im in for a dozen!!