Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I wish you well and hope your venture into the brave new world of ebooks
and electronic publishing is successful for you.

Cheers
Bruce

And thank you Nick

When responding to a post click on the http://www.anzlf.com/styles/subsilver2/imageset/en/icon_post_quote.gif - button (on the lower right of every post), and the opening window for answering to that post will contain something like this: [ quote="afshar" ] My next goal is to be able to highlight e...

Thank you Kim for your patience and advice. My next goal
is to be able to highlight excerpts from posts when I make a
response.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MmsHpUfj74 This Utube clip is a promo for Milos Karadaglic's CD "Milos The Guitar" The CD liner notes acknowledge the guitar as a 2007 Greg Smallman. Lovely music and an interesting bonus DVD, but unfortunately apart from the reference in the liner notes, no other de...

.......I knew those joiners would come in handy someday!!!!!

Oh I forgot to mention, I had to reinforce the top plate of my Go Bar Deck because it
was deflecting with the pressure of the rods. ( The base was a radiused dish.)
Thats how stiff the rods are with minimal deflection. Maybe they weren't such a bargain.

Lauburu Yes they are a bit stiff, but I have never used a go bar system before so I have nothing to compare with. I bought 6 packs x 4 x 7.9 mm poles and fitted 6mm rubber caps from Clarke Rubber to one end of each pole. I used them recently to glue the bracings on to a sound board and had no proble...

Hi Rob, Yes, you are right. Often when one takes time to reflect one realises that what seemed funny at the time to you isn't funny to anyone else. Dom is a very helpful and generous guy, I hope he has a sense of humour???? I'll soon find out, we are supposed to be catching up with Clancy who is bac...

Dominic wrote: No worries Bruce, perhaps I can persuade you to borrow a good book by SM on finishing, it has all the recipes for different kinds of sunbursts, even hand applied dyed wood sunbursts which are the most beautiful. It shows hand colouring and suggests this is the preferred methods for du...

Yes Rob, that is what I will be aiming for.
Darkened back and sides with a subtle sunburst finish
on the top. If all goes according to plan, the guitar will
be very plain, with no binding, top or back. So there
will be an issue with the exposed end grain absorbing
more colour.

Thanks to everyone who has posted a response. Dom-thanks for your kind offer, but for the time being I'll stick with hand finishing. Nick/Rob B/Graham-thanks for your pertinent comments and advice. Chopper-your phone is off! I plan to purchase some suitable 3 ply (meranti or similar) and play around...

Would appreciate advice or comments on doing a sunburst finish by hand rather than with spray equipment. (I don't own or have access to spray equipment). I am thinking about a sunburst finish on a all mahogany acoustic using either Van Dyke crystals or Condy's crystals for the stain. Both are water ...

Thank you for the post Nick, I enjoyed watching it.

Dom

There is a brief reference to Shedua (Ovangkol) in The Heretics Guide to Alternative Lutherie Woods by
John Calkin.

http://www.guitarnation.com/articles/calkin.htm

He doesn't mention anything about batshit

Dom
It is a general look at the of USB mikes. It does not provide a detailed comparison
of mikes and features in a tabulature form.

As USB microphones have been mentioned in this section of the forum I thought it
might be of interest to some that there is a review/article on USB microphones in the
December edition of the Acoustic Guitar magazine, the one with Jerry Garcia on the cover.

Mark

Thank you for your considered reply to my frivolous post, written with tongue in cheek
after a few wines on Friday night.

Bruce
"Life is too short to be serious"

I am contemplating installing a zero fret on my current build and was wondering if the distance between the
zero fret and nut was effected by the angle of the peghead?

Thanks for the heads up Paul. I just raided the local KMart store.
Sorry Dom / Graham /Chopper.

This is a great post it started out on red pine moved onto a team of clydesdales
and is now into poetry by Spike Milligan, where is it going next

Martin, Nick and Alastair.

Thanks for your responses.
Nice clean looking silky oak Alastair, is that a parlour size guitar your making?

Hi Alastair

A general question on side bending if you don't mind, as I have limited experience
with side bending and have only used a Fox type bender. Do you soak the sides in a
hot water bath because you are using a hot pipe or only when bending "difficult" timbers?

".....I got some strange looks from the staff......"

Perhaps it was the mo :

Dom

The launch is Friday 18 November for Beyond Q in Curtin.
Your invitation is in the mail. Are you playing at the Bungendore gig????