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Do you know of a supplier at all Trevor? I could only find pegheds http://www.pegheds.com/index.htm 4:1 for flamenco guitars

Forgot to ask, could I use planetary banjo tuners?

Hi There, I would like to have straight string pull on my current steel sting build but not have an asymmetrical headstock. So I am thinking of something like planetary tuners going straight through the headstock. The only option I know of is Steinberger Gearless Tuners. Does anyone else have any ot...

Hi Frank,

Thanks for making yourself available for questions and I look forward to your response to the above discussion.

Do you have any frequency response curves of your design that you can share? Also do you have any deflection measurement of the monopole mobility?

Cheers

If it's under 1/2 a mm and you have 2mm sides you can safely level it since the material removed will mostly be over the top of the linings.

Be careful not to over do it like I did

Make sure you get Trevor and Gerard to sign your copies...

Darn, should have thought about that before I put in my order

What beautiful grain! I also like the front and back veneer

I found his patent application for the design, but not sure if I am any the wiser

falbo-g.jpg I heard Frank Falbo speaking on a podcast about his intension bridge design, which I thought sounded interesting. So I looked a youtube clip where he speaks about it and draws a simple diagram about it. He states his bridge design reduces rotation torque on the bridge to produce a loude...

More than one way to skin a cat

Beautiful! I love the tartan and the custom rosette

Francis wrote: Quick question do you channel the bottom of the braces to take the CF so the CF and the brace material contact the top? Does the CF completely cover the bottom of the brace negating a channel?

I know the Brisbane AGMS rout about 0.5mm on the bottom of the braces to take the CF but not the top.

Why must you make this a forum of lies?

$289 is still cheap for lappy regardless. Still not sure I can bring myself to buy a lappy to run one app tho. How much of a pain is parrellels? It's about $80 plus windows for $180...

Thanks Martin do you have a link? I have been stalling buying a windows laptop as I find it so galling to have to buy a one for the sole purpose of running VA. May be this is the push I need

OED defines hand made as follow: Handmade n. from Old English Hond “hand; side; power, control, possession from Proto-Germanic * khunputer numnduz Kontrolic and Made adj. from Old English macod “made” past participle of “shaped from a tree using a rock or ones own teeth” :D Anyhoo, the discussion re...

You make it look so effortless!

Hi Martin, No I was tapping the top with the mic in front of the top. I was doing the chlandi testing to help me identify the peaks in the frc. My original intention at first was to just build a guitar, but since starting as a student at the Australian Guitar Makers School in Brisbane, I have gone d...

Hi There, I have recently tap tested and chladni tested a raw closed box (my first actually) and got the below fcr. I then I did chladni tests and got two strong results on the back; one at 235Hz which I kinda expected, but also got a response at 300Hz. Which while weird because it didn't match the ...

Yes it was a pretty great weekend. Thanks again to Trevor and Andrew. As an aspiring builder (still on my first) it was great to move my focus out of the the woodwork project mindset and focus on the acoustic project side of things. So much information at times, but also many ideas too about what to...