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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:43 am
by graham mcdonald
This is the back
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:40 am
by Arnt
Lovely work, guys! No, have nothing to show, I have not made an instrument from aussie timbers (yet!).
Graham, that is one fine mandolin; so that is tiger myrtle back, yes? It looks faboulous, how do you think it compares to maple?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:24 am
by graham mcdonald
Arnt,
Mytle is around the same weight as maple, but rather more brittle and chips out quite readily when carving. The flamed, non-tiger variety can be hard to bend and prone to splitting, but the Tiger bends quite happily.
It just looks so damn nice! I have another 3-4 mandolins worth and a guitar set which will probably become a bouzouki sometime in the future
I do have a 4' plank of 6"x1" very flamed non-tiger which I could swap for something if anyone was interested. Just too pink for my taste
cheers
graham
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:45 am
by Dave Anderson
You know how I love this little guitar Hesh! Thanks for posting it here!
I am starting on an L-00 myself ,spruce top ,not black. Nothing against the black top but I just want a nice adi. top. Thanks for helping me with some measurements and so on Hesh ! Mine will Not come close to the beauty of this Tiger! You da man....
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:04 pm
by Paul B
Graham, I think I might be interested in that flamed myrtle. My daughter wants a pink guitar.
Dunno what I could swap. Got some sets of EIR and a couple of tas blackwood sets.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:49 am
by sebastiaan56
Graham McDonald wrote:This is the back
Very nice Graham, something to aspire to. How did you fit the neck? Is this Campiano's bolts swung through 90 degrees,
Sebastiaan
Beautiful Instruments
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:53 am
by Hesh1956
Beautiful instruments guys!!!!
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:04 pm
by graham mcdonald
Neck is like a Strat with two threaded inserts and two machine bolts through the neck block. It would probably look better if I had fitted a cap over the bolts, but I neck got round too it.
Different idea from the 'Cumpiano' barrel nuts, which I reckon I invented anyway
though I am pretty sure he thought of it as well as a development of his pinned tenon. I described the technique in American Lutherie a couple of months before it appeared on his website, but he is much better known than I am so he gets the credit. It doesn't really matter, as its not something that would ever have made either of us money, unless it had been patented and even then it would probably been more work that it was worth.
Paul, drop me an email and I am sure we can work something out about the myrtle. I can take a pic and send it too you
cheers
graham