Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Any one know where i can get my hands on some tuners for a slotted head 12 string? I've found one set on Stu-mac but wouldn't mind being a bit more spoiled for choice.
Any 12 string builders with slotted head stocks?

The last thing i want to do is offend any one, but i have recently played a 6 string banjo and rather enjoyed it. I would love to know how to make/put one together. I have tried to search for anything but no luck. I know that banjos are kinda banned here, but i thought id speak now or forever hold m...

Hesh you know very well what that guitar does to me.

I made a comment to x-ray not too long ago that the black tiger is the best looking guitar i have ever seen and i stand by that.

Rightio Allen, gents, here we go. The drawings are pretty crude but i didn't want to spend the time makin them micky mouse on the computer incase it wasn't the avenue you wanted to go down. My first mock up of designs play on the 'Barron' part of Barron Rivers Guitars. I've attatched two images of a...

I decided to quickly mock up a design to try my luck with the tonewood, dont need it Are you kiddin Xray. Dont need tonewood?! Everyone always needs tonewood. And even though you might not have a specific, immidiate need for anything right now, i happen to know a pretty good mate of yours who you c...

Lookin good brother! Lookin real good. How much more profiling you got to do on the neck?
I like the two (for lack of a better word) dimples on the back. And the strip down the neck looks very smart.
I wanna be there when you string it up!

Wow. Mate i am just gob smacked as to everything that is going on with this build. Its an absolute inspiration. Those bindings look unreal running past the soundport and i love that you can see the maple through that port also. I wish my praise carried more value, but for what its worth :cl :cl :cl ...

Excellent. Mate cheers for that. I really do like the esthetics Looks awesome. Well done

Austen

Holy shit! Waddy i just checked out your build progress pics and saw that you don't use strips of kurfing, you place individual peices! I guess that explains the how... Mate it looks amazing, but i gotta throw in a second part to my previous post to appease my curiosity. What are your reasonings for...

Thats interesting kerfing there on the soundboard Waddy. I've never seen kerfed lining with varying heights. If you wouldn't mind enlightening/educating me, im all ears.

Austen

Gee that maple is nice xray. Looks unreal mate. I can't wait till you are using that stuff.

Leave the neck blank for the fire wood., just use some of that QLD Maple that is lyin around in the back ground. I may be wrong, but i heard the more figure in a piece the easier it takes to a flame, so start with the REAL good stuff swiney. Thought any more about the radius dish?

x-ray there seems to be a neck blank of blackwood in one of your pics that looks strangely familiar....

Cheers Martin,

Thanks for the heads up.

Auzz

Kim, no offence taken. I am uneasy about these carbon fiber guitars. They are a relatively young technology and I can only presume that with time they will be able to greatly improve the quality of sound that these guitars can produce. At the moment I believe they are being built to mimic the sounds...

Shit, forgot to post the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egqvAtxogig

It's a Youtube vid of a bloke comparing an all timber acoustic with an all carbon fibre acoustic.
I'm all for experiment with new materials and sure it sounds fine, but something about an all carbon fiber guit-box just doesn't sit right with me.

thanks allen your baby looks awesome mate. well done

Anyone made or planned to make a tiny guitar yet ala matons 'mini'? I have tracked down one set of plans for a 'small guitar/baritone ukulele'. What do you guys think of these? http://www.mimf.com/library/small_guitar.gif Can anyone see any reason why it wouldn’t work? id just hate to get it knock...

guitars look so funny without a bridge i rekon.
are u happy with the feel of the neck?

mate it looks really good. i can vouch for the figure in the maple. lovely looking peices. youve done a great job. its interesting what bob said about king billy on the bigger guitar. immediately had my mind churning at a million miles an hour about my king billy jumbo!!! :shock: :? Ah well buddy, l...

Mate they both sound awesome! Congratulations!
Sassie sound phenomenal!!! Im always interested in hearing different guitars play the exact same song, thats how i pick mine when im shopping, a million different guitars, same song, 1 winner.