Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

hey everyone, just thought id post up progress on the first build, hopefully not too long before shes finished. Anyone got any inspirations for bridge design? Im thinking something that incorporates the headstock shape. What do you all think? Used bobs beautiful koa for the headstock, and added the ...

Its Jake everyone :D Yes i have the cumpiano book, must have missed the bit about the 1/4 inch offset. The side profile tapers towards the headblock, in which the headblock follows the same taper. Dont have acces to a radius dish, with the soundboard i only arched the x braces which worked for me, b...

hey all, back again, hows everyone been? Guitars going soundly, will try and attach a few photos. Was set back a bit over a month though as i broke my hand, so am going into the workshop alot more often to get it finished. Im up to bracing the back, and want to use the same simple method i did to cu...

hey everyone, thankyou for the great response! I do plan to slightly dome the soundboard, but dont have access to a radius dish nor the time, unless its totally necessary. My back and soundboard pieces were already joined by Tim so i dont have a shooting board either. Forgive me for my ignorance if ...

hey everyone, just a quick query the books i have are a little sketchy on this topic, when curving the braces for the soundboard, can i use the same curve template for all of the braces that need to be curved? Or do they all have different offsets? also, i guess its too late if i have done this wron...

Yeh ive had a look, the koa is more of a reddy tinge, not sure if it looks out of place. Was just thinking id play safe with this one and use the beautiful koa on a future project

Hey guys, im after a nice simple couple of tassie blackwood veneer pieces for my headstock. I think ill glue the first piece down, and then with the second carve it using the same idea as the cole clark headstocks. No decent timber lying around the school workshop unless i want a radiata pine veneer...

thanks everyone, will give it a go and keep you posted

Hey trusty guitar making maestros :), i have recently come over a minor dilemma, i have just a term to finish the bulk work of my guitar, and am only up to the early stages of body work. By this stage (not having had a guitar mould at the start) the prebent sides have relaxed a fair bit, to the poin...

hey everyone, im a fair way into making my guitar neck, and have just realised i calculated for the nut to be located on the flat part of the neck, just before the angle starts. Is this a problem? will it work the same notched into the flat part?

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hey everyone,

if anyone knows of any specific CAD/CAM or any fancy machinery used in guitar mass production and which factory they are at please post here.

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well i sent my mum down to the hardware to get some titebond type one, as that is what id been referred to by a number of people... and she gets welbond, and says the assistant ensured it was the same thing, and it would be suitable for lutherie.... does anyone know anything of weldbond? it doesnt h...

Hey everyone... i know ive been in the shadows for a while... due to school holidays and no access to a workshop, but im back at school and getting into my guitar finally and boy im excited about it. So far, i've only cut the scarf in the neck which is glued, and made a soundboard template.. hopeful...

i actually already have the dreadnought herringbone plan from stewmac, which im going to be working from, but i need to do dimensioned workshop drawings, preferably on the computer to scab extra marks. There is a big emphasis on design in my course, including the development. On top of that, im not ...

hey everyone,

might be an unlikely question, but does anyone do working drawings of their instruments on a computer? i need to do one for my folio, and im not sure if there are any great programs to do so (preferably free).

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* spoke to josh via pm

so does anyone know of any places?

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i cant believe people actually think they can get away with operating business like that....

yeh mine arrived today too, what a fantastic pack! endless thanks to bob and david for their generousity

nah using an arched back. im thinking of making a full outside mould if i can get the materials and a place to work.

hey everyone, im about to go on school holidays, and im not allowed to work on my guitar, but i really need to try and get an outside mould built and hopefully some templates etc. was wondering whether anyone would know anywhere i could do this? i'll be in the sydney area for a few weeks, and im not...

thanks guys

hey guys,

just a simple one this time, im going out to get glue soon, im planning on getting titebond unless there are any objections here

what size is fine to make a guitar? it comes in about 470 mls and about a litre

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could anyone please post a good site or instruction on building a good mould to build an acoustic guitar. something that will brace the sides, but also help with clamping the body etc.

thanks

i've never been a huge fan of weiss' but this is really a beautiful instrument. Kudos to Allen!

ill post my finished folio in for crticism when its all done :) ill try and track down the paper that xray mentioned, thanks for that. thanks for the advice lillian, i never straight plagiarise stuff. 95 percent of the time i read something, get an idea in my head of the concept and then retype it i...