Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Hello all, I live in the northern US, and it's wintertime here. I have a bunch of bodies and necks here that all need to be finished, I don't want to heat my whole shop for the whole winter just to dry lacquer, and the wife says I can't 'nitro paint' in the house. I'm thinking about making some kind...

I was wondering what had happened myself. I thought you were affected by a typhoon or something.

ken

They both look great to me. I love the rustic amp with Blackie, and the woodstack backdrop. I have to apologize about the photo of the black guitar. That photo is the only one I have of that guitar, and it was taken a couple of years ago. I do own the woodpile, but I don't own the amp. It belongs t...

In America 150 years ago, hardwood trees that size once were the rule not the exception. Now, most of WI is planted in fast growing pines and poplars for paper mills and harvested when they get only a foot in diameter. Did you know that in the Great Lakes area (Lake Michigan, Superior and nearby wat...

'Mahogany' is relatively easy to find in the US. Real Good Mahogany isn't.

ken

These are two of the bodies I made in the last couple of years. They are nowhere as nice as some of the ones I saw while lurking around here, but I'm working on it. The black one is my very first body I ever made. It's pine from a pine plantation near me that supposedly grew ship masts for the US Na...

I know this is my first post, but you gotta start somewhere... Since Gibson Guitar got raided awhile back, most people in my part of the US are very afraid of what recently imported woods their guitars are really made of. I know people who are searching estate sales or antique stores looking for mah...