Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Frank Ford's site could be helpful.

I've had good luck with Grover Sta-Tite open gear tuners for an under-$100 set of machine heads. Have had no issues with both slotted and solid head models. Stewmac usually have a good price on them.

Quick update - LMI reckon they may well be able to ship things like IRW bridge pins when this decision comes into effect in a December. But not fingerboards or b+s sets.

Thanks Allen, I'll send you a private message to organise payment.

Allen, thanks for the kind offer. What material are they? I'd happily buy up to 60 pins if you can part with that many and they are a dark timber species. But even 6 or 12 pins would be great to keep me going for now. Ian, very interesting news, thanks. Looks like it's a few months before it comes i...

Another vote for labels extreme. Quality is high (higher than the quality of dishes I've bought from a big-name overseas supplier) and they arrived quickly.

Hi everyone, Did a bit of a forum search and couldn't find anything from the last 5 years or so on this topic. For years I used 3-degree unslotted bridge pins, sourced from LMI. Most of their 3-deg unslotted pins had shell inlay and so were a no-export item. Luckily their plain Indian rosewood worke...

stepdown transformers for blankets are a pain in the a*e....and also your arms. The unit Im using has a toridal transformer inside it that would make an execellent anchor for a medium sized container ship. Yup, they're not light-weight! John, I'm one of the Aussies who have purchased jigs from you....