Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I've used this length of rubber for over thirty years for bindings and necks. It was cut in one continuous length from a 4x4 innertube. http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/101_P4040011_Small_2.jpg I use this technique too!!! I do a lot of serious mileage with cycling and go through a lot of inner t...

One man's weed is another man's treasure. Those ukes look amazing!

Kinda annoys me that beautiful timber like this gets burned. The rest of the guitar building planet would love to buy this stuff.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments. I love putting submitting photographs of guitars I didn't build!! Not so nerve wracking, lol... Ron, yes it is countryside on the border of Wales, which explains all the hilly bits....:D ..I know this area like the back of my hand. Lillian, I am still grinning...

No, it is not one of my own, but one of Dave White's... After having a liking for his guitars for a couple of years, the opportunity came to ask him to build me a Samhain model late September. It was completed at the end of November and I recieved it this week- Dave didn't get time to photograph it ...

Colin S wrote: Here's one piece on my own 10-course Venere.

My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe

Colin

THAT's more like it. Cascading, fluid clear notes. STUNNING!!!!

Ive got that album and frankly he mangles Dowland severely. Agreed. I think Sting's playing stinks, to be honest. :wink: The lute takes a very long time to master; it's not one of those instruments to have just on a sideline as an interesting diversion from the guitar..... It is very demanding of p...

Gosh, that is some Claro...

Great design appointments there, Steve- well done!

Oh that's OK then...

I thought it was my PC..I was road testing it last night as a new scratch build..darnsight cheaper than buying a premade one...

Lillian,

I love handmade tools. That gramil is goregeous!

All the best with your current guitar build.

Thank you Steve for your comments. I didn't intend to hijack this thread!! :D ETA is probably around the end of November all going well. This is a wonderful opportunity to own one of Dave's instruments. I have been wanting one for a long time- before Cheltenham in 2007, and playing them for real con...

Stephen Kinnaird wrote:
Now, don't keep us in suspense, just whom are you building a guitar for?

*whistles nonchanantly, shuffles feet*

http://www.defaoiteguitars.com/page34.htm

BTW Steve, stunning guitar. I bet the Engleman sounds interesting with the Coco

Stu,

That's a goregeous guitar...the grain looks like you've captured some element in motion, and the design appointments are stunning!
I'm going to look for that thread Craig mentioned....

After reading that anthrax story on the sky news link, I clicked on the one about Liquid Smoking , and was amused by what United Drinks and Beauty Corporation CEO Martin Hartman had to say about the product's safety. An "indigenous African herbal extract" provides a "slight energizing effect follow...

I love pushing air the old fashioned way, and investigating the science and magic behind it. Won't ever reject the possibility of building an electric, but it's acoustics all the way for me for now. :) Would say though that both elements of instrument building are just as valid. I have seen some rel...

Dave,

I looked into drum building some time back (Bodhrans, etc), but heard that there was a risk of anthrax (albeit a very small risk)...

Does the process of boiling the hides to produce the glue kill off the disease?

I am going to switch to using hide glue with the next guitar build.

The tiger myrtle button #3 looks stunning.

Only if you want to pop the grain. You could try using egg whites as a seizing agent as Colin does. Just a word about egg whites...some egg whites have a bit of tint in them-even when separated properly from the yolk... so test before applying to lighter coloured woods. My Oregon Myrtle OM had to b...

Stunning workshop, well done!...I can hear the smooth sound of those drawers sliding effortlessly open and shut.

I have got to get myself a larger workspace...

That's a very classy and elegant looking guitar!

Ohdeargod, I so regret clicking on this thread...

WAS is so hard to suppress.....

What fantastic photographs of wonderful wood. Hope you're having a great time over there, Bob.

I really don't pop in here often these days, but I REALLY had to log into comment on this fabulous inlay work!!

A fantastic way to find inspiration; I want to ask also-how DID you get the lattes to look like that. DO you use a cocktail stick and swirl the stuff around?

That's a nice bit of space, Dom, similar to the space I have, albeit twice the size. I find the high windows rather frustrating though, but the lighting is perfect, even on overcast days.

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I build at home in a workshop; powertools are used sparingly with respect to my family's desire for peace and quiet. Therefore most of the processes are undertaken by hand tools. Therefore, I have built three guitars using a Sloane for the purfling & binding. Sharpness of the blade is absolutely vit...

Goodness' me, you lot have some quality threads over here!!

I really want to build a few traditional instruments one day.