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Awesome work, I love the cutaway.

Wow, amazing work. Retaining of the existing binding blew me away.

Love the bridge 'relocation' jig. Great idea.

The place I buy my Mirotone from in Adelaide recommended (and sells) Farecla G3.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/251606219633

Seems to work well and buffs up to a nice shine.

So I didn't attempt to return it, but they refunded me the purchase, after I reached out to the company who manages their customer reviews, complaining about them deleting my review. Then elmerguitar emailed me (see below) and I had to laugh at the "misleading consumers" part... ************ We wou...

I have shed envy - that would be room for my entire car collection and a bigger workshop

Finally finished acoustics no 5 and 6 yesterday after 18 months.

I got them together with all my previous builds for a bit of a Christmas party before Santa delivers them to their new owners on Christmas morning ! (5 & 6 are the two outermost ones on the stands).

Brilliant! Needed this advice last week when learning how to remove a neck after discovering it was glued on out of alignment

This is so timely when my afternoon's shed session today is making bridges for my next two builds.

Love the great advice available on this forum!

I like the jig for holding it down on the bench, what a great idea!

My 4th acoustic build. Previous builds were done at TAFE using their tools and machinery. This one done entirely in the garden shed, hence why it's taken me two and a half years to finish, what with making jigs, acquiring tools etc. Still a few mistakes made along the journey with lots of lessons to...

Thanks Phil.

Crikey, hope I'm not going to experience wallet shock when I go to pick it up tomorrow

Phil Mailloux wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:55 am

Definitely a job for a machine shop. The blade is fully case hardened. I got a shop to do mine years ago and they even broke a bit on it because of how hard that bore was

Thanks all,

After a couple of calls this morning, Central Saw and Knife Works here in Adelaide are able to increase the bore size for me.

Ok I thought it was other way around. A machine shop should be able to machine the blade hole out to 20mm. Thanks Martin, If only it were that easy :-( I actually have the opposite problem to that, the arbor on the blade is 5/8" and the spindle on the saw is 20mm so the arbor needs to be larger on t...

G'day again, Two questions in one day, hope I'm not exceeding my quota :D Just shows that during the lock-down I'm finally making progress on the now 2 year acoustic build. I bought the Stew Mac table saw fretting blade ( https://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/Types_of_Tools/Saws/Fret_Slotting_Table_...

G'day all,

Has anyone tried Perfect Coat epoxy resin sold by Carbatec as pore filler?

https://www.carbatec.com.au/perfect-coa ... er-1l-pack

Any comments/feedback on it?

Cheers,

Iain

Gorgeous!

You have lost me! I do not understand Java Script . I do not know how to turn it off. If I do turn it off ( after finding how to ) will I still be able to communicate with people? What exactly is Java Script? Is it an advertising medium ? Do we need this to communicate? Pete :!: Javascript is code ...

I got 10 sheets of sycamore veneer from Barry Kerr which I use for different things, ALS sell maple veneers natural and coloured. https://luthiersupplies.com.au/luthier-materials/tonewood/acoustic-guitar-wood/guitar-veneer/natural-dyed-maple-veneers.html Wayne Thanks Wayne, I looked on ALS original...

56nortondomy wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 08, 2018 2:38 pm

I buy white and black fibre veneer sheets from RC tonewood it's pricey with post but lasts for years. Wayne

Thanks for that tip. To date I've only used domestically sourced timbers.

What, if any, are the issues with importing wood from overseas? Any problems with customs etc.?

G'day folks, been a casual observer for a while and this is my first post so be gentle :) On my next project I have a binding strip down the back with a white strip either side. The back binding will be the same strip so the white on the back will match the back strip. I then want to continue the st...