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Don't know about necks but Tim Spittle was selling it as binding and I thought it was really good.

Hi

I'm on the North Shore if you need any local help.

Cheers
Richard

+1, welcome!!

Would love to see more detail of your build. I have used CF for truss rod/neck reinforcement and have one falcate braced with CF tow so I use it but not like you do!!

Different is always interesting.

Cheers from NZ

That looks amazing. Particularly the combination of the blackwood binding with the Koa. I would not have thought they would go together but, clearly, they do.
Lovely work, as ever.

How many ukes have you built now Allen??

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Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:29 pm

Thank you, Thank you very much

Lolz.

Nice! 22 more!! Crikey.

Hi David, don't be too hard on yourself mate. I have tidied up a few old guitars and given them away too, know where you are coming from re no complaints. My first thought was solid colour but that's actually a lot of work too, by the time you commit to doing it properly. I think you just have to ch...

Pretty obviously the Honda engines were responsible for the consistency of tone. He should try with a couple Ducatis

Wow. Amazing. That would have been a lot of fun.

Impressive. Im loving that ebony back and sides. That will look spectacular under finish

This is a poor photo but you get the general idea. I blackened the bolts as these looked too bright against the rosewood. 20211031_110210.jpg Here's a picture of the neck joint neck joint.jpg There are two bolts at the other end of the mortice that are done up from inside the soundhole. That's a rea...

They all look stunning but the PRS stands out to me. That purple(?) wash looks fan bloody tastic. Ive never tried to do that yet but maybe the next one I will. I think the joy of electrics is that you can go completely away from traditional guitars colours so you have lots of freedom to create somet...

My first Tele was a kit of electronics. I found a plan and made the wooden bits myself. Turned out ok to my untrained ear. Knowing what i do now, if i wanted to build a kitset Tele i would pick a stewmac kit https://www.stewmac.com/kits-and-projects/instrument-kits/electric-guitar-kits/t-style-elect...

I still disagree but I'm not going to rain on your parade mate.
At the end of the day if they sound good, you have succeeded.

All the best!!

I disagree. Stiffness = EI/L all of which are constants for a given guitar. If you deform a flat plate into a curved shape that certainly increases its stiffness but in the range under which it is loaded by guitar strings, all response is in the elastic range of the material. If you look at the resp...

"of course then it gets more interesting as under load, with presumably more "stiffness" as the top tenses, it will raise back up some I expect."

Nope.

Stiffness does not change with load. Stiffness is a constant. Deflection changes with load.

Hi Moose and welcome aboard. Greetings from the lockdown province!! Woods- As you are probably already aware, there are different schools of thought on how much difference the wood makes in a purely electric guitar. I don't say I am right but personally I don't think it makes a lot of difference or ...

Ive got a generic 16/32 here in Auckland. I regularly use it to thickness sides and backs and have gone down to 2mm so i wouldn't get too stressed about the "no less than 3mm" spec. You do get snipe at either end but that seems to happen with any thickness

Interesting discussion I'm not building for sale so im not bothered about how long it takes to shape a neck. For me its one of the more enjoyable bits of building a guitar. I start with a 25mm thick plank and do the scarf first. I then spend a bit of time truing everything up on the jointer and with...

From the interweb https://www.vedantu.com/question-answer/the-frequency-of-vibration-v-of-a-string-may-class-11-physics-cbse-5f8e5a9e5ff189705c7c9db5 The formula for frequency of the string is v=(k/L)*(sqrt of (T/m)), where k is a constant. m is mass per unit length of the string, so assuming you ar...

Mine tracks to the other side, regardless of what I do with the adjuster. Mine didnt cost me $2000 though:)

The bigger issue for me is the snipe you inevitably get at the beginning and end of the piece as it either goes under or comes out of the rollers. Pain in the back side

Well done Kevin. Its great when you can demonstrate the theory in practice. I think this demonstrates the real benefits of Trevors objective approach. There are things we can physically measure rather than trying to guess whats going based on what we think we hear. The other point about Trevors appr...

I'm not the falcate guru but I would not take too much notice of what the spectrum checks say until the end of the process when you have the guitar strung up. I have no idea what the particular peaks means, if it means anything. Its probably a good thing to do them as you go through, so that you can...

Hi Kevin

IF you don't hear from Trevor, I'm happy to send you mine, seems to work (as in reproduces Trevors numbers from the book). You can look through and see where the differences are?

You would need to pm me your email address

Cheers
Richard

Just for reference I bought a set of 4 basic chisels (marples, plastic handles) in 1976, still using them. They work well enough.
Looking at the same thing now they cost two or three times as much as your Luban ones!.