Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Thank you for your kind words an input mate, I'll keep working and try to improve my process.
Thanks again,
Ben

Hi Gents, thank you all for your time and insight. I have been very careful to use clean rags, hands and eliminate contaminants. I have a brand new compressor (oil free I believe) and inline filter at the gun. I do use those dodgy mats but not during or after sanding, but I will get rid of them anyw...

Hi All, At risk of raising the wrath of members, I am posting a query about spraying hard shellac. I have looked high and low for info re. this and have found a lot of people saying they spray it but not a lot of detail, and I'm new to spraying. I'm have a basic stew mac gun (0.8 mm tip) as a starti...

Thanks Martin.

Howdy All,
Just wondering if anyone knows of a reasonably priced method of shipping timber from the east coast to WA? I know Aust guit timbers is able to chare a flat $20 rate... but not sure why.
Cheers in advance,
Ben

Cheers Martin, yes and we had a very wet winter.
Should I try adding moisture before clamping?

Thanks Gents, I was in Carbatec one day and found it there, dressed. I was quite surprised and it was cheap. Thicknessed and rough shape and truss rod route and then left for a week or 2 before I had time to glue on FB, then noticed twist. Weather has changed significantly in Perth the last couple o...

Thanks again everyone, there's a lot of different methods out there! I'll persevere with the safety planer, I think I need to put together a better jig.

One of my Qld maple necks has decided to take a little turn... should I throw it out (or on the fire)?
I hope the photo tells the story.

Thanks John, yeah that's pretty much how I do it, with a safety planer, but I should spend more time perfecting it like you have.
For some reason the safety planers make me feel a little uneasy....

Hi All,
Simple question, but I'm interested in different methods people are using to taper the neck prior to shaping, I'm not happy with how I'm currently doing it...
Cheers,
Ben

I use Rothco frost, they post over from the UK, great service, super thin decals. Probably pricey, but Im happy with them.

Hi All,
I was just interested to see if there were any new timber supply recommendations in WA?
Thanks in advance,
Ben

When I was at ghe WA guit fest a few months ago I bought some art made by an artist using offcuts. Great idea I reckon.

Hi All,
Still looking for somewhere, any other suggestions?
Cheers

Thanks Ken, will give him a call.

Howdy All, I have just moved to Perth from Coolangatta for work and had to leave my workshop there for the time being. So, I am hoping some Perthians can help me find a workshop to do a little bit of work in. At this stage I only need to do some body contours, sanding and french polishing, and I hav...

Hi All,
Sorry for the delay in responding, moved over to Perth for a new role.
The vinegar removed most of the stain but might have to try the harsher chems to clean it all up.
Cheers!

Thank you All, I will give it a try and report back. I knew it was risky but was a little impatient... thanks again!

With water and after it had dried, you can see on the right hand side the staining isnt bad and I gave it a light sand wich seemed to work ok but there is still black in the flame so I stopped to see if I could find another solution rather than sand anymore..

Howdy All, Just a quick (probably silly) question, I have an unfinished flame QLD maple cap on a guitar and I sprayed it with water to bring out the grain and wood colour and after the wood dried I was left with a black stain in the grain covering half of the guitar...what did I do..? Is it because ...

After a forced hiatus from building due to a transient work life, I finally set up a temporary workshop in one of my downstairs bedrooms, it works well but looking forward to building a purpose built shed now that I have settled down a bit travel wise...pictures are a bit messy...

Thanks everyone! Pretty happy I can carve it up for some instruments and eat dinner on the couch...

Maybe some help?

Thanks everyone, i will post a better close up photo shortly, and do the smell test, i have been cutting up some qld maple so will compare. I did think the grain looked like qld maple, but it's very orange..so thought maybe not. I definitely hope it is qld maple, i love it!