Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

The thickness you take your ribs to will depend on the wood you use. Basically you take the rib wood to a thickness at which you can bend it without difficulty. Youre not bending the wood around a very tight radius so you can take most woods a bit thicker than 1.5mm. Im not sure where you got that ...

Hi kiwigeo, I'll just answer your comments below: 1. Not sure what you mean by veneers for the ribs. The ribs on a lute are generally solid wood....not sure of any advantages in using veneer apart from adding a bit of stiffness. I was just talking about the 1.5mm thickness of the ribs - my terminolo...

Hi everyone, I'm taking on a lute building project and found this forum today, so hopefully I'll be able to find advice here as I work my way through the inevitable problems that occur in projects like this. The lute I'm attempting is the six/seven course lute in David Van Edwards Rennaisance Lute c...