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Hi Trent - thanks for the clarification. I look forward to this next challenge once the first guitar is finished. Only the nut and bridge to go.

Bernie

Beautiful guitar Trent and sounds amazing. Love the design elements and the whole look of the "kitchen sink" - It has the works! Inlay work looks like it took ages of patience to execute perfectly. I have a couple of questions about the pinless bridge. First is the bridge laminated with CF? Secondly...

Thanks Mark for the update on Bob and your reply. I did find pre-bending worked a treat. I would be like a kid in a lolly shop if I was making whisky! I'd better stick to making more than 1 guitar ... Looks like I'm about 10-12 years behind the guitar making trend, most of the contributors have prob...

Couldn't wait for a reply! I decided to glue in the herringbone purfling first and the next day after cleaning up the binding channel for any glue (very little) did the maple binding. The purfling turned out surprisingly well given the small number of gaps in the back. No fixes required. The maple b...

Hi Bob - I've been mostly lurking and gleaning some great ideas and tips from the talented luthiers on this forum. Your Weissenborns look fantastic and its the herringbone purfling one I'm attracted to. I've reached an impasse on my first build (going very sloooowly) with the herringbone purfling in...

thanks Col for this - I didn't receive a notification that you replied. My apologies. This is a really useful article.

cheers
Bernie

Hi there - is anyone able to post me a new link of the book/paper

EVALUATION OF AUSTRALIAN TIMBERS FOR USE by A Morrow

The original link is defunct. Better still, could the pdf be sent to me directly. Thanks