Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Things may have changed since I last imported from the US but from my experiences a few years ago bringing studio gear ( always through the postal systems, USPS ---> AustPost) and approx., 14 guitars (always through DHL), I've never encountered ANY undue/unwarranted additional fees, whereas, I've he...

Like Nick I have to say Rickenbacker only I'm planning on a 12 string..........have already owned a 6 string.........loved it but really want the 12 string sound.

Seb, Pitch correction has been around for quite a long time now both in recording and live performance environments. Similarly, in recording, it is now commonplace to correct timing issues until the human element disappears, in both live and recording situations "real" drums are only triggering samp...

Looks like an interesting line up and it's good to see Kristina Olsen and Peter Grayling still collaborating...............I did live sound for them locally back in the mid '90s..............both very nice people.

Kim wrote: I notice that noone has piped up yet to state that they have had issues with not receiving their goods. That's my point, it simply is not happening in AU anywhere near as much as had been implied, and i for one take exception to people using their own prejudices as an excuse for their la...

I long ago lost track of how much gear for our studio (ie: mics, rack units, etc., etc.) has come from the States via USPS........never had a problem. I looked at Fedex and UPS a couple of times but their pricing and dubious local delivery didn't win me over.

Jeff, My vac unit is at work at Cardiff if you want to have a look at how it's all connected..........Mob; 04...13 96.....00 83, give me a call. I'll dig around and see if I've got any records of where I sourced the bits and pieces..............actually, Pirtek (sp) at Cardiff may be worth a call. C...

This is the setup I made a few years ago. Based on info from JoeWoodworker's site........pump is a Reischle-Thomas, main reservoirs are 2 X 50ltr compressor tanks, etc., etc.

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ChrisO

One of the plans (356) at the guitargranny site looks like the go. Paul, Firstly welcome to the forum. Secondly, just in case you're not familiar with the Gibson 356 (and I'll apologise now if I'm being too presumptuous),..........it is a smaller body than the 335, actually close to a Les Paul in s...

Just to clarify.....the milled glass fibres (filaments) in that pic are nominal 12 micron. Our raw material starts out at >1mm in length and I mill it down to <0.5mm. A typical 2" long strand of chopped strand F/glass is made up of approx., 100 filaments. I'd suspect that the CF filaments are of a s...

http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/27_Imm_drill_bit_and_fibres_1.jpg The following was being typed as Rick posted :wink: ............. Welcome David. I'm not familiar with Smallman BUT I am familiar with the principles of the technique you described when using poly/vinylesters and glass fibres. Un...

That is such an elegant design................I may have to start redrawing my archtop before I attack the top plate.

ChrisO

Will,

Are you watching that LH Gibson on Ebay?

Will, I'd be wary of that LH Maton.........the seller says he's changed it to RH but makes no mention of what has been done to the nut slots, the p/up system is old and could be problematic. Personally, I feel that the prices being asked for these older Matons are too much, you can buy a much newer ...

Will,

Some good advice given here, if I was looking for a LH acoustic/elec, I think I'd be watching this very carefully http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Gibson-songwrite ... 20adc61279

"The bench" (in my case) is 3/4 finished............being built specifically for woodwork/instruments, designed to hold my vacuum system, etc., underneath. Running parallel to that, the top plate wedges for my archtop are glued together and "living" in the studio (RH approx., 45%) and my thickness g...

Guys, I've started to reply a few times and each time I find that my response seems inadequate on a few fronts........sorry, will try again later.

ChrisO

Kim, Mate, I'm sorry to hear of your problems/experiences with epoxy, it is nasty stuff, however, I'll just politely back away from the discussion and concern myself with my entry into luthery and my day job and leave people to believe what they will believe. BTW........my day job just happens to be...

The toxicity problem with epoxy is the "epoxide rings" which need to be "broken" to negate the toxicity/sensitization issue. It is essential, that when mixing the two components, that ALL "epoxide rings" have been exposed to the hardener which "breaks" the rings during the chemical process. One acce...

Mike, When either applying veneer to or making (ply) drum shells from scratch I've always used Techniglue. Veneering shells was always done with a vac bag with no problems, just leave it under vacuum for as long as possible (approx., 24 hours). If your veneers are the usual 0.6mm then watch for the ...

I'll be back in Tassie in late November/early December doing my mando or uke course, and it looks like I'll be back in July to teach with Allen McFarlen at the upcoming Cairns Ukulele Festival. We're just working out details and hope to teach as many as 12 people to build (OK, Allen, are you ready?...

Hesh1956 wrote:...........shipping them to OZ was going to cost something like $700 each............

That's ridiculous..............we've brought a number of guitars(with cases) in from the US and not one's shipping cost more than ~$300 with DHL, ie: 24 hours ground to ground.

I don't usuually get drawn to YouTube links but I'm SO glad that "something" led me to actually look at a Y'tube link from Ukraines Got Talent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo

Allen wrote: ................a dead wombat thats been peculating in the Aussie sun for 2 weeks.............

OMFG, that brings back some memories :spew ........and the smell hangs in the air for quite some distance around the corpse.

Hi String- Nice job with the shell! Do you make many? I used to hit the skins and lurrrrv wooden shells especially Piccolo's, the chrome shells just aint 'got it' as far as I'm concerned, the kit I had came with a chrome shell snare but that soon went and was replaced with a wooden shell. How did/d...