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Steve,
Scott Wise in Margaret Rr use to have it advertised for sale on his web site, bit closer to home for you.

Regards
Archie

Just got in from dog walking and have seen the comments. Thanks very much one and all. Yes Steve, there is a lick of plain shellac all over the inside, i think it just looks good. Alan, I love the rounded shapes in upper and lower bout which I decided to design into this one and it threw up a few ex...

Greetings from Geraldton, I actually finished this one before Xmas but a clapped out hard drive and a few other projects have put the posting on the back burner. Got a new IMac and in the process of learning to drive it I thought I would finally get this together. Last year I got Ervin's books and t...

Just a quick true story that sort of relates to how a guitar like this can be purchased. Back in the 80's one of my clients was a very successful local builder who loved music, an old "bodgie" so that should date him. He used to serenade his wife with old Elvis songs etc played on a nasty Asian Gibs...

Hi John
Thanks for the reply. Your comment is along the lines of my thinking in so much as keeping the mass down but the strength there in this important area. I think I shall give it a go.
Archie.

Hello Peter, one and all, I only have 5 under my belt and have used maple, jarrah and sheoak for bridge plates with jarrah and mulga so far for the bridges. The mulga comes up trumps being very glassy in sound, gives a great finish and comes out around the 28- 30 gm mark. Of recent times I have noti...

Thankyou Dominic and Graham for your replies. My apologies for the tardiness of my reply but I got called in as an emergency for my mate's Corporate Lawn bowls team and after a grueling battle in the heat we needed a few hours to cool down and rehydrate afterwards. Thanks Dominic, I have seen the tu...

Greetings one and all from Geraldton WA. I am doing a repair job on a classical La Patrie guitar that had major trauma but a lot of sentimental value to the owner and I am at the stage of fitting the Ivoroid binding to the new top so as to match the back. I have only fitted wood bindings so far and ...

Hi Christian
Lovely, pure looking guitar. Great shape and finish.
Archie

Hi everyone, Tim especially. I had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago on a southern foraging trip to finally get to meet Tim in his lair whilst picking up an order and have been meaning to message him and say what a joy it was to get to see his shed and it's contents as well as his good self face to...

Just got in from the day job and see all these comments. Thank you all very much. Yes Liam I can honestly say that both the service and the product I have received from Tim has been superlative every time which is great as it keeps viewers oogling the wood and they don't notice the little filled gap...

Thanks for all your kind comments. This guitar was a further stretch in the evolution of guitar building for me and I am very happy with the results sound wise. It has volume and clarity with the plectrum but is sweet and clear when softly finger picked and I am looking forward to hearing it again i...

You are viewing a re-constructed thread by the ANZLF recovery team. For more information click here . " Originally Posted on: Sun Aug 01, 2010 8:03 pm Greetings once again from Geraldton WA. If anyone finds my post from this morning let me know, it went missing somewhere between here and Christchuc...

Well done Alan. I must agree with all comments it looks neat and tidy. Also like the natural finish look and I am always interested in the finishes applied especially, if it didn't involve a great a great deal of technology.
Keep at it.
Archie

Good evening all. I was the same as Allen and looking for something to occupy me and give me a challenge. I had played and sang semi professionally for 30 or so years and loved guitars I was initially looking at a kit, got the C&N and Jim Williams books and thought bugger it I'll have a go at the re...

Well done Ricardo. You have done justice to a very nice selection of timber. Very clean, very pretty.
Archie

Hi Mark, Well done on finishing your second. It looks great. My last one was based on the LOO and I decided not to go with a pickguard after making paper mockups as the tight waist just made it all a bit crowded. If I was working with this one I may put a clear one on but for picking at home it's fi...

Hi Klufty, I am on my 3rd guitar and don't have a lot of money or room, so for bending I use a 75mm stainless exhaust pipe offcut kindly donated by "The Man Who Owns The Store" and heat it with a gas torch attached to my barbie bottle. It cost me about $60 for the gas torch kit and adaptor and I fig...

Thanks Dennis and Lillian,

Lillian if you click on the guitar thumbnail it should take you to the Photobucket page/album and you can see the rest.

Archie

Waddy, Thanks for your help, but I have been trying to change the pictures over the last hour in between doing other things and while I was organising Photobucket you obviously fixed them and then I deleted them anyway, better than comedy. Your assistance is much appreciated. Thanks again to all for...

Thanks Bob, I don't know what's happening. I had html links to a Picasa web album to start with and then changed them this morning to links to my blog site pictures but that seems to be playing up as well. When I get a bit more time I will do them through my Westnet server photo facility and see if ...

Thanks Kim and Alan,

I don't know what happened to the pictures. When I get a chance I will see if I can magic them back from whence they have disappeared.

Archie

Hi Kim, Thanks for that it looks much better and I'll remember next time. I will work on my mate Frank who I am playing with tonight to do something sound wise, he understands mixolydians and megabytes and is 100 times more competent than myself at both. One thing great about WA and Gero in particul...

I don't know if I,ve done this right but here a couple of more pics including the bracing one.
Archie

Sunday morning
I ended up changing all these and doing it through Photobucket so all pics should be available there. Boy, making it was the easy bit, getting the photos up is much harder.

Hello to everyone on ANZLF from sunny Geraldton WA. I have been a peruser of this site for quite a while now and have finally decided to post up and tell of myself and show some pics(hopefully) of my second guitar. Not a lot of luthiers here in Gero so I have been reliant on forums such as this, OLF...