Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I used Bocote on the first guitar I built in 1992 I think it was. It didn't take long, just a few years, that it started darkening. Now it's a deep rich brown with hints of red. Still looks good though. So enjoy the light color for a little while, while you can

The green is the live value and the red is the peak value since the last refresh. So once you start the app the green line is dynamically moving with every sound that it hears then you punch the top of the guitar and it records the peak red value. So when you take the screenshot of it the live green...

Well silly me I didn't make a frequency response chart before but I did just make one after. Method for doing so is to hold the guitar in the playing position but keeping the back free. Guitar is strung up to tension with felt under the strings to mute them. Using an App called Spectrum Analyzer on ...

Just thought I would follow up with my results on this for anyone reading in the future. One thing for sure if you want to build guitars on the edge of responsiveness you have to be willing to "fix" them when they are brand new. And using bolt on necks systems and reversible glues help a lot in that...

Can you not sand or file somehow the carbon fiber? If anything what I learned, or should say learned again because I used to always do this, is to aim high that way you can always remove material to get the tone you want. In fact I just did that on an 000 I built about a year ago, shaved the braces,...

Appreciate the detailed response Trevor, many thanks. Yes this is traditional x-brace, no carbon, and the string height is 1/2in which is more or less 12-13mm so I could probably get away with lowering it a hair. I may just reset the neck angle instead of refretting too since it's so slight I probab...

This is a very small 12-fret parlor guitar. I am happy with the tone of it however there is quite a visible telegraphing or ghosting, if you will, of the bracing in front of he bridge. The distortion in the top is apparent in the right lighting and is seen to make a triangular depression with the x-...

I'm going on my second year with it now. It pays for itself fast. This year I have not taken much advantage of it but if you plan on ordering even 3 or 4 times a year it at least pays for itself and then if you forgot to order that jack plate or something you just order it and don't worry about it.

awesome thanks for the replies, that archtop looks marvelous! And I love the colour of amber shellac so I'm not to worried about that. your polishing looks great by the way. also how do you go about putting a wash coat on? Wash coat might not be the right terminology since that commonly is used to ...

I'm finishing these two up right now in French Polish and it sticks just fine. I am using a dark amber button shellac so it does change the color considerably so that might be something to consider. I think it looks good but you may not. BUt otherwise Shellac sticks to everything well. Also don't fo...

If you already have a computer and a microphone then it's really not that complicated. The first book is really a text book and almost deserves an actual class taught by a professor over the course of a college semester. But you don't really need to understand it in order to use it. There are alread...

Yeah I've always heard that too. Interesting. I can imagine in an industrial setting it could cause something like silicosis which is not from a toxin but from the particles of dust themselves. So in any case dust control would be very important as it should be for anything.

Thank you Trevor. I really appreciate the response and your time.

Regards.

First of all, hello down there in Oz and NZ and of course to the rest of you. I hear it's awfully hot down there this time of year. My first post here while I imagine most of you down under are still asleep! Hello from Virginia USA. I spend most of my time on the OLF but I found out that this place ...