Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I'm a repairer of last resort and over the past 18mths I've had 3 Maton fretboards that needed removal. Two were due to failed truss rods and one was due to very deep divots around the first few frets. Does anyone know what glue Maton had used in the 1990's to join fretboards to necks ? It seems to ...

Thanks Ross, The natural light in my workshop is diffused through an awning with white poly-carbonate sheeting. That's fixed over the north facing windows. Another couple of pics here one shows the construction of a typical sliding router setup to make the binding channel. The is neck also shown whi...

And then closing the box.

Thanks Rod, I appreciate the encouragement.

Here's the crude depth gauge I made with the dowel marked at 2mm increments. It worked well for me but others might say it's not accurate enough for their liking.

After a month or so I had both the top and back roughly shaped. After this stage I spent some time fairing the contours

It's been almost 18mths or so but life and repairs/setups for numerous players got in the way. Here's the usual routing of the top plate.

Lillian, I've always been interested in the "feel" of the profile of both acoustic and electric necks. And what it brings to how a guitar plays. Here's a pic of the tools I use to shape a neck and the natural light I use to check how true I've profiled the neck. As you can see I have a mass produced...

Thanks you both for the welcome. Here’s a few pics of my latest based on a typical archtop. The photo of the whole bench shows my bending pipe setup on the right along with and the old coffee machine which supplies steam to the bend. Silky Oak can be a bit cranky as the figured grain on the outside ...

Hello, I've recently been accepted as a forum member and would like to introduce myself. I live on the Far Nth Coast of NSW in the Tweed River area. I do repairs and adjustments for friends and acquaintances. The last job was a neck reset on a 2007 Maton CW/80 12 string. I've had an interest in repa...