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Great, thank you! Good to know there are services local, Billinudgel is only about 20-30 minutes south, much nicer drive than dealing with Gold Coast traffic anyway, haha.

Hi all, I have two nice pieces of figured tasmanian oak around 18mm thick each and want to have them resawed into book matched tops, is there anyone that can be recommended on the Gold Coast/Tweed area to do the resaw as my budget bandsaw is not up to the task. Scared I'll get chased out of most nor...

Crafty Fox wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 04, 2019 11:54 am

Welcome to the madness!
Great effort for your first build, well done.

Thanks for the response guys. Yep, enough of a decent effort on a first build to hook me into a new addiction, hahaha

Hi everyone, New to the forum and new to instrument building but thought I'd post to say hello and share what I've done so far. First full instrument is greatly inspired by New York luthier Carl Thompson's work, especially the basses he has made for Les Claypool (Primus fanboy from my youth). Made f...