Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Thanks Mark & John,
I hope to start on this stage this week.

Thanks all, I'll now find some chalk. Yes I am doing a bolt on M&T connection, with screwed in female thread inserts in the neck & M6 socket head screws. I'm sure that I will need to adjust the left/right alignment of the neck & also slight adjustment of the depth of the M to ensure the fret board s...

Hi all, This is a fairly basic beginners question I think- I'm just starting to assemble the neck to the body via a mortise & tenon joint on my guitar build & I need some means of determining high points in the joint. Online info seems to use "chalk" for this purpose but it seems to me that since th...

Thanks for that Bruce, further to your post, I looked at a video from the Woodworking Guild of America on this subject and then studied my timber closely & found the growth lines running through it at about a 30 degree angle rather than 90 degrees. According to WGA this means my timber is Rift sawn ...

Thanks for the detailed advice everybody. I'm starting to get a bit of an understanding of the RH problem. Firstly I don't think I'm storing my wood very well, at the moment I have had layers of sides and front/back sitting on top of each other & so, of course, the top surface of the top layer dries...

Hi everyone, I just want to introduce myself, just joined the forum a week or so ago. I'm a retired Engineer who now has a guitar building hobby. I built a guitar with the Australian Guitar Making School down in Hobart in 2015 and ever since I have been wanting to make another but up until now I've ...