Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I live in New Zealand I am going to start making my own cases also. My guitars are my own custom shape and design so they don't fit in a standard case to well. I live in New Zealand and there are no custom guitar case makers here, and to get one from America will cost around $3000 by the time I get ...

I've been trying to find someone who makes custom cases also and I'm from NZ and my guitars are a bit different sizes and shapes to what fits in a standard case, but I've decided I'm going to try my hand at making a carbon fiber case for mine and if it is successful I'll let you know!

Thanks Andos,
I managed to get my hands on some tararie for the top and neck, just have to get my hands on some good bracing timber

So I'm about to start my next guitar build and I want to use some NZ timbers on it , specifically the top the neck and the bracing. I'm using black walnut for the back and sides and I wanted to use Pauduk for the the back bracing for some colour and strength but obviously that's not a kiwi timber an...