Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I love watching the birth of this instrument. Thanks for the beautiful documentation. Your work looks very skillful and elegant, especially on the neck scroll. I am interested to see that you can graduate the outside arch of the top using the Safe-T-Planer, which would be a great way to hog off a l...

Great stuff Chris. I know it takes a bit of effort to take and post photos to the forum. I have however taken lots of photos, particularly of my early guitar builds to help keep records, along with my log book with wood types and thicknesses etc. I can't imagine tackling that carving exercise on th...

...small update from my work on the top,
also I added some fotos of the raw wood before starting my work

Hello, just a little update on my work, I hope someone is interested and I am looking forward for comments and questions.... :) work goes rather slowly, mostly due to the fact that a lot of the work is done manually- also I didnt have too much time lately. What I did: -complete or almost complete th...

hello to the other side of the globe- the cello work has been continued, of course, so I would like to share the progress. So far, no great discouragement or major accidents like sawing off the wrong parts - so I think, maybe this is a really great opportunity to practice mindfulness and devotion ra...

Yes Chris, a very interesting project. Are you modelling it on a particular cello, e.g. one of those documented in The Strad like the Domenico Montagnana, 1740? Hi Mike, I got Henry Strobels Books to get some guidance, and as far as I know, the plans he offers ("his own") are very much based on the...

Hello Friends, i have already introduced myself, as not quite the "Aussie" you would expect on this forum, but glad to share and be inspired on these pages! see http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9714 for my introduction and presentation of my very first lutherie project. After seeing the guit...

Greetings to all and sundry: My name is Chet Bishop. I live in Forest Grove, Oregon, in the US. I've been building for about eleven years, now, and am finally starting to speed up a little. My first instrument, a small viola, took me almost two years of start and stop, start again work. The last te...

Hello everybody, so i think its a nice idea to introduce yourself once new on a friendly forum. i am Christopher, from Austria, 46yrs, and I must have misread the title of the forum as "Austrian/NZ luthiers.." just kidding, I found this forum to be very informative as well as full of friendly advice...