Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Yeah Nick Looks like the Ranga's gone but over here it's just a choice between clowns, their all hopeless :D Unlike the United States of America, where clowns are not allowed to run for political office. Clown are very honest, humble people, willing to work hard to try make the world a better place...

I'm up for a long distance wood trade!! What I need are tiger myrtle blocks that I can acrylize for my knife handle business. Needs to be DRY wood, high figure markings. I can use clean blocks 1" thick by 2" wide by 6" long minimums. Would also like to get some DRY tiger myrtle fingerboard blanks mi...

Looks a lot like Movingue also known as Nigerian satinwood.

Thanks Steve!! Guess the answer was in the post above my question :roll: I must learn to process what I read!! Are you coming to ASIA symposium this June? Hi Kim....I've been pretty laid back adjusting to retirement..whatever that means.....and very little forum postings. I have not forgot the ziric...

Gotta love that sycamore. Did you do a three piece back by choice? I think 3 and 4 piece backs can look stunning.

Great way to breath life into that walnut, Steve!! That's the set you got a GAL 2 times ago?? It is indeed crotch wood as crotch figures and grain orientations vary greatly. I have been blessed with good advice from Mario Proulx and Jeffery Elliot on using crotch wood. I had some crotch BRW at GAL a...

What Dennis said in spades!!!! It appears many of the republican criminals are throwing of their uniforms and blending with the civilians until after the election. The big problem isn't with the candidates, but in the lard assed, spoiled, self serving ignorant American voter. This type of voter has ...

One more from my best ex.......If I'd only known.... :shock: Menopause Jewelry My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods. We've discovered that when I'm in a good mood, it turns green. When I'm in a bad mood, it leaves ...

Kool Kim!!! Mandarin accent with a West Texas drawl....

I can do that soon's the beer hits the GABA and Glutamate tonight

Crawfishing is great in Louisiana!!

If dubya would ONLY tour in the USA!!! The only protests so far in Beijing are anti-Bush rallies...sheesh....

This forum is the most fun forum on all the "internets."

Didn't think there were any forums left for him to get banned from.

Loons type fast and I think he meant "piss ants", but as usual I could be wrong.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Very good and I can completely relate........ Problem is that many of my past dates probably can relate too....... :D You've mentioned an "ex" a few times so immediately thought of you when that was sent to me...by an ex :D Not to be a judgement of any kind, but over the past coup...

JohnM wrote:Hitler was right when he said that people if given a lie over and over will eventually believe the lie or a large part of it.

Nah, John that was George Bush, Karl Rove and Don Rumsfeld

A husband and wife are shopping in Wal Mart when the man picks up a case of Budweiser and puts them into the shopping cart. "What do you think you're doing?." asks his wife. "They're on sale, only $15 for 24 cans," he says, ''Put them back. We can't afford it," says the wife and they carry on shoppi...

The early wood is pretty soft and wears away quicker than the late wood and this is even worse if you get close to the sap.joel. Hi Joel, you are probably referring to the light and dark bands in Wenge as "late and early wood"? I'm only surmising on this here. The whitish bands are parenchyma and n...

Kim has made some valid points of concern regarding mold. While stretch wrapping wet hardwood can create surface mold doing so with wet softwood sappy stuff can cause mold to penetrate fairly deep with stain. That's a serious risk to consider. The true value of quality instrument wood starts way bef...

Good one Waddy!!! My best ex-girlfriend sent me the joke I posted. I'll be spending a week with her in the California mother load gold country at a private mining and fishing camp in the Moke River canyon first week of September. Getting my gold dredge and diving gear together as we speak...... That...

This one seems to fit here. WHO SAYS MEN DON'T REMEMBER ANNIVERSARIES? A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appe...

Hesh1956 wrote:no lube either........

I wish ol' dub and dick had offered the country some lube....

OMG, I didn't see that photo coming or I'd duck under the table

Thanks to Tim, I can now properly pronounce, "g'day"

The Angel step maple in Steve's guitar is one of the best examples of that figure I've ever seen....bar none!!

Hi Kim, alas that was not my limba however I have cut a bunch from time to time. I'm lucky enough to be only a couple tables down from Steve and it's always a visual treat. I'm not sure where the future for limba in acoustics might be, but I think it has great potential for Flamenco construction. Co...

Lots of new convention 2008 photos up on the GAL site....


http://www.luth.org/convention/2008/index.htm

Sent to me by a friend (woman of course) today...cracked me up!! Man driving down road. Woman driving up same road. They pass each other. The woman yells out the window, PIG! Man yells back, BITCH! Man rounds next curve. Crashes into a huge pig in middle of road and dies. Gotta be more out there lik...

Nice!! I love new carpet 'cause you know it's not full of old boogers..only yours!!!!

Hi Graham...... I'll also be exhibiting at GAL with two tables of wood. If there are any special mando woods you are searching for let me know and I might have source. Larry