Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Now can any one direct me to some good bass parts to learn to play co's the family is fed up with "These boots are made for walking" and "Fever". :lol: Try "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby", Tom & Jerry version :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUDVR1ysbeM Nice fix on the fingerboard. I do hope ...

I'm a cam clamp guy, although they do have their shortcomings. Particularly the way they tend to pull the joint sideways as you tighten the cam. But if you put on a few of them oriented different directions and tighten them a little bit at a time, the joint will usually stay put. I love the quick ac...

Size 5 sounds good to me. I'm finishing up one based on this (documented here ), which is similar size, and sounds fantastic. An interesting build Dennis. You're using the Spanish Method but you don't appear to be using a work board? How do you set the rake on the neck before gluing the back on? Ju...

Size 5 sounds good to me. I'm finishing up one based on this (documented here ), which is similar size, and sounds fantastic. Definitely a "real guitar". Steel strings might be harder to coax a good sound out of such a tiny box, but I'd still like to give it a try sometime. I would say maybe go a li...

Cool guitars! That's an interesting tone you've got going there. Loud and sustainy. I'd like to hear some finger picking. The plectrum sounds a little harsh, although I think that might be the microphone suffering from the volume of those things

Nice work on the scoop cutaway and bevels too.

Some kind of eucalyptus? E. globulus, perhaps?

I found some little plastic bottles with needle point nozzles, similar to those that Hot Stuff C/A comes in in an art supplies store. How interesting! I use the exact same identical bottles, found at a JoAnn fabric/craft store here in the USA :) Love 'em. I keep them floating in a $15 hot pot ( htt...

I much prefer hide glue over any other for this sort of thing. Mainly because it can be re-melted, and does stick to itself, so if it pops back up like this one did, you can just try again immediately. Not sure how well it would stick now that the surfaces aren't totally clean though... in this case...

With butt joints that clean, I don't think the end graft is really necessary. I mostly see them as a) a way to cover up a lousy joint (and thus save time by not bothering to make a good one), and b) an opportunity for artistic decoration. I rather like the fern. Possibly a little bit too big, but th...

Very cool! I'll definitely be trying that. No more struggle with sharpening, and no blackened fingers either Smile I think there's a big pile of scrap glass down in the basement, so free and easy too. Many thanks for the tip.

matthew wrote: Dozuki saw has to be my all time favourite. Then my new HNT Gordon smoother. Then a fresh cut glass scraper. Dennis, you tried that yet? Nope, never heard of a glass scraper, but it sounds intriguing. Just take a piece of glass and scrape with it, and score and snap off the end when ...

Hmm, tough question. Single most loved tool... probably the block plane. Nice little $30 Anant, no need for those crazy expensive things. Also good friends with my cheap 1/2" chisel, Tajima 265 pull saw, hand crank drill, Stephen Boone finger plane, and cam clamps. I really like the idea of scrapers...

Eh, whatever's fine with me. I'm working in inches for my first guitar build. Since that's what most steel string guitars are described in, I have a better intuitive feel for the size then. But whenever I get to building a classical, I'll probably use metric. Same for violins. Inches aren't so bad o...