Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I have cut hundreds of fretboards with cnc, the trick is to not do back and forth passes on a line, instead do pockets, eg draw a fret slot .6mm wide as a box and then use a 0.5mm cutter to profile pass on the inside, this reduces the friction

I use to build electric guitar kits for some music stores here in perth who would then carry out an assembly course with said kits. I stopped these around 3 years ago, kind of around the time covid came to australia, really have no intention of getting back into it either, the margins for profit was...

Yeh, I think most people have endedmup in same situation at some stage. I had a guy bring an old guitar in, smashed top etc, sentimental job for him, he seemed genuine etc, did the top, did other stuff cost was 900, he came out to collect and his card wouldnt go through, so gave him an invoice to pa...

Nice.

Just a note grizzly also makes a sanding attachment for belt sanders and there is another company from memory that has a jig for passing the fretboard through a thicknesser at different positions to shape the fretboard

These router bits are another good idea to add to the tool belts

I use to teach acoustic guitar building classes in our workshop and every wood part of the guitar is made from raw wood, from kerfing to sides to bridges and braces etc, the bridge pin was the one thing we could not succeed with jigs, tried many a time, gave up and just used the lathe in the end, it...

I embraced cnc many years ago. Ask away if you have any questions re fabricating parts, pretty much covered it all by now. Also pretty awesome for making inlays, custom one offs, still a lot of work involved in making of the part, its just a different type of work, eg programming, drawing etc I find...

Measure the wire and the tangs, very rarely do i find them to spec, especially if they are from stewmac, good products but pretty off spec most of the time the stuff I have gotten from them Do you have barb files, that allows you to trim the width of the barbs, my test for frets is it should fit int...

I believe it has a couple of issues. If the guitar is built light enough that the neck has moved in relation to the bridge, then the traditional neck reset accomodates its desire to be in that new position, steaming and stretching it back is not addressing the reason it moved so IMO kind of pointles...

Do you have any photos of the before filler point.

Side note, any solid filler will never blend into a guitars finish

Subject to how bad it looked post repair, you may have to simply solid colour the top

Steve

Not a fan of flat sawn wood being used for a neck, is there a specific reason you went that route

Steve

All saw blades drift, how much so comes down to initial setup compensation and then it comes down to feeds and speeds as you cut different woods

Is this happening without any string tension being applied, that is a fresh clean build not strung up yet

Steve

Easy, if it was a customers guitar I was going to say pull the back off and profile sand the sides and refit the back, use rubber bands rather than clamps. Being a cheapie and you pulled the back for access, mix some epoxy up and fill the gaps all the way around, scuff sand the sides and back and ge...

Hi David, Is this a manufacturers guitar that you have put a new back onto or a guitar you built and you removed replaced your back or is his the back that existed and you had removed it for access Is this your guitar or a customers/friends, I ask, as I would approach the repair diffrently, dependan...

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I do my own, there are a few talented people about, I personally am a fan of John from extreme labels work, sales@labelx.net

Steve

Thanks trent.

I managed to get hold of John through his ebay message portal.

Steve

Awesome thanks folks, will try the ebay route.

I get john to make any super intricate inlays i may need, he has a unique skill for them

Steve

Yeh, but no email responses, gone dark else where.

Steve

Does anyone know if john is still operating his extreme label business, sent him some online enquiries for some custom inlays and no replys

Steve

Both of my bandsaws are 14s, my laguna is my higher end one and I use it solely for resawing, my every day bandsaw is I think called a sherpa (hare and forbes budget bandsaw) its okay, nothing flash, does what it needs to do

Nice simple classical bridge jig, like it

Martins suggestion is correct in your situation, its the path of easiest blending, grafting maple to maple for an invisible join requires special techiniques from using a razor blade to carve fake grain lines to super clear hide glue when joining, dollow up sanding cannot be done from darkwoods to l...

Can you post a distance shot as well