Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Yes, it is repairable...one of the beauties of hide glue and the violin-family instruments. You have many good luthiers there, and virtually any of them should be able to do it. I don't think it would be cost effective to send it here, or I would volunteer.

Chet

I think you meant "The Ship that Found Herself" by Kipling.

The Ship Who Sang is by Anne McCaffrey

Guess I will have to look at things very carefully-- I tend to keep finding typos and improved grammar, etc. for days. Any chance you could just make it "flag" that it has been edited, by the author , each time (and include the date and time), so instead of cutting off idiots like me, it simply noti...

Right you are. Basses are big. I inletted my linings on the one bass. Maybe next time I won't. Willow trims up very nicely, fortunately.

I'll post photos. Gotta hit the sack.

I'm glad you said that-- I had watched you shaping your linings before installation, and thought it was interesting, as every other maker I know shapes them after they are glued in place. I was considering following your lead, but now will consider myself warned. I know three schools of thought on i...

Ah! I remember Jasmine Davis from another forum! She did a great job on the two cellos I saw. Yes, I hope she comes back. I remember hearing the duet played on the two instruments by two of her teachers. Very moving.

I re-joined the back plate this evening. Seems to be OK...I will have to give it a closer look in daylight tomorrow. If I have the time, I may try to begin the linings tomorrow-- they are bent and ready to go, but I haven't cut the mortises into the blocks or anything. I've only been in NZ twice--th...

Thanks, my friend. I have only been on Ozzie ground once-- waiting for a plane out of Brisbane. Hope to visit again, someday. I've been to NZ twice, but never to the south island, so that would be nice, too.

Chet

Yes, I guess a four-hour (or five) drive one way could be called next-door, in the grander scheme of things. It was quite warm today. I got up early and re-worked some things I was dissatisfied with, then we went to a memorial for a friend. Pretty much took up the rest of the day. I wasn't happy wit...

Well, Lillian, I saw you were in the great, green state of Washington-- but it's a fairish bit of territory to be calling "next-door". How far away are you? I'm about 40 minutes west of Portland. Hope to see you sometime.

I sealed then all with "Anchorseal", or "Anchorfast" or whatever the correct name is, as soon as they were cut. I am tempted to go over them all again, though. Good stuff. I ended up with four pick-up trucks full of wood. If they all end up violas, I can live with that. But I cut a bunch of bass, ce...

On a related note, looking over some of the other threads, I see that my W.A.S. is not an isolated case. Last winter I was given a large log of Bigleaf maple--this was actually a limb that fell from a much larger tree. I have had it milled up, and am waiting for it to dry. http://i204.photobucket.co...

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 ten...

Okeedoke. I'll get on it. My eldest pointed out that my camera already has a delayed shutter release (or whatever it is called) and a remote infrared receptor, of some sort, with the requisite control (tiny enough to lose in a shirt-pocket, let alone a messy shop), so I guess I simply have to learn ...

Guess you're right; I have one. I need to learn to use it...I'll see what I can do.
Thanks for the welcome, Nick.

You are building a cello next? I'd love to see it.

Chet

Ah, Matthew!

Great thread! I am building my first cello, now, but hope to get going on my next bass early next year.

This is a great forum...I wish I had found it earlier.

Chet