Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Hi Responding to the polite request (probably in the wrong thread ...). I actually joined the forum a year or so back but have only started visiting again recently. As I mentioned in my debut posting a week or so back re spool clamps, I built my first guitar just under a year ago at Jungle Guitars i...

Re: my comment about the plastic disks distorting -- bad choice of words; I wasn't suggesting applying so much pressure that they would bend. Rather I was trying to describe my suspicion that over time they would cease to be perfectly perpendicular to the rod, and would acquire a bit of wobble, espe...

Thanks for all the advice! Using poly kitchen boards for the spools is an interesting idea; I think I've seen a pic somewhere of that. Aren't these inherently less stable, though? I could imagine them getting easily distorted with just a bit too much pressure. I assume you'd still want cork lining o...

Hi I'm a newbie and periodic lurker here. I built my first guitar last year at Jungle Guitars in Goa, loved it, and want to do more; to get myself started building solo I've bought Trevor and Gerard's books, and I'm embarking on a Stewmac kit build (call me a wimp). So right now I'm in the tooling-u...