Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Back in the mists of time (2009) the OLF had a Buy/Sell/Swap thingummy and your very own Bob Connor had some wood to sell. Among other things I bought two tenor uke sets of tiger myrtle I started building them at New Year 2010 and they were almost finished in October. But I had a problem French poli...

If you're working from a plan, or even if you've drawn your own, you will have a body depth at the neck block and at the tail block; (usually) deeper at the tail block. These two dimensions and the back radius you choose determine where the deepest part of the body is. You don't need to worry about ...

For us in the UK the issue isn’t shipping costs it import taxes. Haven't been around the Luthier Forums (Fora ?) for a year or so as I don't have a workshop any more, so I'm a bit out of touch. But I noticed recently that Madinter in Spain are selling quite a lot of Stewmac stuff. I haven't compare...

Apparently that's fine here, and on the MIMF and on the Luthier Community. But on some forums, like the AGF for instance, you have to use a hosting service. I was in the habit of using Photobucket but, since they decided to practise extorsion on everyone who used their free service, I posed the ques...

It's a good wood for fingerboards and it's not CITES listed.
Be careful working it though. Some people are alergic to it.

Testing Thanks John

Hello everyone, Apologies in advance if I’m posting this in the wrong place. Although I’ve been a member and lurked from time to time, I’ve never posted very much on this forum. But I’m now making a guitar using some Australian woods I got from Bob a few years ago, so I thought it only fair that I s...

Hi Markus, Although I used Autocad professionally I only used it as a 2-dimensional drawing tool in mechanical engineering. It was only when we moved onto ProEngineer that we started 3D modelling. I use projeCAD for 2D drawings for my instruments and I haven't found anything that I need and that it ...

I used Autocad professionally for a number of years before we switched to ProEngineer. I'm now retired and use progeCAD Smart which is an Autocad clone and completely free. The only disadvantage I've found is that when you print a plan it automatically prints: "progeCAD 2009 Smart - Personal Use Onl...

I think these guitars were perhaps designed with young players in mind.
When a small person with a full size guitar holds it in the approved classical position, where does it dig in?
Under the right forearm and inside the right thigh.
So that's where they made the bevels.

What about shelf life? I couldn't locate any seller of Tru Oil in my country so I'll have to import it which makes small quantities very unattractive. :? Although the question has been asked, nobody has given a clear answer. Once the bottle has been opened Tru Oil starts to thicken up and harden (i...

Or did you mean like this? Couldn't find out much about them except that I think they're cheap and Chinese. It looks like a good idea but.... The only one I've seen didn't have any bindings and the little girl who had it didn't know where her daddy got it from (perhaps it came from Father Christmas'...

Dom, adjustable in both directions. If you look at Keith's you will see how he has done it. Actually, only one needs to be adjustable. For instance you could position the cutter exactly where you want it on the workpiece by moving the carriage around, then position the (adjustable) stylus in the cor...

Do some trial runs before starting on the real thing. My first results were very disappointing; the recesses I cut were much too big. I used the 1/32" downcut cutter from Stewmac and a 1/32" drill shank as a stylus. I had to experiment a bit and finished up using a bit of brass rod as a stylus and k...

Nick, it's not perfect by any means, as you'll see. I've already posted this on TLC but I suppose it won't hurt to show it here. Once I'd cut out the shell pieces I used 3M re-positionable spray adhesive to position them face down (don't forget) on a board. I then gave them a coat of 'mould-relase' ...

I built a McKenzie style 'pantocopier' and it works well enough for me. By the way, this is tenor ukulel sized.

Now why do I disagree with everyone else? Must be my speakers. To me, your (Schramm) guitar sounded much more mellow (how do you describe sound?). In fact, returning to the Smallman after the Schramm, the Smallman sounded positively harsh. Perhaps I should get new speakers. But, as the French say, "...

What the heck. I suppose another 'please' can't do any harm.

Beautiful instrument Allen. I posted a link to this thread on the Ukulele Underground forum and Chuck Moore said the sides looked to him to be made from one piece (not book-matched) and wondered, if that was the case, how you did the end graft. I said that looking at the last photo, it seemed fairly...

LMI don't give the wall thickness (or inside diameter) of their CG tubes . If the wall thickness is 1/16" they would be about 1 1/2 times as stiff (or resistant to bending) as a 3/8" x 1/8" rod used 'upright'. In their photo they look to be less than 1/16" thick, so the stiffness is probably about t...

A lot of ABGs have the soundhole in the upper bout. There's the Taylor: http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/96_taylor_abg_lg_1.jpg The Furch http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/96_Furch_b40_1.jpg and the Doolin with a very small soundhole http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/96_abgdoolin_1.jpg

Actually, she's Italian, but I suppose you all knew that. You probably also know that she was briefly with Eric Clapton before dumping him for Mick Jagger and then shacking up with......etc. etc. etc.

OK Let's try it. I hope Rick doesn't mind.

Thanks for the welcome chaps. Kim, I'm afraid my project is only just leaving the drawing board (i.e. monitor screen) but when I have something worth showing I'll happily share. On the other hand, having reached the age at which one becomes 'technology-challenged', I'm not sure how to post images on...

Hello all, I hope you don't mind another Pom invading your forum. I've been reading this thread with interest as I'm starting on my own version. Craig, what you're seeing under the fingerboard extension are the 1/2" x 1/8" CF rods which, as Rick said, are dadoed into the underside of the f'board and...