Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Isn't that Larry Robinsions design for their 1,000,000 guitar? Yes it is Larrys Design for the 1,000,000th guitar, but slightly different the ACTUAL 1,000,000th is even more decked out than this one (if thats posible) the d-100 Deluxe is a guitar that commemorates the milestone guitar...even if it ...

hey guys and gals just found out Martin have a sustainable materials series of guitar, they maintain that the majority of wood used is from sustainably harvested sources. so obviously there is a market out there for the sustainably minded guitarist....phew also just for fun i had a look at thier mos...

Mathew please please update this resto...i started reading and became hooked.

its so cool and that bass will look amazing when its done

cheers


Lando

hey guys and gals, just a quick update im still writing my brief for my project, its a long and boring process as im getting more into it im seeing that there will be a choice i have to make, will the guitar be made from either reclaimed/recycled materials, like the pallet guitar Taylor made. http:/...

Thanks woodrat, so there is a fine line between the right stiffness in the wood etc. i thought this might be the case because dealing with vibrations you dont want something so stiff the vibrations "die" but not too flimsy that the energy is wasted...right? and Trev, i had actually decided today at ...

ha ha ha maybe i will look into that one Martin, maybe a i can wind strings out of fairy floss! woo now we are getting somewhere ha ha so something like spruce is good because it has a good stiffness to weight ratio and because of this the vibrations can easily "excite" the soundboard. So would ther...

...i agree with Martin... sorry Nick i thought it was martin....must be the sheep picture..........strange sorry nick Nick and I are both Kiwis and we call the same city (Christchurch) "home". yeah i thought of that after, always wanted to go to NZ, my sisters went for 2 weeks, 1 week each island a...

Lando wrote: ...i agree with Martin...

sorry Nick i thought it was martin....must be the sheep picture..........strange

sorry nick

...I would be buying some of the competitions guitars and measuring them in every possible manner before cutting them into pieces and putting them under an electron microscope to check the quality of the laminate. you do remember im a student right?......im poor as can be without living on the stre...

yeah im not going to go too crazy with the shape of it, i was Looking at my white falcon the other night and i was thinking that is has a certain flavour i might want to try and bring, that old school cool that just sizzles, so i was thinking ithe guitar could even be an archtop type design? the log...

hey guys proposed a whole list of ideas to my lecturer today, including everything you guys put forward, explaining the reason behind them all. I chatted with him and he aimed me down the Carbon Fibre Acoustic guitar idea that i put forward to him, as it stands i think i can make a good project and ...

this is why i love this forum, you guys a madly helpful and your firing ideas my way and they are all helpful and really useful. i have to write these all down and see what my lecturer thinks is a better idea and more marketable a guess because your right Allen, you need to be able to say that this ...

hey now thats an idea, defining the handicap would be the most important thing, ive done some work designing things that are aimed at improving useability for a handicapped user. mayeb for more elderly users with arthritis (then killer of guitar playing) who have played thier whole life and cant any...

Hey guys, had my first day at uni today, and man o man it was intense, i get to speak to my lecturer tomorrow and propose the area i want to direct my study. i was thinking today maybe i could design an adjustable bracing system where the tension etc is adjustable in some way. but the big question i...

Ok i think im being mis-understood by some users Firstly i havent set any design brief for myself because i have to find out what it is that im going to focus on. Ive said again and again, im not out to make the perfect guitar, the perfect guitar will never exist, period. I said before that im not o...

Hey guys, im not out to redesign the wheel, i just want to find something that i can do to make this guitar a "new" product, if that makes sense, and I know its hard to improve on something that has been done a million different ways already, but thats where the challenge is and thats what i need to...

Hey guys cheers heaps for all the advice, and the tips on the books is awesome because thats the kind of stuff im going to need during the year, im going to be into the books big time ha ha and as for setting my goals high, i cant help it 3 years of Industrial design study teaches you to strive high...

to whoever reads this hi My name is Lando Di Girolamo and Im a 4th year Industrial design (product designer) student at UNI SA and for my fourth year project i want to design and make an acoustic guitar. Now I'm a guitar player and i love acoustics the most, so what better project could there be? th...