Be careful with a live back. Suggest you read up Gore and Gilet for advice on tuning of back frequency.
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- Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:44 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Archtop considerations and hello
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8370
Re: Archtop considerations and hello
- Mon Jun 09, 2025 8:26 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Advertising on this Forum
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1717
Advertising on this Forum
Over the last few weeks I have had to delete a number of posts in which relatively new members are spruiking their businesses/products. While we are open to members advertising their businesses via this forum we insist that people consult with forum admins prior to doing so. Permission will be grant...
- Sun Jun 08, 2025 12:55 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Your experience of being a luthier in Australia/New Zealand, and moving a wood stash over there.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4711
Re: Your experience of being a luthier in Australia/New Zealand, and moving a wood stash over there.
Just to keep things in perspective....I've just finished boxing up my tonewood Stash. 37 cartons.....540kg of wood.

- Fri Jun 06, 2025 4:49 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Forum Governance Update: ANZLF Now Supported by Incorporated Association
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9410
Re: Forum Governance Update: ANZLF Now Supported by Incorporated Association
There's also the fact that some of us don't do Facetube :) If anyone has any questions about this — why and what for — please ask away. One I’ll pre-empt: why the forum, and not just have a Facebook group? Fair question. But here’s the thing. Facebook is a revolving door. Posts disappear down the fe...
- Wed Jun 04, 2025 1:49 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trumps tariffs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9909
Re: Trumps tariffs
Send Trump one of your ukes and he'll be so impressed that he'll sign a PO declaring that you'll never pay any taxes or duties on your instruments ever again 

- Tue Jun 03, 2025 4:33 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Please Say Hello!!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 41789
Re: Please Say Hello!!
To the individual who joined the ANZLF today and used his first post to advertise the sale of his tonewood stash...your post has been deleted along with your membership of the forum. To date your contribution to this forum has been zero so I don't see why we should act as a free platform for you to ...
- Sat May 31, 2025 12:45 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Reliable Freight Service Adelaide to Brisbane - Recommendations?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4168
Re: Reliable Freight Service Adelaide to Brisbane - Recommendations?
Thanks Tom and Iain
- Fri May 30, 2025 3:38 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Please Say Hello!!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 41789
Re: Please Say Hello!!
Welcome to the forum Tom and thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself.
A nice looking stash of wood there.........it will only get larger regardless of how many guitars you make
A nice looking stash of wood there.........it will only get larger regardless of how many guitars you make

- Thu May 15, 2025 6:17 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Routing truss rod channel in bolt-on extension
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13763
Re: Routing truss rod channel in bolt-on extension
After struggling with understanding how 'the book' does it using a table router, and much head scratching, I repurposed the (failed) first version of the bobo mortise jig I made and mounted the router to it. On a table router I use a 1/4" spiral up cut bit. The neck blank is set up so one side is t...
- Thu May 15, 2025 10:51 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Reliable Freight Service Adelaide to Brisbane - Recommendations?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4168
Reliable Freight Service Adelaide to Brisbane - Recommendations?
Can anyone recommend a reliable freight company that can get a large amount of wood from Adelaide to Brisbane?
- Mon May 12, 2025 11:10 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Oil deposits on King Billy Pine tops
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4596
Re: Oil deposits on King Billy Pine tops
Thanks alot Peter...I plan to run a few of the sets through the sander to see how they come out.
- Mon May 12, 2025 7:32 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Oil deposits on King Billy Pine tops
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4596
Re: Oil deposits on King Billy Pine tops
LOL..it's already got an oil finish!Mark McLean wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 5:11 amCould be a good reason to do an oil finish on this build.

The acetone wash got rid of the oil but there are still dark marks where the oil deposits were.
- Sun May 11, 2025 4:17 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Oil deposits on King Billy Pine tops
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4596
Re: Oil deposits on King Billy Pine tops
Thanks for the info Tom,
I actually had a session with some acetone and while it gets the worst of the oil off there's still visible staining. Ill experiment with a few other solvents tomorrow.
I actually had a session with some acetone and while it gets the worst of the oil off there's still visible staining. Ill experiment with a few other solvents tomorrow.
- Sun May 11, 2025 2:16 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Oil deposits on King Billy Pine tops
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4596
Oil deposits on King Billy Pine tops
I'm currently busy cataloguing my tonewood stash and came across some King Billy Pine top sets with oil deposits on the surface. Are these tops usable? Any advice would be much appreciated
- Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:36 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Brisbane Vintage Guitar Show – BGMS Exhibiting, Demonstrations, and Student Performances
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7166
Re: Brisbane Vintage Guitar Show – BGMS Exhibiting, Demonstrations, and Student Performances
Thanks for the heads up Trent...hope you make some sales.
- Sun Apr 27, 2025 6:48 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Parlour Guitar - first "contemporary" build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 36038
Re: Parlour Guitar - first "contemporary" build
I got busy with domestics today....sorry.
Tap testing first job for tomorrow
Tap testing first job for tomorrow

- Sat Apr 26, 2025 8:00 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Parlour Guitar - first "contemporary" build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 36038
Re: Parlour Guitar - first "contemporary" build
I have a falcate braced parlour guitar sitting on the bench awaiting re-finishing. I basically followed a plan for a Gibson parlour. I forget where the top and Helmoltz peaks were. I'll give it a tap test tomorrow and return with the data
- Fri Apr 25, 2025 1:13 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Rosewood & Englemann parlor.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17367
Re: Rosewood & Englemann parlor.
Nice work Taff. Those meranti bindings look nice..were did you get the wood?
- Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:25 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Unique soundboards
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3669
- Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:14 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: This might be hoarding.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 16083
Re: This might be hoarding.
My dilemma......how small does a piece of wood have to be before it gets binned?
- Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:43 am
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: 6 PIN 12 STRING BRIDGE (shared pin method)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 70106
Re: 6 PIN 12 STRING BRIDGE (shared pin method)
LOL...Allen paid me a visit in Adelaide shortly after that backless chaps business. I recall him threatening to arrive wearing those chaps. Wouldn't have caused even a batted eyelid here in Radelaide

- Tue Apr 22, 2025 2:12 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour Video - French polish repair
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1652
Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour Video - French polish repair
Thanks Robbie.....glad to see there's at least one sane person still living in America 

- Fri Apr 18, 2025 2:21 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trumps tariffs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9909
Re: Trumps tariffs
This just posted by William-Grit Laskin on a FB group some of us belong to. Hi Folks--LACEY ACT ALERT! For anyone shipping into the US, the value threshold for Lacey to apply has been $2,500. Just 2 weeks ago, as a result of the new tarrifs, the threshold has been dropped to $250. Wow. Does Trump r...
- Fri Apr 18, 2025 7:29 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Gore and Gilet's The Books - Edition 3 now available
- Replies: 3
- Views: 49742
Re: Gore and Gilet's The Books - Edition 3 now available
And what exactly were you doing to stick the pages together?? It happens while you're trying to lay in carbon fibre tow with epoxy resin and trying to read The Books at the same time :) But it's ok....I now have two sets of The Books. One is the working set and the other is the coffee table set.
- Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:39 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Gore and Gilet's The Books - Edition 3 now available
- Replies: 3
- Views: 49742
Re: Gore and Gilet's The Books - Edition 3 now available
Trevor...when is the glue proof edition of The Books coming out?? 
