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- Wed Apr 16, 2025 9:18 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Neck angle jig
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4556
Re: Neck angle jig
One important comment......before working on the neck tenon make sure the area around the mortise is flat. Nothing worse than trying to get a good tenon cheek fit against a guitar front that isnt flat. Don't ask me how I know this 

- Wed Apr 16, 2025 7:16 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Neck angle jig
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4556
Re: Neck angle jig
I do it on my table saw..as described in Trevor and Gerard's books.
1. cut the sides of the tenon.
2. cut 5 degree cheeks with saw blade set at that angle.
3. Final fit using chisel and mortising planes and a sanding block with a 5 degree bevel on it.
1. cut the sides of the tenon.
2. cut 5 degree cheeks with saw blade set at that angle.
3. Final fit using chisel and mortising planes and a sanding block with a 5 degree bevel on it.
- Mon Apr 14, 2025 12:50 pm
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Modal Tuning example on a falcate braced 0012 Steel string.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2362
Re: Modal Tuning example on a falcate braced 0012 Steel string.
Thanks for putting up those clips John. Nice looking 12 banger.
PS: FEED YOUR CAT!!!
PS: FEED YOUR CAT!!!
- Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:23 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Frequency vs. Deflection for Measuring Flexural Modulus
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6162
Re: Frequency vs. Deflection for Measuring Flexural Modulus
Without looking into it in detail I'd hazard a guess that with the flexure test the testing procedure itself introduces some variability in results....more so than for frequency tap tests.
But we shall await the sagely wisdom of Colonel Gore
But we shall await the sagely wisdom of Colonel Gore

- Tue Apr 08, 2025 10:17 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trumps tariffs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9907
Re: Trumps tariffs
Sorry to hear that Pete. There must be quiet a few US guitar makers with factories outside the US...eg Gibsons Epiphone factory is in China isn't it? My American customer cancelled so it will be a while before I know what happens when exporting to the USA. I do have another American customer, but th...
- Sat Apr 05, 2025 1:26 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: 7 String spacing
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3634
Re: 7 String spacing
LOL.....looks like must have been some serious mind altering substances while designing that headstock!!! 

- Sat Apr 05, 2025 11:40 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trumps tariffs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9907
Re: Trumps tariffs
Things are getting serious! The inhabitants of Heard and McDonald islands are protesting the 10% tariff imposed on their exports.
- Fri Apr 04, 2025 10:58 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Parlour Guitar - first "contemporary" build
- Replies: 15
- Views: 36020
Re: Parlour Guitar - first "contemporary" build
Thanks for the update pics.
One question....you've glued in back braces with the back not trimmed to side outline? Is there a reason for this?
I ask because shaping bracing to fit the dish radius is a bit tricky without trimming to final back shape.
One question....you've glued in back braces with the back not trimmed to side outline? Is there a reason for this?
I ask because shaping bracing to fit the dish radius is a bit tricky without trimming to final back shape.
- Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:57 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trumps tariffs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9907
Re: Trumps tariffs
Its an indication of how hurredly this tariff business has been cobbled together.peter.coombe wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:41 amHa ha ha, Trumpsy's minders did not do their research properly. That really is a silly screw up.
- Fri Apr 04, 2025 7:33 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trumps tariffs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9907
Re: Trumps tariffs
The separate tariff imposed on Heard and McDonald Islands.....nobody lives there except a bunch of penguins and seals!!
- Thu Apr 03, 2025 1:02 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trumps tariffs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9907
Re: Trumps tariffs
At this stage I don't know much. I would expect that an American customer would need to pay the tariff when the instrument arrives at US customs before they will release it. But isn't the big orange baby saying that the exporting countries will pay the tariffs???? I notice Australia has copped a 10...
- Thu Apr 03, 2025 8:37 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Trumps tariffs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9907
Trumps tariffs
Okay Trump has announced a blanket 10% tariff on all good imported into US from Australia.
How will this affect those of our members who export instruments to the US.
Any comments Pete..or others?
How will this affect those of our members who export instruments to the US.
Any comments Pete..or others?
- Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: 00 Sitka / Hawaiian Koa falcate steel string.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11461
Re: 00 Sitka / Hawaiian Koa falcate steel string.
Welcome back John..you've been missed. Doesn't look like your build skills have been affected by your time off. Beautiful looking and sounding instrument mate
- Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:26 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: 6 PIN 12 STRING BRIDGE (shared pin method)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 70095
Re: 6 PIN 12 STRING BRIDGE (shared pin method)
images link to a website that appears to have been hijacked or sold to a Chinese knock off outfit.Abstraction wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:14 pmThere's no chance of retrieving the images on this thread, I expect? Great conversation on the topic.
- Wed Mar 26, 2025 9:20 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: saddle height/ neck angle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6395
Re: saddle height/ neck angle
I'm with Mark. Let the instrument settle down for a few weeks and then reassess.
- Tue Mar 25, 2025 7:54 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: saddle height/ neck angle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6395
Re: saddle height/ neck angle
How have you built the guitar? Spanish method with a foot supported by the back or with a neck bolted to body?
- Sun Mar 09, 2025 6:42 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Englemann & flame maple archtop
- Replies: 7
- Views: 45216
- Tue Mar 04, 2025 9:36 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Lutherier's Workbench
- Replies: 42
- Views: 96002
- Mon Feb 24, 2025 1:57 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Guitar Body Mould Tips?!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 49433
Re: Guitar Body Mould Tips?!
The internal spacers - keep 'em simple. Ideally they need to stay in until both back and top are on. That means they should be small enough to be pulled out through the soundhole.
Some people get carried away with moulds...to the point where their moulds look better than their guitars
Some people get carried away with moulds...to the point where their moulds look better than their guitars

- Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:26 am
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: Final bridge Positioning.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 48680
Re: Final bridge Positioning.
Nice set up Taff.
To make the little positioning pins I drill a hole in a card scraper and then hammer a matchstick through the hole
To make the little positioning pins I drill a hole in a card scraper and then hammer a matchstick through the hole
- Sat Feb 22, 2025 10:35 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Diamond stone tip
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12539
Re: Diamond stone tip
Thanks for the tip Matthew...will give it a go.
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Info on the product here: https://diggersaustralia.com.au/product ... t-cleanup/
- Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:52 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: soundboard deflection jig
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14794
- Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:38 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: tasmainian Oak soundboard or back and sides
- Replies: 9
- Views: 28424
Re: tasmainian Oak soundboard or back and sides
This is a group reply So you guys are telling me if I went through bunnings and found a really straight grain piece for an acoustic guitar it would already be dry and stable enough to use, for back and sides or neck? And people would still buy a guitar with bunnings supplied tasmainian oak back and...
- Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:49 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Router bits
- Replies: 10
- Views: 31303
Re: Router bits
Cutters I use the most in my shop: - straight and ball end cutters for doing truss rod slots - double flute cutters with bearing guides (top, bottom, top and bottom bearings) for use with trimming up to templates. - a 45 degree bevel cutter for classical bridges (ramped backside of saddle slot). - a...
- Wed Jan 29, 2025 6:28 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Router bits
- Replies: 10
- Views: 31303
Re: Router bits
A router table one of the best tools I made up for my workshop. I got my hands on a Unilift router lifter and made up the table myself. At the time the Unilift was the bees knees of lifters but these days there are other makes available that do an adequate job. As far as router safety goes.....learn...