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Lovely and great sounding Steve, and wounderful to see and hear Paco put it through its paces.

Absolutely beautiful Frank. How did you attach the pickguard? Only from the side of the fretboard or do you have another support ?

matthew wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:07 pm

kiwigeo wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:40 pm

Does it sound good..or does it sound like a cat when you grab it and give it's balls a hard yank?

No, it sounds nothing like a guitar.

I have have a folder of apps I've downloaded over the years and spent a bit of time comparing them to a bunch of tuners I have. Of the tuners hanging around, I looked a polytune pedal, an over priced peterson clip-on that claimed 0.1 cent accuracy, a korg with 1/4" aux or wired clip-on and a d'addar...

I put a pinless bridges on a number of falcate builds including this multi scale. Screenshot 2024-05-24 at 2.24.55 AM.png Screenshot 2024-05-24 at 2.24.38 AM.png I didn't have any trouble keeping it under 20g and I even included an extra inlayed wear bone for the ball ends. 17g from memory but then ...

I find tuner posts and strings are in the way of the correct slot angle on a strung instrument as well with those files. Thanks Taff, good idea I think I will make a handle too.

Hi, Does anyone have a tip on calculating side height contour for various back radiuses? I have seen a spreadsheet (Dooling guitars) which is pretty tedious. Or is it common practice to approximate and then scribe the sides while the braced back is in the radius dish and fine tune with a block plan...

Thanks for the plug Martin. We don't do intensive courses at the BGMS at the moment just weekly classes (although I am working on a ukulele course). I'd second the recommendation of Steve's school. If going south is a problem, the lads from Hancock Guitars also run an intensive course down the Gold ...

Hey lutherie lovers The Brisbane Guitar Making School is looking for a solid body instructor to join our team. Initially, this will be to take over an established weekly evening class, but there is scope for more as we have some expansion plans. The class runs from 6pm to 10pm and enrolment is curre...

I've been so busy this year that every time I try and catch up on the forum I never seem to get to the bottom of the unread posts and so never post anything. Got there today

Here's a couple of sound samples of this guitar:


youtu.be/9qjLabk0N60

youtu.be/lVR-KVn3L1c

I find KBP is very floppy across the grain and you need to keep it at least as thick as cedar. So for a ballpark on an OM, I would be keeping it about 3.5mm.

Even tho the pic of the back is a still image, I can almost see the shimmer of that river oak and the the finish. Well done

kiwigeo wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:55 am

https://www.brisbaneguitarmaking.com.au/

Trent Palelei who runs the school is a member on this forum.....drop him a message/email.

Hi Kit,
Sorry, we only run weekly classes, not intensives at this time.
Cheers
Trent

That is a nifty jig Taff!

Wonderful Martin! I'd really like to do this one day.

I recommend under saddle over transducers for falcate as the falcate braces can prevent ideal transducer location. Mind you I did install a K&K trinity pro recently and it sounded NICE.! But it only worked because I used a pinless bridge which allowed me to play with falacate placement in the design...

Looking good! 14 builds in 3 years is great going. Well done!

Where are people getting their gluboost in Australia? Im using mostly starbond, I'd like to give gluboost a try but if I like it, Id wanna buy in bulk.

Beautiful Martin

Thanks for the heads up Martin, my stash is a bit low on FB

That's some nice jig making there Taffy

LOL..sounds a bit like the multiscale commission I did a few years back. I did follow that build quite closely and then reread it a couple of times while I was building this one. I have to say, figuring out how to make the pinless bridge for proper string fall and then locating the bridge was one o...

How did the blue gum work for the top? The SB is Silver Quandong. The B&S are Southern Blue Gum and they bent without a problem., sanded well and had reasonably small pores. There were some sap pockets, but that is what attracted the client to the wood. So it was included not just in the back but a...

This one took me a long time! Over a year, 15 months from when the client picked out wood to delivery. Mind you he also had a very specific, detailed and long list. The new owner is a consummate player and I found it really enjoyable being pushed by the specificity in addition to some new areas. Fir...

I keep seeing it pop on insta, looked like a really good time. Maybe in two years time