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- Sun Nov 26, 2023 6:50 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bowl back mandolin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21542
Re: Bowl back mandolin
Thanks for that Martin. Don't have a classical style bending iron. Don't think I'd be permitted to lay out the readies to buy one. Could get the grandson to fabricate a Turkish type. Out of interest, would steam bending be delitirious to the finished instrument? Mind, the ribs would be well dried b...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:38 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bowl back mandolin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21542
Re: Bowl back mandolin
Steam bending isn't necessary unless the wood you're bending is thick and won't yield on a bending iron with a spritz of water. I assume you're laying up rib sections over an internal mould as you'd do for a lute? The rib sections will only need to be around 2-3mm thick to be able to be bent on an i...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tough times for suppliers?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 57640
Re: Tough times for suppliers?
LOL.....enough's enough! Ive just unsubscribed from Stewac emails.
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:14 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tough times for suppliers?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 57640
Re: Tough times for suppliers?
Hi, yes I was thinking the same thing, I haven’t opened one of those emails for a month. I wait till I need something. Back in the day I remember I used to enjoy getting their paper catalog in the mail. Taff Ive still one of those huge folders chock full of info that Allied Lutherie used to send you.
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 3:45 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tough times for suppliers?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 57640
Re: Tough times for suppliers?
Whoever has bought Stewmac needs to throttle back on the advertising emails....three in one day.
I hope Stewmac continue supporting Robbie Obrien now that LMI is about to be no more.
I hope Stewmac continue supporting Robbie Obrien now that LMI is about to be no more.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Solid-body Instructor Wanted (Brisbane)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13031
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:01 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Repairing chipped ebony
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4681
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 10:30 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Neck Bolt Hole Borer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6293
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 7:23 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Three piece back
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4607
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Solid neck through
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9063
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 12:49 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: How I refitted the tailblock...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16015
Re: How I refitted the tailblock...
Nice fix Taff. That guitar looks like it's done a few miles..
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:27 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tough times for suppliers?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 57640
Re: Tough times for suppliers?
I bought in 100 years worth of spare blades for my Scheider gramilpeter.coombe wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:45 pmI suspect a lot are buying from LMI now before they close.
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 3:10 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: IRW and Spruce Concert Classical
- Replies: 6
- Views: 27988
Re: IRW and Spruce Concert Classical
Hey Steve...youre getting pretty good at this. You should start a guitar making school mate
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: European spruce QLD Maple classical & backwood and sitca med jumbo
- Replies: 5
- Views: 19812
Re: European spruce QLD Maple classical & Backwoods and sitca med jumbo
Nice work on both those instruments MAPP
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 9:08 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tough times for suppliers?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 57640
Tough times for suppliers?
Anyone else noticed an uptick in frequency of Stewmac advertising in the email in box? Im getting two a day now.
Must be getting a bit tough in the luthier supply business?
Must be getting a bit tough in the luthier supply business?
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:20 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Bending a cutaway side by hand
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6410
Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - Bending a cutaway side by hand
Video title should read "How to Nail Jelly to a Wall".
Thanks Robbie
Thanks Robbie
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:44 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Candle Jig for Top / Back Joining
- Replies: 10
- Views: 22073
Re: Candle Jig for Top / Back Joining
Park your Landcruiser outside your window with the headlights on full beam and you'll be able to candle tops all night long!!Taffy Evans wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:51 amHi, I’m even lazier, I use a window too… but it’s still in the wall at the back of the bench. I can only shoot my boards in the daylight.
Taff
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:30 pm
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: How to make a truss rod
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10499
Re: How to make a truss rod
Gore and Gilet's books contain a section on making up truss rods.
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:51 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Candle Jig for Top / Back Joining
- Replies: 10
- Views: 22073
Re: Candle Jig for Top / Back Joining
I'd call that more being resourceful than lazy mate
DickHutchings wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 2:11 amI'm too lazy for that. I found a window in someone's trash and Bob's you uncle.20230803_073339 (WC).jpg
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:33 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Solid-body Instructor Wanted (Brisbane)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13031
Re: Solid-body Instructor Wanted (Brisbane)
Whoops....thought you were after a "solid bodied Instructor". Please ignore my application
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:07 am
- Forum: Tutorials
- Topic: #1Fret end Catcher
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7945
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: all mahagony 000 (salvaged wood)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5814
Re: all mahagony 000 (salvaged wood)
A perfect guitar for playing "Stairway to Heaven"??
Nice work mate.
Nice work mate.
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Crack repair posssible?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22142
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:32 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: **** Stewmac special on European Spruce *****
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15920
Re: **** Stewmac special on European Spruce *****
My tops arrived today. Grain count is fairly low as you'd expect for a low grade top. One of the three tops had some black material on the surface. Thought it was mold but the way it came off in the drum sander suggests otherwise. Overall assessment.....the Stewmac grading is a bit optimistic compar...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 10:27 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Slotting boards
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12563