Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I am currently laying out my timber for my first acoustic build and was hoping that you can provide some advice on what needs to be quarter sawn. I am using bunya top and bracing, my question is should the bunya bracing be quarter sawn? Also, should the neck block also be quarter sawn? The reason th...

Hi All, I just came across this link on the wood working forum and thought that you might enjoy reading this as much as I. Apologies if this has been posted here before - I did a search but could only find discussion of the report (before it was finished) but not a llink to it. here is the original ...

Hi Frank, I hope that the move went well. I spent 13 years in NT, first 5 years as a soldier, the rest employed as an economist in the NT government. It will be a bit humid this time of the year - but come the dry season, it will be great building weather. Fishing is great up that way as well.

Thanks for all the advice guys - particularly with regard to too many woods

Hi All, As some of you know I am in the process of my first acoustic build. I have got the vast majority of my wood coming from Tim and Xray (who have both been a pleasure to deal with). I thought that I would ‘design’ my build before I commenced – here is what I have so far… OM style guitar (for fi...

That carving is just breath taking. I look forward to watching this beautiful instrument take shape.

Thanks for sharing Padma!

that is a great photo - everything is dwarfed by that monster!

Hi All, I am new to the forum, so sorry if I am speaking out of place but I was just short of ordering wood from this supplier. I agree with both Tim and Kim. In that we are all probably big enough and ugly enough (some more than others) to decide whether we want to engage this supplier – however, I...

Thanks for all the great comments and advice. I appreciate the comments and references to Gerard and his course – I met him a year or so ago at a woodworking show in Sydney and he seemed a really nice and approachable guy. Whilst his courses are very flexible and I have only heard good things, I am ...

Tommy Emmanuel did a similar thing in Circular Quay in Sydney a few years back for a morning television show – although he was dressed in disguise with a fake beard etc… Tommy got a huge crowd within minutes and made a few hundred dollars which he donated to charity. This was shown live on air. It j...

thanks Bob.

Thanks for the warm welcome and all the advice. To be honest, I had only selected those woods on the basis of the research that I had done (looking at the current Gibson acoustic specs, magazine articles etc…). Given your advice, I will think that Sikita and Indian Rosewood would be a wiser choice. ...

Hi All, I would just like to introduce myself. I couldn’t find an ‘introductions’ sections so just posted here – mainly because this is my main interest. I apologise if I have posted this in the wrong spot – I am new to posting in forums. About me… I like to think of myself as a fingerstyle guitaris...