Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Its so easy and cheap to make your own.

Some copper pipe and a high powered light globe. You can shape it how you like and make a few different size ones much cheaper than the lmi one.

Is this a handmade guitar or a factory job? Who made it?


It actually looks like a nice top

Finish is my good old Ubeaut Hard Shellac, applied with my psuedo french polishing method. I will get around to spraying nitroc again, but it's been a while now & I still had some Hard Shellac in the bottle. It's funny you say that - I'm looking at the opposite at present! For two reasons; somewhat...

What about the LR Baggs anthem?

Or the anthem pro if he needs more.

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Hmmmmm it looked like he just marked the fret positions with that board he gave a smack first then cut the slots Guess I'll have to watch that bit again thanks Perry.[/quote]

Thats what it looked liked to me as well. I looked and couldnt see any pre cut slots.

There is an Australian Guitar Gear heads forum on the web. They have an annual amp festival where they hire a room and try out each others gear mainly guitars and amps. Mainly Australian amps and guitars. Quite a few makers come along and show their wares. Perhaps ANZLF could extend a welcome to the...

John, This could be a good event to hold here on the NSW Mid Nth Coast, Reasonably easy to get to fron SE QLD and also Sydney, you would be the perfect person to organise the event, I would be happy to help out with the beer sales :D The Quotes Not working :o +100. Really cheap flights from sydney....

I reckon its time for the first ANZLF guitar makers/beer festival. Of course it would be prudent to have the guitar making festival first followed by the beer festival. The other way around just wouldnt work. :cl Small builders festival that was not run for a massive profit. Not just guitars, a bit...

Quite a few people believe that the extra mass of the double acting rods (compared to the 1920's gibson style) affect the sound of the guitar more then needed. If you built some relief in you could then use the rod to straighten the neck, do the fret work. By building in a tiny bit of relief, then t...

Nick I actually meant when building the neck. Not just the setup. John said he had two necks that need the dual action to give a bit of relief. Why don't people build a slight curve up in their necks instead of relying on the strings to do the work. As John has said the stiffer necks will need it. T...

I made the single action gilet version (steel rod bent back in two, brass block & grub screw) and it works a treat. Bloody needed to on the looong irish bouzouki neck it went into! That said, I've been installing the allied dual action ones since then. They're just so simple to install & so well ma...

John, What style of rod is in the Gilet/Gore book?

The LMII and Allied ones seem to be the standard. I dont really see the need for a dual action rod if the neck is made correctly but it is an added bonus.

Simso What have you found to be the most problematic of the rods?

Hi All,

What are your thoughts behind truss rods, which are good which are crap and why?
Who makes their own?

I have my mind set but it isnt something that I have found discussed on here before.

I really don't think the surface is the iPad direct competitor, it will be surface vs Mac air. Only time will tell but I can't really see the surface taking off. It looks ridiculous which although shouldn't really matter and probably won't to those who actually want to use it for work but to joe blo...

That's about what normal diggers meth cost for 20L.

I pay $80 for 20L from a local guy and that is a good price so you are getting a great deal.

What brand of sandpaper are you getting off him?

That's a shame. It was one of the small things that made life easier on the computer.

Nick, Unfortunately :lol: I am on a toshiba laptop with ms at the moment. You can not close finder on a mac, the 'program' is always on and in the top right hand corner. The finder for me seems to be a lot more human like then the search on a MS machine. In that it always displays the thing you are ...

It should be easier.....Apple do a few annoying things like this. On the portables Ive never gotten used to the file viewer (Finder)...compared to windows explorer its clunky and it annoys the shit out of me. I fully agree. Not allowing that is pretty poor. I am not sure why they dont. I have read ...

This was with the photobucket app on iphone. It is free to download and use. Its quick as well. Took 1 minute. Go into photobucket on iphone or ipad and choose take photo (or you can choose to use and existing photo on your iphone) and upload then get the link. You can not upload using safari but if...

From my iPhone

Hi All,

Have to order some more sand paper. From 320 to about 2500.

What brand are you's all using?

Any great places you can recommend?

Thanks

I dont own an iPad but am a bit of an apple fan and have a few of their products. iphone, macbook, ipod, time machine and airport extreme. All work great and you dont have to be a computer programmer to get them to work. I wouldnt buy a laptop or desktop that was apple. The reason i don't have an iP...

A guy I know (who is a pro player) played matons and thought they sounded good plugged in however he found it uninspiring playing at home with no amp trying to write songs etc. A lot of matons sound as if someone has their hand pressed on the soundboard between bridge and tail block when played acou...

John,

Here is the link. Martin mentioned it in another thread

http://www.woodworksupplies.com.au/prod375.htm

. Most of the cutters Ive seen with the bearing on the end of the cutter are designated as trimming cutters and not really ideal for removing a large amount of material . No router bit is ideal for removing large amounts of material. You should check out the spiral bits as well. I was speaking with...