As an admin of the forum your request is hereby deemed to be ethical Mat. That was good advice to your friend but being on the west coast I will leave it to other members to recommend QLD/Brizzy builders.
Cheers
Kim
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- Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:02 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Guitar builders
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6232
- Thu Aug 28, 2014 12:58 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - nut slots
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7219
Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - nut slots
eerm sorry Robbie...I have since edit my last message, of course it was always meant to read 'NO' nonsense....
Cheers
Kim
Cheers
Kim
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:37 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Piece holding techniques when hand planing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20783
Re: Piece holding techniques when hand planing
Hey Frank, Joe Woodworker has a DIY plan and has everything needed to put it all together. Shipping is a killer of course so Ebay/Gumtree is the way to go for your pump, and you can get any brass fitting you need from Masters Hardware. You can do it all on the cheap if you take your time and look ar...
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:30 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - nut slots
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7219
Re: New Luthier Tips du Jour video - nut slots
Great vid as always Robbie. You know it ceases to amaze me how you manage to pull off the most concise, nonsense tutorials, one after the other. I'm sure we all agree that there are many ways to do each task when building a stringed instrument. But for anyone starting out and looking for a method th...
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:46 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Piece holding techniques when hand planing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20783
Re: Piece holding techniques when hand planing
I use my vacuum system for heaps of stuff, much much more than just lutherie. The other day I used it with a platen and bag to lay up bookmatched sheoak veneers onto a number of plywood drawer fronts. With the bag I was able to glue up 4 drawer fronts at a time, each turning out with a perfect glue ...
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:13 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Piece holding techniques when hand planing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20783
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:40 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Build thread - Blackwood & Bunya Dreadnought
- Replies: 232
- Views: 173542
Re: Build thread - Blackwood & Bunya Dreadnought
No it doesn't...never ever!!!!...rocket wrote: Shit does happen to us all!!
Cheers,, Rod.
Great thread thanks Allan enjoying it very much.
Cheers
Kim
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:28 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: New here and just saying G'day
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8877
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:40 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Cocobolo rosette nightmare
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11232
Re: Cocobolo rosette nightmare
As to what caused the issue I think it was probably a combination of things...Cross grain shrinkage as Curly suggests, perhaps a variation in RH, and the simple fact that a spruce substrate will expand and contract with changes of RH far more quickly, and to a much greater degree than 'nail hard' co...
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:33 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Santana 'Europa' cover - on ukulele
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7690
- Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:00 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Get Well Soon Steve Roberts
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14026
Re: Get Well Soon Steve Roberts
As already stated we've all had a close call or two over the years, I know I've had my share..But workshops aside, as a former motorcyclist I had attracted some rather serious road war injuries which needed to be overcome, and in some cases, adapted to...Pleased to say it seems that regardless of th...
- Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:43 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Police
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10519
Re: Police
kiwigeo wrote:My last interaction with the Kiwi cops was late one night just after I'd had some deviant (not unusual for Christchurch) standing at my bedroom window whacking himself off.
Hmmm...Dressing provocatively were we Marty??
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:41 pm
- Forum: Health and Safety
- Topic: Nitro versus skin....
- Replies: 14
- Views: 44064
Re: Nitro versus skin....
Yeah, if that is you Chris, really good video and thanks for posting. I know full well you've been on the 'walkabout' trail for unique native timbers to use in your drum production for a very long time. I recall many years ago when I had been involved in the stair building business. You were kind en...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:13 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Fox style bender - mini maton style molds - 2x radius dishes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12013
Re: Fox style bender - mini maton style molds - 2x radius di
Topic moved to main forum.
Nice pickup Will
Cheers
Kim
Nice pickup Will
Cheers
Kim
- Thu May 29, 2014 7:29 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Bassoon Solo...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9104
Re: Bassoon Solo...
Ah jazz, a collection of highly trained musos, joined together and playing solo renditions of their own personal favorites all at the same time.
Cheers
Kim
Cheers
Kim
- Thu May 29, 2014 7:21 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Brazilian Rosewood
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14727
Re: Brazilian Rosewood
If you consider the volumes, especially since off-shore on-line shopping became so popular, I reckon the Aussie Customs crew and AQIS are doing a class job with their numbers verses abbot and Co's penny pinching ways. For that alone they deserve a pat on the back for carrying on without grizzling un...
- Wed May 28, 2014 9:39 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Help the router slipped.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11429
Re: Help the router slipped.
Yeah, just keep the cut going and match it in with whatever your doing with the binding and purfling.
- Tue May 20, 2014 7:36 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Spanish conservatory too loud - threat of closure!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5643
Re: Spanish conservatory too loud - threat of closure!
Markus,
I must say that your current signature quote is a simply 'brilliant' and hilarious observation..
Cheers
Kim
I must say that your current signature quote is a simply 'brilliant' and hilarious observation..
Cheers
Kim
- Sat May 03, 2014 12:58 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bandsaw problems
- Replies: 78
- Views: 73657
Re: Bandsaw problems
If you can get ceramic replacements to fit Rod I would go with that.
http://www.spaceageceramicguideblocks.com/
These are a really good product and Nick is a great bloke to deal with.
Cheers
Kim
http://www.spaceageceramicguideblocks.com/
These are a really good product and Nick is a great bloke to deal with.
Cheers
Kim
- Sat May 03, 2014 12:51 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Implications of socketing braces
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14698
Re: Implications of socketing braces
Feathering braces to nothing at the ends allows the brace to flex a little should there be impact with the top. Taller braces being more rigid are more susceptible to damage from that same impact. The glue is crystalline, the centre of the brace is taller and often thicker and being furthermost from...
- Fri May 02, 2014 8:56 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Implications of socketing braces
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14698
Re: Implications of socketing braces
If you don't inlet braces it's important to tapper down the ends so they feather out to nothing where they abut the linings. The thicker you leave them at that juncture the more susceptible they will be to breaking the bond with the top under impact.
Cheers
Kim
Cheers
Kim
- Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:06 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: helical cutter thicknessers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18040
Re: helical cutter thicknessers
If your main interest is instrument making and you don't currently have a drum sander then IMHO 'that' should probably be your priority....I say this because in lutherie and many other pursuits, you will find endless uses for a drum sander. Probably not so much a thicknesser, nice to have and all bu...
- Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:51 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Dual purpose use
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5482
Re: Dual purpose use
Ah! Great minds..etc
Who say's you don't need a PID and thermocouple to get the most from ur silicone blanky
Cheers
Kim
Who say's you don't need a PID and thermocouple to get the most from ur silicone blanky
Cheers
Kim
- Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:48 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Anyone using LMI's fret slotting templates
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10948
Re: Anyone using LMI's fret slotting templates
Mdf is like 30 cents a piece, takes laser 4 minutes to cut, not worth the trouble for doing all of that Just say'in Stevo, the problem you sighted with MDF was it's longevity. More specifically the quick wear of the guide's reference pin holes. A small 5c piece sized insert of some harder material ...
- Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:02 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Anyone using LMI's fret slotting templates
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10948
Re: Anyone using LMI's fret slotting templates
You could just cut a plug in the MDF, or whatever, and then re-fill with a stainless insert.