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by seeaxe
Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:11 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Mirotone water based lacquer
Replies: 12
Views: 13010

Re: Mirotone water based lacquer

Hi Ash, good to hear you are still going!

If you do a search for Mirotone or Mirocat on the forum, you should find lots of refernces to it in previous posts. From what I have read it seems pretty popular.

Cheers
Richard
by seeaxe
Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:01 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: The Woodstock Guitar Show
Replies: 4
Views: 6465

Re: The Woodstock Guitar Show

Amazing - but who was who?

If there is a lefty section I may go to that one day..................
by seeaxe
Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:51 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Bosko & Honey's Ukulele Safari Oz, feat. Mike Connor
Replies: 13
Views: 12421

Re: Bosko & Honey's Ukulele Safari Oz, feat. Mike Connor

Michael, that looks like a beautiful property and an exceedingly groovy workshop.
The bandsaw is especially monstrous and makes mine look like a fretsaw. I guess in some things, size does matter.

If I am ever in Corndale, I will certainly give you a call!!

Cheers
Richard
by seeaxe
Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:17 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Black Tele Build
Replies: 12
Views: 9811

Re: Black Tele Build

You are showing your age, chaps!! Not too many people would know what a JPS is! (they would probably think it was a variant of a PRS) I think the idea with the JPS colour scheme on cigarette packets was to reflect the inside of smokers lungs! Except I am not sure what the gold bits were meant to be....
by seeaxe
Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:55 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Black Tele Build
Replies: 12
Views: 9811

Re: Black Tele Build

Thanks Nick. In the past I have left the guitar 6 weeks before I start to sand back and polish the finsh. I find it hard to wait that long becasue I am busting a gut to see what it will look like. That means this wont be finished until Christmas. In the meantime I will be fretting the neck. I want t...
by seeaxe
Sat Nov 13, 2010 9:26 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Black Tele Build
Replies: 12
Views: 9811

Black Tele Build

I had come across some kwila and though it would make a good solid body electric and so laminated it up to the right size, with some veneer strips, which I thought looked good and which helped to line things up well. I had a hankering to build an all black tele with a maple neck, as I had seen a pic...
by seeaxe
Sat Nov 13, 2010 9:02 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Travel Guitar Progress
Replies: 6
Views: 6564

Travel Guitar Progress

This post is half a reconstruction and half progress report Last year I started a 6 x steel string travel guitar, having inadvertently printed out the Grellier OM plans at the wrong scale. DSC03192.JPG I started by building a neck, but a little slip with the panel saw when I was cutting the cheeks m...
by seeaxe
Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:12 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Saddles angled back
Replies: 23
Views: 17105

Re: Saddles angled back

A few thoughts about this topic, FWIW, as Frank so succintly says! I've no idea whether any of it makes any difference, but the mechanics of it are interesting. The amount of applied torque, rotational force, or whatever you want to call it is ... the total tension force in the strings times the dis...
by seeaxe
Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:54 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Finishing an accoustic with nitro in NZ.
Replies: 6
Views: 6487

Re: Finishing an accoustic with nitro in NZ.

Hi Chris I have used spray cans for my last three guitars, and while they are nothing like as good as some of the ones you see on this forum, Ii found it relatively straightforward and not too expensive, when considering the kit you need for a proper spray set up. Id be happy to share my thoughts wi...
by seeaxe
Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:30 pm
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: Finally....the experimental Macca!
Replies: 29
Views: 29927

Re: Finally....the experimental Macca!

Nick, we have all been hanging out to see this, now its finally done it was well worth the wait.

Seems to me that its not just a stunning looking guitar and no doubt sounds great, but from the pictures it looks like a true work of art as well.

Inspirational stuff, just amazing.

Richard
by seeaxe
Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:18 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Progress on an 0-18
Replies: 17
Views: 13795

Re: Progress on an 0-18

Very Tasty! Love the shape and the wood combinations.

Richard
by seeaxe
Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:55 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Factory machined or Handcrafted?
Replies: 15
Views: 14485

Re: Factory machined or Handcrafted?

Another great discussion!!!! When I first looked at the tiger inlay I had just been struggling with a few paltry bits of paua my latest creation and the first thought into my head was "He didnt do that by hand" You can argue any way you like, I especially like Toejams word's, re machine versus hand....
by seeaxe
Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:25 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Michael's Zircote Tenor
Replies: 22
Views: 14447

Re: Michael's Zircote Tenor

Wow and double wow!!

If Gandalf had had a Ukulele, it would have had been made of this wood!

These are amaziing - does it sounds as good as it looks???

Thanks for posting those, can't wait for it to get to the Gallery
by seeaxe
Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:59 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: curly maple progress
Replies: 40
Views: 34405

Re: curly maple progress

Looks great Rod, except if its a lefty, you've forgotten the F holes!! :D
by seeaxe
Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:25 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Bracing Question (Yes that old chestnut!)
Replies: 22
Views: 15798

Re: Bracing Question (Yes that old chestnut!)

Nick, Can't offer any advice on where they should go, but I can comment on the stiffness versus mass issue and the rectuagular versus shaped brace. The brace must acting as a T-beam of sorts, with part of the soundboard to which it is glued. The fibres controlling what happens are the extreme fibres...
by seeaxe
Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:33 pm
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: Project Gemini: matching 6- and 12-string dreadnoughts
Replies: 9
Views: 7898

Re: Project Gemini: matching 6- and 12-string dreadnoughts

Wow! Double wow and treble wow!. They look very classy Tim. I once had a matching pair too but sold the 12 becuase the soundboard had bowed - if only I had known then what I knew now but that was a long time ago and I wish I hadnt done it. They didnt look half as nice as yours though. Beautiful work...
by seeaxe
Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:19 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: 17-21" Bandsaw options in New Zealand
Replies: 27
Views: 27944

Re: 17-21" Bandsaw options in New Zealand

Hi Tim I just had a look at upgrading my 14 inch Masport Dyco, circa 1980 bandsaw, basically cos I felt like buying a new shiny one. I found the same ones you did from lots of different suppliers, and all much of a muchness, all with alloy wheels. I am not sure what's so bad about alloy, spoked whee...
by seeaxe
Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:51 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: 12 string side Resonator Idea-your thoughts? :D
Replies: 15
Views: 11373

Re: 12 string side Resonator Idea-your thoughts? :D

Speaking in my offical capacity as a lefty 12 string owner who knows absolutely sweet FA about resonators............... I would have though that if the hole had been in the soundboard then replacing the top with some kind of resonator top could have been a goer but sound port sounds like a better o...
by seeaxe
Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:15 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Total noob looking for advice!
Replies: 6
Views: 7482

Re: Total noob looking for advice!

This is the final re-constructed message of this topic posted by the ANZLF help team.

If you are going the electric route, there are some nice plans on this forum.

Good luck
Richard
by seeaxe
Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:01 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Total noob looking for advice!
Replies: 6
Views: 7482

Re: Total noob looking for advice!

Gidday Ian and welcome. I am a fan of serviced (serviced means some of the difficult stuff done for you - see the LMII website for a good description) kits to get started because it avoids the outlay on some of the more expensive tools and avoids more difficult steps, like sanding and bending sides....
by seeaxe
Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:50 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: How did you get into Guitarmaking?
Replies: 44
Views: 33452

Re: How did you get into Guitarmaking?

What a great thread – here’s my contribution I got my first guitar when I was 15 and (because I convinced myself it was easier and I suspect because I thought it looked cool) learnt left handed. This is eventually what got me into making guitars. I started my first build at the tender age of 16 on a...
by seeaxe
Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:30 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Acoustic Guitar Amps
Replies: 17
Views: 14198

Re: Acoustic Guitar Amps

One can never have enough tonewatts!!!

In this thread this is the last re-constructed message by the ANZLF helping team. For more information click here.
by seeaxe
Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:18 pm
Forum: The Gallery
Topic: J.F. Custom "Von Trott" model Bouzouki
Replies: 21
Views: 22806

Re: J.F. Custom "Von Trott" model Bouzouki

I'd like to add my voice to the accolades Jeremy. It is simply stunning.

It makes me want to give up at the same time as inspiring me to do better.

Thanks for the pictures, hurry up with the sound file please.

Cheers
Richard
by seeaxe
Sun Oct 31, 2010 3:04 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Congrats Bob
Replies: 25
Views: 17702

Re: Congrats Bob

What have I started?? First, thanks moderators all, too. Much appreciated, if a bit under the radar. Second, a get together is a great idea, I am sure a few of us Kiwis would be up for that. IF you clean the place up a bit you might even get Hesh there! Not sure about woodshed accomodation offers in...
by seeaxe
Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:55 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: Congrats Bob
Replies: 25
Views: 17702

Congrats Bob

You are viewing a re-constructed thread by the ANZLF recovery team. For more information click here . " Originally Posted on:Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:18 pm " Hey Bob, your little baby haas now reached 2/3 of 1000 members! I always look at that number when I log and am amazed to think that so many people ...