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
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- Thu Nov 18, 2010 10:11 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Mirotone water based lacquer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13010
- 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..................
If there is a lefty section I may go to that one day..................
- 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
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
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
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
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:18 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Progress on an 0-18
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13795
- 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....
- 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
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
- 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!!
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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!
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If you are going the electric route, there are some nice plans on this forum.
Good luck
Richard
If you are going the electric route, there are some nice plans on this forum.
Good luck
Richard
- 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....
- 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...
- 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!!!
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- 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
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
- 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...
- 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 ...