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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Sealing bindings/ purflings before pore filling alternates
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8678
Re: Sealing bindings/ purflings before pore filling alternates
First issue to decide is whether you want to fill the pores at all. It is completely possible to apply finish without doing any pore filling. This is often my preferred method, especially with an oil finish, as I am often going for a more natural wood satin look, However, if you want a really glossy...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: OM size Nylon String Crossover
- Replies: 35
- Views: 120486
Re: OM size Nylon String Crossover
Yep, some moulding of the top to the shape of the braces is commonly seen if you have made a reasonably light constructed top. Not necessarily a problem - but keep an eye on it. Most factory built guitars are relatively over-built in terms of soundboard thickness and bracing, so they don't show this...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Attention all Lurkers
- Replies: 97
- Views: 630247
Re: Attention all Lurkers
Gday Josh, and thanks for jumping in and sharing your work. That looks like a fantastic result for a first build. Much prettier than my #1. The ebony looks fantastic. Was it challenging to work with? I love that you are jumping into #2 promptly, and adding some complexity. I always feel like there i...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Jigs & Fixtures
- Topic: Lazy susan worktable...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7678
Re: Lazy susan worktable...
Taffy you are a very canny fella. Do you have stacks of jigs and tools in your kitchen and in your car too - or is this habit confined to luthiery activities?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bridge routing - crisis and opportunity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5746
Re: Bridge routing - crisis and opportunity
True mastery of the craft. I can't see it at all.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Tassie double bass
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14167
Re: Tassie double bass
Looks sensational. I really like the detail work with the purfling lines and special flourishes. I love the look of Huon pine. I bet it smells great!
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Proposed repairs - Martin J18
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4251
Re: Proposed repairs - Martin J18
Hi Sam, and welcome to ANZLF. An old Martin is always worth fixing up. How old is this one (you can look up the serial number at the Martin website for a year of manufacture). Let’s workshop this a bit! Those braces certainly look like they have been submitted to some DIY “improvements”, and you mig...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Walnut bend
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10143
Re: Walnut bend
Walnut usually bends easily. 1.8 mm is pretty thin, so should not fight you too much. Maybe that is just a difficult piece of wood?
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Edvin Guitars first falcate braced OM Size
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10633
Re: Edvin Guitars first falcate braced OM Size
That is a beautiful guitar! Welcome to ANZLF and thanks for sharing your work. I spent last night carving a maple neck with ebony fingerboard and started wondering what sort of fret position markers to put on it. Now I am going to use the idea of your edge markers which can be seen from the front an...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:42 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: RIP Jeff Beck
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17516
Re: RIP Jeff Beck
It is a pretty standard headstock shape of Paul Reed Smith (PRS) guitars.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:42 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Tommy a 000 style guitar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6226
Re: Tommy a 000 style guitar
That one is a stunner Taffy. I love the inlay work and the story telling. I am sure that Tommy's family will cherish it. And you still have a few sets of that walnut to work with!
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Mandolin bracing. Help needed
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7040
Re: Mandolin bracing. Help needed
Aha!
And the build photos on your website are a fantastic resource that I had not found before. Thanks.
And the build photos on your website are a fantastic resource that I had not found before. Thanks.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Mandolin bracing. Help needed
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7040
Re: Mandolin bracing. Help needed
Thanks Peter, you are helping me conceptualize the differences between the mandolin and guitar soundboards. It occurs to me that there is also a big difference between the effect of f-holes on either side of the bridge, versus a central round or oval hole in front of the bridge. The f-hole design re...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:40 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Mandolin bracing. Help needed
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7040
Re: Mandolin bracing. Help needed
The first mandolin-style instrument that I made suffered the same problem. Clearly I had under braced it - perhaps because I was used to building flat top guitars and I underestimated the power of the downforce on the bridge in an instrument with a tailpiece. I "fixed" it by removing the back, remod...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Another side project
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7192
Re: Another side project
Nice! That is a skill that I would love to have, but I am clueless about electronics. Maybe later
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: 12 string build advice
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9251
Re: 12 string build advice
Brett, Taffy and I are leading you down a rabbit hole with the neck block reinforcement, aka flying buttresses, aka “tone tubes”. This is certainly not a common thing and is not found, to my knowledge, in any factory made guitars. It was an idea propagated by some prominent luthier innovators such a...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: pinless bridge question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8581
Re: pinless bridge question
This one is a Breedlove and is pretty simple. You would want to draw it out at large scale and work out the angles. Do something like a countersink for the ball ends to slip out of sight. IMG_0071.jpeg It is actually more beefy than it needs to be. You can route out a channel across the middle to re...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: 12 string build advice
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9251
Re: 12 string build advice
Great photos Taffy. I am a fan of neck block reinforcement too. IMG_0128.jpeg IMG_0138.jpeg Regarding 2 strings in one pin. You are right, it makes it necessary to cut two slots from the pinhole to direct the strings in parallel paths to the saddle. They don’t need to be very big slots, but you need...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: 12 string build advice
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9251
Re: 12 string build advice
Wow - I just did some reading about string tension in a harp! A 12 string guitar hasn’t got much to worry about compared to that. But, nevertheless, the recommendations that Wayne gave sound good. I also like Martin’s comment about using a 6 pin bridge with 2 strings per pin. A traditional 12 pin br...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:03 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: pinless bridge question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8581
Re: pinless bridge question
I have done a pinless bridge on a falcate braced top (like ovation or Lowden or Breedlove, not the Doolin). It works fine, and actually avoids one fiddly bit of the falcate method which is arranging the primary braces to run between the bridge pins. A pinless bridge doesn’t need to be any more weigh...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:44 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: 12 string build advice
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9251
Re: 12 string build advice
Hi Ab (do you want to share your real name - most do around here), welcome to ANZLF. A build with your grandson sounds great! I did my first with my son when he was age 15-16 (he is 32 now). One caveat is that he was all into spending time in the workshop until his first serious romance began and th...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Martin Parlor design queries
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4774
Re: Martin Parlor design queries
Or you could X-brace it. But either way I would also go with an arched top in a radius dish
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Archtop Spanish Heel
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12835
Re: Archtop Spanish Heel
I would think that if you want to play with an unconventional neck joint for an archtop it would be good to look at something adjustable like the Doolin design or Smallman, or what Trevor Gore has been doing, or even Ken Parker. This is because archtops, with their more extreme soundboard profile, a...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Shop listening recommendations
- Replies: 13
- Views: 57046
Re: Shop listening recommendations
Joel's list is very eclectic! I like the range from Dame Joan to metal. For me, if I am doing concentrated work there can't be any spoken stuff like a podcast or the Goons. Even vocal music can be distracting so I tend to quieted ambient instrumental. Sometimes jazz - Miles Davis, Keith Jarret, Alic...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Rodents clean up your workshop at night?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 22711