Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I was amazed recently when I purchased an SKB classical guitar case from Amazon - a big heavy rectangular thing that weighs over 10kg - and they only charged me $45 to ship it from the US via DHL. Shows the power of being a volume purchaser of someone's product. I reckon if I wanted to ship it in th...

There is a discussion on the accuracy of the plans in the Courtnall book here: http://www.classicalguitardelcamp.com/v ... 11&t=59565

Not a power tool to be seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFCGX-nRaxE

ps. I tried embedding the video id "mFCGX-nRaxE" between youtube tags, but that didn't seem to work:

[youtube]mFCGX-nRaxE[/youtube]

I haven't done it, but here's someone who's building a classical using a five peice top and four piece back: http://www.classicalguitardelcamp.com/v ... 11&t=70696.

My favourite guitar-related recording on Vimeo is Ricardo Gallen recording Bach for Naxos: https://vimeo.com/21498274. Great music, great sound, and some marvellous close-up shots of the musician's hands in action.

nnickusa wrote:Guess that was one of those ideas that the "glue will fill it, as it foams and expands."

Yes, PU glue might fill gaps but it isn't gap filling...

p.s. I forget to say that I used contact cement for attaching the cork. Strong enough for the job and doesn't penetrate into the cork and stiffen it.

I put up an overview of constructing the armrest in the Tutorials forum: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4495

I recently made myself an armrest held on with rare earth magnets. It was pretty much a make-it-up-as-you-go-along sort of effort, and definitely capable of improvement, but here goes. The materials for an armrest were: 1. Ten rare earth magnets, 10mm diameter by 3mm thick. These have a pull of appr...

I'll take photos as I go and put something together - will probably take a couple of weeks in between other things.

As a keen cycling family with over a dozen bikes in the garage, we have dozens of old punctured inner tubes lying around, and while casting around for what I could use to clamp some veneers in place while laminating them against the guitar body for an armrest, I thought of the inner tubes. They work...

You could try the Kris Barnett method of attachment, using rare earth magnets. Makes the armrest easily detachable if wanted:

BTW, this is an interesting idea for a bandsaw fence using a table saw mitre gauge: http://videos.americanwoodworker.com/vi ... dsaw-Fence

I hear you on the Jet fence, the Jet bandsaws are great in every other respect, why they put such a crappy fence on them I'll never know. I recently bought a Jet JWBS-14Q, which actually has a decent fence on it - looks quite similar to the fence in Allen's photo at the top. The bandsaw is actually...

I'm retired, and don't have any trips planned for the next few months, so I can fit in with what suits other people so far as scheduling the course is concerned.

I'm definitely interested (also in Canberra).

Getting three phase installed if you don't already have it could cost anywhere from a few hundred up to $5000 or more depending your existing switchboard, space in the meter box for the additional meters, new pole lead-in if needed, etc. This article gives some ideas for using three phase equipment ...

kiwigeo wrote:The Peterson has a few features the Turbo tuner doesn't have...eg tap tuning capabilities and graphical presentation.

There's a demo of tap tuning with the turbo tuner at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sNxczNRqDc.

What's the advantage? I can only see disadvantages. You'll have to curve the saddle also. And I can't see a repair shop wanting to handle a refret or recrown when one is needed. In fact, how would you crown the frets after levelling them?

Have a look at frets.com: http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier ... ret01.html

Here's a Euc. Jacksonii that we came across when cycling through South-West Western Australia about 25 years ago. This tree was still alive in spite of having been hollowed out by multiple fires over the centuries. I did hear that it came down in a storm a few years later. On the same trip I climbed...

Last time I visited my brother in Switzerland I bought myself a set of Pfeil short butt chisels. Being so short in both the handle and blade I find them very good for small delicate jobs. They're only about 150mm long including the handle. These are the chisels: http://www.pfeiltools.com/en/products...

For what seems a fairly balanced reasoned view, see here: http://www.delcamp.us/viewtopic.php?f=1 ... 60#p675395

Try these people for blades: http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/band ... ories.aspx. A friend has one of their resawing blades and it works really well. And shipping from the US on a couple of bandsaw blades shouldn't be much.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll go off and have a look at some trimmers.