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Good onya x-ray

I'm doing it again this year in conjunction with all the other tradie's at work, mind you things have progressed from past years into us doing more 'radical' mo designs. It's become a comp for the funkiest mo.


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Welcome to the forum, Keegan from W.A..


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Congrats Craig on an amazing cutaway mitre. Perfect.
Sheesh, you sure it ain't photoshopped?

And commiserations to you Paul. That really bites the big one.
I'm doubly sickened by the outright denial of the incident.


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Thanks for that fellas. I won't be spraying this stuff at all, definitely not worth the risks involved. Whenever I use or think about using epoxy, Kim's sorry tale always pops in the head. Must now be a word association thing. Back to the old methods anyway. :wink: Next question .......................

I'm in the refinish stages of a neck through Gibson firebird with Blackwood neck & body and tiger myrtle carve top and using epoxy as a grainfiller . I have applied enough for levelling off the grain and pores with a few rub throughs here and there. Now this is on a cumbersome neck through electric ...

Thanks Bob, thanks Tim, linesmen and ballboys.................... This auction game works a treat I reckon, and knowing it also helps out Bob and in keeping this forum up and running is a great feeling. Three cheers for ANZLF... :wink: This will sit well with my other Wandoo sets from Tim but not fo...

I'm sceptical about this. I'm certain these George Washington blokes actually got their names changed by deed poll.

$170


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I see your 100, Allen and raise you to $120.


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G'day Brian,
This one's looking a treat so far, and good to hear you're getting a little extra time in the new workshop.
The shape reminds me a little of a Tokai Talbo body shape, although
they were aluminium.

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My understanding of why some luthiers also sell timbers to others through their website is to onsell the stuff that they won't use or won't build with. Call it opportunity grade or not labelled at all, that is how I see it. Wouldn't you keep the best stuff for your custom built guitars and your buil...

The Qld maple prices on ALS don't add the GST and post until you buy.
$170 becomes closer to $210 in reality.

There's one other Aussie timber for bodies that slipped my mind in the last post that will get you close and that would be something similar to Tassie oak /mountain ash. Find something nice and light or chamber the Bajeezus out of it. Either way it'll give you more top end than most other Aussie Ele...

G'day Cameron, If you use Qld maple that will get you somewhere between your alder and mahogany in sound. Definitely more sparkle then mahogany. I've heard a few Telecaster styled guitars made by Ray at Carlton guitars with their bodies made from Myrtle and they sat pretty close to what you're talki...

Hey Rod. I use the LMII aniline dyes and do bursts after a few light coats of nitro. If I'm going for a really lightweight transparent burst I'll mix the dye in with a thinned nitro mix and shoot it that way. If I require a very dark and nearly full colouring I'll use less nitro,( to negate extra bu...

I tried the Stewmac wheels a few years back and haven't used them since. I found them too slow and cumbersome. I'm doing the same method similar to Allen but using an Automotive buffer/polisher and buff pad. I use an old , worn buff pad which gets pulled out for this purpose alone. I won't be going ...

Just to clarify that this is verbatim from Ubeaut and not Martin's writings. Doesn't read how Martin would write anyhow. (No kiwi accent) I'm guessing Sth. Aus. has an extremely limited amount of suppliers available for quality refinishing supplies and anything that can bring the top shelf products ...

Commonly known around most lutherie benches as LP-wood


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G'day Cam.

I've heard of it being done with great success, but that's where my knowledge on the matter ends. Dan Erlewine did a column on this very subject and talked about cow bones for making nuts.

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Chokka block with fine bound accoutrements, Taff.
Eye candy all over. I'm sure she plays as great as she looks too.

I really dig the acrylic material in the rosette.


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Seeaxe -Michael is the man to see about soundclips for his axe. You there BBM ? PaulB - The plans for this I'd drawn from scratch with the only part taken from elsewhere being the tele body shape. Everything was drawn out on paper then made into templates for this build. Here's a pic. of the plans....

Jason's builds are spot on in every way.

Great refinishing, nice piezo work too.
Also the first to use cnc to this extent on the forum also.
CNC scares me, especially considering I'm still learning
how to tie my own shoelaces properly and still can't get it down pat.

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Allen wrote:I've got a mate in S.A. that would like to build a banjo, How about it. Lets see if we can help him out.

Hmm.........It's Martin isn't it. Obviously a little ashamed .


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As long as Bob doesn't wear his birthday suit in public, everything will be fine.

Happy Birthday, Bob.


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Thanks for posting the progress, Kim. I've got to say how much I'm enjoying your explanations on the way through and reasonings behind them. Tutorial based threads really do it for me. If ever there's a type of thread to get the uninitiated wanting to immerse themselves in acoustic builds then this ...