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I like the rosette design and timber used. Another great guitar!

Over the last few months I have purchased a couple of Blackwood Back & sides sets from Curly Pete and they look amazing. Looking forward to building some guitars with these sets.

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Wayne
WJ Guitars

Thanks Trent for you good comments. For me, I am retired and I have the time to provide this information to clients who appreciate this. I enjoy spending the time it takes to build quality a guitars with these accessories. Doing this as hobby with some financial reward and no pressures is how I like...

Martin it still does not work. I tried to compress it however, the file only slightly reduces to 21.8 Mb. Therefore, I have remove many of the pages in the example file of the client's manual and the file size was reduced to 8.73Mb. Then a warning symbol appeared when I attached and note followed ad...

Thanks Martin for your assistance. I have used the 'Attachments' 'Add File' tab to attach the example pdf file. Hope this works.

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Wayne

Has any one made a purchase since July overseas eg Stewmac, LMI or though Ebay for an order say less than $1000 yet? If so were there any issues / delays in receiving the goods? How does it work when paying the GST and Couriers?

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Wayne

The pdf file is 22.8MB. It includes: - Photo Front cover - Content page - Photo gallery pages of the completed guitar - Many photo pages of the guitar build with descriptions - Photo pages with descriptions on how to install strings - Information page on the guitar pickup installed - Care and mainte...

Sorry example file is too large to submit.

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Wayne

Here is the Attachment pdf manual example left out of my previous post.

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Wayne

Great news having the opportunity to build a guitar for a client. I have now had 3 clients the second client opened the door the next client. I also decided to make a photo build gallery in a book format, refer to attachment pdf example. Another aspect which I am still learning is the pricing. I mad...

I like the contrasting colours and design. The guitar has real individual character.

Wayne
WJ Guitars

Hi All In between projects I have been going through photos and decided to make a video slide show of the conversion of my old garage into a Guitar Workshop. Refer to Youtube link. https://youtu.be/fJG8bx5qLYQ I took me 12 months to build. Its great now to be able to continue on building Acoustic Gu...

This resource information is very much appreciated and valuable to me when thinking out a better method to work on specific guitar issues and repairs where I have limited experience.

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Wayne

I have updated the video and adjusted some of the slide timings and also included some addition slides. Can be viewed on link below.

https://youtu.be/_nL2Ej5FWVg

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Wayne

Interesting Head plate shape with the alternating gold and black tuners. I have a 46 year old Maton, FG150, 12 String Guitar, purchased new in 1972, from Palings in Sydney. About 10 years ago the bridge was shifting slight forward. I arranged for Jeff Malia to fix it up. I had new bridge installed a...

Thanks for the comments about the guitar Valter. The Guitar does have a Model Name: 'Silver' based upon the name of the soundboard top timber used 'Silver Quandong'. The Model name is on the label inside the guitar. Refer to attachment. I did have issues sourcing the Macassar Ebony to make the bindi...

Thanks for the comments on the video. Yes, I agree that some of the slide changes were a bit too fast. I am only a beginner preparing videos at this stage. It takes a lot of time to prepare setting up all the slides and fitting it together with the 3 audio samples. I would have liked to included eve...

Hi All I have recently completed a 'GS' size Acoustic Guitar for my 3rd client. It will be a 21st birthday gift for his son in December 2018. The son has selected all of the guitar timber for this build. I have put together a 9 minute video slideshow of the guitar build that includes audio samples: ...

Like the timber back and sides. The rosette with the fish and the fish inlay on the fingerboard is interesting.

Great result!

Wayne
WJ Guitars

https://wjguitars.wixsite.com/mysite-1

I have added my Website adddress that shows the other guitars I have made.

https://wjguitars.wixsite.com/mysite-1

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Wayne

Thanks for the helpful comments and advice. I have installed an under saddle element some years ago with a narrow saddle and had no issues. However, I was not sure if there would be issues with wide saddles. Its good to know what works best when considering the clients expectations be it natural aco...

Hi All I am looking at various acoustic guitar pickups such as the 'LR Baggs Anthem' Microphone & Under Saddle combination. I prefer to use a 6mm wide bone saddle that allows reasonable width for compensation setup. To install an under saddle pickup that generally have a narrow width may cause some ...

Thanks for the positive comments about the guitar build. I can see that the forum is be a great place to help solve problems and find better ways to improve guitar building and design skills.

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Wayne

Thanks for the comments and it great to part of the forum. I obtained the 'Queensland Blackwood' and 'Silver Quandong' from 'Australian Guitar Timbers' (David Linton,Maleny, Queensland). I had a couple of Jarrah floor boards stored away and managed to glue the Jarrah floor boards together. I was the...

Interesting timber look with individual styling. You must have taken lots of care to achieve this result.

Wayne
WJ Guitars

Hi All This my first post I am new to the group. I retired 5 years ago and decided to convert my garage into a guitar workshop to build acoustic steel string guitars. Two years ago I built my first 'OM' and in Jan 2018 I completed a 'GS' model guitar, this being my 5th build. Refer to pdf photo atta...