Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

There's lots of great timber out there for building guitars but that beautiful furniture is gone for ever..............

Congrats Matthew. Very nice.

If it takes you 80 hrs (2 wks) to build the guitar then your hrly rate is $1225 / 80 = $15.31 Now as your hrly take home rate is less than the australian award wage then you are still IMO a hobby business, because you cannot live of what you are doing. Sorry to digress but I just gotta. I just chec...

So what's the scam they pull? other than being really annoying.

Same as Jeff. It's the only one I've had so not a lot to compare to. It gets a rattle up here and there. A harmonic vibration. It does my head in but the unit gets the job done fine.

Slightly off topic but I always shoot then glue immediately because I had joints that move enough after a day that you can see light through the gaps.

Alan, is it possible the joint moved enough that the glue didn't have anything to bond to?

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=yes&tool=all&item_ID=648369&group_ID=681853&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog These rock. They are almost quiet enough to have a conversation while using it. What are the cheapies like? I deal with enough screaming tools on construction sites all day. And no...

One of my sparky mates had to go to one of the (unnamed) pizza crap houses and had to drill into a masonry wall above a prep bench that had a big tub of "pizza" sause on it. He asked the staff if they wanted to move it so it didn't get ground up concrete in it. None of them were interested. Guess wh...

IMG_1299_edited.jpg IMG_1301_edited.jpg In amongst house renovations and website building I'm biting off more than I can chew and starting a new pair of tenor resonators. There's an all Tassie Blackwood with rope bindings one as well as this Milo reso. I got this very nice milo from Brett at curlyk...

Boat Coat sand like a dream.

Anyone that wants some 3/4 full tubs of west systems can fish it out of my bin.

I'll happily take pizza inducements to make plugs.

That little slot head's got a pretty bridge Alan.

That'd put a horn on a jelly fish.

Crafty Fox wrote:

DaveW wrote:Damn
I even saw quarter sawn timber ??
hard to find that in WA

Hard to find anything in Perth; pine or treated pine sir? LOL

Tim Spittle?

Are there people silly enough to think the chinese could buy USA strats at a price where they could sell them for $200 and make a profit?

That weissenborn is shit hot.

Is that Lazaradies?

I wouldn't pay that if I had to do all the hard work myself.

For heating them, this type of thing:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Portable-Gas ... 7db&_uhb=1

Meets your non-exxy criteria.

Preliminary figure show a ukulele increases your chances by 110%.

My dimplex will pull 6-8L of water from my dry room (1.2x1m not well sealed) per day when it's wet outside to keep it at 45%.

I would say the shaft will be hardened so you will probably need to find someone with a milling machine to do the holes wouldnt be expensive Dave I'd say it's not. In fact I drilled it out with a power drill. Might have even been a battery drill given the effort to get the dusty power drill out fro...

You drill a hole in the bottom of the press part to suit the caul. You also need to drill the side for a grub screw and then tap a thread to suit.

I use the four M5 threads to mount everything to my trimmer bases. You can buy a shed load of extra bases off eBay cheap.

Miguel, there's no way I'd use that timber for the top on a regular uke. It has none of the qualities you want from a soundboard, that being light, stiff and even in consistency all the way across. It is light but it hasn't got the other two.