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- Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Taught my first (and last?) Ukulele construction class
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17127
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 9:27 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Acoustical effect of back woods
- Replies: 25
- Views: 31590
- Mon Apr 01, 2019 9:53 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Slim-line Tenor Ukulele
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12783
Re: Slim-line Tenor Ukulele
Love the way the soundhole and grain are incorporated. Really really nice Cal
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:25 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 82943
Re: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
I’ve never heard of wetting end grain. Can you expand on that a bit Pete?
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:21 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Rope bindings advice please
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18916
Re: Rope bindings advice please
If you are confident with HHG, I would use that. The chain link purfling above is 3mm thick and was made with titebond and bent without any problem on an iron with no water involved.
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:00 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Rope bindings advice please
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18916
Re: Rope bindings advice please
If it were me, I would still be constructing the same way. Create the log of askew strips per Pablo, slice off strips and laminated them between two veneers. Then bend them on a hot iron. Having a veneer on each side will allow them to bend both ways with the iron melting/re-activating the glue allo...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:50 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Red Spruce tops for sale
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4190
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:00 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Rope bindings advice please
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18916
Re: Rope bindings advice please
Pablo Requena has a good youtube about making a herringbone purfling, which is basically a double rope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4wS73H78EE John Bogdanovic https://www.jsbguitars.com/classical-guitar-making-book/ also shows herringbone (or wheat purfling, I can't remember which) in his book ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:20 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Bushwhacker Ukulele builds.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 82943
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 10:03 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tapping boards!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14568
Re: Tapping boards!
As others have said, the books provide principals that apply to more than just guitars. You don't need to understand all the math to understand the principals. The math is there to prove an show what underpins the principal in case you want to test them. Which I believe has been done a number of tim...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:24 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: First Classical
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9697
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 5:30 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Tapping boards!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14568
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:18 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Blackwood and Sitka 000 Multiscale
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6276
Re: Blackwood and Sitka 000 Multiscale
Very nice Jim. I like the colour palate of the wood used. Very simpatico!
A multi-scale is very much on my list to build.
A multi-scale is very much on my list to build.
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:12 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Tenor guitar
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5738
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:09 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What am I doing here?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 34777
Re: What am I doing here?
Call it what you will, no offence taken. G'zouki maybe :D We're not dogmatic or tradition-bound at the BGMS. The nut, neck, strings etc measurements were taken from an Irish bouzouki the student owned and liked the feel of, rather than a Greek bouzouki. The student was heavily influenced by Nigel's ...
- Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:57 pm
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: What am I doing here?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 34777
Re: What am I doing here?
We recently had a student finish a "Queensland" bouzouki at the BGMS. It was guitar-shaped, falcate braced made of silver quandong and mango wood
More photos on insta https://www.instagram.com/p/BroArGyH5Yf/
More photos on insta https://www.instagram.com/p/BroArGyH5Yf/
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:21 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Cutting a Soprano Uke neck and body dovetail by hand.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6782
Re: Cutting a Soprano Uke neck and body dovetail by hand.
Here's a vid of a handcut dovetail https://youtu.be/LbBYzcu2oqM
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:13 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Current archtop build
- Replies: 24
- Views: 23056
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:11 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: New GS Guitar Build Started
- Replies: 20
- Views: 18547
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:23 am
- Forum: Contemporary Acoustic Guitar Design and Build - Trevor Gore
- Topic: Smart thumper - stifness app
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8958
Smart thumper - stifness app
I saw this on another forum and thought I should share it here
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-t ... 58557?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-t ... 58557?mt=8
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:06 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Acacia dread build thread
- Replies: 133
- Views: 9280245
Re: Acacia dread build thread
Very nice! I really enjoyed this thread and your build the whole way and the outcome is fantastic looking
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:26 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: 14 frets OM in Jarrah/King Billy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 19957
- Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:06 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: A few minutes with Alaska Specialty Woods crew
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8301
- Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:35 am
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Redwood / Pau Ferro classical
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7199
- Mon Feb 11, 2019 8:31 am
- Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
- Topic: Golpeador material/options
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4320