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I'm very pleased to advise that my small router bits arrived in today's mail ( USPS) . Thanks Dennis . I'm sending a small parcel your way The shipping cost : $ 6.85 ( US ) Precise Bits quoted around $43 ( US) ( Sent via Fedex ) ~image~ THREE ROUTERBITS@1.jpg This confirms what we have all been sayi...

Many thanks for this Dennis. I'll report back on this thread when it arrives.

I've found an Australian supplier for very small end mill cutters http://www.satcam.com.au/tools.html Hoping this may be of help to any others trying to source these small bits locally . They have bits as small as .01" ( .25 mm. ) . other sizes ; .015, ( .038 mm.) , .031 " ( .79 mm.) , .0625 " ( 1.5...

G'day John , Nice of you to drop by I agree with Lillian, an apology isn't needed. I'm sure you're doing what you consider best for your customers . Because I live in the bush here in Australia, parcels other than by Post office tend to get dropped off somewhere without notice. I found my last parce...

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Your eyes must be a hell of a lot better than mine Craig. Laughing I'd never be able to see something that fine.

Magnification Allen,,and a steady hand

vandenboom wrote: I am curious about what you would use a bit this fine for? You refer to fret slots at one point - if so, do you really need such precision in a fret slot? Frank G'day Frank , They have fret slot end mills @ .56mm , .58 mm. and .62 mm. Good to have the right size . I mainly wanted ...

Thanks Hip , I'll have a closer look at that site , but I'm really after an endmill type bit . Kim , I have a number of bits I've bought from Stewmac . They're great but they have none smaller than 1/32 " ( .8 mm. ) . Looks like I might have to go to Precise Bits after all.. I was wrong before , the...

Cheers and thanks Martin , but I'm after something less than 1/32" ( .8mm) . .5 or .6 mm. would be perfect. Incidently, Precise Bits have them as small as .25 mm. . They also have specialty bits for Luthiers .56mm. and .58 mm. ( .023" ) Perfect for fret slots. I was just hoping I could get hold of s...

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Uri Geller method for me
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Kim wrote: Great work Craig, impeccable and innovative as usual. Must ask, with the capping you have placed on the back brace, would not the CF have been more effective placed on the 'bottom' of the brace given that, if memory serves, it is most efficient at adding strength to a beam when placed to...

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My thoughts too Kim regarding rigidity in that area. As you can see by my above pics , I have reinforced the neck shaft , heel , headblock and back brace area to be fairly rigid . This, to my thinking, should promote a sustaining string . Other areas , such as the remaining back braces , I have not ...

This should be an interesting thread Hesh as I'm sure a lot of us are finding more applications to improve the instrument. First up is a foot I put on my headblock . I could only have this 1/2" thick because of my adjustable neck hardware. Not much strength , so I put in three 5mm. C.F. tubes which ...

G'day Wayne, I made a set for my current project and attached side purfling to them .The only reason I made my own was so I could have binding the same wood as my back and sides. I sliced them on my bandsaw and put them through my drum sander to have uniform thickness and width . I made up a quick g...

Great design Bob and well thought out. It's got a lot going for it with the A Frame and C.F. capping on the transverse. Nice work on the lattice bracing too . What dimensions are the A Braces and transverse ?
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bob wrote:Real luthiers don't use zipfllex Craig.

Of course they don't . My humble apologies Steve ,,,,,,,,It's all Horst's fault

Stephen Kinnaird wrote: (And if a guy named Horst cut it, that doesn't hurt.)



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Strange you should mention that ...................

I agree with Lillian . Looks great to me. The colour of the Ab. seems to suit . In my opinion a more colouful Ab. ( Paua etc ) would be all too much next to the Tiger Myrtle.

Is that the Zipflex product Steve ?

Wonderful guitar Rod . Love all the aesthetic choices you've made

G'day Steve . ,,,It's been a while . Yep I sure got lucky with the Spruce. I've struck 'silking' with Sitka before , but never to this degree . I'm told it's got a lot to do with it being cut perfectly on the quarter , but I gotta feeling there's a bit more to it than that.
Onya Steve

Thanks for that link Mark . Yes I'm sure that method works well too. Might also be handy should you want to make your soundhole smaller at a later date (lower the resonance )

Must have been doing that neck for a while Craig , that looks like mould setting in . :lol: It's a bloody shame ain't it Michael :lol: Geez, never thought of those consequences Nick . Better get it in the fuel stove straight away :( :wink: It's actually part of an all Tiger Myrtle project,( Thanks ...

Way too cool Jim . That fretboard inlay design seems very fitting on a uke. I like the bolt-on arrangement too ! . Great work mate

Well OK Allen . there ya go ! ,, It's work in progress you understand:lol: