Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

matthew wrote:is it a parallel edged dovetail or tapered?

It's the full Monty...ie a double half blind dovetail Mortise and Tenon. I guess that equates to a tapered dovetail in answer to your query.

Im getting there.....getting the hang of this joint is a matter of getting to know your enemy.

Billy Byrd...he was behind the Gibbo Byrdland model guitar. I think he passed away recently

Okay.....its been 3 days now and Im still f***ng around with the dovetail M and T neck joint on the 12 string. Its just like the classic table with the wobbly leg..you adjust the leg you think is the odd one out and end up with a wobble on another leg. Im spending so much time out in the workshop wo...

I mean how the heck do you walk off leaving a Strad in the back of a taxi??? "A Grammy-nominated violinist who left his $US4 million ($NZ5 million), 285-year-old Stradivarius violin in a taxi is giving a free concert at an airport taxi stand for the driver who returned it. Philippe Quint, 34, left h...

Three things in common with all these songs......they all dont include the word "spaghetti" in the lyrics.

Looks like my Englemann has arrived. Off to the PO just as soon as I can drag some clothes on.

Bob,

What make and model of bandsaw are you running?

Cheers Martin

bob wrote:The new Lenox Woodmaster CT band saw blade (1 inch) arrived about a week ago and I have to say it's unbelievably good.

I noticed you switched the pic around! You had everybody driving on the wrong side of the road !! Easy mistake! Here I made it better! :D Why do you Aussies make your signs backwards too? Huhm? :D http://www.anzlf.com/phpBB2/userpix/12_Left_Side_1.jpg Its the Westgate Bridge...scariest piece of roa...

Wouldnt be too much of a problem...theyd just line him up with some giraffes from the local zoo.

Yeah, nail that banjo player!!!

Welcome Graham,

As already mentioned by other posters Graham is the man for top quality Englemann at rock bottom price.

Cheers Martin

Graham McDonald wrote: Now, I just need some of that Lutz stuff... (Gotta sell a few books first, the bank account is seriously depleted )

Swap you some Lutz sets for a signed copy of your book. PM me and we can talk turkey. Cheers Martin

I have always built 'stuff', one old passion is traditional bows and arrows. Here I am shooting a sitka spruce arrow with an ash / birch long bow I built last year. The picture was taken around midnight; during summer it never gets dark up here in the land of the midnight sun... http://i70.photobuc...

Ya bastard!!!

What the hell are you doing up at 3:41am???? Youve obviously got up while the rest of the house is asleep so you can enjoy a few interrupted hours of porn surfing!!

Anybody interested in seeing my milk bottle cap collection??

Dominic wrote:No worries Craig. I tried to give us all a bit of everything so glad you like it.
What can we buy now?????
Dom

More Indian Rosewood!!

To reduce risk of bleeding the IRW stain onto lighter coloured bindings I give the bindings a light seal coat of shellac before pore filling with pumice and I make sure when Im sanding I sand from lighter coloured wood out to the darker coloured rosewood and finish off with a cabinet scraper.

Paddy Burgin has a job very few people have - he is a Lutherian, a guitar maker, only one of about a dozen in the country. Bldi Kiwi Journalist.....Can't tell a Lutheran from a Luthier!!! :? He did go on a guitar making course in Montana many years ago and he describes his construction techniques a...

On a two week rotation on this job but on most jobs I work a well from start to finish. Can vary from 2 to 4 weeks on the rig.

Not much tonewood out here but plenty of pallets. Might knock myself up a palletwood guitar.

I dont start work untill it gets dark. Currently 1.05am out here at my "office", 200km off the coast of Western Australia.

Welcome to the forum Waddy

Cheers Martin

The whole darn family ( and their friends ) came on the trip . I'm a bit knackered. :lol: Mate youve broken one of the first rules of luthiery..NEVER take your wife of family with you when you go tool or wood shopping. The procedure at my house when I go shopping is to make sure I come home while t...

Craig L wrote: I haven't had time to have a good look at it yet , but it seems to be O.K. ,although I would have liked it a tad lighter.

My Porter Cable 310 is a heavy machine but I find the weight helps with stability when Im routing binding channels with my williams style jig.

I drove around to no avail yesterday and went to a place I know has the carbitool range...and guess what? .....only the shorter model.. looks like a trip to carbatec I think...I know they have them for sure. I get my cutters from here. Good service and they use express post http://www.apworkshop.co...

Give it a shot on scrap Joel. I'm pretty sure that's the same stuff I tried once . I noticed the colour going on the french polish wad. Water based stains work better with shellac Pulling colour out of IRW can be a problem during French Polishing. Its one reason to pore fill using epoxy. You need t...