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- Myrtle
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Very nice, Allan. I got some of that EIR from Allied too. Like it very much.
Here's an L-00 cutaway that I've been working on in fits and starts since last year,waiting for my customer to do the headstock inlay. It finally arrived a week ago, so it's nice to get this one going again. Glued the overlay on the headstock, cut the nut slot, put in FB side marker dots, prepped for finish.
Mahogany, Lutz top from Shane Niefer of Highmountain Tonewoods, ebony bindings, sounport, BRW bridge. Body is done, Behlen's Rockhard with a French polish overcoat.
Another customer's guitar, an EIR OM, has its back braced, top joined, sides bent.
Pat
Here's an L-00 cutaway that I've been working on in fits and starts since last year,waiting for my customer to do the headstock inlay. It finally arrived a week ago, so it's nice to get this one going again. Glued the overlay on the headstock, cut the nut slot, put in FB side marker dots, prepped for finish.
Mahogany, Lutz top from Shane Niefer of Highmountain Tonewoods, ebony bindings, sounport, BRW bridge. Body is done, Behlen's Rockhard with a French polish overcoat.
Another customer's guitar, an EIR OM, has its back braced, top joined, sides bent.
Pat
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- Blackwood
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What's on my bench at the moment..
Hi everyone - have just started to try and keep up with anzlf posts daily - impossible on olf. So here is my first contribution. I am pretty new at this so my offering is nothing flash - I am still trying to make a good basic dreadnought.
I have just finished the bindings on the two dreadnoughts below - project 6&7 - my first cutaways - you might just see the cracking on the outer bend on the left guitar, damm it. I have not been satisfied with my binding job on the first five - so getting this right was a key goal this time around. Hence the two jigs below - the well tried binding ledge cutting jig, and a roping jig that I found on Mike Doolin's site - it worked very well.
I'm sure most of you have seen all of this stuff before.
Frank
I have just finished the bindings on the two dreadnoughts below - project 6&7 - my first cutaways - you might just see the cracking on the outer bend on the left guitar, damm it. I have not been satisfied with my binding job on the first five - so getting this right was a key goal this time around. Hence the two jigs below - the well tried binding ledge cutting jig, and a roping jig that I found on Mike Doolin's site - it worked very well.
I'm sure most of you have seen all of this stuff before.
Frank
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Thanks for contributing guys, they are coming along nicely.
As for getting bindings nice and tight Frank. Looks like your on the right track now. I use "Twill Tape" or sometimes called "Herringbone Tape" you can get it at Spotlight. 20 mm wide and around 20 meters long is good for a guitar. The advantage with it, is that it's flat and has a wider area to bear against the binding.
You can see Robbie O'brien demonstrate using it on his binding YouTube video.
As for getting bindings nice and tight Frank. Looks like your on the right track now. I use "Twill Tape" or sometimes called "Herringbone Tape" you can get it at Spotlight. 20 mm wide and around 20 meters long is good for a guitar. The advantage with it, is that it's flat and has a wider area to bear against the binding.
You can see Robbie O'brien demonstrate using it on his binding YouTube video.
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- Myrtle
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Thanks, Matthew. It's French polish over Behlen's Rockhard Table Top Varnish. Seems to make a nice compromise with the hard varnish underlay, with a repairable top coat with the nice shellac sheen, although the Behlen's gives a very nice sheen in its own right. My customer loves the look of FP, but not the softness.
The inlay doesn't have any detail. It's the face of my customer in shadow.
Pat
The inlay doesn't have any detail. It's the face of my customer in shadow.
Pat
- Bob Connor
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Jeremy,J.F. Custom wrote:... This is a rosette I had recently completed on a bouzouki I am building ...
It's Ring Gidgee and Ring Mulga with mitred purfling on each piece.
Jeremy.
Each time I visit the ANZLF lately I see your avatar, and have to stop and take a minute to let you know that is one of the most beautiful rosettes I've ever seen. I just like everything about it. Congratulations on creating such a successful artistic element. Thanks for showing it!
Dennis
Another damn Yank!
hey bob, thanks for the kind words.
i took advantage of the good weather today.
i sprayed the first coats of mirotone on the blackwood , she came up treat.
now its the waiting game.
cheers Shane
i took advantage of the good weather today.
i sprayed the first coats of mirotone on the blackwood , she came up treat.
now its the waiting game.
cheers Shane
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Dennis Leahy wrote: Jeremy,
Each time I visit the ANZLF lately I see your avatar, and have to stop and take a minute to let you know that is one of the most beautiful rosettes I've ever seen. I just like everything about it. Congratulations on creating such a successful artistic element. Thanks for showing it!
Dennis
Hi Dennis,
Well I'm not sure I can say thanks quite as eloquently as you have worded your compliments, but erm, thanks! Seriously, it really is appreciated. Sometimes it can be difficult to judge your own work, so compliments from fellow luthiers provide welcome encouragement.
Cheers,
Jeremy.
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- Myrtle
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Im not quite understanding the timber on the back could you let us know. It looks like end grain?Arnt wrote:I finally got around to some building again.
Here's a Lutz / ziricote 000 with ash bindings and ash and rosewood pruflings
Kind Regards
Tim
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What's on my bench at present ?...................
A five metre long KD f17 tassie oak workbench . That's what !!!
Cost me a heap for the timbers even with trade discount but
guaranteed not to bloody move.
Now I've gotta move the most important appliance in the workshop to
another corner. (That'd be the beer fridge).
A five metre long KD f17 tassie oak workbench . That's what !!!
Cost me a heap for the timbers even with trade discount but
guaranteed not to bloody move.
Now I've gotta move the most important appliance in the workshop to
another corner. (That'd be the beer fridge).
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