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ABC website article on luthiery

Post by Nick Payne » Thu Aug 06, 2015 7:05 pm

I thought this was quite good. Don't know that I agree about dying art form, though: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-06/s ... rs/6678602
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Post by kiwigeo » Thu Aug 06, 2015 8:00 pm

A dying art??? That must explain the 1459 guitar builders who are members of this forum.

Looks like they're building Spanish method ala Jim Williams...
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Re: ABC website article on luthiery

Post by Nick » Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:21 am

kiwigeo wrote:Looks like they're building Spanish method ala Jim Williams...
Does that involve swinging a big mo-fo mallet when bending sides? What's that all about?
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Re: ABC website article on luthiery

Post by Ormsby Guitars » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:40 am

Pretty sure it was this school that we supplied 50 sets of uke fretboards and machine heads to a few years ago. From memory they had a Cnc too. Good to see!
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