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I wasn't sure where to put this, so if it needs moving, please feel free. There has been quite a lot of discussion in the past, on various forums, on how to prepare surfaces for gluing. I think it was generally accepted that freshly planed or scraped surfaces are best. Is this still the case? I ask ...

A ‘friend’ asked me to repair this mostrosity for him (an oud, it fell off the wall). I didn’t want to but he insisted, even though I told him it certainly wouldn’t look like new again. In fact, even when new, the workmanship is pretty rough including wood filler where the inlays didn’t fit. The rib...

Todd Stock wrote:to claim as she does that it is an original innovation is not even remotely correct.

Which also applies to Novak and his 'Fanned Frets'.

Spacers all glued. Screw down the Masonite or MDF or whatever.

Drilling holes in the strips. Cutting the strips in half (don't try to cut through the locating pin). Cut the strips into pièces. Drill pilot holes in the base board. Glue the spacers to the board.

I think you're probably right Bryan but as Mark has asked me if I could post the photos here, I will. They were hosted on *!£§*bucket when I posted the thread on another forum but I never put photos there without keeping the originals myself, thank goodness! Mark has explained the process so I'll ju...

Gordon Bellerose wrote:I don't know if Photobucket will kill all the links I currently have in this forum, but it's a fair bet they will.

They will. They've killed mine.

$70

I'll open the bidding at $60.

When you wear progressive lenses, apparently there is no such thing as a straight line. It drove me crazy for 2 weeks. Nothing looked right. the field of view for the reading (near) correction was so narrow that I had to turn my head to keep the words in focus as I read across a page. My experience...

Thanks Chuck and Arnt, and it's nice to hear from both of you again. You seem to be making yourselves rather scarce these days. Well,it sounds quite good to me, but that doesn't mean much because I'm not a guitarist. But there does seem to be a small problem of some sort. When I was setting it up an...

Thanks Randy, I'm pleased you like it. The 'fanned fret instrument is an orpharion and you can find much more information on it here: http://www.cittern.theaterofmusic.com/old/palmer.html There are lots more here: https://www.google.fr/search?q=orpharion&biw=1381&bih=881&tbm=isch&tbo...

Thanks Todd, and yes you're quite right. Everyone credits Linda Manzer with creating the wedge body, but am I right in thinking that she did 'create' it not knowing that it had already been done and even patented? Then again Novak even managed to patent something that had existed for 400 years. Orph...

Thank you all for the kind remarks. Charlie, the Claro was fine to work with, but seem a bit brittle and being curly had a tendency to chip out if tools or cutters weren't really sharp. When I routed the binding rebate on the top (the first top) I didn't notice it had chipped out quite a lot until I...

When I’ve done a stacked heel before the joins were quite visible; this time, for some reason they are at lot less visible. The rosewood button covers the head of a socket head screw which holds the neck in place and the action (string height) is adjusted by turning the screw. 15.JPG If you look car...

7a.JPG Three-quarter view. 8.JPG Cutting an elliptical sound-port with a bevelled edge in a curved surface isn’t as easy as I thought. It finished up OK but slightly larger than intended. 10.JPG I was very apprehensive about the bevel. In fact when I got the box closed I chickened out and bound it ...

Two or three years ago my nephew asked me if I’d make him a guitar. He wanted an OM with a cut-away. I don’t make acoustic guitars, I make (mostly electric) basses, although I have made an acoustic one but it didn’t have a cutaway, and anyway, I was just about to start on another bass. What’s more, ...

Nice uke Chuck.

Bruce Sexauer recently built an all-Claro guitar. There are sound clips too.

http://www.sexauerluthier.com/FT-000-W-Memphis.html

To make my multiscale basses I made a jig like the one shown by Jeremy Fullerton on the ANZLF. It works very well. http://www.anzlf.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2094 BTW, putting the perpendicular fret at the 12th will give you a helluvan angle at the nut. Sheldon Dingwall's 5-string basses have a 3...

Again I didn't notice this thread had been revived.
John, after being mightily impressed by your work for a number of years, I really appreciate your comment.