Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I peek in every once in a while for the latest on the G&G angle and a bit of Aussie humor.

Super cool all around. The bracing could be seen as a variation on the Gretsch "trestle" bracing. Worked for them.

The first one was this fretless bass... 34"-31" from the Low E to the G string and it had a D extention on the E string too. It sounded awesome, but the fanned frets markers made it nearly impossible to stay in tune. Keep in mind I've been playing upright bass and fretless for over 2 decades now. I...

The key design concepts include monopole mobility, coupling, modal tuning and playing accurately in tune to the equally tempered scale. The build concepts (which provide one method of consistent implementation) are outside moulds, radius dishes, go-bar decks and bolt-on necks. Boom. Two books into ...

Very interesting bridge design. Sort of a visual extension of the fingerboard, but apparently still within the weight and glue footprint requirements of traditional shapes. Cool stuff there. Trevor, your use of this guy's instruments as an example brings up a question: if you promote the idea of you...

Can we see any of these in Tacoma?