Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

Not really sure if this is the place to ask but I've just started getting into instrument building, and I'm looking to do it for a while all permitting. However I don't have anywhere to work out of or really any experience doing repairs, which I assume is the more lucrative side of lutherie. In shor...

routout wrote:I like it and if it pleases you it can't be all bad

Yeh that's kind of the way I've been looking at it. Thanks!

Yeh I did Dave's seven week course in Saskatchewan. He's swapped the bell out for some big pirate looking gold hoops and I don't recall any tie dye. Haha.

Yeh I built this in the Spanish style in David Freeman's course. I doubt it would have been this good without his guidance.

So having never done any wood working in my life I decided I wanted to build guitars. This is my first build of my own design. The body shape isn't quite where I wanted it but it's something a bit different to what my experience is. I went for a kind of Kasha style bracing and I'm super happy with t...