MIMF

See: http://www.mimf.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1656
Basically, use an external took like Irfanview or similar to resize. There are also plenty of on-line tools as well.

Lovely! Congratulations!

LMII closed its doors this year, but it looks like Stew Mac may be taking over some parts and distribution.

Love the translucent blue!

I make a variety of instruments and don't specialize on any one (well, dulcimers if anything), so versatility is necessary. But the instruments I build are all very roughly the same size. The same principle would work for guitar sides, but they are wider, and the tallest normal sanding cylinders are...

I've never tried rehairing a gamba bow, but I have rehaired a violin bow. It was not that difficult to get a decent result if you take your time. Years ago our own Amy Hopkins (correction: it was Craig Tucker!) taught an MIMF class on rehairing. I don't think the courses were archived, but there may...

Best Cam Clamp
https://www.mimf.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6907

I am pretty sure Matthew is overseas, so none of our laws apply.

Sorry, David, we really try to keep discussions to one place only. This is really the best forum for this kind of instrument. If you see a discussion in String Instruments where a mention of this would be appropriate, you can post a link back to this discussion, but please try to keep the main discu...

Came out nice! I really like the triangle knot in the soundhole. Have you tried to play it yet?

Welcome Vincenzo! I am afraid very few here speak Italian, so I had translate.google.com have a go: "Good morning to all the group and thank you for accepting me into the group. I would like to ask you for advice, I own a 1982 Gibson ES 175, unfortunately a few years ago I entrusted my guitar t...

@David - Think moveable hurdy gurdy tangents inside your drum if you want to change notes, but talk about complicated mechanics! @Teresa - David's instrument is conceived of as a drone, but like the video I posted, he could play it with a bottle slide. Fingers will dampen the strings too much withou...

All of what we have been discussing above is essentially the same thing as a Luthier's Friend, just homemade and FAR cheaper.

For kids, I would even suggest starting much simpler, along the lines of a cigar box guitar. All you need is a stick for the neck, and some kind of box, be it a wooden cigar box, large metal can, cookie tin, old mailbox, or whatever. Used tied frets, and the tuners can be as simple as a screweye in ...

Not exactly what I remember or was was looking for, but I stumbled upon this tonight completely by accident, and you will it very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2kJMPfFOX8

Beautifully executed! Would also be the perfect accompaniment to a bagpipe chanter without the full volume of the pipes. Just recently the Temu (Chinese cheap junk retailer) ads that have been annoyingly popping up on my tablet showed an instrument that looked a lot like it, or at least nearly cylin...

Scrapers are different for most people, but once you use one, you will almost never go back to sandpaper! Well worth the minimal effort to learn to sharpen. Don't be afraid of the sharpening - it is ridiculously easy and quick, and you only rarely need to sharpen them anyway. You could scrape your e...

I have never tried it myself since I own a proper re-burring tool, but the tool is nothing more than a smooth, hardened steel dowel, about 8 mm or 5/16", held at an angle by a wooden holder. I would guess the shaft of any big screwdriver you might have laying around might do the job. Any screwd...

Thanks for the pics!

Looks great! If you do any more pyrography, please take a photo of the tools you use, possibly in-use. This isn't common on guitars, so many here have never seen it before.