Thread: Luthier Woods

If you cannot get it in Brisbane you could try Scott Wise in Margaret River WA. I know he has all sorts of luthier woods. He advertises in the A.W.R and i know he mail orders. He may be on the internet.
Alf

Hello

Try Otto Timbers in Adelaide. They specialise in imported timbers as well as Ozzie stuff. Very helpful mob. Their details are ph: 08 8362 3522, or email at [email protected]

Good luck

ag

Cspirits, knowing which species you require might be helpful. It's a bit far away I know but there's a few luthiers working in this area and as far as I know they source most of their timbers locally. Wren timbers (Warren Semken) and Tropical Forest Timbers, both of Cairns carry a wide range of lesser known species, both native and exotics. I know Wren advertises in the Aust. Wood Review and I'm sure you would find some other suppliers in the magazines.

Mick

Hello everyone,

I happen to know of 2 GREAT places for luthier wood. One is an all-around site for almost everything you would need to create: Luthier's Mercantile International [www.lmii.com]. The next is a wood supplier for everything and anything. They have great rosewoods, and burls as well. www.cookwoods.com This site has mahagonies, quilted and flamed maples, rosewoods of every kind, and everything else. They also do cutting of blocks to whatever dimensions u want.

Now that i'm done with my little blurb, i have my own question. Do any of you know if a solid quilted maple or african sapele will make a good body for a bass? i know ppl ALWAYS use quilted maple for tops, but i want to make a solid body out of the stuff, and i fear that the sound quality. Please help me out here.

i want to make a solid body out of the stuff, and i fear that the sound quality. Please help me out here.

Let me start out by saying, I don't own a solid body instrument, and have never played one.........BUT

I hear all the nonsense about tone, etc regarding solid body guitars and smirk knowingly. The whole point of the things is to electronically distort the sound anyway, so they can sound however you like.

While engaged in this debate with a friend I plugged my SuperCheap acoustic mando through his effects board, fiddled a bit and challenged him to pick (from the next room) whether I was twanging my mandolin, his Stratocaster, or his Martin acoustic-with-pickups.

Of course he couldn't - the whole point of amplification is to provide a different sound.

Build it out of anything that you think will look great, tell everyone about the magical acoustic properties of the timber you used, and they will all believe you. They can't argue, because ears don't lie......just make sure you never play in acoustic mode!

Cheers,

P
ToneDeafMusicCynic

Strings old son I dont think the US site is even remotely local to Brisbane but the information supplied on this Aussie based board is for all....
for what its worth not all forums are based in the US
Pete

Nothing wrong with reactivating a year old thread though

P

derr umm can you please explain luthier woods. Dont think its to do with a lutheran church. Tonto

Woods used for making guitars and suchlike.

Originally for lutes I suppose

"Luthier Woods" ...

Without looking it up, a luthier is one who practices luthery which is the word given to those who construct musical instruments of the stringed variety.

I assume that the word was derived from the manufacture of the "Lute", but I'll let someone else enlighten us.

Wood is stuff that comes from trees.

Woods is a heap of trees growing side by side.

For the purpose of this definition the thread could have been called "timber for luthery" or even "where can I find stuff with which I may build a guitar?"

As for a relationship with the Lutheran Church? My guess again The church was founded by Martin Luther whose name was probably taken from the occupation of his forebears as was the tradition of time, hence surnames like Baker, Smith, Cook, Carpenter, and Ozwinner.

Martin's granddad probably made lutes, and there you have the connection!

I feel better with that off my chest!!


P

What does an Ozwinner do Midge?

bitingmidge .... you look a lot better too... with that off now we see the real you.... onto

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What does an Ozwinner do Midge?

Sorry ,

Thought it was common knowledge (it is among we scholars )

In the middle ages somewhere between what became Belgium and Germany there was a small principality called Zwinner.

The residents of this principality became famous as finishing masons. Masonry in those days was a crude affair using large blocks of stone bogged up with a bit of slurry, and the Citizens of Zwinner developed methods for adhering the smaller stones together.

With the passage of time, the clan spread throughout the world, initially to England and Ireland where in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution their skills were readily adapted to laying the new burnt clay bricks.

In deference to their ancestry, they adopted the surname o'Zwinner (of Zwinner) and with the passage of time and a few more migratory travels, and the apostrophe was lost forever.

And that's why, to this very day some highly skilled bricklayers still go by the name... Ozwinner!

Cheers,

P

I think its time to take off the foil cap for a while so as to give your thougths time to air.
All that alifoil is trapping in the thoughts that HAVE to escape into outer space.
Without the space thoughts, all your drivel ends up driveing your fingers.
I know, writing the drivel is uncontrolable, I have the same problem, which is why I take the cap off occasionly.

Its just up to you guys to pick the days??

Go on, take it off.

Al.