Hey everyone,

This weekend I inlayed a myrtle rosette with a maple strip each side to high light it a little. The rosette design is very simple as this is my first effort and I don't want to stuff things up now. Good old KISS principal.

Cheers

Alan

Thanks Todd, Bruce and Waddy for your comments and encouragement. I am happy with my work so far. The old KISS principal is the way to go for beginners like myself. Steady as she goes!!!

Waddy some of the weissenborn copies being made now days have traditional frets. It is a lap slide instrument so traditional frets are not necessary. The original weissenbron guitar used maple or holly stripes as fret markers. If you would like to have a listen to the weissenborn sound go to my site

www.myspace.com/ozziebluesman

I have two songs on there played on weissenborn.

Cheers

Alan

Hey Bruce!!

TerryBuddell here! No need for four grand to build your guitar. Alan is building the weissenborn( or as near as dammit) from the book and plans  that I sell on my site www.buildaweissenborn.com.

The original that I made on my yacht in Australia was a slightly different and deeper version of the Type two weissenborn. I have now completely redrawn my plans and they are for sale on CD rom!

This is the first time I have seen Alans guitar and well done to you Alan..Its looking great!

My original is now played in and sounds a lot better and with Elixir strings on and it does( even if I say so myself) sound really nice....Loud as all hell too, especially with Australian Maple..I'll post a picture on here as soon as I learn how to! Incidentally, anyone interested I sell thge book on how to build the Weissenborn, a CD of 115 pictures of the build and the guitar plans on CD for $ 48.00 bucks Australian!

Thanks Terry for your comments.

I am actually building my weissenborn copy from the MIMF plan and using a solera, workboard to build it on. I have purchased Terry's book sometime ago to learn how to go about building a weissenborn copy. It is very informative read and a good reference. I am however, building my weissenborn copy using a different method to Terry. I must stress that I am a beginner builder and this is my first effort and so far I have done all the easy stuff.

Thanks again everyone for your support during my build.

Cheers

Alan

Hey Steve,

Ok here is how I made the fingerboard. First the fret slots are cut using a square and a Stew Mac small saw. The scale was taken off the MIMF plan.

Next the maple strips are inlayed using white glue.

The dot marker holes are drilled next.

Finally the dots are inserted, fingerboard sides profiled and sanded down. There is a bridge I made there also in the pic.

Back and side are also Tasmanian Sassafrass the same wood as the top. The headplate, bridge, rosette and fingerboard are all Tasmanian Myrtle.

The rosette was machined for me. It is about 5mm wide and I inlayed a maple stripe each side to high light it a little more.

Hope that answers your question. Thanks for your interest. This guitar building is very adictive.

Cheers

Alan

Hi again Alan!!

really good to see your guitar taking shape..you know, just by the look of that timber I reckon it will sound great!!! apologies for assuming you were building using my book!!! ...der!!! However, what the hell, as long as you get there in the end!!! You are right..this building is addictive ...and playing your own guitar is marginilly better than S-E-X...possibly!

 hi to all you weissy fans ..aint they the greatest thing????

Cannot resist saying...check out jeff Lang...a brilliant weissy player that makes (most) of us look like we aint started!!

Have a brilliant Xmas everyone here on the forum,

I will I hope..taking my filthy old lugger to The Great Keppel Islands

will get  a little bit pissed on good old Bundy rum and PLAY MY WEISSY!

It dont get much better than that!!!!

Have a good one everyone

Kindest regards

terry buddell

G'day Mackie,

Thanks Mackie. No trouble thus far. I also have plenty of expert help on hand from the OLF forum members. Its great because they take the guess work out of the project.

Last weekend I profiled the sides and thicknessed them. The not so easy parts are about to start. Bending the sides. Also bracing the instrument is going to be a challange. One step at a time steady as she goes.

I used Selleys Aquadhere for the fret markers. I think it sands much easier than Titebond.

Cheers

Alan