Hi Mark, the course hasn't been deleted this time but I have no access to the videos as the system doesn't think I have premium membership any longer. Darren

Ha, all that just to get a machine to drill three holes in a piece of 6mm thick laminate! I really don’t have a problem with +/- 0.5mm so long as I am fairly confident of where the 0.0mm position shou...

Hi Mark, Sorry to keep pestering but I am still not clear if you are saying that the saddle offset by 1/8" over 3" or the top and bottom E strings are offset by 1/8" over the normal spacing of around ...

Hi Mark, I am sorry if I am making things appear harder than they are. This really wasn’t my intention and I have spent a large part of my working life trying to open up seemingly complicated and myst...

Ok. Have just been out string shopping and picked up a set of Ernie Ball Earthwood lights and extra lights. Without changing the action settings from the defaults these give the following compensation...

Nope. No more sense but I am more than happy to concede that the drawing is wrong. The scale length is stated as being 645.2mm ie 25.4" but this is shown as being from the nut to centre of the centre ...

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Thanks Mark, I was watching it last night but I couldn't tell exactly which point you were measuring to on the saddle. Top E, B or somewhere in between I think. Is this correct? The plan I have is fro...

Is the aim of leveling the frets to get them completely flat over the entire length of the fretboard? Given that this process is undertaken without any string tension doesn’t it follow that the alignm...

The drawing I am working to shows the scale length (25.4”) being measured to the B string position on the saddle thus making the top E shorter than the scale length. This seems odd to me as surely eve...

Oh, I know there’s a bubinga bridge in there (third pic) but all of the others, even the almost black ones, are Rio.

I had a rummage through one of my four tea chests full of Rio rosewood parquet floor tiles (why oh why oh why?!!!!) and pulled out some interesting pieces to be converted into bridges. I modified the ...

It’s been a while since I last posted but I have been making steady progress. The neck blocks were glue up and I used a couple of dowels in the off cut area to make it easier to clamp them up. I then ...

Glueing on the heel blocks, cutting fret slots and CNC machining the trim jigs for the neck mortise and tenon joint. I have now installed the truss rods and cover caps and then pulled the rods out aft...

The trickiest bit of the binding process was where the body takes a bit of a dive as it narrows towards the neck joint. I tried to heat bend the binding in both axis but ended up just forcing it into ...

With the help of the bending iron and a couple of rolls of sticky tape the bindings are all in and trimmed flush with the aid of nicely sharpened scraper blade. A much underestimated and misunderstood...

Hi Mark, Thanks for your replies, they are really useful. I have now routed the binding channel on the soundboard side and this went pretty well with no noticeable chipping. I am building flat tops so...

Good morning, I have a cedar soundboard which is noticeably more flexible with the grain (side to side) than the spruce ones. Is this just typical of cedar or should I avoid using it?

Hi Mark, Do you mean in terms of the grain tearing out? I will try a small section where the tail piece insert will go to judge if there will be a problem and, if so, I will go around the perimeter wi...

Hi Mark, What has happened to the binding module? There is mother there whe I click on it. Regards Darren