Mark's knowledge is invaluable to us. Couldn’t agree more @russ. For anyone who’s interested there is a lesson in the Acoustic course on laminating headstocks.

@mattbeels pretty much but I’ll sand the veneer to roughly match the rough headstock profile. Suggestion from Mark is to drill an 8mm hole and ream it out to 10mm to remove chance of breakout. Don’t h...

Yep, first time used in anger Russ. It’s rather good, I’m really impressed Very neat @boo. Looks great. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

Is this the first guitar to be built with this neck pocket jig @russ Yep, first time used in anger Russ. It’s rather good, I’m really impressed @darrenking.

@mattbeels Nice jig Matt. 😁✌️

I know the action is a bit too high right now but I’ve got about 12mm or so to take off the bottom of the neck heal to bring it down to the correct depth yet. I’ll put a slight (1 degree) angle on it ...

Test fit the neck. Perfect fit. 🤘😁🤘🎸 Attachment : E7713D8A-92FE-49AD-A918-8B2AA89BCB05.jpeg Attachment : 69501074-C9EB-40EF-ADAE-E20C66D69295.jpeg Atta...

Here we go, the first proper use of the No-more-sloppy-neck-pocket-o-matic It’s marvellous. Attachment : BDBFD3A8-004E-418F-8F73-8BEBBB9992BA.jpeg Attachment : FEA7F5AF-BE3C-42D1-AFBA-9E0...

No-More-Sloppy-Neck-Pocket-O-Matic I think that should be the official name laser etched on the jig

@russ so I mentioned to Mark about this and I need keep the headstock “core” over 13mm That's good to know @tej. Mark's knowledge is invaluable to us. 🙂🎸🎶🙏

Another great video Steve - thanks for taking the time to make & post these installments. Apologies for the delayed response. I've not been working. Just spending a too much time doing "stuff" ....

I had no idea it was such a manual process or that there were so many stages. But it did only take 2minutes ...

@russ so I mentioned to Mark about this and I need keep the headstock “core” over 13mm which makes sense, I think I might just surface route .5 to .8 mm off each side and then route the veneer down so...

Is this the first guitar to be built with this neck pocket jig @boo. 🤔 🙏🎶🎸🙂

@jonhodgson. Cheers Jonathan. Sound advice. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

@russ, I noticed the relative price thing too. He said the Rider No 4 was about 100 quid, it's now 75. I think Axminster may have dropped their prices because they couldn't compete on quality.Personal...

@russ, I suspect that for the money you may not find better new planes than the River, to lower the cost they have to make savings somewhere, and it seems one area is in the flattening of the plane.So...

No personal experience, but having watched this I won't be buying one. @jonhodgson Hi Jonathan, I notice in the video that the guy said that the Rider and Quangsheng were both midrange prices but whe...

@jonhodgson. Cheers Jonathan. I'll keep looking around. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

You mean, some people have *real* friends, not just virtual ones?? It appears to be occurring.