Managed to catch up last night. Wish I had caught it Live now. Great session Mark. 🎶🎸🙏🙂

@darrenking Is this why Strads smell of cheese? Probably sweaty fingers. Some guitar techs charge extra for cleaning before they will start work. Interesting point about veneer I found this out the ha...

Pungent memories.... 😆 😆

Oh... you DO remember...? Those memories will be with me for life @e-den-hertog. 😉

Oh... you DO remember...? 😐

My Strat doesn't smell of cheese.... It smells of sweat and stale beer...... It's not just your Strat @e-den-hertog 😆

My Strat doesn't smell of cheese.... It smells of sweat and stale beer......

Casein which is some form of milk protein. Is this why Strads smell of cheese? 🤣 🤣 In the world of veneering keeping glue lines, ie moisture, balanced on both sides of a panel are ke...

Sad that we didn't quite make the video interview we planned . It would have been a chuckle!

@darrenking Looks like you have covered all the bases with design and the need to store in a small space. I've never used an electric machine for instrument polishing but have done a bit of metal poli...

Wizardry Supremo!!! No Smoke (in front of camera) and no mirrors - just cameras! Thanks soo much for featuring the Splits and Cracks issues along with advice. You're a Star Mark, dark side of a sta...

I was going to say that I've used a polishing machine on a guitar, but that's not quite true. I've seen one being used on the fretboard of a guitar that I'd made, but the guy using it declined to let ...

Hi Darren. When I was talking about slippage I meant in the context of an inbuilt "clutch" similar to Robbie O'Brien's ( ) Hopefully you wont need it but if you press too hard it slows down, hence le...

@darrenking That whole thing looks like a neat solution. I had been wondering how you were going to couple the polisher shaft to the motor shaft. Now that I've seen your drawing that is clear now. I'm...

This is the drawing of the shaft and it actually protrudes by about 335mm in front of the bearing which should give plenty of accessibility. Also, because the buffer doesn't have a support stand, it i...

Hi Mike, thanks for your comments. The shaft protrudes from the external bearing by about 300mm and at 25mm thick I don’t expect a lot of flex. The final 100mm is reduced to 20mm and the end is thread...

Good job. Wooden control knobs. Nice touch.

That is a *very* neat way of doing it. Neat, and precise. It's like a proper engineering solution! I guess the problem is "drill bit wander" - ie the bits don't drill through perfectly perpendicular...

That'll be the truss rod slot learning curve that you've routed there. 😆 @robin!

Sad news..... I bought the second edition of his book quite a while back. It planted the idea about building guitars but it was only an idea until I found Bailey’s Guitars.