Official Luthiers Forum!

Hey all. If you have not already pre-ordered your Neck Making DVD's
time is running out to get them at the discounted price. Once I finish
filming & Editing (which should be within the next 3-4 days) then prices
will go up.   The DVD's will be either 2 DVD's or possibly three. If only
two then the price will rise slightly and if three then you'll really want to
pre-order as you'll get them all regardless of how many.

Here is a progress report for all those who have ordered already or for
more info on topics

I'm almost done filming (trying to finish up tomorrow). I'll be covering
the fingerboard (slotting, dimensions, taper, radius, binding, inlay, side
dots) the headplate and logo cutting and inlay, the neck ( starting with a
3x4x30 block and going through rough dimensioning 5 piece lay-up and
gluing, truss rod routing with jig explanations, tenon routing with jig,
heel profiling with jigs, shaping headstock, truss rod installation and
spline making, headstock binding, fretboard gluing, tuner hole locations,
neck profile shaping by hand as well with custom router bits, heel
shaping, final sanding and inspection.


Here is a link to the pre-order in case your interested.

http://www.mayesmusic.com/index.php?
main_page=product_info&products_id=446&zenid=ff9febb5a343bf9 45e
86420aa4aa7c2b


Thanks!


John Mayes

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

Thanks to all that have ordered thus far!

I just wanted to restate that the luthiers forum 10% discount is not valid
for this DVD set right now (it IS valid on all the other items). It is
discounted already. It will be when it releases, but the price will be
higher then. I'm ALMOST done filming... just taking a lot longer than I
thought. I'll keep you all posted....

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

John, I've been watching your other videos that I got this week. They are great.

Can't wait for the new one. BTW, the shipping was very fast on the others.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

[QUOTE=Dave Rector] John, I've been watching your other videos that I
got this week. They are great.

Can't wait for the new one. BTW, the shipping was very fast on the
others.[/QUOTE]

Glad ya like em Dave. Shipping was quick eh? Well good thing your only
40 miles from me :)

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

John I want an autograph on mine..

Out of curiosity will you be covering volutes at all?, I just did my first one and it turned out better than I expected but it was a pain for a while there I was thinking I was heading the wrong way .

Cheers

-Paul-Sprockett38436.866412037

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-Paul-

Patriot Guitars

[QUOTE=Sprockett] John I want an autograph on mine..

Out of curiosity will you be covering volutes at all?, I just did my first one
and it turned out better than I expected but it was a pain for a while there
I was thinking I was heading the wrong way .

Cheers

-Paul-[/QUOTE]

Paul,

I can autograph it but that will decrease the value significantly   

And yes volutes (my style) will be covered. I won't do diamond volutes as
I've not much practice in them as I don't use them and I would probably
butcher it...

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

Tres Cool...

I've never attempted the diamond ones either, I don't like things that are sharp or pointy like that on my guitars anyway so I would probably never do one

And this is a plug for John's video's , I'm not a beginner at building and I find all kinds of useful information in his video's and stuff that I now use when building. I just wish I had these 4 years ago when I first started, it would have saved a bunch of stupid mistakes

Thanks John..

-Paul-

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-Paul-

Patriot Guitars

I agree with you Paul, these DVD's are packed with great information. John has done a great job, and they are highly recommended!
Tracy

I agree with Paul and Tracy 100%. I have already seen several little things that I never thought of that will make the process so much simpler. John does a great job of explaining them too. The audio on the first 3 was a little weak though.

Great job John!

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

[QUOTE=Dave Rector]   The audio on the first 3 was a little weak though.[/QUOTE]

Yep that was a problem. I borrowed someone scamera for that and used the internal mic. For the new ones (voicing and newer) I bought an external high quality condensor shotgun microphone. Sound quailty is really good now... one reason why the first ones were cheaper... Editing capabilites are better now that I invested in better editing software too.

Thanks for the nice commnets everyone. I'm just thrilled I could help your journey in building guitars. It is a fun one for sure.

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

John, I just started on the voicing video today. The audio is much much better.

Just to clarify a little, the others have great information, it was only the sound quality that wasn't great.

Looking forward to the next one.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

[QUOTE=Dave Rector] John, I just started on the voicing video today.
The audio is much much better.

Just to clarify a little, the others have great information, it was only the
sound quality that wasn't great.

Looking forward to the next one.[/QUOTE]

Actually the quality is ok, just the levels of the audio is low so you have to
really turn up the TV (but I know that is what ya meant :) ). I actually have
the editing software to fix that, but I would have to redo the entire videos
and that would take days... oh well some cheap videos with lots of good
info...

Thanks guys!

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com