Re: Detailed plans for a dovetail neck joint jig
Originally Posted by
grandcanyonminstrel
My dovetail video from a few years ago:
https://vimeo.com/149088032?cjevent=...ab006a0a240611
The goal is for everyone to make better mandolins, not get distracted with too much jig and tooling nerdiness. Go over to the guitar forums and they completely miss the point and have a jig for every step of the process but very few of them seem to actually play the guitar. The first priority is to learn how to build something well. Once you work out a reliable method, then a jig can help you with efficiency and repeatability. Too many people get sidetracked on the jig aspect and wind up with some amazingly efficient production of mediocre things. This one is nothing- you should see the four foot tall welded version that I have for double bass necks. If the mandolin version saves me three hours, that one saves me three days per neck.
My grandfather was a patternmaker; I'm a mandolinmaker (who occasionally finds it necessary to make a good pattern jig)!
You guys make it look so easy.
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Creativity is just doing something wierd and finding out others like it.
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