b'That is a massive secret that Ive given away, as far as Im aware, only one other company in the world uses this method, but lots of people have worked here and must have spoken about it to others. The work table can be raised and lowered and tilted to different angles. It wasnt easy to make, maybe thats why it hasnt caught on. I have a variety of cutters and followers which allow us to cut any combination of rebates, and an interchangeable table which I can use for arch top instruments.The green device in the background is the redundant gang saw that we used to make thousands of fretboards until it was superseded by the machine shown on page 180. Its a lot slower, but so much more effective and accurate for how we work now.Above: The steel rollers I made to thin down the inlays to fit into their grooves. You might be able to see the semi-circular grooves towards the far end, we used these to roll lead weights for snooker cues! Left:When I first started making guitars, I used wooden bindings all the time. When production stepped up in about 1975, I changed to various types of plastic, just like all the bigger Bindings manufactures and i thought it was a mark of professionalism. It Opposite page: Even though Ive been making guitars for awas easier in some ways because it didnt need to be bent into long time, Ive had very little contact with other guitar makers,shape, but it did cause glue and lacquer problems.Im not part of the world where everything is shared, so my ideasThere isnt any question now, we use wood or eco equivalents all are mostly my own.the time, so we have to bend every piece in the same way as we Every maker I know uses a woodworking router to cut thebend the guitar sides and it is a slow process. The purflings have binding rebates in the corners of the guitar. I did that for a while,to be bent as well, which can be the hardest job of all.but I think its completely the wrong approach, with all sorts of drawbacks. This picture is actually a milling cutter with a much larger diameter than a router bit. I can turn it over and reverse the rotation of the high-speed spindle so that we are always cutting down the slope and we dont get tear out even if the cutter is blunt.173'