Last night I wanted to mark the positions accurately on head for the machine heads ready for drilling. I drew a plan a couple of months ago so it's just a simple case of transferring the dimensions to the face of the head.
I did not want to damage the head so I wrapped it in very thin tracing paper. This made it easy to mark out the positions with out leaving any pencil marks on the head. I was careful not to press too hard to prevent any lines showing on the veneer once I removed the paper.
Once everything was laid out and double checked (measure twice cut once!!!) I used a compass to pierce the tracing paper and mark the veneer. I then removed the tracing paper and highlighted the marks making them easier to see.
At some point I will make a template but for now this method worked just fine. I will wait for the machine heads to arrive just to double check everything and then drill the holes.
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