this is Wayne Rogers from gold-tone and I'd like to show you how we mount a cask in an unmarked Aston on a vintage Orpheum banjo pot and if you watch the tape carefully and follow the instructions it's not really that much of a task you can thumb it a few times it helps but if you watch the video we're going to show you today how to do that the first thing I've done is I've got the oval can this happens to be an old roger head Rogers head and I'm taking a second of razor blade and a fleece cord around the entire head to reduce the stretch of band which we're going to reuse under that cap skin once you use a razor blade you find a brass ring if you don't have the brass ring you can use another type of ring which on the second video will show you later nicely right there and then I see that put some sort of back in table here and take that off okay I've been moved destruction ban and it's a nice brass square rod and as you can see sometimes it's sorted but this particular one is not sorted so what we're going to do is just take a piece of masking tape and mask that together so it forms one and that way when it goes over the rim it's being together better oK we've completely disassembled the apart from the neck what I'm gonna do now is remove the majority of the hooks and just leave them forward post on there unless what you have and you start out the easier it is to get the head started okay we're taking all the hooks off the rim except for small hooks and each of these corners and this actually is a 12 inch pot and we're taking the a rock cast in and what soaked it in the bucket of water for about 15 minutes and then we take it and we can actually bring it out and will become very very pliable and got to make sure the cap spin that you using is at least two inches longer on each of the sides that's because when we go to tuck the head and pull it tight we need excess head in order to pull it so this is a 12 inch pot and I've I've actually got a 20 inch head here I could use probably a 16 or an 18 inch head and that would work just fine also but I just happen to have a 20 inch head and that'll be a little extra room to pull in tuck I've laid the wet head down on a flat surface and now I'm going to place the conical or the stretch of the summer of it and then take each part of the head just kind of fold it over the counter food you haven't done this before a lot of times it helps to have an extra set of hands and right now you just kind of want to get just a basic tuck as you can see it's coming springing back that's okay and that's how we first get started I've got the the wet skin folded over the stretch of the in now I'm going to take the rim turn it over Center at the best I came in on the cotter hoop and then we'll take a no-decision they referred to as type in the head I'm going to pull the pliable head so the stretching minute is actually on the outside of the rim I'm pulling the head in trying to get some of the records out of it and that looks pretty good right there okay the head is actually initially tucked I'm going to turn the pot over I've got four hooks here I'm going to use later to do a first tightening take the town of goop just to kind of loop over the head want to make sure that for the conical in the right position and as you can see this kind of thing Friday or the SATA joint is down at the back end so I'm going to wanting it up with the tail piece or the tail piece will cover that solder joint and then we're gonna make sure it fits a little bit up over the rim and that's fitting that's fitting pretty good okay I've got the stretch of man be totally centered on the rim I can feel that's gonna push back on there's still a few little wrinkles but a little more about those right now get the stretcher being back on here good centered steel piece going to press down a little bit and then hopefully you'll have enough hook to come up just fit over the stretch of beta and forget the finagle this one a little bit okay I got the one bracket on so I'm gonna go on the other side place a bracket bracket tighten it up and check it and make sure it's even got to be kept you know took it down too much because we still have to do something that's the point to get the records out of the water here on this side of it get this family going and then to the opposite end we'll get this going the hoop it's a little precious and as you can see we've got one two three four hooks on there and check it again to make sure that I'm centered with the tailpiece and then I'm going to turn it over and we're going to do the pulling part of the operation and this is when you pull the wrinkles out you want to take it and just give it a good strong grab I have the entire interior part I'm gonna look up here and I see that little wrinkle going on there so that cots got to be pulled I'm gonna pull that here with him pila pliers that wrinkle just about came out yeah got a little wrinkle going on over here pull that out right here I tried to pull this through and I know this today Bucklin right there so let me take the off you give it a little extra room I bet the other three hooks on there so that's gonna hold it hold on pretty good get that through kind of stretch it back and forth and as you can see I just got rid of that wrinkle right there put that hook back on you want to do it perfect job getting all the wrinkles out it is kind of a skill you can get in the head I wanna get a little wrinkle there so I'm gonna loosen this hook here the head actually is drying a little bits will start to take shape already get those wrinkles out sometimes you get it kind of pulled back and forth and that wrinkle right there just letting another wrinkle right here come back they become as I went down here okay I spent some time getting the wrinkles out and as you can see in the inside having this excess more excess that you have the easier it is to grab and pull and if you look around the edge right here everything looks real smooth and got one little fold there or one out of that later but everything looks pretty good now what I'm going to do I still have the Conner poop really far off in the surface of the head so I'm gonna place hooks in between my other four books and get milk get those tightened up okay put some more hooks on and set it one two three four five six seven eight nine hooks and what I'm going to do now is look at the count of hoop and try to get that as level as possible we'll stir that over there I see down over here will be a glove or over here pretty much went down a little bit and you can look at the distance between the head and the edge of the counter poop and that will tell you how the level that stretch of being in a kind of hoop is going on see right hands a little bit high crank that thing home and high over here write that down here now everything looks looks pretty level so another leg go ahead and install the rest of the hooks we have install all the hooks and again I'm checking to make sure the kind of hoop is level what I've got to do now is to tighten it just enough so the kind of hoop is just a little bit above whether it's going to be when I do the final tightening what's going to happen is this head is going to dry and as it dries it's going to stretch and get tighter so the correct tension just through my experiments I've found is if you leave maybe about an eighth of an inch of the counterfeit of space between the rim the top of the counter poop will you come back that extra eighth of an inch space that you can actually draw the conical down will give you just the right amount of tension that you need so I'm going to tighten this I'm going to start here at the deck area give each one I thought three quantities return for those that haven't done much with tightening hands and that's the proper way to fight the head when you go to the next one I've liked the method that you would tighten that tire of the car we go opposite ends bring that down as I'm tightening second to make sure that every level amazing so far right there back around it where it started I check make sure that level that looks pretty good as you can see right in here I've got a little extra space so tomorrow I'll let this sit overnight and dry I'll have a little extra space to pull it on down normally you kind of hoop is flush with the length of the head so when the neck comes up against it the Cotter hoop isn't sticking higher than the fingerboard on your neck the next thing you need to do while this wet is to trim the inside of the head and this is we have to be real careful because if you screw this up to start all over without actually did I use is a stainless steel scraper and I placed a scraper tuck it inside there and take a very sharp razor blade and this is where it gets a little tedious it cut it close to the inside of the rim that's possible and this right here is going to indicate you have skill that's a really making a difference as far as the performance of the head but if you get a nice clean cut it looks a lot nicer then warp in that waddle okay we've let it dry overnight and you can see that the tension has increased quite a bit with cut the inside and you can see we cut very close to the edge it looks pretty good the conic hoop again there's a little higher than the head and I could feel that it has just enough business in it I could give it one final tight that's we're gonna start at the neck again give each one my turn we've also installed the opera that was running previously again I'm checking here to make sure that the collar group is level 22 the hand is pretty good just finished this and I'm looking right here and the kind of group here is pretty much level with the heavy they have to bring it down a little bit later when put the neck back on it but that's pretty much a completed job right there and they come out real nice kind of feel the tension and it looks really good so this part is pretty much ready to reassemble on the neck and that's the method of putting on a calfskin head on a 12-inch part Orpheum