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[Kevin Sjostrand]

That looks so nice.
I am seriously thinking about getting some of the ebony to match with the walnut guitar.

Kevin

[David L]

I like striped ebony a lot. Because it has both black and white, it will go with a lot of different color schemes. It is also a nice wood to work with, close grained and almost free from pores. I would like to get a B&S set but I've never seen one offered for sale.

David L

[johnnparchem]

I love how the stibed ebony looks on the heel cap especially how the stribe wraps into the end grain. Have you started the finish sanding. The whole guitar looks so clean.

[David L]

Thanks John, yes I have started finish sanding, the body is all done and I am starting on the neck.

David L

[David L]

Here's the peghead inlay, paua abalam fluer de lis, WHO DAT, BABY!

David L

[johnnparchem]

Nice!

[Kevin Sjostrand]

David,
Great job putting that inlay in. Sure dresses up the peghead.

Kevin

[David L]

Thanks guys! Here's what I learned with my extensive inlay experience of a total of two practices and two for real, for reals. I don't know if this is the proper way or not as I didn't have an inlay expert/tutor standing next to me instructing me as I went along, I found that what worked best for me is to start in the very center and work my way out close to the edges and get all of the center material removed first and then come back and clean up the edges, just barely skimming them until I'm right up against the pencil line. I didn't start off that way, I tried routing close to the edge first and then work in toward the center and that didn't work as well, and then there's John's voice in the back of my head "take your time and you'll be fine". Another thing that I do is I always keep the line that I'm working up to on the left side of the cutting bit, when I try to work my way out to the right, I don't do nearly as well, not sure why (may have something to do with the direction of rotation of the cutting bit), so I just keep moving my workpiece around so that I am always cutting to the left.

David L

[Ken Hundley]

Another tip that seems stupidly simple in retrospect is to take a thin strip of tape, and wrap it around the shaft of the bit up neat the collet, and leave a tab sticking out....acts as a fan, and blows off the sawdust while you worked. First time I tried it, I laughed so damn hard, so simple, yet perfectly effective.

[David L]

Yeah Ken, I had read that somewhere but had completely forgot about it. The stewmac router inlay base thing-a-ma-jig has a port to hook an aquarium pump to and it's supposed to blow the chips away but it is next to useless and I have a pretty bad@$$ pump hooked to it.

David L