Today I finished cutting out all the mother of pearl designs and fashioned all the holes in the headstock where they will be inlaid.
This first shot is a dry layout of all the designs. Went with the D inside the C (my initials) at the top. After dry fitting, I glued each piece to the headstock using a light amount of wood glue. After the glue setup, I scribed around each piece. I then rewetted the pieces and removed them leaving the scribe marks.
The pic show the scribe marks for each piece and the first cutout using the Dremel tool.
Here's the headstock showing all cutouts.
This shot show each piece laid into it appropriate cutout.
This shows the whole neck. Next step will be to epoxy the piece into the cutouts. We'll mix some coloring in with the epoxy that matches the ebony. Final result will be inlays that look like they were precisely put into the ebony.
Nothing to do with my work, but here's a pic of Mark Bluett playing his recently built Bouzouki. It sound great!
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