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Very nice uncle. Is the black filler or wood?

Here's Woody, sorry, it's not a great pic. I didn't use any dye just veneer marquetry inlayed into the body.

I use both. I scribe the outline pretty deep with the knife (I've only inlayed venner so it's not too deep) and then route with the dremel. It might not be the right way but it gives me a nice clean edge.

Just a friendly reminder to watch your language Nick, there's kids around.

Boggs, if you hide that koa I'll hunt you down and make you wear a grass skirt.

I was talking to a friend who was chuckling because a customer brought in his fretless bass to be intonated. But the conclusion we came to was that intonation would still be important so that the notes would line up on the board eliminating the need to compensate with your fingers. It makes sense to me but what do I know? Can some of the bass players answer this one?

Or a puppy with an appetite for lumber. I think he knows better than to chew on a guitar but I'm not taking any chances so on the wall or in the case.

I think you would want to use dye rather than stain.

Happy new year to all of you as well!!! I spend new year's eve sitting at home cutting a headstock inlay. Kind of pathetic I know but I'm an old coot.

It can't really be the nut if it happens when it's... mmm... fretted. It would have to be a bit of a waver in the fretboard. Adjust the truss rod till straight and the check with a straight edge.

Good call on the mask. CA is nasty, even the "low odor" version will sneak up on you. Treat it as the poison it is. Epoxy might work if you thin it down enough to saturate but CA would be best. Go to the corner hobby shop and get a jug of the thin stuff. This is not a cheap hobby. Staining/dying could be done if you get the outside dimensions cut and finished first and then saturate. then rough out the inside and saturate again. Slowly route until you start hitting raw wood and then repeat. In fact I'm so paranoid that I wouldn't use a router bit at all. I would find the least aggressive bit (well, not the least aggressive but you get the idea) I could find and just nibble away at it.

You might want to try saturating the wood with CA to make it a little more plastic and consistent.

Darn it all, I was hoping for a calendar with some good tool porn.

That's what I was thinking. Talk about karma. Seriously though, don't even think about letting those string ends hang out the back like that. They will snag on everything and you'll have the drill out within an hour of playing it.

It has an old woody type sound. ← Damn!!! I was hoping it would be good for rock.