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Yes. If you look back at the pics, you'll see that the natural wood had a lot of brown in it.

If you dye over the brown, you get brown + whatever color you dye it.

I wanted a true red, not a brownish red.

Bleaching it takes it to as white as you can get it so your color is not enhanced by the natural color of the wood.

People typically pay additional for pure white Maple, this is my way of getting pure white (as close as I can get it) Maple for no additional cost.

Great info, thanks!

Very cool! Can you explain why did you do the bleach thing?

I don't know very much about it, but give it a try! Just don't take too much wood in passes, go veeeery slowly, that's the rule for all high density woods

How do you play that fretboard?

Hey how did you paint this guitar? It looks awesome, great work!!!

Wow, it may be an apology that I was not worth the question.

You give a thought to it, how I planned it or how I prepared the guitar and his polishing?

If plans are needed then I can to send, and I try to answer all of your questions in a letter. Write your e-mail title then only.

I though on how did you paint, finish, you know, painting, dying and that stuff. And little explanation on how did you carve the top would be nice. Thanks

Please grant your title, and I write it down long there, and I send pictures...

Thanks

marko-juric@ hotmail.com (without space) Thanks!

Has anyone managed to contact him yet? Like he has disappeared...

Well if you made an individual peice for every fret you'd only ever need a peice of shell about an inch long, I doubt that would break that easily.

Yeah, that's what I though...

But it's very hard to get them 2mm thin, damn shel always break.

I already quit of doing it from shell, I now think about doing it from contrast veneer. Maple seems as a good choice, but it needs to be finished, will it be problem?

Hi, I've made all of the parts of the vine inlay for my jem, all but center line. How to make it? I don't think it is possible to hand make it from pearl shell, because it always breaks...any help?

Maybe this is what you were thinking about?

http://www.infinitytools.com/products.asp?dept=1339

No it isn't. Nevermind...

Do the first pic.

http://cmtutensili.com/show_items.asp?pars=RB~7/8/906.191~2

There it is. Only the blade is more curved on this that I have.

Not really a spiral bit. That barley has any twist to the blade at all. Not much of a difference. Spiral bits look almost the same as a drill bit.

I already told that mine is much more twisted, and I don't mean on those that look like drill bits...nevermind!

http://cmtutensili.com/show_items.asp?pars=RB~7/8/906.191~2

There it is. Only the blade is more curved on this that I have.

No such thing in a solid carbide spiral pattern (template) bit. It is a straight shaft and you have no where to put a bearing. They do make spiral laminate trim bits with the bearing on the end. I have also not seen angled cutters on a pattern bit like some of the laminate trim bits have ( the non solid carbide type). Probably because it would interfere with the plunge cutting capabilities.

http://power-tools.hardwarestore.com/54-37...e=2&sortBy=

It looks just like those, only the blade goes spiral, I had one once, unfortunately it is broken, I also had a pic, but I can't seem to find it...

Slightly OT, with apologies, but does anyone know where to get a spiral pattern cutting bit?

I would like to know that too

Hey how did you paint this guitar? It looks awesome, great work!!!

Wow, it may be an apology that I was not worth the question.

You give a thought to it, how I planned it or how I prepared the guitar and his polishing?

If plans are needed then I can to send, and I try to answer all of your questions in a letter. Write your e-mail title then only.

I though on how did you paint, finish, you know, painting, dying and that stuff. And little explanation on how did you carve the top would be nice. Thanks

Newer pictures come then from the guitar, but a lot burn on all of them now together came.

Thank you for the positive assessments. A yes was big work for me. First guitar what I prepared, and very much I am being satisfied, because I know it, that already only better they will be born...

I tried at what to copy the original one more punctually, is of course one two things that serves my own comfort.

I work on a guitar like this now, I put up a picture. I have been on his front very much yet...

Can yu answer please

Is it better to use those sanding disks that have many little sheets of sanding paper glued onto each other, or those that are just circle shaped sanding paper for angle grinder?

double post, sorry

Well, here is my contribution. Obviously it's not a guitar, but it is 2" thick! Can't wait till I get a bandsaw

I have book-matched it on photoshop.

Whoooaaahhh!..................That's better than porn!

Only worry is................the faces in that grain..................can anyone else see 'em .................or do I really need back on the tablets again?????

U mean in the middle of the picture? I see them too

Damn, you even got a TABLE made of curly maple, and I can't find it just for a neck....

Hey how did you paint this guitar? It looks awesome, great work!!!

I'm sorry this might sound really stupid but is that a flat billet. It just so figured that is looks like honey comb or at least rounded.

You got any plans for that?

Simon

He said that this is only ''one side'' of bookmathed top. It's photoshoped to form a secon half

Well, here is my contribution. Obviously it's not a guitar, but it is 2" thick! Can't wait till I get a bandsaw

I have book-matched it on photoshop.

DAMN THIS IS PORNNNNNN

c'mon people, don't let this thread die..

Shellac might work to seal it.

+1

I've sealed a cocobolo neck with shellac and then finished with several coats of tru oil with great success. But I'm not sure if shellac and poly go well together.

You can put everything on shellac.

Plate is already pearloid, pickups are already black/white, and the body is going to be white