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  1. Here's two more inlays I've done since the fly, both trussrod covers. -Aluminium into ebony, size: approx. 35x18 mm. Has been shaped a bit better since the photo was taken. -Gold MOP into ebony, size: approx. 18x18 mm. Will be put on a Nightengale bass headstock. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y284/Maur...nlay/OmDone.jpg Both still need to be finished, I'll use tru-oil for this.
  2. Beautiful as always Daniel, looks like you have a wonderful work place as well.
  3. I live in Oegstgeest, so only a short bike ride away. And I must say, normally I'm not into inlays on the top of a body too much, but this one and the one on your first build look real good.
  4. How did I miss this thread? Looks fantastic, really dig those inlays too. And I noticed you're located in Leiden, cool to see a builder so close to home.
  5. I reckon there's no real wrong way, whichever works for you is good.
  6. Cheers guys. Rich: You're absolutely right, it is a great feeling to see a completed piece. I find that I keep going over to my desk and looking at it. Rentis: I just saw that pic of you and the trout. That's a great looking fish, did you catch it on a fly? I'm probably going fly fishing in Norway this summer which should be a blast. Here's a pic of the finished inlay, finished with shellac and tru-oil. Quite happy with how it turned out. Not too many gaps between inlay and the surrounding wood, and the small gaps that are present aren't noticable from a distance greater than 5 cm's. I'm gonna get my hands on a better camera and tripod next week, so a better picture will be posted later.
  7. What I do is use rasps at the headstock end and the heel end, when those parts are at the required shape you join the two pieces with a spokeshave/drawknife/etc.
  8. No worries Daniel Here's one I've been working on this afternoon/evening. My first multi piece (5 pieces here) inlay. Materials: -hook and head - aluminium -body - MOP -wings - gold MOP Here it is before gluing. Edit: Just noticed how bad the picture is, can't even tell apart the materials. I'll post a better one when it's sanded and engraved.
  9. Thanks a lot guys, much appreciated. It's one piece, which I engraved. Wasn't up to a multi piece one yet. I plan to do one soon though. Daniel: This isn't my first, it's one of my first, my first was in my bass which was quite scary, taking a router to a nearly completed instrument. This is my first inlay (apart from some random practice stuff that is). Again one piece, made from aluminium.
  10. Still learning to do this stuff properly as you can see, maybe my next one will be a multi piece inlay. Material is Gold Mother-of-Pearl.
  11. Thanks Travis. Turns out I didn't have enough of a neck angle for a nice low action, so today I recessed the bridge a couple of mm's and it did the trick. Now it plays really well.
  12. That looks terrific pukko. Great looking inlays too.
  13. Thanks guys, the second one should be done next week, hopefully as soon as Wednesday.
  14. Well, my bass is finally done. Daniel still has to get pickups for his, which we may get this weekend and then his will be up and running in no time too. I'm very pleased with how it came out, sounds and play pretty darn good. Can't wait to build another as soon as possible. Here's some pics. http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...d/DoneFront.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...neHeadstock.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...neBackClose.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...ed/DoneBack.jpg
  15. Thanks guys. DBM: both of them are fretless actually. The one on the right has fretlines showing on the front, while the one on the left has them showing on the side (otherwise it'd be too hard for me to play it ) Here's a shot of the side of the board of the bass on the left. I saw an Alembic that had the fretlines showing like this and thought it was a great idea.
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