Henry's Pink Ivory Tribute

Started by mica, June 24, 2002, 03:27:21 PM

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mica

Here's the wood just before slicing:  
 
Note in the left hand picture, Kris has a proposed area for a fingerboard. We can get the fingerboard from this and leave the other piece you supplied whole, or just know that you've got probably 2 fingerboards worth left from this board. The other piece has the straighter grain pattern you preferred.

mica

Today Kris sliced your top and here it is:
 

Totally amazing color and grain. He picked the pinkest area of the board.

mica

Kris has an alternate suggestion for the peghead placement from when you visited last. Here's his idea:
 

 
He likes the idea of the straight grain of the fingerboard running into the straigt grain on the peghead (I think it seems cool too!). If this looks good to you, let me know and we can get the peghead veneers glued up right away.

mica

The body with the roundover and fingerboard in place
 

 
It's just breathtaking.

mica

Here's the fingerboard side inlays:  

 

  We used Black Tahitian Mother of Pearl. The parallelgrams face opposite directions on either side of the 12th fret.

mica

Here's the Pink Ivory and Ebony fingerboard comparison:

  and the backside:


mica

and earlier today, what happened after carving the top:
 

Googe Endeveronte (goooge)

can we see a finish pic of this guitar??  
pretty please?
thanks