Steven Wallace
06-28-2011, 11:33 AM
A few weeks back I posted in the engravers forum about how I had lasered the pocket in ebony and an inlay of abalone for a luthier student friend of mine. This was Rick Fraga's first attempt at making a guitar and my first attempt at designing a headstock with inlay. I cut his template for the headstock out of acrylic and then, as stated engraved the recess in the ebony to receive the inlay and then cut out the inlay out of a material called Abalam. That is a natural abalone / epoxy laminate sheet .050" thick. The pictures don't do justice to the instrument (which is quite beautiful) but you get the idea. Thought you instrument guys might like to see it.
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