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Above are all the pieces for the peghead inlay for another customer. I made a second guitar last summer; this one was for a fellow teacher, whose name is "Mar," which means "horse" in Chinese. At first he wanted a horse standing on its rear legs, but I couldn't figure out a way to do that gracefully within the area between the peghead tuner holes. Not being artistic myself, I searched through clip art books for simplified pictures of horses; I finally found a book with animals in kind of "stained glass" shapes. I figured I could handle that, so I settled on the horse above. Simple, huh? It took eleven pieces to make the horse! But it was simple in that the eleven pieces didn't have to have their edges match exactly, since there would purposely be gaps between the "stained glass" pieces, filled in with rosewood dust & epoxy. The three pine trees (used because my name means "bottom of the pine tree" in Japanese) were easy -- just your basic triangles. |
I decided, however, to get a bit fancy with the customer's name, as I felt the design needed something kind of more delicate-looking, to counterbalance the kind of "heavy" look of the horse. So, I cut out the "M" with the very thin, curved lines. The left leg of the "M" actually broke, but when it was glued back together with superglue, you couldn't even tell! Above, I have spot-glued all the inlay pieces on the peghead, scribed around their edges, removed the pieces, and then filled the scribed lines with blue chalk. These are the lines I will follow when routing out the inlay cavities. |
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