We’ve all got projects that for one reason or another get put aside. Out of frustration, out of fear, out of time whatever.

This has been one of those. I’d pushed skills and knowledge beyond limit. I’d started rushing things out of frustration and put it aside as life got a lot busier.

I’ve spent some time recently tidying and reorganising the lab during which I dusted this off.
I need to get done with the stain burst on the rear and the repainting of the neck and headstock, but first I had to get done with the HS inlay and reshaping the added node feature.



I had to tidy up and even up the recesses, they were slightly asymmetrical amd they were too shallow.
Once I had that done, the shaping of the pearl took about an hour to get to fit.

There is still an asymmetry to them, I think I measured a .5 mm width differential left to right.

What it does also highlight is a slight irregularity in the orientation of my Center line to the headstock.
I continued the indicated Center line as an extension of the bridge/body/neck C/L. That unfortunately puts it off to the left a smidge in relation to the headstock, about 1.5mm or thereabouts. Peeved? Much. But I am not about to rip it all out, skim the Headstock back, apply a face plate, re-center and then start inlay again. Blow that for a joke!
I’ve still got a nut to shape, an EQ faceplate to machine and some kooky wiring to get sorted.

Stay tuned for pictures of my diabolical hand rubbed burst!


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