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#12 "SLAYER" sound holes

Posted by Joe Caruso on August 21, 2018 at 9:32am
The dragon images are wood burned. The wings were cutout to form the sound holes - the sound is quite good. TIP - I didn't like seeing the colour of the exposed wood in the sound holes after doing the cut out, so I used a Sharpie to blacken the sides. This was not 100% successful. I then resorted to a bit of black india ink on a Q tip to carefully touch up what the Sharpie didn't cover. Carefully because too much ink will then bleed into the wood at the edges and smear and you have another problem (I avoided this ;-)
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  • Poorness Studios April 15, 2019 at 8:47am

    I love the way you did the sound holes with part cut out and part woodburned. It looks awesome!

  • Joe Caruso August 22, 2018 at 7:18pm

    thanks for the feedback gents! much appreciated. 

  • Bluesheart August 22, 2018 at 7:55am

    Great box choice as well!

  • Bluesheart August 22, 2018 at 7:54am

    Wow, you met that challenge head on! Tricky. Very clever.

  • the anonymous pick August 21, 2018 at 7:55pm

    kewl.

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  • AGP # August 21, 2018 at 5:08pm

    "Ditto Uncle John" :-)

  • Uncle John August 21, 2018 at 10:05am

    Wonderful sound holes!

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