Posted by Suspect Device on September 3, 2013 at 11:46am
Perla Del Mar 3-string cigar box guitar:Walnut neck; walnut peg head with maple stripes; walnut fret board with maple dots & maple faux binding; bone nut & saddle, walnut and maple bridge with embedded piezo rod pickup; volume pot; 1/4" jinstrument jack; H-hinge tailpiece; sealed gear tuners. 24" fret scale.
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Thanks, Paul. I make the dots by drilling multiple plugs in a block of wood with a 3/8-inch plug cutter -stopping short off cutting all the way through, then I slice them to the proper depth by running the block through the table saw. The strips are just strips I cut & laminated. I build the fingerboards by laminating whatever size strips of 3/4-inch thick stock, then after glue-up & planing, I rip them to 1/4-inch thick for the fret board blanks.
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Thanks for the explaination. Looks like you have enough materials for a good number of builds.
Thanks, Paul. I make the dots by drilling multiple plugs in a block of wood with a 3/8-inch plug cutter -stopping short off cutting all the way through, then I slice them to the proper depth by running the block through the table saw. The strips are just strips I cut & laminated. I build the fingerboards by laminating whatever size strips of 3/4-inch thick stock, then after glue-up & planing, I rip them to 1/4-inch thick for the fret board blanks.![306130900?profile=original](https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/306130900?profile=original)
Nice job, beautiful way you've combined maple and walnut. Where did you find the maple dots and strips,? or how did you make them? Very impressive!