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Now you've mentioned John Birch, it's making me think of some of Dave Hill's guitars.
It came up on my Facebook memories a few weeks back, or I would have forgotten it totally.
Mine has the bound block inlays
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Maple is trickier. Its much harder to get a good match with the filler, its also harder to get a nicely visible scribed line. The way i do it is to gently glue the inlays into position. one small dab of superlgue only
I then spray over it with some coloured lacquer
i then scribe around each inlay. then pop the inlay off
Even with a little lacquer bleed, its now really easy to see what i need to route away
All the red will disappear when I radius the board - after inlay on this one
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If i was doing this later in the process, i would seal the board first just to reduce any chance of the colour leeching too deep
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Not too bad... inlaying into maple really does show every flaw. if this was rosewood or ebony it would look perfect.
The real test will be how they look once fret are in. I probably should have resized the pearl blocks to account for the addition of the black border, as some of these will be right up against the frets.
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The cat is interested in everything
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The blocks are big, but i'm happy now its fretted.
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lovely work and an education as always !
Now all drilled and routed
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To special style
But a switch chip may change my mind
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The curve of the Junior 'guard is interrupted by the pickup which makes the pickup look like it shouldn't be there.
The Special has cleaner lines which aren't broken by a pickup.