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    Custom Inlay

      I very much enjoy doing custom inlay work so I love it when my clients want

something special inlaid into their custom guitar.  I work from my own designs

and also from motifs I find in books or I can work from your own designs.

I use primarily shell (abalone and mother of pearl), metals and woods for the

inlay materia but I'll be trying some other possibilities soon.

 

Here are some samples of inlays I've done   (click on the pictures to enlarge)...

 

 

Gnarled tree inlay on K-48 (using black mop, recon lapis, jasper, abalone, gold mop)

 

 

 

 

"yin/yang  position

markers on K-38

 

 

 

 

Headstock on #1

"Lady Butterfly"

 

Celtic knot rosette

on K-38

 

 

Koala fingerboard

inlay on K-35

 

 

Butterfly position markers

on #1 fingerboard

Wheat inlay on K-47

 

 

"tornado/wheat

fingerboard inlay

on K-39

 

"Eagle / Tree /

Mountaintop"

with burl  rosette

on K-20

 

 

Floral inlay on

#6 fingerboard

 

 

 

"Morning Glories" on

#10 fingerboard

Celtic knot rosette with 70 individually cut pieces of mop on K-15

"Wheat"  on #26

fingerboard and headstoc

   

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Unicorn headstock inlay

on #2  (1982)

Triple pau abalone   soundhole ring on K-13

Heart /sun logo

& diamond inlay

on #9  12-string