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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)...

 

 

  

Headstock on #1

"Lady Butterfly"

 

Butterfly position markers

on #1 fingerboard

Floral inlay on

#6 fingerboard

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

"Morning Glories" on

#10 fingerboard

"Wheat"  on #26

fingerboard and headstock

  

Unicorn headstock inlay

on #2  (1982)

Triple pau abalone   soundhole ring on K-13

Heart /sun logo

& diamond inlay

on #9  12-string