The Russell Deep Lake, our 16″ jumbo size guitar, is ready for its neck carve. In these photos you can see updates of the completed herringbone purfling, end graft, headstock, fitting the fretboard to the neck, and working on the fretboard end curve. The fretboard is made of figured Madagascar Rosewood. The first photo shows a mock-up of this Deep Lake before the neck carve and the fretboard end curve.
The bookmatched Madagascar Rosewood endgraft on the Waimea slack key guitar is complete. The purfling is “black-white-black”; the “black” is dyed Holly and the “white” is Maple and so is not actually white. All binding on this guitar will be Madagascar Rosewood, so coming into this endgraft on each side, top and bottom, will be more Madagascar with hand-mitered purfling at each corner.
The dovetail neck joint on the Russell custom “Waimea “slack key guitar has been cut on both body and neck. The back and sides on this guitar are flamed curly Koa, the neck is Honduran Mahogany, and the soundboard is German Spruce. The three photos below show James doing the fine fitting of the dovetail joint using strips of sandpaper.
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