Official Luthiers Forum!

You know- we all need a little trout..


This is a smaller level piece from an image the client requested specifically. The trout is white river pearl, black pearl, pink mussel shell, gold pearl, the water MOP and black pearl, The mayflie is black pearl, silver bezel, and abalone.



There is another version trout finishing up with no owner yet. It's a situation that rarely happens but if your interested in seeing it, or better yet OWNING it, (it's on a dark ebony veneer with no home yet), let me know and I can quote you a price. It still needs to be finished, in a day or so. Pics soon.

Thanks for looking. Lots more on the way.
Craig L

_________________
www.handcraftinlay.com

Awesome work as usual!!!!

_________________
Andy Z.
http://www.lazydogguitars.com

Those dots (spots)---are they inlayed?
Or are they engraved?
Great work Craig.

Steve

_________________
From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

They are engraved Steve.
I'm Craig Lavin. Not Larry Robinson..

Thanks Guys.
The next rainbow trout one is a more action-like pose. Bigger features, more my own style. This was a "here is the picture" inlay.
Craig

_________________
www.handcraftinlay.com

Funny Steve, even with the spots engraved it still turns out to be a 45 piece inlay.
No such thing as "small" anymore..

Craig L

_________________
www.handcraftinlay.com

Craig, that's awesome. You do amazing work.

_________________
Mike

"The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh." The Stranger

Fantastic inlay. Love rainbows. Should have a been a caddisfly though. They are the ones that pop through the film so fast that the trout break the surface trying to catch them. But that's entymology not guitar building.
Banner job!

Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful inlay work, as usual!! You can really sense the movement in this one. Great job Craig!

Dave F.

_________________
Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

The other is almost finished.
Had to go in and make a fix.

If you want to sense movement this next one has it ALOT.
It's totally not the one here, but a first version that was made by accident..
Lots of water splash, much more fish "in your face" jump action as It's from a different visual angle then this one. More color too if you can believe that.. and bigger as well. Also- she's single.. Maybe someone wants to take her home wen she's all done..



Craig L

_________________
www.handcraftinlay.com

holy moly...

i'm ok with dots...as long as you're ok with the 'new style' 14th fret marker....

first that jazz box to drool over, now this...jeez, tough week.

i'm thinking of setting up a charity for ham fisted guitar butchers...maybe just a thread for me so i can look at work in it and feel good inside for once...

sigh, well done man, that is excellent.

_________________
www.theguitarrepairworkshop.com

That is some really fine work Craig. Ever consider a Laskinesh scene with perhaps a rocky stream on the fingerboard and a fly fisherman with a trout on the line on the peghead?

John

I considered that Grit already did a fly fisherman on a peghead way better then I ever could and that was the last of it.

The next trout is almost finished. it's called trout 4.0

This one is the 2.0 version..

Craig L

_________________
www.handcraftinlay.com

Dang.

_________________
"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Cool trout! and if I didn't know better, I'd say that was an ephemerella simulans that he was jumping up for!

_________________
http://www.PeakeGuitars.com

it sure is, and since this is the 4.0 version trout, it is much faster and won't miss it like the 2.0.

_________________
_____________________________

Kurt Thomas

"There's a first time for everything even if you do it by mistake."

This one is the 2.0

The 4.0 is almost finished. Please lets keep out trout upgrades proper..


CL

_________________
www.handcraftinlay.com

Man, each one gets better and better! Well done!

_________________
Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

hi Craig
Exquisite work, I can hear the splop it’s that life like.
And the image it’s self reminded me of those far of day off my youth, cycling then walking for miles to get to the wee lochins and deep peat burns high up in the moors to our secret hunting ground for the “bleck troot”.
Thanks
Geordie
P.S. is it the depiction of a natural scene or has the may fly deliberately positioned there - these invisible lines, you know.

_________________
some tunes on acoustic and guitar synth.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGeordieAdams
http://www.myspace.com/geordieadams

WOW,
That is truly a wonderfull peice of artwork.

you have realy captured the movement in the peice

Joel.