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It looks like I may be purchasing a house with a perfect building for a shop, so down the road I can pursue my dream of building instruments. With my current space and budget, however, I think learning inlay might be the way to go.

I've seen several books and/or videos detailing inlay techniques. Any recommendations?

I'm not totally opposed to the "learn as I go" approach, but it helps to have a basic approach in mind in order to buy materials and tools as well as prepare a work space.

Thanks,
Andy Wright
Managua, Nicaragua

As soon as my spruce order from acousticwoods.ca arrives I'm going to build my first acoustic with the help of a luthier down here, so that will occupy me one day a week...but it's 2 hours each way to go to his shop from my house, so it's unlikely I'll be able to work on it more than one or two days a week. Could be a looooooooooong process!

Jim Patterson's book is a very good place to start, also Larry robinsons videos are good. I only have the intermediate one and if I could accomplish that it would be amazing. I belive Craig Lavine has some information at the top of this site under "inlay class"
Good luck.Jim_W38672.6182291667

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Jim Watts
http://jameswattsguitars.com

There's an older tape by Don Macrostie at Stew-Mac that covers the basics. It's perty good for 39.00 bucs I think.It's called Inlay Techniques.

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

look at craigs course at the top of this forum
Andy

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

That's exactly what I needed - thanks for the heads up!

Andy