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This is an inlay technique I learned from Craig Lavin right here on the OLF. Of course Craig was applying it to inlay, I am applying what I learned to knotholes. And of course you need to be a knothead to do something like this. I qualify.

So, I took the backslices to the scanner, made my copies, glued the knots to an ebony headplate veneer, went over to the bandsaw and the rest is history. I glued the wood face down against wax paper in the gobar. Filling the voids with ebony dust, the CA sent up just the slightest plume of smoke, which I kept blowing away from my nostrils.

After three or four attempts, it was full and I headed to the drum sander. Oh, I did seal the holes and boards with Zinnser's Bullseye Shellac to seal the wood from getting Ebony dust in the pores. It worked. What do you think. Now Craig it's ready for some real inlay, into the stable woods. That was fun, and a bit "whimsical".

Hey Bruce, if you use this layout


the inlays would look like the top of someones eyelid.

Maybe it would look like an alien with a long skinny body (the neck)

Well done.

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Well Done, Dickey!

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This was a ten dollar board, now destined to become a third guitar. I'll probably throw it in the pile with all the rest. This taught me a lesson though. If you can't get around a problem, make the problem part of the answer.

[QUOTE=Dickey] If you can't get around a problem, make the problem part of the answer.[/QUOTE]

hummmmm (scratching head) There's an important message in that statement if I can get it out    

Any body remember "Black oak Arkansas"......."it all came from the Arrrk...."

It looks great.
Craig L.

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i vote a second time for a mandolin Bruce!

Serge

More trivia.....there are 2 towns in Arkansas named Black Oak. One in Crittendon and Craighead Counties. Now you know the rest of the story. I had to be sure to drive through them both

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I'm sure a common name like Black Oak, that's like living up Mill Creek or Cedar Creek or Pine Mountain....


Mandolin, I'll use the leftover scraps for that!

Hey Dickey,
TBone here. That looks cool. I always like the knot hole thing. My ex Father in law had a beautiful Gretsch 1959 Roundup. It had a knot hole in the top with the G branding iron thing on it. Not to mention the many other various jewels and carvings and inlays and leather. When I was 16 yrs old he used to let me play on it. He was a incredible guitarist....did the Chet Adkins style of picking.

[QUOTE=Larry Davis] Any body remember "Black oak Arkansas"......."it all came from the Arrrk...."[/QUOTE]
Man, memories. Born and raised in Little Rock. I remember Black Oak Arkansas in the 70's playing down at Murray Park at "Rock-n-Jam". We were just a bunch of long-hairs back then...

Yeah I still have some of their albums!

Go Jim Dandy...Go Jim Dandy!