Jimmi Wingert has been doing all my inlay, since I have the artistic ability of a gorilla she has been handling all my custom work. She did the flag rosette and headstock in my bio picture, the one here is for a customer. I was planning a new fanned fret for Healdsburg and through a mutual friend this gentleman found out and told me the next one I did was his
I was planning on doing the guitar with snakewood everywhere I could fit it, during some online research I came across the Oroboris which is a snake eating it'self, I though it was neat and worked with Jimmi on getting a design and this is what she came up with. The design is based on lots of artwork I copied from the net but she did it way better than anything else I have seen.
The inlay has all kinds of connotations throughout history and is normally seen as a sign of eternity, The outside is standard cocobolo, with purfling and then snakewood in the center around the snake.
I have her now starting on inlay for an all Koa guitar that will have native hawaiin flowers on the rosette, headstock and heelcap..
Good Stuff
-Paul-