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| Author: | LanceK [ Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:44 pm ] |
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Im going to be inlaying some red abalone heart into a flamed maple blank. Sould I seal with schallac first? To keep the ca from soaking into the end grain. Im thinking I should.. Your thoughts? Tkx LanceK |
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| Author: | Tim McKnight [ Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:54 pm ] |
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Yep and concentrate on having an EXACT cavity fit. The lighter the wood the more easily the cavity and gaps show up. There isn't any filler, that I have found, that will disguise it either. |
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| Author: | Dave-SKG [ Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:28 am ] |
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Lance, Tim's advice, like always, is right on. I did a beautiful black MOP inlay on a maple headstock and didnt get as tight a fit and no matter what I tried it just didn't look right. Others said "oh it looks Beautiful" but to me it was firewood. I actually wound up removing the headstock plate and re-doing the whole thing...think Natt's arse tight...that's how it's got to be. 
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| Author: | Brock Poling [ Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:51 am ] |
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Something else I have seen and I kind of like the effect of is the cavity being ever so slightly but uniformly larger than the pearl or ab pieces, so that there is a space between the piece and the cavity walls all the way around the inlay. The fill material is dark, black, dark brown, etc. Then it has an effect of being ringed in a dark material. That can look kind of cool. I saw a mahogany neck with that effect done with pearl. It was really cool. It was almost like the whole thing had been outlined. So if you wander off your line, that may be a "fix". It still takes some careful routing though. |
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