fingerstyle1978 wrote: Thanks Dennis, the segments were sticking out on the inside as well but I elected to route them off. I though about maybe adding an abalone inlay inside of ebony like the wood pieces for the 4th tile. It's either that or a regular circle.
Good choice removing inward sticking pieces. Sometimes that can be cool, but on this I think it would just look cluttered. And by 4th tile, I assume you mean bottom center? Hmm........ yeah, I think that would be pretty cool. Especially if it's green abalone, so it's not quite as much of a color contrast to the rest. Shiny and interesting, but doesn't steal the show from the other tiles. Wish I could go back a few days and stick a piece in the box with the fingerboard before mailing it 
Quote: What do you score with? I haven't been happy with past results using a razor blade. I was thinking of honing a small chisel and using the corner to score and then a wider on to make the scores deeper.
I use the StewMac inlay scribe, which is just an overpriced pointy piece of metal. You do need something that can get right up on the piece, and not be offset from it by a blade bevel. A chisel corner won't be able to get into corners very well, but otherwise would work. If you can find a piece of spring wire, like out of the rim of an old mattress, that would be good to make a scribe from (maybe chuck it in a drill and spin it on a diamond stone until pointy?). Piano wire should work too. Heck, you could just sharpen a nail, though it would need resharpened more often than tool steel.
A knife is fine for deepening score marks, after removing the piece.
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