Removing the excess wood from the neck blank to bring it to near it's correct thickness. Conveniently this offcut will be used to make the fret markers to give the impression that they go right through the fingerboard as part of the neck.
Phew, that took a while...
Marking out the fret markers.
and cutting to shape. I'm making two out of each size shape.
Yep, these will look good, not to carve out the shapes for them to sit in.
Marked out and cut. Using a scalpel to cut the outline and then very carefully chiselling out a 2mm hole...
...and done. Had a couple of edges lift up that needed a bit of superglue to stick back down.
Glued in with a mixture epoxy resin and rosewood sawdust. This is so that any small gaps around the inlay will be filled automatically and colour matched to the fingerboard.
...and sanded down to the 12" radius. I also soaked superglue into the much softer meranti parts of the fret markers in order to harden them up so they don't wear out as quickly
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