By May, I only had a few decisions left to make. An important one was inlay.
I've always enjoyed and admired good inlay work, way back in the early 80s when I would see Larrivee Presentation series guitars with Wendy Larrivee's fantastic work.
However, I never could justify the price tag. With this project, I knew I wanted some inlay, but I also did not want to degrade the clean, simple elegance of the design.
My wife had gotten Larry Robinson to do a beautiful inlay on her guitar. He has done eye-catching inlay for decades for all kinds of famous musicians.
I decided to do a more minimal design of Japanese maples leaves as fret markers - functional and attractive. Maybe the next one will be higher bling factor!
The guitar with inlaid fingerboard:
Better view of inlay:
(Next post: the finish process.)