While the nitro is outgassing and drying (3-weeks now) in anticipation of buffing and gluing on the Ebony bridge in a few weeks John has designed a custom pickguard for the guitar. Guitars have different scale lengths, soundhole diameters, styles of rosettes and top purflings, so pickguard shapes need to be subtly adjusted and refined. John uses thin hardwood pickguards on his guitars. He will make mine from .030” Ebony sealed with thinned cyanoacrylate. The two Ebony components (bridge and pickguard) should contrast nicely against the Autumn burst. Having CAD/CAM CNC allows him to design alternatives and quickly make prototypes using scrap wood.
