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Breaking abalone into curves
I've read several things where people talk about breaking abalone strips to make them confirm with curves. Just how does this work? Doesn't it leave gaps? I just can't envision this. Can someone school me a little?
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A video is worth a lot of words....
Thanks to Robbie O'Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_23la54KUp8 |
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Don't worry about the cracking. The gaps will be invisible unless while cracking it a piece chips away which happens from time to time. But a nice clean break in fact makes it look better. The first guitar I ever did this with I purchased curved abalone to match the rosette radius and also to be used for the purfling. Barely any of it cracked so the final result I could more clearly see each indifidual one inch long abalone piece butted up against the one before it. It's not terrible or anything but when you crack it, it creates a randomness to those joint lines and overall looks a lot better.
Actually the very first time I did this I used Zipflez which truly is an awesome product but it's expensive and frankly inlaying it the old school way is not at all difficult and I do believe the result even looks better. But ZipFlex is very easy to use too. |