Nice stuff - like the soundholes.
Contrasting wood is a nice touch around the holes
Did you use one of those special inlay jigs for that - the one that has the inner/outer bushings for the router
Special features?
No 17th fret marker though?
Unusual ferrule arrangement on the back?
Thanks - good to get a "professional's" view :D
I'm actually really pleased with the inlay contrast. I only had the woods that I was using - ie cherry and mahogany, but I think that they work well enough together. I like the design, so I'll probably re-use it in future builds. Though, read on ....
The inlay was a purely manual process rather than a special inlay jig (tell me some more about those) in that I cut an outline-shaped hole in some mdf with a jigsaw, used the router with the template to trim out 2mm from the top of the body. Then I placed the template onto a piece of thicknessed mahogany, and drew round the inside of the template to get an inlay-shape. Then jigsawed that out, making sure that I left a good 1-2mm all the way around the outside of the shape. Then sanded it to fit.
Yes, that was a long-winded way of doing it, and a "special inlay jig" sounds a whole lot easier!
17th fret marker ... damn your professional QC standards :x ... I realised I'd missed it after I'd put all the frets in, and didn't fancy fitting in then, and trying to sand it smooth with the frets in place whilst keeping the fretboard radius correct!
Re the string ferrules at the back ... I just countersunk a strip into the back (with nicely bevelled edges of course!), and then counter sunk the string holes into the counter-sunk strip. No actual metal ferrules there.
