Some of the fretboards get the ‘Infinity’ inlay in the scooped florida.
Tracing the Infinity Luthiers inlay.
Routing the channel.
Infinity inlay epoxied in to the channel.
Oh Yeah! Ready for fretwire.
It never ceases to amaze me how much work goes into each fretboard. In many ways, the fretboard requires more work than the top and back plates.
Jason… hope you approve. This one’s yours!
One of the fretboards gets solid silver plate inlaid as faux frets. Once the rest of the frets are installed and the binding is in place, it will be scooped.
F5 fretboard - Silver Epoxied in Place
F5 fretboard - Silver Inlayed
Well…. the Old Growth River Recovered Honduras Mahogany body blank did not receive any bids. The minimum bid was reasonable at the cost of the billet with no additional mark up for the labor to turn the billet into a useable body blank.
I put the blank on the store page for sale but have recently begun to process it into a Les Paul body.
1959 Style - Les Paul Body Build
Keeping to the fretboard work. Here is one fretboard ready for binding.
F5 Fretboard with Frets - not complete
Dyeing the F5 Fretboard
F5 Fretboard Dyed and Ready for Binding
F5 Fretboard ready for that Binding
Instead of simply posting after the fretboards are bound and complete. I thought I would let you in on some of the in-between details you might not have known about.
Here I have dyed a couple of the fretboards.
Dyed F5 Fretboards
What? Ebony is already black? Sorry, there are several types of ebony. I use macassar ebony for fretboards. I believe it is the easiest to work with and transfers the sound through the instrument better than the other ebonies.
Here is one of the fretboards, sans dye, next to the recently dyed fretboards. You can still see a bit of the grain in the dyed fretboards.
F5 Fretboards
