Handcrafting a Les Paul style guitar. Using my tool set, and from researching similar projects that people have posted about on the internet, this is my attempt at building my first guitar.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Do I have enough pearl inlay?

I decided to get my mother of pearl from Stewart-MacDonald
Instead of buying the premade Les Paul inlays that they sell ($40 in white pearl), I bought instead the 1 oz pack of white pearl and a jeweler's saw which looks like a miniature coping saw. I had expected that I would be able to salvage some leftover pearl for some sort of headstock inlay which I would have to custom cut anyway.

So here is the white pearl inlay 1 oz overlaid on the Les Paul plan. I should have enough with one piece left over.
Now to try my hand at cutting pearl.







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