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Scheduled Start Date: Oct 04, 2018
Completed: Oct 10, 2018

  • Quilted Mahogany top, back & sides

  • Maple body binding

  • Maple rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Maple fretboard with Maple binding & Abalone markers

  • Port Orford Cedar neck

  • Peghed brand geared tuners

  • Custom Signature Headplate

Hand-crafted in the USA by Cary Kelly. Each instrument is numbered & signed.

 

Wood Grade: Master
Wood Availability: Sorry, this wood is no longer available.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

Gallery Photos (completed instrument)

Back

Front

Full Front

Build Schedule
 

Date

 

 

1

Sep 20

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Sep 20

glue in tail block

3

May 4

rout & glue-in end graft, kerf top edge, kerf bottom edge, brace back

4

Sep 26

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Sep 27

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Oct 2

clean up body, rout dovetail, drill tuner holes, glue fretboard onto neck, rout binding channels, glue in top binding

7

Oct 3

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Oct 5

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Oct 6

first coat of oil

10

Oct 6

second coat of oil

11

Oct 7

third coat of oil

12

Oct 8

fourth coat of oil

13

Oct 9

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Oct 10

make saddle, (put in pickup, if any), cut nut, final fretwork, put in tuners, put on strings

Original Wood Set