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This instrument is available for purchase.
Includes free hard case

$2495.00

 

Scheduled Start Date: Dec 18, 2023
Completed: Sep 20, 2024

  • Master Grade Koa top, back & sides

  • Ebony body binding

  • Black wood rosette

  • High gloss finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Ebony binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Gotoh UPT 4:1 Planetary gear tuners

  • Custom Signature Headplate

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

 

Wood Grade: Specialty
Wood Availability: This wood species is available. Specific wood sets vary.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

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Front

Full Front
Owner Pics & Instrument Videos

Lil’ R

CWD: #2825, Master Grade Koa Tenor with high-gloss poly finish
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Dec 18

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Dec 19

glue in tail block

3

Dec 21

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

4

Jan 2

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Jan 11

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Jan 17

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

7

Jan 18

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Sep 10

prep for finish, tape off for spraying

9

fill pores

  

10

gloss topcoat

  

11

buff finish

  

12

glue neck/fretboard onto body

  

13

Sep 17

glue on bridge

14

Sep 19

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