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Scheduled Start Date: Mar 05, 2024
Completed: Apr 01, 2024

  • Fiddleback Maple back & sides

  • Red Cedar top

  • Walnut body binding

  • Walnut rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Mesquite fretboard with Walnut binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Gotoh UPT 4:1 Planetary gear tuners

  • Walnut & Maple Signature Headplate

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

 

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

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

Gallery Photos (completed instrument)

Back

Front

Full Front
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Mar 5

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Mar 6

glue in tail block

3

Mar 12

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

4

Mar 14

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Mar 15

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Mar 18

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

7

Mar 19

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Mar 20

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Mar 21

first coat of oil

10

Mar 22

second coat of oil

11

Mar 23

third coat of oil

12

Mar 25

fourth coat of oil

13

Mar 26

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Mar 27

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