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Scheduled Start Date: Jun 02, 2020
Completed: Jun 30, 2020

  • Black & White Ebony back & sides

  • Bearclaw Sitka Spruce top

  • Maple body binding with Abalone purfling on top and back

  • Abalone rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Maple fretboard with Maple binding & Abalone markers

  • Port Orford Cedar neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with black buttons

  • Custom Signature Headplate

  • MiSi, LR Baggs undersaddle pickup & volume control

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

 

Wood Grade: Specialty
Wood Availability: This wood is temporarily available. Quantity is very limited.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

Gallery Photos (completed instrument)

Back

Front

Full Front
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Jun 2

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Jun 3

glue in tail block

3

Jun 5

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

4

Jun 8

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

  

6

Jun 10

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

7

Jun 12

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Jun 16

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Jun 18

first coat of oil

10

Jun 22

second coat of oil

11

Jun 25

third coat of oil

12

Jun 26

fourth coat of oil

13

Jun 27

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Jun 29

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