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Scheduled Start Date: Oct 14, 2020
Completed: Nov 12, 2020

Wide 1.5” nut and free cocobolo upgrade

  • Cocobolo back & sides

  • Straight-Grain Port Orford Cedar top

  • Ebony body binding

  • Koa rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Ebony binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with black buttons

  • Ebony & Maple Signature Headplate

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

 

Wood Grade: Master
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

Oct 14

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Oct 15

glue in tail block

3

Oct 18

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

4

Oct 19

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Oct 20

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Oct 22

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

7

Oct 27

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Oct 28

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Oct 29

first coat of oil

10

Nov 4

second coat of oil

11

third coat of oil

  

12

Nov 6

fourth coat of oil

13

Nov 6

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Nov 11

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