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Scheduled Start Date: Mar 23, 2021
Completed: Apr 26, 2021

  • Red Maple top, back & sides

  • Walnut body binding

  • Walnut rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Walnut binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Graphtech Ratio 6:1 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 currently not available.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

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Front

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CWD: #2683

Completed Work Demo: #2683, Red Maple Concert Classic
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Mar 22

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Mar 24

glue in tail block

3

Mar 26

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

4

Apr 2

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Apr 6

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Apr 8

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

7

Apr 12

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Apr 13

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Apr 15

first coat of oil

10

Apr 16

second coat of oil

11

Apr 19

third coat of oil

12

Apr 20

fourth coat of oil

13

Apr 21

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Apr 26

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