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Scheduled Start Date: Jan 17, 2024
Completed: Feb 12, 2024

  • Striped Myrtle top, back & sides

  • Walnut body binding

  • Walnut rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Walnut binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with black buttons

  • Walnut & Maple Signature Headplate

  • MiSi, LR Baggs undersaddle pickup & volume control

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

Jan 17

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Jan 18

glue in tail block

3

Jan 23

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

4

Jan 24

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Jan 26

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Jan 29

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

7

Jan 30

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Jan 31

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Feb 1

first coat of oil

10

Feb 2

second coat of oil

11

Feb 5

third coat of oil

12

Feb 6

fourth coat of oil

13

Feb 7

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Feb 9

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

Original Wood Set