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Scheduled Start Date: Feb 22, 2024
Committed Completion: Apr 25, 2024
Projected Completion: Apr 25, 2024

  • Purpleheart back & sides

  • Flamed Box Elder top

  • Bloodwood body binding with Abalone purfling on top

  • Abalone rosette

  • High gloss finish

  • Radiused Maple fretboard with Bloodwood binding & Abalone markers

  • Port Orford Cedar neck

  • Peghed brand geared 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 no longer available.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Feb 26

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Feb 27

glue in tail block

3

Feb 29

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

4

Mar 1

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Mar 6

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Mar 7

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

7

Apr 8

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Apr 10

prep for finish, tape off for spraying

9

fill pores

  

10

gloss topcoat

  

11

buff finish

  

12

glue neck/fretboard onto body

  

13

glue on bridge

  

14

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

  
Original Wood Set