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Committed Completion: Mar 18, 2025
Projected Completion: Feb 18, 2025

  • Chocolate Heart Myrtle back & sides

  • Straight-Grain Port Orford Cedar top

  • Walnut body binding

  • Walnut rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Maple fretboard with Walnut binding & Leaf Inlay markers

  • Port Orford Cedar neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with amber 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

 

Build Schedule
 

Date

 

 

1

Jan 27

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Jan 28

glue in tail block

3

Jan 29

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

4

Jan 30

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Feb 5

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Feb 6

clean up body, rout dovetail, drill tuner holes, glue fretboard onto neck

7

Feb 7

shape neck, dress fret ends

8

Feb 10

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Feb 12

first coat of oil

10

Feb 13

second coat of oil

11

Feb 14

third coat of oil

12

Feb 15

fourth coat of oil

13

glue on bridge

 

14

make saddle, (install pickup, if any), cut nut, final fretwork, install tuners, string up, final setup

 
Original Wood Set