10/7/2013 - Banjo Boys - Chapter 25

Clint has continued to work on his inlay over the last couple of weeks.  The banjo he's working on is going to his father-in-law and has a theme of "cherry blossoms."  He designed several small cherry boughs with open blossoms.  He then cut the separate pieces out of different woods that he acquired for this project: boughs - curly maple, petals - holly.  Then he acquired some colored dyes to tint parts of the inlay.  For the centers of the blossoms he blended a yellow dry powder dye with some two-part epoxy and filled a small cavity with the mixture.  When he finished the inlay, it looked like this:

I think the result is remarkable.  We'll add some better pictures at a later date.  In the meantime, I've been working on my peghead, which I'm keeping very simple: