I forgot to take pictures at the last session, but a quick update:

the neck will not be bound. It’s time to finish up on #1 so I’d rather settle for a smaller neck than run into issues with binding again. As a result of this decision I had to make a new bridge because the original one was drilled for string spacing for a slightly wider neck. Using that one would result in strings running off the fretboard at the high frets.

I did some inlay work at home on the ebony fretboard, slotted diamonds as position markers and a fancy leaf inlay at the 12th fret:

More diamonds to be added at the 3rd and 14th frets. It’ll be glued onto the neck this week.

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