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Thanks for the Hobbies forum! What a great idea!!
Here's what I do in my spare time when not playing pickleball....
I made the inlay out of pieces of yellow abalone, red-lipped abalone, black-lipped abalone and the tail feathers are from the edge of the shell. Pearl dot eye. I forget what the branch is from - abalone of some kind.
The wood is from Jamaica where the Swallowtail Hummingbird lives (among other places)
Spruce makes a great soundboard because of it's straight grain
Sound hole has abalone dots and black (died) wood in a diamond shape, maple is the whiter wood.
The 'dots' are little humming birds
This is how I cut them out using a jeweler's saw and Black Lipped abalone. Printed out birds on computer and glued to shell.
Router bit was to cut the hole they sit in.
Here is a picture of a Swallowtail Hummingbird (Trochilus Polytmus) in the wild and where I got the idea
Here's what I do in my spare time when not playing pickleball....
I made the inlay out of pieces of yellow abalone, red-lipped abalone, black-lipped abalone and the tail feathers are from the edge of the shell. Pearl dot eye. I forget what the branch is from - abalone of some kind.
The wood is from Jamaica where the Swallowtail Hummingbird lives (among other places)
Spruce makes a great soundboard because of it's straight grain
Sound hole has abalone dots and black (died) wood in a diamond shape, maple is the whiter wood.
The 'dots' are little humming birds
This is how I cut them out using a jeweler's saw and Black Lipped abalone. Printed out birds on computer and glued to shell.
Router bit was to cut the hole they sit in.
Here is a picture of a Swallowtail Hummingbird (Trochilus Polytmus) in the wild and where I got the idea
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