The first job on the back is to inlay the central strip. This is why the design has to be finalized before the build begins, one of the last jobs is to bind to body and the back strip must meet the side purflings.
I route the slot for the inlay strip with a paralell routing board. The strip is made up of black veneer and quilted Sycamore which in this case is sanded to 0.6mm for the very central and 0.3mm for side strips. Then they are glued together prier to going in the slot.
On the final guitar there will be 54 slips of veneer of differing thicknesses and colour to make a up the purlfing. The thickness of these veneers is very important to me as line weight can be the difference between clumpy heaviness and refined elegance.
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