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Now It Is Finished

8/13/2014

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The last piece of the puzzle is now in place.  I wanted to place markers on the fingerboard to guide me to the prominent notes on this fretless fingerboard.  with the aid of a tuner I carefully marked those locations.  Once location was determined I still had the question of size and material
Years ago I found an old piano in the county dump and salvaged much of the ivory from its keys.  Here I am cutting large circles of ivory with the idea of scrimshawing a centered deviding line on each dot and indicating the note for each string-placing the dot in the fingerboard center between the two strings.  I found that the thin ivory cut nicely once I fixed it to a piece of scrap wood with a dot of super glue
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Scrimshaw is the art of scratching a design in ivory and coloring it with India Ink.  Here I tried my luck with some scraps from the old ivory piano keys.  I finally decided the dots would be too large, the scrimshaw beyond my artistic abilities and the idea of indicating the notes not attractive.  I decided to put the ivory away for some later project and cut small 1/4 inch circles from boxwood I had saved from an old hedge.
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So the final result are these four boxwood dots installed at the note points for D, E, F and G on the C string.  they also mark A, B, C and D on the G string.
Boxwood has a decided yellowish cast which seemed to match the body color nicely.  I was pleased with my decision and the result.  

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