Real Mother Of Pearl Inlays

Guild Fingerboard Inlay Renovation

This beautiful c.1958 Guild X-175 (above, restored) came in to the workshop...

Guild Fingerboard Inlay Renovation

...with shrunken, warped, discoloured and missing plastic fingerboard inlays

 

Guild Fingerboard Inlay Renovation

Sadly, the original celluloid inlays were now very unattractive; the guitar's owner described them as looking "like old toe-nails".

Since so many were missing it was decided that the inlays be replaced with hand-cut real Mother Of Pearl shell.

Guild Fingerboard Inlay Renovation

Here is the full effect, the new Shell inlays installed, and the guitar's fingerboard fully restored.

Guild Fingerboard Inlay Renovation

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