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Gitty's Bench Notes 4/14/14 - How our Custom Sound-hole Covers are Made - Part 1
We offer a growing range of custom CNC and laser-carved sound hole covers. I thought it might be interesting to walk through how some of the fancier ones are made. As an example (because it happened to be what I am working on right now) I chose one of our 2.5" sound hole covers cut from 3/16" thick African mahogany with a hand-cast pewter fairy insert. Here is the list of steps we go through, with some photos of the actual process. Phase 1: Casting the Pewter
We hand-cast our pewte
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14th Apr 2014