Id like to try to inlay the peghead veneer with it off the neck. Can you provide the ebony peghead veneer cut to shape and not attached to the neck?
While this appears to be a great way to inlay the peghead veneer, it’s not really a great way for us to provide the ebony veneer for you to work on. Ebony is very brittle and there is a more-than-likely chance that the veneer wood will crack on either or both of the two scrolls, through the area below the truss rod pocket, or at one of the lower corners. However, we can laminate the peghead veneer to a piece of 1/16″ modelmaker’s plywood before we cut it to shape. This way, you can even bind it while it is off the neck (some luthiers prefer to bind the peghead this way). In addition, we’d suggest that you mount the inlaid and bound peghead veneer to the peghead before you cut the neck’s peghead shape to ensure a perfect fit. And, of course, we could provide the ebony peghead veneer in it’s full square shape for you to inlay first, mount it to the neck, and then cut to shape (as we do in our kits).
