It’s update time again… sorry for the pic heavy post, but I need to show today’s result from a few different angles.

This is what I started with, you can really see the flames with this light too:

And a detail of the flamed maple, wenge and swamp ash body sandwich:

/me doing some routings over here (no pictures of the process due to low battery level of phone and high stress level of builder)

So, after an afternoon of routing, this is what I’ve got:

I really like how the accent layer turned out, the body thickness is just fine at 43 mm and the roundover’s also pretty neat. I need to do some sanding and maybe grain filling, I may carve a tummy cut and the transition from body to neck still needs some work… so there’s more to come.