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Comment by Dave Lynas on February 12, 2016 at 1:12pm

Wood is amazing stuff. The depth of beauty in good wood keeps me sucking sawdust.

Comment by Peter Otto on February 12, 2016 at 11:19am

I like it too Dave. And I still have two other gorgeous fretboard blanks waiting for a neck. One is pau ferro and the other one is Brazilian Rozewood (My lucky day; I ordered Indian and received Brazilian) :-)

Comment by Dave Lynas on February 11, 2016 at 2:48pm

I love Padauk. The sawdust and glue is nice too. I like your saw horse idea. Holding a dot while belt sanding would be tricky at best... Think I'll stick with whole dots. I like the big 10 mm dots.

Comment by Peter Otto on February 11, 2016 at 12:11pm

The belt sander Dave... Why didn't I think about that? I did the first two with a file. Took me more than an hour. I did the rest with a saw. Drilled a shallow hole in a piece of scrap wood, fitted the dots in it and then used a saw to cut them in half... :)

btw, thanx! the wood is padauk. I love the colour; bright orange :)

Comment by Dave Lynas on February 11, 2016 at 6:11am

I have to sand down my 10 mm dots to fit my 3/8s Fosner bit hole. It takes a long time to do one dot. I'd sand the half dots on my belt sander. Did you use a saw?

Comment by Dave Lynas on February 11, 2016 at 6:07am

Clean work. Nice wood.

Comment by Peter Otto on February 11, 2016 at 5:46am

Cutting the dots in half wasn't as easy as I thought it would be :)

Comment by Jerry Jordan on February 11, 2016 at 2:32am

yes.,.,