Great 5 veneer cue. Just as a side note George was one of the, if not the, first to start using inlay banding, for inlay material. If you look, you'll see it on other cues on the late 60's and 70's.
Great 5 veneer cue. Just as a side note George was one of the, if not the, first to start using inlay banding, for inlay material. If you look, you'll see it on other cues on the late 60's and 70's.
Another example of how the early cue makers borrowed elements from guitar/musical instrument builders. Along with the now common MoP dot and diamond elements...they also used purfling, an example of which Joe shows above. This is the trim typically seen around the sound holes and center backs on acoustic guitars. It has also been found as trim on quality furniture.
Just as the creativity and complexity of inlays have grown, so too has the creativity and complexity of the purfling, as exhibited by the examples below: