Inlays, what materials are used?

[Rapisme]

Could used a little help on getting some inlays made and placed on my axe,.
Any ideas, suggestions, luthier's services would be appreciated.

I.E Celtic Trinity, Arch Angels, Egyptian symbols, Puerto Rican Flag.

NAME SOME ORIGINAL WORKS OR ART,.
THANKS

[SDB Guitars]

Many things can be used as inlay material.

Here's a partial list (by no means a complete one):

Mother of Pearl shell (varying colors)
Abalone (varying colors)
Turquoise stone
basically any hardwood
Abalam (thin veneers of abalone pieces epoxied together into sheets)
And the list goes on... basically anything hard enough to be sawn to your shape and withstand the wear will work fine for inlay. Shell, wood and plastic products are the most common.

Any number of luthiers could do the work for you, but you will have to take the instrument to them and work out with them what it will take to create the inlays that you want.

[Rapisme]

Many thank u's

[photoshopgeek]

I read somewhere that it's not good to inlay one hardwood into another species of hardwood because over time they'll gap due to the way the two separate woods will move.

Is there any truth to that? My thinking was that if they're both properly dried before you use them, and have some kind of finish on it then it should be fine.

Any thoughts?

[ehque]

Originally Posted by photoshopgeek

I read somewhere that it's not good to inlay one hardwood into another species of hardwood because over time they'll gap due to the way the two separate woods will move.

Is there any truth to that? My thinking was that if they're both properly dried before you use them, and have some kind of finish on it then it should be fine.

Any thoughts?

Well, i could say the same thing about ANY inlay material. In fact, with both the inlay and the fretboard made of wood, the difference (or gap) would be less than if you used something non-wood as an inlay.

In any case the difference should be insignificant.