Fretboard

 

I had originally decided to use a piece of macassar ebony for the fretboard (second from the left), but I didn't like the colour against all the walnut. Likewise, I rejected the ebony (left) and cocobolo (third from the left). In the end, I am going for a simple piece of sycamore (right), I hope to jazz it up a bit with some dot markers to be made on the lathe from the same piece of walnut used for the peghead veneer (and planned for the bridge).