Cocobolo O’M

[Jim Ebert]

John, she's a beauty! Did you do the CA flood method on the purfling and what is the neck wood? Thanks for posting your build.
Jim

[John J]

Thanks John. And thanks Jim. Yes I did flood the purfling channel when all those little segments (some stripey BRW) were snapped in. The neck is thermally modified mahogany. It turns such a beautiful dark color.

[John J]

Time to fret. Since I did the fret slots with a router and a 1/16” bit it’s just a matter of a little glue and push the frets in. A bit of glue as well. Once it’s dry I nip the ends off and sant the edges smooth. Then the fretboard gets glued to the neck and then I level, shape and get the frets very close to final. Some finish sanding and I can move on to finishing.

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[John Parchem]

The bar frets look cool on the edges. They look substantial, Does it take much to nip off the ends. I see in the last picture that they appear nicely crowned.

[Dave Bagwill]

JoihnJ - are you going to pore-fill the cocobolo and what is your method for that?
The cocobolo I have has what appears to be mineral deposits - o you notice any on your set?

Or if anyone here has worked with cocobolo - did you notice lots of pores with what appears to be a lighter-colored fill in the bottom of the pore?

[John J]

Hi Dave. I’m in the process now of pore filling with epoxy. One coat on and sanded back. I’ll need to do at least one more. No white deposition this wood. I had that once on a set of EIR. Ken suggested acetone to remove them. He said they were mineral deposits.

John

[Dave Bagwill]

Thanks John.
This afternoon I found that a test application of tru-oil yesterday was sufficiently dry, so I sanded in a few drops of oil to create a slurry, and within a minute or so the pores were filled and did eliminate the discolorations in the pores, whatever it was. So this should be fine.