Fingerboard Inlay

I choose an Amazon Rosewood fingerboard for the neck. I've worked with Amazon a bit and it's a nice dense rosewood, not to porous. Quite similiar to nice Brazillian rosewood. Amazon and Madagascar are really the only two rosewoods I'm interested in working with.

(I had already starting a lot of the neck work before I decided on doing this photo-documentation, so unfortuntaly I don't have photo's of the more raw wood and blanks used in the neck construction)

This photo shows the fingerboard slotted for a 25" scale length and Mother-of-Pearl double-parallelogram inlays.
These have always been my favorite Gibson style inlays and someday I'll own a 50's Southern Jumbo with these inlays.
I primarly build Fender style instruments so haven't really had the opporunity to use these inlays. When Casey mentioned the idea of a Firebird style guitar, one of the first visions I had was of these inlays.