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Guitar Making – Emerald Deluxe Beetle-wing Replica

Here’s a special order replica of the Emerald Deluxe guitar that I made for Alex Kapranos.

Emerald beetle wings are collected from the forest floor in Thailand, after the insects mate and die.

 

 

I lay them up like roofing tile and embed them in epoxy.

A custom vacuum chamber will degas the epoxy as it cures.