Reel Seat turned of Spalted Tamarind pressure stabilized with polymers and inlaid with Lapis Lazuli, Gold Lip Mother-of-Pearl, fossil mammoth ivory and ebony.
Butt cap of Manzanita Burl, Lapis Lazuli, Gold Lip Mother-of-Pearl and Mammoth Ivory.
Hood and slip ring hand fabricated of nickel silver, ornamented with 18K gold. The slide band has also been hand turned on a lathe.
Rivets of nickle silver with bonded 22K gold heads
Fine Afganistani Lapis Lazuli, Gold Lip Mother-of-Pearl, Ebony and Mammoth Ivory.
OD: .680"
ID: .400"
Length: 35/8"
Tamarind is a tree that is grown in the tropics for its' fruit which is used as a flavoring. It ranges in color from almost white to the color of the rich cream from a Jersey cow. Normally rather boring, when it develops black, pencil-line spalting, the results can be spectacular. This is the finest piece of spalted Tamarind I have ever had the pleasure to work with or have even seen. In its' patterns is captured the rhythm and essence of the rivers we love so much. Of course, with such a fine turning for the barrel of the seat, nothing would do but to use fine Afganistani Lapis Lazuli in the inlay. It is accented with Mother of Pearl from the mollusk that produces the famed, large, golden pearls from the South Pacific. The center of the inlay contains some of my whitest fossil Mammoth Ivory bordered with fine slivers of Ebony to set it off. Manzanita, a beautiful wood so hard that it is one of the very few used for parrot perches (they tear almost anything else apart) is used in its' rich, red/brown, burl form for the butt and the transition ring.
