How ’bout Blue?



Quilted Maple Dyed Blue Bowed PsalteryWell, maybe I get bored easily, but I always like to try new things. Here you see a Quilted Maple back of a psaltery that has been tinted blue. I think this one will definitely carry the “Atlantis” name-badge.

I’m not too big of a fan of the artificial look, but it was an interesting exercise. The sides and Spruce top are colored blue also. And plain Sitka Spruce still looks plain, it’s just bluer. ;)

It was a pain to mask off the Curly Maple binding so that there would still be a bright, clean white binding to frame the “ocean” of wood.


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