Traditional Curved Strips: Red Abalone Heart
- Product Code: DP-RED-ABALONE-HEART-TRAD-CURVED-STRIPS
- Availability: 999
$1.20
Traditional Curved Strips: Red Abalone Heart
Red abalone heart cut from the shell's central muscle area — dense, burly figure through the whole piece. The most intensely figured red abalone available, with color that will not sand away.
Traditional solid-shell strips cut from genuine solid shell — not laminate — in random lengths averaging about 1 inch. Strip ends are not squared; square them with a file or nip them with sharp side-cutters. Figure about 70 inches per large guitar body edge and 15 inches per soundhole rosette; a Martin D-45 style guitar takes about 290 inches.
Specifications
- Shell: Haliotis rufescens; USA
- Sizes: .040" x .109" – .063" x .093"
- Sold: per strip (random ~1" lengths)
- SKU: DP-RED-ABALONE-HEART-TRAD-CURVED-STRIPS
Working with this shell
Always order extra, especially for color-matched work. Take care matching adjoining ends and joints become almost invisible; or deliberately fade from one color to another for a graduated effect. Wear a respirator when sanding — shell dust is hazardous.
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Tags: shell, inlay, burly, trad strip, red heart