Traditional Straight Strips: Green Sea Snail

Traditional Straight Strips: Green Sea Snail

Creamy, lightly green-tinted sea snail shell with a distinctive dome-like rolling movement of light. Cut from strongly curved shell, it has an elegant vintage character prized since the 1930s instrument trade.

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: Turbo marmoratus; Japan
• Sizes: .050" x .063"
• Sold: per strip (random ~1" lengths)
• SKU: DP-GREEN-SEA-SNAIL-TRAD-STRAIGHT-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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