A Guitar Called Jack--Part 44

Here's a good shot of the fingerboard before the frets went on. You can see the beautiful grain lines in the ebony. Note too how the fret slots extend only up to the binding but not through it. That way, the ends of the frets are not exposed along the fingerboard edge. Such fingerboard binding not only looks more elegant, but also saves your hands from being cut from protruding fret ends in the future (i.e., the fingerboard shrinks - ever so slightly, but the frets don't - ouch!).