@tej
Here is the the kind of thing you need to cut inlays. I got mine from Cookson Gold by post.

@boo When I learned bow making we had to cut our own dots from flat sheet. You could try google for model shops, there’s loads. They have all sorts of plastic sheet and some do custom work. Circle punches work…   Read more»

@tej I don’t use superglue for inlays or anything else if I can avoid it. Always stick my fingers together and there are so many different varieties, so if your not in a hurry use ordinary white glue it gives…   Read more»

@tej
Here is the video

@tej  Marquetry is different to fretboard inlays, it’s contrasting pieces of cross grained wood traditionally fixed in with hot hide glue. Tracing paper can be used for both to draw the shape, so for a fretboard it’s cut out and…   Read more»

@tej Here is the link plus one on the knife it might be mentioned in both. https://youtu.be/wtp4B03Pi0s   https://youtu.be/rv8ZXpsAwp8 Hope you have got Aldi out of your system, their advertising blurb is as infectious as Covid. Don’t be fooled again,…   Read more»

@russ
No grain

@russ
I just happen to be next to it at the moment so here’s what it’s like. You can see how clean the holes drill for dots.

@russ 
Ive got a fingerboard included in a Martin D28 kit I’m half way through building it looks ok and not as liable to split as Ebony.

@tej 
You could still rescue your pliers if you have a good blow lamp by using the above process. Good practice. Watch Mark’s video.

@tej Jon is correct. Heating metal goes though colours – blue, yellow, red then white. Hardening is done by heating to cherry red then quenching in oil as Mark demonstrated on the live stream making a bent chisel. Then heat…   Read more»