Head Stock Plate Volume 2

It has been exceptional weather for the time of the year the past few days so I decided to work on the head stock plate in the back garden to soak up the last sunbeams. I placed the graphite rod in its slot in the head stock.

Then the dark rosewood veneer was first up to be glued to the head stock. Then another layer of glue (the bone nut is used as the separator to the fret board:

The plate itself is placed on top of it and the whole sandwich is clamped together:

After the clamps where removed the result looked like this:

With a knife I removed the excess veneer. The head stock plate is still to big and needs to be sanded and filed down to the head stock. But it looks nice already: