Down here in Florida for the winter I do not have much in the way of shop facilities. One of the things I do is experiment, particularly with things involving mother-of-pearl inlay since cutting pearl and doing inlay does not require much in the way of tools or space. It is a long story, but one of the things I have been thinking about is a seashell/mollusc themed ukulele. As part of that thinking I decided to make up mollusc based fretboard position markers. This was also an opportunity to work on some pearl handling techniques for thin, quite small pieces, and building a small ‘light box’ to make fitting one piece of pearl to another easier and more exact. The fretboard markers (I forgot to add something for scale, but the largest of these would fit on a quarter):
