"Kraken headstock, Gromit!"...

This week of this year, starting Monday 12th of October and ending on Friday the 16th 2015, has included a large percentage of my time being taken up with inlaying this octopus design into the banjo headstock of local musician Gavin Davenport

Octopus banjo multi

Haliaeetus alopeciacephalos (The bald eagle)

From the Greek hali- =sea, alētos =eagle, alopicia- = bald, cephalos = head...

This bald eagle headstock inlay has now worked it's way through the workshop, has been united with the correct body, been given a nice shiny protective coat of lacquer, gained some machine heads, a set of strings and finally been packed up and shipped off to the states into the protective custody of her new owner

Bald Eagle Brook Headstock