I had a couple of issues with the veneer. The grain direction on the rosewood veneer stock was not perfectly parallel along its length. The grain ended up running parallel with the right side of the headstock which gave it a nice clean place to break when I got a little too aggressive with a trim saw. D'oh!
It didn't occur to me at the time that there was plenty of extra and I could have trimmed an edge to make the grain not line up that way.
I think I recovered from that ok. Over several successive evenings I glued slivers of rosewood into the void where it broke off. One of the pics below is the headstock with the slivers before they were trimmed.
After trimming those flush there was still a bit of a void so I made a paste of rosewood dust and superglue. I (very quickly) smeared the paste into the void and cleaned it up the next day.
The inlay was comparatively uneventful. Traced around the M, cut the edges with an exacto, and routed out the middle with a tiny router bit in the dremel. Inlay was glued in place with a mix of rosewood dust and a two part epoxy. Scraped and sanded flush the next day.
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