Molluscs and Monsters

Alas! I fucked up the guitar bridge I was making when I had to remake the saddle slot, and broke a tiny chisel in the process. I don't own a router, which has made the saddle slot an Issue. The good news is, I'm fairly sure I know what I'm doing now. The bad news is, I think this bridge is unsalvageable, and unless I can turn the blade of the tiny chisel into a tiny routing plane I need to either buy another tiny chisel or see what I can do with aggressive sanding to even out the bottom of a slot made by carefully drilling in a line of holes.

I have three guitar bridge blanks left. One is padauk, the reddish wood I was making the now-ruined guitar bridge out of. Two are ovangkol, which is a brown wood with dramatic dark lines. Both types are registering in my brain as Too Fancy Woods despite being the cheapest options I could find that were tonewoods already in guitar bridge blank size, which is making it hard to pick one and try again after messing up the first one.

I think I'm gonna go for the second padauk blank. The ovangkol matches the fretboard better, but the padauk is a really striking color without having such a nice figure that I might literally cry if I ruin it.