Inlay: Decorative technique of inserting pieces of coloured materials to form patterns or pictures. Most commonly used in production of decorative furniture, where pieces of coloured wood or metal are inserted into the veneer. A veneer is a thin covering over something. ...
Inlays were common on high class furniture from the late 16th century and up to the art deco style of the 1920s. Asheville City Hall. ...
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Inlays were common on high class furniture from the late 16th century and up to the art deco style of the 1920s.
The most famous example of inlay in Europe may be the late 15th century Studiolo [1] made for Federico da Montefeltro in his Ducal Palace at Urbino, in which trompe-l'oeil shelving seems to carry books, papers, curios and mathematical instruments, in eye-deceiving perspective.
In dentistry, an inlay is a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place.
Typically, inlays are located on the fretboard, headstock, around the soundhole and on the pickguard.
Inlays range from simple plastic dots on the fretboard to fantastic works of art covering the entire exterior surface of a guitar (front and back).
The simpler inlays are often done in plastic on guitars of recent vintage, but many older, and newer, high-end instruments have inlays made of mother of pearl, abalone, ivory, colored wood or any number of exotic materials.
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