What a cool project Peter!!
  I think everyone wanted to make one. You beat us all to it!!

  Couple questions I have always had.
The skutchins?
Having a perfect inlay recess means you need a matching inlay.
I assume you filed out yours first and used it to mark the template.
But now that you made the template, what will be the easiest way to 
reproduce skutchins?

  Also template placement and holddown?
Suppose you have a dinky 2 blade sleeveboard, (a small pattern of 
pocketknife)  in pearl,
  and you want to line up the shield with the lines of the knife?
I guess you can mark the scale with a felt tip and try to line up the 
  template that way.
  But how do you get it to hold still whilst you bow the tune???

Oh one last dumb question.
  Does the thimble need to be so close to your body? It looks pretty 
uncomfortable bowing.
   I keep wondering, if you used a longer shaft,..................

  well, all I have seen, have very short shafts with the thimble right 
up against you.  Does it need to be there for another reason I am not 
seeing?

  yours
and way to go!!!

Scott
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