An elaborate Celtic knot in a Martin pickguard, with a two-toned knotted border. 

Same Martin guitar, one of the fingerboard "dots". Pearl and light red abalone. 

From the Martin Collection again. Six interlocking materials. 

A gold mother of pearl rose in a Santa Cruz Guitar peghead. 

Here's a full-length fingerboard inlay for the Fender Custom Shop. 

More of the totem pole inlay. 

The lower end of the Fender totem pole. The 4 materials are pearl, ebony, turquoise and bloodwood. 

One of six different trout species on a Spector bass guitar neck. This was his 20th anniversary model. Fifteen have been made.