I painted the edges of the ff holes and the pegbox black. I think it looks really nice and gives a finished look to the instrument. While reading about this learned that doing this isn't as standard as I had thought. Some say that painting them black like this makes the instrument look cheap. One of these days I would like to have a really good look at some instruments by good luthiers. I haven't seen all that many cellos until now. I have now mostly used my sons current cello as an example but for the next one I would like to have a nicer cello to take inspiration from.

I had left the pegbox a little rough​ so I thought I would clean it up a little now. A sharp chisel can make same nice shavings.