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I made these spiral tiles last year sometime while doing some rosette design, I then moved on to a different style rosette, but since I went through the trouble to make them I decided to put them in a rosette. The center tile is 3x3 matrix of gaboon and maple, then wrapped with altnerating segments like a cinnamon roll, the stripes are ebony, maple, bloodwood, mahogany, jarrah, macasser/holly, gaboon, holly. For scale, the outside holly stripe between the gaboon is .006" plane shavings. I computer saturated the colors on the close-up so the different woods are easily visible. Rather than make this exact rosette again I'll likely replace the spiral with a true meander. Comments welcome.

That's a nice rosette, Marc! Good colors, and a nice "classical" look.

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Waddy

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Marc;
I like it !
Especially in the close-up pix!
Nice !!
Mike

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Mike Collins

Thanks, Waddy and Mike, your comments are encouraging, I'm trying to decide whether I want to continue with this design. As you guys already know, settling on a rosette is a time commitment, once you start making tiles it's almost as easy to make a lot as a few.

Marc;
post the way you made this so we all can see your method.

Mike

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Mike Collins

Mike, I don’t have any photos of making the spiral, but basically I make a mini-mosaic tile that is 3x3 1mm squares then glue segments around like a cinnamon roll. If you look real close you can see the inner matrix, six maples and 3 ebony squares and the boundaries of the segments wrapped around.


Other than the segmented rolls on the spiral, I use the same technique as a regular mosaic,

Cut veneers, I’ve settled on 1mm thick,


Make columns then slice off 1mm thick planks,



Glue up logs


Cut off tiles



Inlay tiles


Then inlay various purfling lines around the center mosaic in a symmetrical fashion until I reach the size rosette I want.