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Chris

Askins, that is one seriously awesome rosette!! Bravo. There appears to be a very thin line around the edges of the pieces. Black epoxy?

That's what I thought when I saw Lars's rosette. It was almost exactly what I had planned. I just finished this one a week or so and did use the ZipFlex stuff. I didn't post this here earlier as I had posted it in another thread.

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What color is the ZipFlex - I really like it!

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You're the second person to aks that. IIRC, it's Blue Paua.

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Randolph, thank you. No the black outline is made by just marking the edges of my pieces of spalted maple with a sharpie before they are inlaid. I had heard of breaking spalted maple along the grain and then marking it and glueing it back together to add the look of more black lines. I just decided to give it a shot for an outline. I was out of purflings.

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Chris

oh wow.... totally irrelevent but I think this is my personnal favorite so far! I love this style of rosette (spalted or figured wood between two stripes of shell), and the color contrast in this particular one is something I really dig

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Olivier Gauthier
Montreal, QC

WOW! I think that they are absolutely beautiful. You guys are something else. I hope (plan) to start my first guitar build soon. I hope I can do work like that. 8string

Check out Jeff Elliott's and be sure to check out his chip carved rosettes.
http://www.elliottguitars.com/gallery.htm#
Alan Carruth's Fantastic Basket Weaves
http://www.alcarruthluthier.com/guitars ... ssical.htm
http://www.alcarruthluthier.com/guitars ... Repair.htm
Make sure you scroll down the page and check out the close ups.
They are the best! I'm going to learn how to do this some day.

Andy, I really love yours.

Al is struggling with the forum software. It won't let him post a pic so I told him I would lend a hand. Here is his post:

I've been trying for a couple of days to get this up, but can't seem to get the upload to work on this thread. Brock was kind enough to offer to post it for me.

This is the rosette for one I'm working on now; a classical in curly black walnut. The top is LS redwood. There are about a dozen woods in the rosette, none of them dyed. The pixels in the end-grain curlicue part are .5mm squares, to give an idea of scale.

I've been using a 12mm wide braid on the steel strings, but it was too broad for classicals, so made up jigs for a 6mm braid a few years ago. More recently I made some more jigs for the 'return', which makes it into a true interlace pattern. It's a total of twenty jigs. With all the time in jigs I have to use this pattern on everything, but fortunately it's flexible enough so that it stays interesting.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
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awesome.

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Burton
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Brookline, MA.

Is .5mm something like .002" ? I can't figure out Alan get's strips that thin. I would like to know if Alan is planning a book or DVD on his technic. Or even giving a class.
Alan???

Wow! It's a great rosette Al, I know an a lot of time goes into making each tile-log and component of a rosette like that. Really fine work.

OK How do I learn that stuff? Wadda mean 20+ Jigs. How and why? BTW The inlay class above shows as a broken link for me.

An absolutely beautiful classical rosette. Nice design, and work.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

0.5mm = 0.020"

There is a rosette thread on MIMF where Mr. Carruth shows some of his jigs for making these rosettes. I've been attempting some in Ken Franklin's style. I'm getting fair at it. I expect to attempt something like Al's in about 10 years.
My latest.

Thanks all, I put an extra 0 in my little caculator. It has cm. instead of mm. and gets me all the time.
A good place to start to learn this is a 2 part artcle about Eugene Clark in AL #71 & #73. Then search the net on Spanish Rosettes and there is some stuff there with different types of tool and some jigs and making blocks. Seeing Alans rosettes is what inspired me to start looking into learning how to do these.

Steve is that discussion up know?

Chris,
It's from Feb. '08 so it's not in the library, but it will show up in a search from the main forum page. The title is "Classical rosettes. Any ideas for different styles?". 92 posts and a lot of cool stuff. A must read.

Steve

That is just incredible... Thats all I can say.



Love the hockey sticks

Here is something I am working on. It needs some trimming and purfling, but you get the idea.

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I love these threads. What a creative bunch hang out here.
I just posted this on another thread, but here's a recent rosette from our shop to add to the collection.



Steve

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