estebanana -> RE: Creating a Rosette- Photo Essay (Jul. 12 2014 11:42:26)
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Next I take the buckle and remove the white lines from the center of the group and rub them with candle wax to make them resist the white glue I'm going to use. The middle veneer lines are nice and slippery with cheap wax, I press them back together and reinsert them into the buckle. Now the fun part, take the bundle of veneer lines and massage them into the channel which is now coated with white glue. The unwaxed lines will glue into the channel while the waxed 'spacer lines' will not. I leave a safey clamp on the lines over night while they dry to prevent them from popping out, which would really piss me off after all this work. Half of guitar making is waiting for glue to dry and the other half is making sure things don't fly apart until they are glued. Tomorrow I will remove the waxed white lines in the middle of the circle and this will leave a secondary channel- the tile slices will get inlayed in that channel. The trick is to calmly get all the lines in the channel, but if they pop out while you work you just take a deep breath, pull it all apart,wash your hands, wash the tools, wash the veneer lines and begin over. This time I did it in one go! Most of the time I nail it, but sometimes not. That's how it is
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