NorCalluthier -> RE: Faster traditional rosette (Jun. 24 2017 23:07:52)
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Hello Norman and Andy, Norman I watched Michael Thames video, and I use a different approach. I made a dedicated router base for cutting the groove into the top to take the rosette. I then made a polyethylene plastic mold using that router base with the same router bit. I then assemble the single rosette in the plastic mold, and glue it with crazy-glue, which doesn't stick to the mold, and doesn't swell up the wood like water based glue. The rosette then fits the groove in the top very well indeed! Andy I've looked at, and admired, many of the rosettes of Santos and Domingo Esteso. I'm all set up to do that type of mosaic rosette, but they all look like a lot of work. A friend copied an Esteso rosette from the 1920's that is mostly mother of pearl. I thought that I was going to dislike it, but ended up thinking that it was really attractive. So, having been "given permission" to use MOP in a traditional Spanish guitar rosette by no less than Domingo Esteso, I've been designing various floral patterns that use MOP dots. These designs have the great virtue of being "error tolerant". A black background covers a multitude of sins! I think that they will be relatively quick to make, but then my time estimates for a task are laughably far off. I'm a little bit concerned that they might not find favor with buyers, but I think I'll at least make up a couple of them, and see if I like them myself. Cheers, Brian
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