The rosette on this guitar utilizes spalted oak from my client's firewood pile. I cut up the piece of firewood into thin slices. This will be incorporated in a few different places on the guitar.
Once I have some slices ready, I processed them into tiles and constructed the inner ring of the rosette in a radial pattern. This is one of my favorite looks.
The ring is cut to shape and inlayed in to the top. I do my rosettes in multiple steps. It gives me great results, albeit a bit slow.
Once the glue is dry, the purfling are carefully inlayed. I made the osage orange purfling from the same board that all the other osage in this project will come from- resulting in a perfect color match.
Flushed up, just a splash of color:
Have a very Merry and Musical Christmas everybody.