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Originally Posted by mehendiz
if buy new guitar can i change that rosette at home?
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A guitar's rosette is not designed to be replaced, as it's permanently inlaid into the wood of the top itself. Yes, if you want to laboriously do the handwork that Pete described in his post, you can painstakingly remove the glued-in purfling that makes up the rosette. But it would be far, FAR easier to completely botch this operation than it would be to get it right, and even then you'd still be left with a gaping circular hole where the purfling used to be, with no easy way to refill it.
To inlay another rosette in the original one's place, you'd have to glue it and then sand it flush, which would be extremely difficult to do while the top is still in place on the guitar. In the normal guitar construction process, the rosettes get glued into the tops long before the tops get glued onto the sides of the guitar body.
Presuming, though, that you somehow managed to glue in a rosette and sand it flush without boogering up the rest of the top or the bottom of the fingerboard, you'd still be left with replacing all the finish that removing the old rosette and gluing in the new one and then sanding the new one flush would have obliterated.
If you had years of experience doing this sort of exacting work on guitars, you might pull it off, but even then it wouldn't be worth the effort.
My suggestion is that you find a rosette decal that you like from one of the online sellers that carries them, and perhaps buy two or three of the same style. If after a few years the first decal starts to shrink, as Dave suggested as a likely occurrence, remove the first one, clean the area of any adhesive residue with a swipe of a clean cloth moistened with lighter fluid, then put another one in its place.
But is it possible to actually physically replace a guitar rosette once it's on a guitar? Yes, but it would be a complete and utter pain in the butt, and it would be impossible to do without causing significant damage to the finish.
My suggestion is that you either get used to the rosette that's on there, or cover it with a rosette decal that you like. If this is going to be a long term guitar for you, get several of the same rosette decals for future use in case they eventually shrink.
Hope that makes sense.
Wade Hampton Miller