Rosette Thickness

[charles Tauber]

Originally Posted by Bruce Sexauer

As I said, "Traditionally informed opinion, and this is the way I do It". No one has to agree with me, and it is my answer. Unlike much of what I do, I did learn this for my predecessors and peers. There are many ways to skin this cat, and mine has seemed work well. I did not intend my answer to seem threatening to other opinions or methods.

Thanks for your response, Bruce.

No one is questioning the results you achieve. It was just a general inquiry.

[yellowesty]

What about a bound soundhole?

[SnowManSnow]

I have wondered how the rosette "functions" and have considered the possibility of it stiffening the area around the sound hole, but I've not nearly enough real experience to formulate any ideas about it yet. That said what Bruce brings up makes sense.

[SnowManSnow]

Someone clarify for me please: what is a continuous rosette? Is that simply a rosette cut out of a solid part of wood instead of parts glued together in segments?

[printer2]

Originally Posted by SnowManSnow

Someone clarify for me please: what is a continuous rosette? Is that simply a rosette cut out of a solid part of wood instead of parts glued together in segments?

No, just one that does not have a gap that gets covered up by the fretboard.

[Howard Klepper]

Originally Posted by printer2

No, just one that does not have a gap that gets covered up by the fretboard.

It's perfectly okay to have a gap under the fretboard. The fretboad covers and reinforces that area. I do not think that anyone meant not having that gap when they said "continuous rosette." They meant not segmented like this:



Or this:



I think the main functional purpose of the rosette is to be a crack preventer and stopper, since any unsupported endgrain (sealed or not) is a place where a crack can start and then propagate.

[SnowManSnow]

Thanks Howard

[printer2]

Never though about it that way, just thought of a lot of Gibsons.