@dneal, yes, that is strikingly like the absolutely gorgeous rosette on this beautiful guitar!

Stained glass was the first thing I thought of too. That's a great centerpiece there.

Box is closed, inside is shellaced!
 

NICE...!!!

Looks amazing, Matthew!

BTW--Cooler King?

Pernambuco is one of my absolute favorites, this is going to be one kick *** guitar!

Drooling here
 

Mighty NICE indeed. And a lovely collection of chisels, too!!!

You will be in hog heaven soon!

Salud

Paul

Looking good, Cooler King (whoever that is)!

Gorgeous work!

Matthew fancies himself Steve McQueen. No laughing, please. :) (On edit, laugh away!) Google "William Ash".

He's very good at digging tunnels. And very insubordinate to Nazis.

My favorite actor ever is Steve McQueen, and for those who haven't watched it, I highly recommend you rent it soon. It is based on a true story, and McQueen's character was from my neck of the woods in southeastern North Carolina (I realize that Bill Ash from Canada as above was one of the amalgam of characters used for the Cooler King) So, since I had the avatar, I figured I'd go with the name change too since I was also simultaneously trying to reduce my actual name presence on the interwebs. I'm not worried about you guys knowing my name, but the webMD and vitals.com etc have details of my professional life that freak me out.

So, there you have it. :)

I'm looking forward to the day when we can give one another grief in person! We've had some good times.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled program ... Matthew's gorgeous guitar in progress.

To the domain of Addam Stark!
 

https://i.imgur.com/jfuK14A.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/gpGkJY5.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/WU7nd5z.jpg

Absolutely beautiful.

Absolutely stunning.