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Old 10-27-2018, 11:29 AM
FPerezRoig FPerezRoig is offline
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Cheers Travis.
Yes, I'm finishing the rosette and will be gluing the braces in the next few days.

Couldn't work on my guitar for some time, but I managed to route the rosette and install the abalone and purflings in place. I modified my router's base with great success as per your suggestions.



Applied a coat of shellac first, then put everything in place, and flooded with thin cyanoacrylate.



First mistake, I cut the purflings too high, and had to struggle to scrape the excess off. Now they're just a tad above the guitar's top, as in the next picture.



What do you think? Would it be safe to sand the rosette totally flat using a rotorbital sander? I have a Makita bo3710 for this.
I am concerned to continue scraping more material off using my scraping blade, in case I damage the guitar's top.

This is proving to be a great learning experience.
Thanks!
Fran
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