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Old 08-24-2019, 05:58 AM
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Default Rosette part 1

We've been working on the rosette design a bit over the past few weeks and Mike has made some good progress, so here are a few more images.

First, I’ll step back to 2008, when Mike was building me a CX model guitar, with African blackwood back and sides.

Here is how the rosette looked for that guitar:



The upper part is African blackwood and the lower part is claro walnut from the first guitar he made me in 2006.

Now fast forward to the current build.

We liked the idea of contrasts in the wood again, and for this build we decided on koa, as per its back and sides, and Mike’s cool, resin-flooded burl.

Mike suggested a new take on the 2008 rosette, which looked like this:




Over several emails we simplified it to this:





And that led to me getting out the compass and paper, to come up with this:





Ok layout settled. Mike went through a few choices for the actual pieces of wood to use and the two main segments have ended up like this:





More coming!
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