Rosette
Finding out the center of rosette and pushing pin there
Routing inner and outer circle, then knocking the middle part with thicker bit
Hand build guitar needs a hand build rosette. Nothing actually beats a real wood and it is also easy to do. Here I am gluing two pieces of spalted wood that will be a center of the rosette.
Now the fun fitting the tiny strips of wood,
I ended up making black/white, then strips of padouk and again white/black then the spalted center and repeat that for inner ring.
The padouk needed to be cut on tablesaw to tiny strips. Chippy wood
Now glued all together and soaked with superglue as the spalted wood is prone to chipping.
Scraping the glue and sanding it down reveals the rosette
More details about the wood - the back sides are indian rosewood and the top is a sitka with some bearclaws.
The shape is more of a size of OM, but actually with a rounder top where neck is, more like of an classical guitar (OM is flat on neck)
Tomorrow - making back braces.