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Originally Posted by littlesmith
Cleaned up the rosette :
1 layer of thin spray varnish to protect this delicate cedarwood for the next operations. You can dent this super fast.
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While I am not a luthier, I believe that you want to keep the soundboard unfinished so that the bridge (+/- fretboard) can be glued to it cleanly.
There was a notorious phase in Guild's history when they were gluing bridges to finished soundboards. The result was that most of those bridges came unglued within a few short years.