The guitar is underway! Here are the first photos.
The joined top, with an outline of the recurved and cutaway body shape:
The back, of dead-on quartersawn pernambuco, with an African blackwood center. Some beeswing figure shows in the pernambuco; this kind of figure is only seen on a quartersawn surface. It will eventually come out better under a finish.
The rosette is in, and the soundhole cut. Scott (Redcloud) said he liked the look of my Brazilian/Blackwood 00 in my web gallery, so I will be incorporating some elements of that design. The buckeye burl rosette is one of them. But Scott has been great about giving me artistic freedom on this guitar. When people do that I tend to start throwing in some little extras; a lagniappe as they say in New Orleans. The African blackwood center piece is one of those; it's also part of the design of the Brazilian/Blackwood guitar. No doubt there will be some others.
Here's that rosette:
