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okay a few questions here:

1. How did you get the green fibre strips in there? Did you use a teflon insert or some such thing?
2. I'm not familiar with the "weld on" glue. It must be some kind of contact cement no?
3. what kind of tape did you use for binding? It looks like that could rip out some of the top wood when you take it off. I am always fearful of really strong tapes in this situation.

Please forgive my ignorance.

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Im in the "less is more" category. Not a fan of a lot of bling and such. I prefer the understated with the small details really bringing things together. But im always impressed by the talent it takes to create such complicated schemes

I've been working on stuff for my two harp ukes, which have been pretty much stalled for the past few months due to extreme cold and dryness. Rosettes are all done, now just need to do Timberwolf's harp arm headstock (which will be the inverse of the split face neck headstock), and possibly add my standard abalone D logo above the tree on this one:




This one will have a side port in place of the harp arm soundhole, so I put a huge MOP moon in the usual spot

Dennis,
nothing routine about your work. Love the wolf!!!

Hi all,

Here are a couple of pix of a rosette I recently made for a flamenco guitar commission. I really like this design, but it was a bear to get aligned.

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Max Bishop
Brighton, Michigan

Hey, we are all ignorant, so no apology necessary.

I have the "ladder" strips made for me by Gurian, they are a Larson pattern. You can buy green sheet veneers from LMI though and cut your own strips.
You see a teflon strip in there for the green abalone (the green fibre strip makes it look sorta green).
Weldon 16 is the glue I use. It is similar to Duco cement, but I think it has some contact properties to it also. You can google it and find 5 oz tubes.
The tape is strapping tape and is pretty dang sticky. You don't rip it off, but you start at the end and "roll" it off. It is VERY strong and you can really pull it, but it doesn't stretch. I use .090" ivoroid binding and you really need to pull tape on that stuff.

+1 on the strapping Tape! So much better for bindings than masking tape!

I'm working on one where I took a bunch of left over bits from other builds and made decorative pieces. Going to be on the back strip, the end graft, and the rosette.

The woods are Granadillo, Maple, Mahogany, Monketpod, Bloodwood, Sycamore and Rosewood

Here's a shot of the back:

You guys are good!!!

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Max,
those classical rosettes are some of the best I've seen!!!

Neil,
What a neat way to dress up the back - adds some extra color to the maple.

Dennis, I like how you used the natural twig shapes. Might have to steal it!

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Pat

Do it! So many lovely bits of wood just going to waste rotting on the ground

Martin,

Thanks for the comment. The design of the central mosaic was made by Robert Ruck. I told him I would give him credit if I showed it anywhere.

Max

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Max Bishop
Brighton, Michigan

Just following on from my previous post, here's the first rosette finished:

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Wow those mosaic rosettes (and backstrips by the look of it) are really en vogue - just gorgeous stuff >everyone!!
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charliewood

That is absolutely megga. I love the idea of the mosaic, do you use some form of backing behind it?

What I do is thickness all the pieces to the same thickness and then cut them into shapes. Then I fit and glue them up on a flat surface covered with waxed paper. I put a black strip between.

To put it into the back I used my router to cut an inlay channel and then glued it in.

Finally finished the GC-6 BRW project and it is ready for final sanding and finishing.