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Steve Saville
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Here is an interesting one.

I'll see if you can guess what this is all about.

Tub-O-Lard to the winner.   



Another one - Spalted maple segmented -



with end splice to match.
Recognize the maple Terry?


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Hi Steve. Yep. I gotta remember to show this to my Dad. Came from his woodpile! Bless you bro!
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Terry - nice wood pile!


Anyone wanna try for the tub-o-lard and guess what the first rosette is all about?

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Couldn`t begin to tell you what woods for the rosettes ,but they sure are pretty.Also I really like the way you do your end graft.
                        James

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Thanks James.

The woods used are maple, walnut, oak, bubinga and ebony. It is the client's design. There is more to it.   

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Steve,


Those are awesome. Great job!-----Snick
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All very nice, the first one is particularly cool!
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It looks like the first rosette is bound in ebony.
It looks real nice Steve. Good job!

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It looks like some of the tops that Bill Conklin does on bass tops. They
call it melted tops. Or at least used to.
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I like that first one too.  It's way cool. 

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I got a request for a lute hole cover with a mountain scene.
I thought, why not try to integrate it into the rosette.


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For those that want to try this, here is the process I followed.

Chose the wood colors, grain orientation and apply the cut out shapes to the wood.
Cut out the various shapes.
Fit the pieces together with some sanding.
Glue to a backer board.
Cut out to size and add it to the top like a standard rosette.









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Steve - Beautiful work.  It is almost like intarsia.  (I think that is the right spelling?)  Very creative.


I have a question relating to the cutting of the soundboard for the inlay.  I noticed on your last picture that there is some of what looks like tearout in the cross-grain cuts on the left side.  On the finished picture above they are gone.  How did you fix that?  Thanks!  The finished rosette looks impeccable.


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