Well all the recent threads about people's progress on there current building (what ever your building) has really got me going. I just had to get something done in the shop.
I have two guitars in the initial stages of building.
First is a commision, Imbuia b/s, cedar top with lots of celtic inlays.
Second is for myself (Yaaaaaa!) I took Dave Whites advise and well, I've thought about it for a while now too so I'm building a maple/cedar 000. Curly Maple b/s and a nice cedar top all from CV Tonewood, right here in my neck of the woods.
So, here are the pictures.
Oh, before that, I have to thank Tony Karol again for posting his circle cutter, Which I copied thankyou very much. This thing works sooooo good. If you are in need of a circle cutter, this is the one for your. Build it and they will come....er whatever. As Tony said "your rosettes and sound holes will be happier". So far, so good.
The channel for the celtic rosette. I cut two channels, one for the rosette, so it would be centered and a second one slightly shallower for a black edge so the rosette would look like it was all surrounded in black
Black epoxy in the channel.
And the rosette set in and pressed down in the go-bar deck (24 hours is going to be a long time to wait
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And for the second, Here is the back joined and braces glued down (Ala, Lance K style, trying it out to see if I like it too)
And this is what I'm planning for the rosette, with some b/w/b purfling lines on either side in the cedar top.
Thanks for looking.
I have a cedar/maple baritone on my "to do list" as I think this would be a fabulous combination as well.
