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jjanssen1
 Post subject: Abalone Rosettes
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Has anyone made any abalone rossetes and is it hard to do?
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 Post subject: Re: Abalone Rosettes
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Most students can pull off an abalone rosette without any trouble. There's a variety of ways of doing them, e.g. assembled straight into the top, assembled on a workboard, then inlaid, etc.. For a first one, I'd recommend assembling off the guitar, as if things go pear shaped there's less chance of doing damage to your top if you decide to re-do. A couple of books at least cover it; Gore and Gilet, Cumpiano and Natelson are two that come to mind.

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 Post subject: Re: Abalone Rosettes
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When you say "made" do you mean from abalone blanks, or has anyone inlayed an abalone rosette? You can buy the curved shell strips for a reasonable price, and there are plenty of people on eBay selling abalone rosettes. I don't think the cost savings would be significant enough to get me to cut one as opposed to buying one.

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 Post subject: Re: Abalone Rosettes
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inlaying a curved piece of abalone was one of the easiest things for me to do on my first guitar.
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Rodger Knox
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You mean something like my post in this discussion?
Saying it's easy is misleading, but it's not at all difficult.

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It doesn't get any easier than Zipflex...

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 Post subject: Re: Abalone Rosettes
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Unclear what you mean by make abalone rosette. Please help me out.

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Joe Beaver wrote:
Unclear what you mean by make abalone rosette. Please help me out.

Cutting out the channel and installing the rossete
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 Post subject: Re: Abalone Rosettes
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Joshua,

Actually if you have a router or dremel with a circle cutting fixture it is fairly easy. The hardest part is getting the cutout in the right spot and the right size to take the abalone and planned purfling lines

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If you know the inner or outer diameter of the rosette, its easy. Just test on scrap first. You will need a circle cutter for your dremel or router.

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