I’ve seen many online descriptions and videos showing how to make the slots in the neck that will hold the sides of a guitar for the spanish heel method of building guitars. I build my classical guitars with a separated neck and body that are joined later with a […]
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Making a rosette: Part 3 of 3 My last two blogs showed how to create the mosaic tiles that are used to create a rosette main field. This article shows how to turn this raw material into a pleasing rosette. Here is one of the completed rosettes that I will […]
My last blog was about designing the mosaic tiles for a rosette, and gluing up the sandwich layers of veneer used to make each column of a rosette tile. This one is describing assembling these into a “log” which in this case is a 16×19 array of colored wood pixels […]
I’m documenting my first attempts at making a classical guitar rosette using the traditional tile mosaic method. The classical guitar offers the maker very little leeway in customizing the look of the instrument. This is such a traditional instrument that most embellishments of inlay are generally frowned upon. The only […]