Rosette with a lot of inlaywork, now ready

[Herman]

The next guitar (customized HD28) will have a rosette that my friend designed himself.
It has triangles that come from the logo of his former webdesigncompany of which he was owner.
At first I agreed to make him any rosette. Then he came with his design. But jee, what a lot of ini-mini-tinywork. But after a few drinks we agreed this will be it.



Since inlaywork is the easiest in black ebony (you can coverup little flaws) I took some scrapparts of ebony and glued them together to a plate. Big enough to make a rosette. Then thicknessed to 2mm.
I'll post how this goes on.
Herman

[Kevin in California]

That will be a bunch of work Herman. Are you using MOP for those little "V's"?

[Herman]

Ya Kevin, that is what I thought. And yes, it is MOP. I ordered the pearl from China. Very cheap. They sent it already over the world including track/trace for 1.5 euro (=2$).

[John Parchem]

Wow that is a lot of work to cut all of the pearl and the inlay. I wonder if you could do a bit less work by gluing down the "V"s and filling with some black filler. Black always seems to look the same under a finish no mater what material it is. For example I can not tell the difference between ebony binding and black fiber.

[Herman]

That was my idea too John, but before that epiphany I already made the ebony plate. So I decided to proceed on the token path.
In the end a pure ebony rosette bottom will be good for the idea of exclusivity. (Hmm, whatever that is).

[Herman]

Progression:
The ebonyplate from scrappieces


Drawing triangles on the MOP. Nice 60 degrees allover


After cutting the pieces out with my dremel grinderplate. Bunch of roughcuts after running out of cigars.


Sticking them together with titebond. Dirt is from my workinghands.


Beltsanding the sides to even shape.


Isosceles triangles are the goal.


After sanding they get a bath of hot water. Glue letting go. Bit of cleaning.


Drying and there they are: Nice triangles of the same size. On some little flaws, but I will sand that properly before inlaying each piece.

[John Link]

This is going to be a stunning rosette.