New rosette

[dave d]

I really like the spalted wood in there Walter, and it looks like you are doing great work. Welcome to the forum.

[Kevin in California]

Hi Walter and welcome from me too.
The rosette looks super nice. Did you take four slices of the same section of wood to make your spalted ring in 4 sections to look symetrical?
If you did, smart and it loogs great.

Kevin

[TonyinNYC]

It looks fantastic to me. I particularly like how you book matched the rosette tiles, as Kevin pointed out. Really nice job.

The thing about mistakes on the guitars you build yourself is, to you, they look like gigantic, flashing neon signs. To others, they may not even be noticeable. I always ask my wife to inspect my guitars and tell her there are flaws I want her to look for. 9 out of 10 times, she doesn't notice a thing until I point out the flaw. My wife can be a harsh critic, she calls it "honesty", which is why I use her as my Quality Control department.

[Lonnie B]

Good post Tonyinnyc. I have a wife like that as well. She's always my QA girl. Problem is it's everything I do. :0)

[Walter Massa]

Thanks for all the positive reinforcement. Yes Kevin, I used a single piece about 2 x 5x 3/4" and sliced it up on my bandsaw. It had sort of a semi-circular pattern to it so I tried to coax it into a proper sized full circle. I suppose it worked out ok but I wish the pieces were a bit brighter. You can't be too picky when working with rotted wood. Tony, my wife has always been painfully honest with me so I too consider her to be my quality control manager. Incidentally, she also thought it was a little dark.

[TonyinNYC]

Good post Tonyinnyc. I have a wife like that as well. She's always my QA girl. Problem is it's everything I do. :0)

Oh my wife does that too. Don't they all? But I prefer to call her my QC department rather than some of the other things I could call her. It is all about how you present things. If you think she is doing it out of malice, you will get mad, if you know she is doing it out of love, it is easier to tolerate the constant, and I mean CONSTANT criticism. ;-)