Walnut and curly redwood OM

[Kyle Barbour]

It's been awhile since I posted anything. I've had a hard time in the past posting pics. Hopefully this problem has been resolved with an iPad purchase. I started working on a walnut and curly redwood florentine cutaway. Progress has been slow. Between work and kids activities there is not much time for guitar building. The upside is this guitar already has a buyer. He's letting me do what I want with it, within reason. I also told him if he doesn't like it he can wait for one that he does like. I think he'll like this one though. Anyway, here are some pics of the top, back, the rim mostly complete and the rosette done but not completely cleaned up.

[Kyle Barbour]

A couple more pics.

[Dave Bagwill]

You're off to a good start! I look forward to watching the progress. Thanks for posting, Kyle.

[Tim Benware]

Nice Kyle and welcome back.

[Kevin in California]

Fancy rosette there Kyle. Looks very nice.
That top will be a looker under the finish.

Kevin

[TonyinNYC]

Killer rosette Kyle! I really like it. It looks like you glued the rosette to a backer board, am I right? What was the reason for that? I do it if I am making a tile rosette, but if I have a solid ring, I don't bother. I just double stick tape it to the work board while I cut it out.
That is a beautiful looking top. Where did you get it? I might need one.

[Kyle Barbour]

Thanks for the kind words. Tony, I didn't have a piece of walnut large enough to cut a ring out of so I used the strip left over from the sides. Glued the strips together instead of making up tiles to make a radial rosette. The top I got from another forums classifieds section.