Rosette completed

Rosette finished.

Rosette building for acoustic guitar

A color check for the pieces.
The final will be bound inside and outside in ebony with a smaller circle of ebony and maple purfling.

Designing a unique soundhole rosette

Combining green abalone shell with tiger stripe claro walnut surrounded by ebony for this rosette.

Playing around with rosette designs on a cedar top OM acoustic guitar

Abalone rosette on a cedar top acoustic guitar

The iridescent blues and greens of abalone from Taiwan will look good on this red cedar top.

Yellow Cedar classical guitar

What came in the mail today;  two old rosewood fretboard blanks and a billet of Alaskan yellow cedar.
Because of a series of warm spells in late winter up in Alaska in the past decade or so, large areas of yellow cedar have died out.  This makes this wood possibly rare once the dead trees have been all harvested.

Walnut and cedar OM acoustic guitar

The tail block on this guitar is showing.
I cut rabbets to match the curve of the end of the billet that the sides were cut from and trimmed it with some ebony and maple.