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2015-04-23

Inlay the rosette


20150125
So I began to inlay the rosette onto the top.
First I began by drilling the 3mm hole for the center pin.
Then I trace out the circle of the rosette onto the top.
I began to cut the rosette channel by using my circle cutter v2 tool.
This cutter works great!



Marking out the center hole position


Drill the 3mm hole for the center pin.


Scribing concentric circle


Removing using router plane


Channel 1/2 done...


20150128
I continued on the rosette channel.
After that I dry fit the rosette and adjust the channel accordingly.
To glue the rosette, I flooded the channel with the white PVA glue which dries clear.
After that I place the rosette in and clamped it down.



Finished cutting the rosette channel.


Dry fit the rosette


Flood the channel with glue


Place a wax paper and...


Clamp it down.


20150130
After the glued dried I plane down the rosette.
Looks pretty good.
I did some purfling mock up to see which scheme fits better.



Planing down the rosette


After planing


With the purfling - no separation white line between rosette and purfling


With the purfling and a white separation line. Which looks better?


20150312
Finally some work done after a long break.
I began to inlay the surround purfling.
Not a hard job but I have to be carefully to do a good job
I routed the channel and slowly enlarge until the dry fitting is quite snug.
After gluing the purfling would expand and fit the gap.
So I apply the glue in the channel and glue the outer purfling first.
The thin white line I insert in after the main purfling is in.



Routing the purfling channel


Channel routed. Will need to use chisel to clean up.


Gluing the purfling and hold with tape


Done on the outer edge.


20150320
I trim down the purfling and began to inlay the 2nd inner purfling.
The steps are similar.



Trim the purfling


Cut the 2nd inner channel


Glue and tape it down.


20150325
After the glue dried I stripped away the tape and check out the inlay.
As suspected, it wasn't as good as the outer rim.
There were gaps which is quite noticeable.
After some thinking, I decided to redo the inner ring.
So I use my 2mm chisel (which is very useful for rosette work) to chisel away the inner purfling.
After cleaning up the channel, I am thinking what to do to make the purfling stay tight.
That was when I recall about the pin method...
So I will do layer by layer instead.
I apply glue to the channel and glue the white inner purfling first which will be hold down tight by the pin.
Now to wait for it to dry.



Gaps!


Chisel away the purfling and redo it.


Channel cleaned.


Glue the inner purfling held by the pin

After the glue dried. Looks much better!

Removed the pins. Now no gaps.


20150402
Before I inlay the main purfling I clean up the channel and did a dry run.
I think I need to inlay a few more black purfling to fill up the gap.
So I use the pin method and inlay a layer of black purlfing.



Clean up the channel using chisel


Check the length of black purfling needed


Apply glue


Fix with pin.


20150403
First I clean up the channel to prepare to for the inlay.
After that I did a dry run to ascertain the fit.
There is some gap so I would have to use the pin.
Finally the main purfling is inlayed.
There is a bit of gap so I use the pin to make the purfling close to the inner rosette.
After the purfling is inlayed I use the 2mm chisel to press it down.



Shave down the previous purfling.


Clean the channel


Gluing the purfling


All done.


20140404
I shave down the purfling and check the fit.
Looks pretty good except for one portion.
From far it cant be seen actually.



Plane down the protruding purfling


Closer look


From far looks quite nice


20150423
I replace a small section of the purfling
So I just use chisel and take my time to chisel away that section.
After that I use my spare piece of purfling and cut to fit that section carefully matching pattern.
The result seems quite good during the dry fitting.



Chisel away the previous section using chisel


Dry fitting to check the pattern continuation.


Apply glue


Glue and use pin to align


Rosette all done.

2015-04-03

Making the rosette


20150109
I started making the tiles for the rosette.
The rosette will be similar to my #2 which is made from segmented tiles and surrounded by a purfling.
To make the tile I cut and plane a reference tile.
After that I make a temporary shooting board which is angled to help in the shooting of the tile pieces.
The 1st part the stopper is angled to allow the piece to be shoot easily.
There is straight side support to help stablise the tile raw blank.
The 2nd part is the side support is also angle since, this is because when shooting the 2nd side of the tile, the other side has already been angled.
To support it I simply take one of the already tiles :)
To prepare the blank, I use IRW and maple back cut-off and some smaller silver oak pieces.
I cut then into strips and saw to approximately the tile black.
I should have set a stopper next time.

After shooting I will confirm the angle using the diagram.
I don't really need sophisticated jigs or something.
Just need to rack some brains to help ease the process.
After planing shooting, my hands ached...



Cut the tile blank.


Reference tile


More tiles prepared.


Silver oak blank


Shooting 1st side after marking from reference piece


Marking the 2nd side using the reference tile


Shooting the 2nd side. Notice the side support is also tapered (from another tile)


Checking the taper against the diagram


Look at all the waste.

A possible rosette combination


20150123
I did up more tiles of silver oak and maple and ebony.
Now I can complete a ring of them.
The problem now is which to choose...



Doing up more tiles


Cut ebony tiles to size


Planing them to shape


Silver oak rosette... kind of plain?


Maple with rosewood - not too bad.


Maple with ebony - just nice for my #8


Silver oak with rosewood?

So I proceed to glue them up for the maple with ebony.
As for #7 rosette, still kind of undecided...



Apply white glue to the tiles.


Glue 3 together before gluing up all


Stick them down up tape. A little pressure will do.


20150127
I glued the various pieces of tiles together.
Now it sure looks good!



A look before gluing.


Gluing the tiles together


Tape together and weighed down with weights (not shown).


20150131
After the rosette is glued I began to cut the edges to make it round.
Well an accident happened as the router bit climb into the tile.
Luckily it's at the edge where the fingerboard is.
So all is well.
On hindsight I should have screwed the jig properly it wasn't holding enough.
I only screwed 2 out of the 4 screws thinking that it's enough to hold the rosette.
So next time no shortcut...



The rosette after gluing ready for routing.


The router set-up


Outer ring routing
As you can see I only screwed 2 out of the 4 center screws for holding down the rosette...


Inner edge routing


Glue back just one part as it came loose during the routing.
You can see the climb cut at the start/end of the rosette


20150312
I glue up the rosette for #7
The method is the same.



The proposed rosette.


Glue the sections together held by tape.


Glue the various sections together to form the rosette


20150403
After so long a break finally get to finish up the last piece of the puzzle.
I began to route the rosette.
The steps are quite similar to the previous rosettes
But I learn from previous mistakes: use all the available screws and I draw the arc on the blank to have a good idea how much to route.



Prepare to route the rosette


Started with inner arc 1st.


Then the outer arc done.


The rosette done