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