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If I like very much to work using routers and Dremel, doing the end graft inlay by hand still a nice challenge, and more over when the inlay is perfectly rectangular and have to match the one on back. Doing before or after the back is already glued have both their pros/cons. I’m doing before
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It was during the Patriot week-end (Canada), a short break of few days before the end of the lutherie class at Bruand. A visit to Cape Elisabeth still provides such nice relaxation. We got many different moods visiting 2 sites. At the «Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse», we had a view on the Portland’s Waterfront having
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The final steps for my rosette ; inlay the wood strips into the inner and outer grooves. I’m doing one side at a time since no real time saving, and giving me time to do the task and to verify. For this design, each side is having 3 sets of homemade purfling, and using the
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Soundboard in progress. It is a German spruce table that was selected for this guitar, and having over 8 years old. Once the first leveling of surfaces done, which includes an additional margin of about 30% usefull for the work of the rosette, it is the tricky work of doing the rose which require a
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