Comments on: Spalted beech rosette continued

By: Minimal router table for Dremmel « Finely Strung

Minimal router table for Dremmel « Finely Strung — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:07:59 +0000

[...] Tagged bridge, classical guitar, dremmel, jigs, techniques Last week I made a bridge for the guitar that I’m building at the moment. Here’s a photograph taken while it was being French polished. It’s in Rio rosewood and the tie block is inlaid with a strip of spalted beech to echo the rosette that I wrote about a little while ago. [...]

By: Christopher Martyn

Christopher Martyn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:36:01 +0000

Again, many thanks for your generous comments.

By: Christopher Martyn

Christopher Martyn — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:34:51 +0000

Many thanks for your kind comment. You’re right about the difficulty of working with spalted wood when the rot has gone too far. That’s why I stabilised it by glueing it to a thin plywood base. But I was lucky with this piece, which hadn’t gone too soft and wasn’t hard to plane level with the surface of the soundboard.

By: ignacio zeppilli

ignacio zeppilli — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:12:37 +0000

What a beautiful rosette!. When you talked about using that piece of spalted maple in the previous post I didn’t imagine it with the strips, but it’s a nice touch. It brings out the beauty of that maple (BTW, I had never seen it before).

By: steve Golden

steve Golden — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:30:31 +0000

That is a beautiful rosette. It almost looks like an agate stone sliced through. Is the beech punky at all? I have worked some spalted maple that had gone a little too far and it was soft or spongy- the plane ripped the fibers to pieces. Nice work!