Elliptical Herringbone Rosette

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Apr 232009
 

Elliptical Rosette on a Custom Deep Lake Guitar
An elliptical herringbone rosette on the custom Deep Lake has been glued and sanded. In the photo above, James is applying glue with a pipette to the purfling strips seated in the rosette grooves. Below, James shows us the completely glued rosette; he has not sanded the rosette flat yet.

Peeing Through an Elliptical Herringbone Rosette
Elliptical Herringbone Rosette for a Custom Deep Lake Guitar

In this last photo, the rosette is sanded. The purfling strips join at the top of the rosette; this area will be covered by the figured Madagascar Rosewood fingerboard which matches the Madagascar binding, headplate, endgraft, and bridge. The soundboard is beautiful master grade Carpathian Spruce. The person for whom this guitar is being made loves herringbone! Well, he’s going to get some.

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Deep Lake “boat”

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Mar 052009
 

Deep Lake "boat"
The Madagascar Rosewood Deep Lake model is now a “boat.” The Deep Lake is our largest acoustic steel string guitar; it’s a jumbo size with a 16″ lower bout.  In this photo you can see that the linings and side braces for this guitar are made of Mahogany.  You can also see some of the beautiful grain in the Madagascar.

Work has already been started on the neck and headstock for this guitar and the Carpathian Spruce soundboard is bookmatched, glued, and ready for the eliptical rosette work, so it’s coming along nicely. Soon the end graft will be put in, and at that point we’ll put up a photo showing that.

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Deep Lake – Sides in the Mold

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Jan 112009
 

Deep Lake Sides in the Mold

The Madagascar Rosewood sides are bent and in the Deep Lake mold.  The tail block and the Honduran Mahogany neck block are glued in place.  The Deep Lake is our 16″ lower bout jumbo model, and this one is for a guitarist and songwriter in Anchorage, Alaska.

The bookmatched Madagascar back was thicknessed and glued together tonight and is in the gluing jig drying overnight.  The next step will be gluing in the spruce side braces and the kerfed linings.

Madagascar Sides in the Deep Lake Mold

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