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Wayde Christie

My first hand-made rosette

Post by Wayde Christie » Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:25 am

Pretty stoked with this, my first hand-made rosette :)

The wood consists of ebonized pear wood, mahogany and Alaskan yellow cedar. The burl is a .5mm mahogany veneer on on a substrate.

The herringbone was lots of fun to make, and although I made some wheat that was supposed to run through the middle of the burl, I liked the burl so much that I decided to leave it out.

True to form I almost ruined this when I forgot to tighten the rosette cutter on one of the passes. Luckily I noticed the router bit drifting and I was able to fix it. :wink:

Cheers blokes.
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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by demonx » Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:31 am

That looks great!

I agree with you, leaving the center as is. Running the extra might have been overkill, whereas right now its classy

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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by johnparchem » Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:43 am

very nice. I also like the burl ring and the cleaner look of not running the marquetry strip through the middle of the burl. It is so nicely framed by the thin dark purfling line.

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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by Wayde Christie » Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:52 am

Thanks guys. Here's another angle.
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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by Solandra » Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:01 am

Wow that looks great. I see you are following Bogdanovich. Can't wait to see the finish as I am trying to use his book/video's too. Just waiting for the moisture to equalize here in wet Tasmania.

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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by Nick » Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:13 am

Congrats on a job well done & executed Wayde, nothing quite satisfying as looking at something you've crafted from your own imagination. :cl :cl :cl :cl
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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by Kamusur » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:25 am

That's really nice Wayde, very tasty and well done also glad to hear the "router god" smiled down from the high collet.

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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by nnickusa » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:29 am

top notch stuff there......well done.....looks great
I wish I was half the man my dog thinks I am....

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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by DarwinStrings » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:37 am

Hurly burly, very pretty Wayde.

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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by woodrat » Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:30 am

Lovely Wade....:) :cl :cl :cl
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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by colburge » Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:53 am

Man that is good, must have been very satisfying.

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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by hepikohetaniwha » Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:27 pm

Really nice, cool to see such a good combination of the 'purfling' rosette with the 'inlaid pretty veneer' rosette. (for want of a better term)

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Re: My first hand-made rosette

Post by dougmurray85 » Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:14 pm

Despite being a philistine electric player, that is very beautiful work. 8)

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