design

As with many other technological developments, the advent of the PC offers the guitarmaker new and useful tools. It might seem odd to define the PC a ‘new’ technology, yet it has to be considered in the perspective of our profession. We normally work like any maker...

Now make it! After finalizing the desing as shown here, it is time to build it into an actual rosette. For each column of the mosaic tile (20 in this case), a stack of veneers of the correct colors has to be glued; for this design it means 20 layers. Totalling 400 veneer strips!...

The hard part now begins! After deciding the design to include in the rosette (here), it is now time to find a design that both preserves the original it makes reference to and is compatible with the techniques and design language of the rosette. Instead of trying to translate it...

Since my early days in luthery school and later as an apprentice in guitarmaking shops, one of the dreaded events was ‘creative input’ from customers. To succesfully design a coherent instrument requires years of study, practice and refinement, so what a customer...