1, 2, 3… 400

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!...
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Design It

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...
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Creative Input

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...
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