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This is what I do side grain rosettes. I've gotten tips from Al Carruth and William Cumpiano and I've come up with what works for me.

I start with cutting strips of veneer across the grain. These can be flimsy so you have to handle them carefully. It's nice if these are 7-8 inches long, but you can make shorter logs and use two.



I do the same with the cutoff ends of backs. These might be cut in different shapes.



Then I glue the veneer strips and/or cutoff strips together with gap filling CA. I like the low odor stuff.



I might saw these initial glued-up strips in different shapes or not, but then I glue them together to make a log.



Then I sand the edges and try to put in the taper that will fit the tiles in a circle. I slice about three of the tiles on a band saw by holding the log against the fence pushing it through with a push board.



Then I cut out a channel in my top and try them out. If the taper is good, I cut the rest of the tiles, otherwise I make adjustments. I like to number them and keep them in order. I sand the bottoms flat. Then I start gluing them in the channel. I use LMI white to glue them in but whatever you use to glue in your rosettes will probably work. I hold the tiles down with my drill press until the glue grabs. I made a little caul that fits in my fly cutter, so I can do the whole operation at once.



After they are all glued in place, I cut the the groove for the outside arc of the rosette with a bit the size of the purfling I want to use. That cleans up any irregularities I might have. Then I cut out a hole for the inside arc which I bind. I put in my purfling and I'm done except for the usual scraping.

I used polygon tiles for my endless martini rosette.

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Ken Franklin
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Excellent tutorial Ken. You're going to get a lot of people thanking you for that one.

Very nice tutorial Ken. Easy to see and understand. Thanks for posting it.

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Waddy

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Beautiful work Ken, thank you for for sharing.

Aloha,
Rollo

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R.W. '' Rollo'' Scheurenbrand
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Beautiful rosettes Ken!

Thanks for sharing your efforts! This gives me all kinds of ideas on building my own now

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Ken H

Thanks for sharing that with us. I've been wanting to try something like.

Thank you very much for sharing, I look forward to learning here at OLF

Thank you very much for sharing, I look forward to learning here at OLF