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Jim Watts

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:25 am

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Theres been a rash of rosette posting lately (okay 2 or 3) and I just finished this one last night which is a new design for me. Thought I'd post it as it's somewhat different.

and a close up

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:42 am

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Jim,

That's fantaaaaaastic. Inlaying bevels into spruce - you're brave. Sure pulled it off well, though!

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:44 am

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WoW! That is an impressive look. Great job - sooooo clean.

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:47 am

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You just sent a rush of ideas through my head, that is a great looking rosette

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Alain Desforges

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:52 am

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That looks fantastic!

Cudos on having enough cohones and skill to pull it off!

Camphor burl?

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:52 am

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Super cool Jim! Nice miters!

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Jim Watts

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:49 am

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Thanks, It was definately an exercise in miters for sure. 80 of em!
The wood is Thuya burl, which I believe is in the cedar family.

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Dave Anderson

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:56 am

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Very good lookin' rosette Jim! And a very skillful job on all those mitres.

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:18 am

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Very nice and tricky to do!

Worth the reward?

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CarltonM

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:05 am

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Jim, you old trickster! That's mighty impressive--both in workmanship and design. The Spruce for the top looks incredible, too. Tell us more!!! Also, what sort of beast will all this turn into?

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Michael Dale Payne

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:33 am

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I love that!!!

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John Lewis

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:22 am

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Nicely done-

I you have any pics, how about a mini-tutorial on how you did this? Thanks for showing us the results, the rosette is a knockout.

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LanceK

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:30 am

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Jim that looks great! What clean work too!

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GregG

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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:27 pm

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Very cool looking rosette, and it is especially clean and tidy.....nice job!

Greg

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AStass

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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 5:14 am

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Very nice! How long did that take you? Alan.

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JohnAbercrombie

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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:14 am

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Very impressive!
I'm interested in the details- it looks like mostly hand work (vs router jig, CNC, etc)?
Please enlighten us!
John

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crich

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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:01 pm

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Oh man,some of you guys just floor me ! clinton

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Jim Watts

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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:20 pm

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Hi guy's, sorry for the long delay in a response, just too much going on I guess. Also thanks for the kind words.
It was a lot of work but came out pretty nice, I'm sure I'll do it again.
The technique was a combination machine and hand work.
I'm working on trying to get a poorly designed cnc going

. so that was used for some of it.
I cut the pockets on the cnc machine and hand trimed the corners square with a chisel. Due to inaccuracies in the machine nothing was fitting right so it was hand work from there.
I cut and glued the purf lines into the pockets first using little pieces of spruce as spreaders, which ended up working better than glung the purfs to the burl piece which was my original plan. The purfling miters were all done by hand with a chisel. After the purfs were glued in I fit the inlay piece of thuya burl.
The top is from Shane at High Mountian Tonewoods. This is an incredible top if you like cross grain stiffness, which I do.
Jim

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Steve Kinnaird

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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:46 pm

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Jim, that sounds like a lot of chisel work.
I was hoping you were going to tell us you found a source for square router bits (you know, make short order of corners)? Oh well...

Very nice work!

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