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When I installed my rosette one small section of the perfling came up out of the channel and I glued it without noticing. Whoops. I thought it would be ok, but I ended up having to sand down too low and went right through the perfling in a 3/4" section. Whoops #2. So I could only imagine the only fix was to route out and re-install the perfling around the outside of the abalone. I couldn't really do that because I don't have a bit small enough to do .030". I just carefully cut out with a razor and the corner of my scraper a section of the perfling (about 1.5") and put another piece in.

It looks 99% better now, but that 1% flaw still really ticks me off. Would I fix it like this again? No, but being my first build I know I have to settle on certain things and I will hopefully never make a mistake like this again.

Just two small specs where the patch starts and stops. Good enough I guess.





Christian 

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Chansen / C hansen / C. Hansen / Christian Hansen - not a handle.

Christian

Christian,
sometimes our best teacher is our own mistakes....

Good luck with the rest! Remember, some minor flaws only stick out to you because you know where they are!

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
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looks like one of those things that only you and the shoulder you cried on will ever know about.

for future reference, a bit of judiciously applied heat might have released the glue sufficiently to mash it back down enough to prevent the sand through. even ca will release with heat but its higher heat necessary to do so can be a risk to the glued material.