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John Elshaw
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When using curved rosette strips (the ones I saw have an inner diameter of 4.5"), how do you use these to make a tighter curve around the rosette? Do you have to break it in a bunch of places to make it fit in a tight curve? How do you all do this? It's not flexible, right?

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John...Simply break them around the curve...the breaks line up and are virtually seamless. I've done 2 so far and it was quite easy. The key is to get the channel perfectly cut and the purfling in place. I used the teflon spacer and found it went together quite well. If I can do it...anyone can!

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JJ,

So, when you break them, aren't there a bunch of little cracks around the rosette? Do these cracks just get filled with epoxy or CA? How do you cover up all the little spaces?

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Flooding with CA glues the breaks together. I've used Abalam and I can not detect where the fractures were. The varigated coloring of the shell actually masks the fractures and it looks quite uniform.

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Make sure to seal the wood with shellac before using CA or it will turn the wood yellow under the finish.

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Thanks for the info guys. I have an Abalam set to install in top soon. Haven't done that yet so any hints always appreciated. Have agreat day.
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