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Alan Carruth
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" what is the shiny material in the first one?"

Probably birch or maple veneer; I used some of both. The way it's sliced produces flat cut leaves, so the edge grain is vertical, showing a lot of ray pattern. Wood is also most reflective on the quartered surface. The yellow wood, which, so far as I know, is Euonymous atropurpuria is also pretty reflective, and is well quartered. I picked that up about 40 years ago when a friend and I were salvage logging for fire wood at a construction site near Boston. It was winter, so there were no leaves to go by.

It also helps on that one that I put a couple of coats of varnish on the top. That's the lowest density piece of WRC I've seen, and also the softest. I varnished it to help harden the surface, and seal it so that I could stick on a piece of paper with spray adhesive without worrying that it would get into the top and cause problems later.


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There are some truly wonderful designs on this thread and some great inspiration.

The last one I did was for a friend's 50th birthday with a motorcycle theme. The rosette was inspired by the brake disc and calipers with five MOP discs to represent his 5 decades.

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Thanks for all the advice, finally ended up with this, its off cuts from the back(bog oak) and some shell, pretty pleased with it :)Image

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Will sand the showing spruce under it at final sanding stageImage

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Very nice!


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Can you take a close up?

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I like it! Usually I don't care for that color scheme, but being compact and close to the sound hole I think it's nice.

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