Guitar 26 — Second Installment

The guitar is progressing again. The heel block has been shaped and glued in place:

Add on the tail block and start with the lining:

Last strip of lining gets glued on:

Onto the rosette.  I’m making this one from end-grain palm.  The simple fixture is used to accurately sand the angles on the end of each tile which makes up the rosette:

I assembled the tiles with a strip of maple separating each one and then stuck them temporarily to the board so I could rout the rosette into a circle using the router jig:

More next time!