sorengyllstrom wrote:
Thanks for the inputs. I'm especially intrigued by your idea Diane! Are you suggesting that I should glue it on the inside of the soundhole or flush with the top?
As it happens I already cut out the sound hole and placed it on the sides just to see how huge the hole is. It is big but could be saved using your idea. I'm just not sure how it should be executed (English is not my first language so some - often important - details can get lost along the way although you've given a detailed description ;)
I'm a pretty experimentally creative person. If I were in your shoes, and I didn't like the sound of the large soundhole, I would choose a really beautiful rosette square, and do as I posted above. I would glue it behind the soundboard soundhole, on the inside, creating a new soundhole that's not only a beautiful wood, but has visual interest, because it'll be below the original soundhole. It would step down from the outside of your original soundhole.
I don't know what kind, or how close your soundhole bracing is to the hole, so I don't know how much of a glue area you'll have. For it to look good, you need to make sure that it's well glued around the edge, with no gaps.
It would be difficult (not impossible, but very difficult) to get a circle of wood to really sit flush inside of the hole with the edge, so I would just put it under by design, so it looks like you meant to do it that way. Choose a wood that compliments some element of your guitar. You can match your sides/back, or if that wouldn't look right, use a wood that had multiple tones, including something you've used on your guitar.
That way it'll tie in well with what you've already done.
I made a picture, as if you are looking at your top from the side, with the soundhole cut in half. I hope it shows you what I mean.
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