"Port Orford Cedar Parlor Guitar

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MaineGeezer
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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You may have more patience than I do.

Anyway, it's done.
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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Here are photos of the front and back, and the bridge.
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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The wood looks very pretty! Is the bridge also a different type of wood? It looks a bit lighter than normal rosewood.
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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Yes - I made the bridge out of dogwood. It is quite hard and fine-grained. I've used it before. My first guitar has a quartersawn dogwood fingerboard, which has a nice grain pattern. One drawback is that it's extremely difficult to find.
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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MaineGeezer wrote: Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:49 pm Yes - I made the bridge out of dogwood. It is quite hard and fine-grained. I've used it before. My first guitar has a quartersawn dogwood fingerboard, which has a nice grain pattern. One drawback is that it's extremely difficult to find.
That is interesting! I have never heard of dogwood, although it quite certainly looks the part for a bridge. I really like the slightly pale pink/brown color.
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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I don't want to hijack MaineGeezer's thread with a tangent on dogwood, so I'll start one in "Anything else". Bruce W.
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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I've been messing about with rosette ideas. I've concluded that my original plan of bending a strip of marquetry purfling into a circle is not possible, at least by me. As an alternative, I'm wondering about creating a 12-sided rosette from short straight pieces,with small angled blocks at the corners. Here's a sample. By the time I tried this I'd used most of the purfing strip in failed bending attempts so I couldn't center the chevrons properly, but it gives the idea.
The corners are ebony. I cut them out and cut the 12-sided channel with my cnc.
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I'm gluing on the reverse kerfing. The amount of stiffness added by the reverse kerfing is quite significant. Whether that matters at all, and whether it's a good thing, I have no idea.
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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24 sides.pdf
I'm now thinking of a 24-sided rosette, something like this drawing. I think I'll shift the chevrons slightly counterclockwise so they are centered better. (I got bored coloring all the bits; use your imagination.)
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Re: Porr Orford Cedar OM

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It occurred to me that cutting all those purfling segments to exact length was going to be quite a job. To make it easier, I made a miniature miter box with slots exactly 0.500" apart that just fit my razor saw, and the work-holding slot is just the width of the purfling.
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