How do they do this ?
IanS
Posted 2009-04-27 11:03 AM (#417557)
Subject: How do they do this ?


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Location: UK		On a guitar costing less than my cheapest celebrity.

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dweezil
Posted 2009-04-27 11:12 AM (#417558 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?


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Location: Brighty in Blighty		Cheap labour?
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IanS
Posted 2009-04-27 11:19 AM (#417559 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?


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Location: UK		Cheap labour ?

Yes, that's why I compared it to my cheapest celebrity - that's made in korea - also cheap labour - but all they managed was to glue a bit of plastic onto the soundhole.
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dweezil
Posted 2009-04-27 11:22 AM (#417560 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?


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Darkbar
Posted 2009-04-27 11:23 AM (#417561 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?



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Location: Flahdaw		What guitar is that?
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G8r
Posted 2009-04-27 11:50 AM (#417562 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?


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It's not as though they inlay each individual piece of wood. You can buy inlay bandings of all sorts - here\'s just one of many sources . The factory that makes those gits contracts an inlay maker to do their particular style of rosette, and buys them by the thousands at a wholesale price. It's just a matter of having a set tooling to route a shallow groove (rabbet) to fit the inlay and glue it in, then sand it even with the top.
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MWoody
Posted 2009-04-27 1:19 PM (#417563 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?



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Location: Upper Left USA		Rosettes are made using a number of long pieces laminated in tightly and then you "slice" off the pieces for indidivual rosettes.

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footprints
Posted 2009-04-27 2:57 PM (#417564 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?


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Location: Long Island		Looking for one of those "cheep plastic rosettes"
hard to come by.
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MWoody
Posted 2009-04-27 6:35 PM (#417565 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?



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Location: Upper Left USA		As far as the Ovation Rosettes, they are around $150 new and $300 for the Abalone.
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IanS
Posted 2009-04-28 7:33 AM (#417566 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?


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Originally posted by MWoody:
As far as the Ovation Rosettes, they are around $150 new and $300 for the Abalone.
I'll re-phrase my original post

.... on a guitar costing about as much as an ovation rosette.
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IanS
Posted 2009-04-28 7:46 AM (#417567 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?


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Originally posted by darkbarguitar:
What guitar is that?
Washburn D32 - I bought this as a beater for the grandchildren to beat up on (I've had enough of digging toy cars out of the sound hole of my Country artist or retuning the MartinD28 12 string after they've 'tuned it' for me)

But I'm so impressed by the build quality of this Washburn that I think I'll have to go out and buy an even cheaper beater for them to beat up on. :)
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bvince
Posted 2009-04-28 8:33 AM (#417568 - in reply to #417557)
Subject: Re: How do they do this ?



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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :)		Washburn has been making very nice "$cheap$" guitars for a long time.
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