This weeks homework is to come up with a design for the soundhole rosette. The rosette will be cut out of a piece of spalted maple and surrounding by purfling strips. So the design is a fairly simple affair: working out the width of the rosette and the offset from the soundhole. The proportions I'm looking at are shown below (not to scale)
The soundhole diameter is about 3-3/4", the rosette will be offset a quarter inch and measure just under 1/2" across. I'm wondering about breaking it into 4 quarters (as shown above) with additional purfling strips.
Headstock
I've also been thinking about the headstock design. I'd like to use another piece of walnut for the plate and try to due some type of inlay either in wood or shell abalone. It will have to be something simple, maybe a very basic compass rose. I'll need to work up some designs, although this is probably a couple months out.
