Dear Stuart,
I've used various parchments in the past (not what passes for
'parchment' in craft shops! which, as you've found, is only paper) and
find the essential characteristic is the fibrous nature of proper
vellum - it greatly adds to the strength and avoids splits etc. If you
can't get any locally try banjo vellum (NOT the moderrn artificial type
tho - it's plastic!).
Cut the vellum with a sharp knife. Many people use disposable scalpels
eg Swann Morton which avoids sharpening but be careful because they are
thin and can snap if too much sideways force is used. Use punches (make
your own from filed sections and.or go to craft shop for fine tubes and
the like.
Old FoMRHI Quarterlies have a few items about these roses - have a look
at C 167, C 234, C 235, C1515 and C 1524 - all available online in
facsimile - and others I think ....
Many early roses seem to have been made up of a double thickness (the
upper even of a thin veneer of wood glued). The Musee Jacquemart Andree
vihuela design is simple and easily scalable with a compass - being
mostly overlapping arcs. Also look at cittern roses.
Martyn.
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From: WALSH STUART <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "lute-builder@cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute-builder@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2014, 11:35
Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] beginner's question - simple rose for
four-course guitar?
I'm having a go at making a simple, basic four-course guitar. I'm not
having any success at all in making a simple inset rose but I'd rather
not leave the sound hole empty.
As well as wood, I tried something that a local art shop sells as'
parchment' but it's very difficult to use and impossible to clean up.
So
far, the roses I've tried to make have either broken or split or look
so
clumsy
that it would be far better to simply have have an empty sound hole.
I have David Van Edward's lute-making CD rom... but that explains how
to
cut a rose directly into the soundboard itself and anyway, is far too
difficult for me at this stage.
I wouldn't know how to re-grind chisels or any kind of metal.
Stuart
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