A parchment or paper rose as on some early guitars might be easiest, though having cut roses on David Van Edwards Lute making course, it is not difficult, just slow and steady with the right tools - there is another course this summer - I don't know if there are any vacancies. Paul Baker of Diabolus in Musica uses a very simple wooden rose in his early guitar that has a paper backing that is cut so as to give a dog tooth effect deep to the wooden triangular pattern. He is at http://diabolus.org/ Nick
-----Original Message----- From: Stuart Walsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2006 21:34 To: [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] making a simple rose I've dug out some old home-made instruments - small plucked things; very simply made. I just cut out circular sound holes for them. I did try carving inset roses and felt that a monkey on a typewriter would be shoving out the entire corpus of Shakespeare's plays before I got anywhere near making a rose. I'd just like to make a simple design I could glue in with supports. Any ideas on materials, tools, techniques - a bodge job, as we say in Britain - would be much appreciated. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
