Making a template for the rosette

 I was thinking about the binding and the rosette that will go around the sound hole, and I decided to use walnut with an extra black stripe. I needed to make a circular channel in some scrap wood to allow the bent rosette wood to 'set', and I wondered about making a router jig (base turning about a fixed point). Then  I remember I had made a CNC router specifically for this sort of thing (doh).

All it took was to draw a circle of the correct size in Inkscape, generate the g-code in ESTLcam and press 'print' in Repetier. I was very happy with the outcome, and I think I will try and do the neck and fretboard shaping this way (a bit more of a challenge than just a circle in a piece of oak!).