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Use a lacquer tint or dye, and not a stain. With colors like that it is best to tint the finish.

I seriously doubt that is what is affecting your action. The sides would need to be seriously crushed enough to make a difference in the neck angle, I bet it is something along the lines of Mario's question. I have seen many necks cut like yours, and they have no troubles.

Looks great Andy, you always do top notch work! good to see you post again too.

Take it easy Randy! It's a sobering reminder to be careful!

That looks good! Glad you did it!

Eric, I cut them at the top when I mount them into the dado, when it won't show. of course on designs where it shows you can't do that. With a ring like this, the whole thing is exposed.

It looks good to me. The way that I make them has me ending up with complete rings too, and so I just cut them at the top afterward. It's kind of hard to bring myself to do that! However some of the designs I build need the full ring.

One more thing Eric...I make my segements about two inches long, and when glued together the blank can be routed on a jig I made that cuts three rings out of it, the innermost being smallest and the outermost being biggest. I use all three sizes on different instruments I make.

beautiful!

That is exactly how I do many of my rosettes. So I like it! It makes a difference to me if you make the grain direction in the segements to go across the short dimension, make them all have grain direction that points toward the center of the ring. That looks best to me. I cut angled sections on my ...

That feeling never gets old, or goes away no matter how many I build!

I find it much easier for me to inlay one wood ring, and glue that in first and level it with the spruce. Then I cut the trim channels with a bit that is just the right size for the strips, for example a 1/16" bit and inlay a 1/16" strip. It's easy to get a good result and doing it that wa...

Hi Jim, nice to see you!

It's funny how a little time (and maybe a little bit of distortion and volume) can clear up little issues like this one.

Wow, that looks great!

I agree with the comments, it looks good to me too Eric. Don't forget to glue a slip of spruce over the lap join in the center of the X.

In order to make that happen you need to spray just the right thickness of lacquer. The lacquer needs to "melt in" the decal, to make the film and cloudiness go away. Too much or too thick lacquer will melt the decal and blur it, and not enough will not melt in the film.

Sage advice!

Still, that is pretty good and made smaller it would look sharper yet.

Welcome, Jes! I have to say that I am a huge fan of british prog rock myself.