Soundboard in progress. It is a German spruce table that was selected for this guitar, and having over 8 years old.
Once the first leveling of surfaces done, which includes an additional margin of about 30% usefull for the work of the rosette, it is the tricky work of doing the rose which require a high level of attention and care.
The required procedure for that model is divided mainly into 4 steps: realization of the central pattern, routing of adjacent grooves, followed by the inlaying of the wood strips in each groove. Curentlly only the last 2 steps remain.