b'This page: Above. I love working with aluminium, and any excuse to make things like this is welcome. Six different cutter sets for different arrangements and sizes of grooves, plus three different cutters to remove the hole in the centre later on.Its easy to tell the oldest one, dating from 1973. I havent used all of the larger ones yet, as Im struggling to find the time for new designs. Left; Fitting the soundhole inlays. Some makers call this the rosette, but it isnt, a rosette is the wide section of marquetry used on Nylon strung guitars and ideally, should look, well, like a rose.This is simply an inlay. No need to get all flowery about a few bits of black and white wood. Its very important to have an Soundholes accurate fit, its one of the things I scrutinise on other guitars, I know Opposite page: Cutting the soundhole inlay grooves. I have a drilling machine permanentlywhere to look! It isnt easy to control set up for just this job, using one of a variety of cutters. Its a simple principle but does requirethe width of the slots to fit the inlay, a lot of practice and its easy to destroy a very valuable soundboard. Every time I sharpen theor the width of the inlay to fit the cutters the size of the grooves changes. Nothing in guitar making is simple slots, so I made the set of rollers, which you can see on page 171. Just a little squeeze, and in you go.165'