Back on track

Having had a setback creating the rosette, I have now built a simple jig to make the work easier, plus a few techniques to make the gluing up quicker. I have also determined that the reason the last rosette plank was so much thinner than the other planks is that the yellow veneer is .5mm not .6mm. This may seem like a small difference but when a plank has 11 yellows it adds up to about 1mm overall. To cater for this I have added extra strips of the yellow to make up the difference.

A simple jig made from some wood I found in a skip coming back from the pub last night

Designed to fit in the vice for stability, with simple wedges to adjust  pressure.

Uh oh

I thought that creating a rosette from scratch would be a learning exercise, and have indeed learnt the hard way. I have found that different stacks of different widths, and possibly wood types lead to the glued stack being a different height. This will result in a misaligned pattern when the final strips are glued together so I need to recreate some of the sets. Unfortunately I have also started running out of veneer, so will need to order some more before restarting.
I have also realised that it will work better if I build a jig to glue the strips in - using the workbench vice to glue the strips together is possibly the main reason the stacks are different heights so I need to use something more subtle.

- order more veneer
- build a jig
- start again