Sound hole and rosette tooling

I thought it might be interesting to post a few pictures of how I did this rosette and the tool that I use. This is a Bishop Cochran plunge router base with a Porter Cable 310 laminate trimmer. The 310 is the smoothest running trimmer I have ever used. Here you can see the channels that were cut to accept the Brazilian rosewood ring, as well as the outer purflings. After the rosette is has been fit, glued and leveled (as seen in my earlier blog entries, I return with the router and cut out the sound hole. Here you see placement of the bit, and after the cut. Enjoy!