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[QUOTE=grumpy] I do mine after the top and back are glued, but before cutting the bindings channels. Reasons being, if I installed it before gluing the plates, and the plates moved a bit, now the end graft isn't centered perfectly, which is quite noticeable at the back junction, where the graft meets the backstrip. Been there..... changed my ways.   [/QUOTE] I think I just change the way I'm going to do it from now on - Thanks!

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[QUOTE=grumpy] I do mine after the top and back are glued, but before cutting the bindings channels. Reasons being, if I installed it before gluing the plates, and the plates moved a bit, now the end graft isn't centered perfectly, which is quite noticeable at the back junction, where the graft meets the backstrip. Been there..... changed my ways.Second, if we cut the binding channels first, then we risk a blowout when we rout(assuming we use routers) the end graft channel, because it exits in short grain at the binding channel. By cutting the end graft channel first, if there's a little blowout, it's of no consequence, because the binding channel will be cut next.. Also, by routing te binding channel -through- the glued-in end graft itself, we have a perfectly seamless joint. Only time this isn't so is when we wish to do fully mitered purflings(45 style, for example)[/QUOTE]

Yeah, what the dwarf said.

I appreciate that a lot of you put reasons and even the actual process that you use to do the end graft.

It adds a lot more value to this thread.

I also do mine with a back saw and a chisel...

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Blain

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