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| Author: | MickeySpringer [ Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:50 pm ] |
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I need a good tutorial on how to put a cream binding on my neck. and what tools I will need. |
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| Author: | Mattia Valente [ Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:51 pm ] |
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Glue it onto the sides of the fingerboard after slotting and radiussing, and before gluing it to the neck shaft. Tools needed: whatever you taper your fingerboard with (say, a plane), some glue (medium or thick CA is what I tend to use), a chisel if you want to mitre the ends, a bit of masking tape, and a scraper and/or sandpaper and/or finger plane to trim it to size. Process: taper, fit mitres, glue binding on (hold in place with tape), let dry, trim (scrape/plane/sand), glue down, level fingerboard, fret. And you'll want one of those handy dandy fret tang nippers (StewMac has 'em) to snip the tangs off the fret ends, otherwise fretting becomes a major pain. |
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| Author: | Hank Mauel [ Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:07 am ] |
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OR... You might want to route in a rabbet to the tapered fingerboard and set the binding in that. It gives you a nice, thin line of exposed fingerboard wood along each side of the fingerboard and sort of a delineation line between the neck shaft and the binding. See the following photo for an example of koa on an ebony fingerboard: 
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| Author: | Hesh [ Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:25 am ] |
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[QUOTE=MickeySpringer]I need a good tutorial on how to put a cream binding on my neck. and what tools I will need. [/QUOTE] I tie a traditional windsor knot........  Sorry - couldn't resist - welcome to the OLF!!  |
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| Author: | KenH [ Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:27 pm ] |
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Hesh, you have that 70's look going on with the cream tie. Bet you got the matching cream colored socks and platform shoes to go with it too?
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