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Hi folks, its a pleasure to have so many helpful luthiers willing to advise and share. I have posted the build in the resonators forum

I am getting to the finishing stage of a resonator build. It has African Mahogany back, top and sides, with curly maple binding. I want to fill the Mah with an O'Brien technique of drywall compound and dark tint added. I have used it before on other builds and am happy with the results, but in this case the maple binding needs to be protected to keep it from staining. Do you have any tried and proved ideas out there. I want the crisp contrast of bindings to body. Taping? shellac?

I appreciate the help

thanks

fred

Some people use lacquer, fingernail polish, etc. I think even Robbie used that on the purflings in his demonstration of filling with sanding dust and shellac.

Cover with 3M fine line masking tape found at auto paint supply stores. Plan on a scraping operation to refine the edge, a single edge razor blade works OK -- a custom scraper works better, the ones at the Martin factory are made from a piece of band saw blade.

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Shellac and tape. you still might need to scrape.

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So it seems the consensus is lacquer or shellac, tape and careful scraping. Thanks for the input guys! I was thinking in that direction, just need a little shove.