Purfling issue

[tnt2002]

I can't believe I didn't see this while I was gluing/taping. It looks like part of the back purfling is down, under the binding strip.

Not sure how to fix this. Any ideas?

[tippie53]

is this wood or plastic ? Plastic is easy get to the end and with a pin you should be able to lift it out and reglue. Worse case is take out and redo .
2nd option you can nip the 2 ends pull out the bad area and reglue. the joint should be hard to see.
3 rd option is to rout out and redo. .

It happened to most of us so you are not alone.

[B. Howard]

Yeah, that's a bummer. I have successfully manged to gently heat things up enough to soften the glue and fish the purfs back to there rightful position with a dental pick and quickly retape. As long as the binding is flush with the rim, if it is pushed out a bit by the purfs behind it may never lay out flat as it will be a tad to long.

[tnt2002]

Thanks for the advice guys. I applied some heat and dug the purf out. It got a little mangled in one spot because it kind of fused with the binding strip. So I cut a short purfling strip and spliced it in. My phone won't connect to the computer right now, but I'll post a picture after I take off the tape tomorrow.


Thanks again!

[tnt2002]

I dug the purfling out, but since it was fused to the binding, both the binding and the purf took a beating.

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Then I spliced a replacement purf in. It looks fine, but there's some defects on the binding. This will be my guitar, so since I'm also imperfect, I can accept this.

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again, thanks for the advice.

Tom

Tom,

Looking at the pictures, I wouldn't know about the mistake if you hadn't mentioned it. Looks fine to me. Good work.

-tommy

[tippie53]

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