'nother L-OO

[Jim_H]

Really nice!

I did something similar on my first. Yours came out much nicer! Very classy !

[Kevin Sjostrand]

Well Darren, that certainly turned out looking great! Good job.
I am not ready to try binding the headstock...no sirie!

Kevin

[darren]

back to the body...

I routed all my channels with a bearing-guided setup. Have to take pics of that sometime. here we are gluing in the purfs, binding will come next. I was a little concerned about getting this wide of a purfling tight if I glued it up with the bindings in one procedure.

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here it is after the tape is pulled,

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and gluing one of the back bindings in.

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My rubberband rope is falling apart, so I will look for some other way to band the body during binding.

[tippie53]

I never used this method , I just use the tape . Martin used to use a wrap and they stopped and allow the tape to do the clamping . If you do want to continue wrapping you can use any cloth ribbon .

[Jim_H]

75' of heavy duty twill tape should do the trick.

http://www.twilltape.com

[Kevin Sjostrand]

Darren,
That purfling looks interesting. Can you give a closeup of it?
I am doing the same right now on my build, only using just BWB purfling, and I for goed the wrap this time. Just tape did the trick.

Kevin

[Jim_H]

It looks like the walnut/maple rope that Grizzly sells.

http://www.grizzly.com/products/Purflin ... Rope/T1127

I think this is a standard rope purfling that is available from other places. I'm pretty sure Gurian makes it.

[darren]

Well,
When I did the top binding I used tape only and went slow, didn't need the rubberbands. The back though, needed a little encouragement. We've been over this before, if I did a better job bending the binding it would require less force...and I'm working on that.

Kevin, Jim, it probably is the same rope purfling, though I got it at lmi. It bends nicely, with just a little dry heat.

[darren]

I also got the mortise routed, using a pretty simple fixture that works with my laminate trimmer loaded up with a 5/8ths straight bit.

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the top looks like a mess here, because I've just scraped the bindings down and there are areas where the shellac has been scraped and not scraped.. anyway I feel like I need to apologize for it, even though I know you all understand. :)

Little bit more sanding and the body will be ready for finish prep.

[Kevin Sjostrand]

Nice job on the mortise. I'm still putting a mortise in the block before I glue it in, like the kits. Not ready to take the router to my body yet!! I hear you on the binding....bending it by hand is a little difficult to get it just right.
I was giving much thought today about making a bending machine.

Kevin