Purfling question

[ruby@magpage.com]

Merry Christmas to you.

My next instrument will be a Gibson LG-2 3/4, the instrument that Woody Guthrie gave to Arlo when he was 7. The neck, back and sides will be Osage Orange with a Carpathin Spruce top and I want to do tortoise binding with a b/w/r/w/b purfling on both top and back - like the one below. Since the guitar is small, I want the strips to be .010, or close to it. I can’t find the thin red offered commercially. I can figure out how to cut wider red material into narrower strips, but I don't know how to thin down red material in a reliable fashion. Any ideas? Or is there a source for the finished product?

Thanks

Ed Minch

[tippie53]

http://www.lmii.com/products/mostly-woo ... fling-trim

here you go

[ruby@magpage.com]

John

Thanks. Someone else also posted from LMI:

http://www.lmii.com/products/mostly-woo ... ed-veneers

The thinner one is .012 thick and will do very nicely

Ed Minch