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After taking a few months off from building, (I was actually getting bored and a lil mind blind shhhh don't tell any body), and I've been gearing up to start another build. Gee I wonder what I'll bring to the table next. Only time will tell.

Any way I could use some advice and tips with plastic binding. The kind you get from stewmac. I don't want to do anything to fancy but what I do want I'm having trouble with in my experiments.

What I want I call 3d binding cause I don't know the correct term so please forgive me. Ok simple BWBW as seen while looking at the guitar head on and a WB when looking from the side. Simple enough but the .20 plastic binding which will have to be turned flat to get the side white line will not bend that way. I even cut the strip in half to try to make it conform but it just crinkles which is no good.

Stewmac says to use their binding joiner tool but will that work if I bond the white strip to the bottom of my BWBW will that make it bend without crinkling when I go to glue it my binding channel. And does using acetone really bond the pieces well enough to hold forever?

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Glue the appropriate purfling strip to the bottom of your binding.

I do a good bit of binding. I can do them without gluing first but it won't hurt. The key is in the technique. You have to think of push and pull. When you are around the bouts , you can pull the binding and purfling and in the waist you have to push. Taping in the binding think down and in.
Also when you route for the binding purfling channels you want to sand the sides to the binding not scrape the binding to the sides. I like the channel about .005 in deeper. The glue may swell the ivroid and tortoise binding a touch. Also you want the binding and purfling just a touch over the plate so your tapes pushes things into the channel.

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John: Have never used plastic binding, so I'm just trying to learn here. When using wood I do just the opposite. I scrape the binding to the sides. So will plastic not scrape well or what and why the reverse procedure with plastic?
Tom

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Plastic scrapes just fine.

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Yes acetone will bond the plastic binding together. Bond the black to the bottom of the white binding, bond together a BWB purfling and instal as two pieces in the channels. It will bend around the tighter radii better that way.

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Thanks guys!!!!

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