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I have glued on the binding and purfling. With the teflon strip removed should I scrape the purling flush with the top and bottom before I install the abalone shell?

I am bout to glue my binding and purfling which consists of two bands ob bwb with a teflon strip between them for a shell inlay and the binding strip. I have read about using ca glue for this. how does one do this without gluing fingers to the binding? I have also noted when doing trial pieces the i...

These are fiber strips as I mentioned. I will try the hot pipe as I know they won't bend around the tight curves of a cutaway.
Thanks for the responses.

I am planning to use a bwb, shell inlay, bwb purfling. i have the binding pieces bent and am going to use a teflon strip as a spacer for the shell. My question is do I have to pre-bend the bwb fiber strips? I seem to think so because they seem awfully stiff. These aren't individual strips, the bwb f...

I used the cutting described by Chris Paulick in his you tube video and it worked quite well for my rosette. Now I am getting to the purfling and he has another video about that. He just uses straight pieces for the whole job. Other videos I have seen use straight pieces as well. Does this really wo...

I glued some bwb fiber strips to some maple to use as binding. When Itried to bend the binding what I suspected would happen did happen. The heat released the glue and the bwb fiber strips delaminated. I used regular Titebond. What glue should I use so the heat from the bending iron won't release it?

Obviously I didn't read over my previous post. Sorry for the atrocious spelling.

which model is the Peterson Strobo flip?
I wnet to teheir websit but couldn't find the flip.

How many cents off are any of you willing to live with? And how many cents off before it is noticeable to the ear? I realize everyone has different levels of ,for lack of a better term, precision hearing. Just wondering because some of these tuners say they are accurate to 1/10 of a cent. If the int...

That won't work for me I don't own a cell phone.

What model turner doe you guys use for intonation?

On the guitar I am now buildnig I have a rosette with a bwb, bwb ablam bwb, bwb rings I would like to mirror this somewhat on the face. I am planning to use an ebony binding. I am thinking a bwb ablam bw purfling with this but the thicker ebony binding sort of throws off the symmetry. On the back I ...

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I've seen bridge pins that are basically square to the long axis of the guitar and some where they are parallel to the saddle slot. Is this just esthetics or are there reasons behind doing it one way versus the other?

When I registered I inadvertently used a lower case letter in my last name. How do I correct this?

There are no guarantee implications as I built this guitar. However the shim is glued in.

neck crack high E side.jpg The neck on this guitar was damaged in shipping. Is there anything to do but replace the neck? The only thing I see is that due to the nature of the crack the tension of the strings might keep it from getting any worse. Is this a valid thought or just wishful thinking? Lo...

I just finished sizing the saddle for my second guitar, I put it back in and strung it up. Then I noticed I had put it in backwards. When I went to pull it out the nippers I was using slipped off and chipped the saddle. I sized it down so the chips were gone. Since it was too low now, I shimmed it u...

Where does one acquire walnut oil?