Natural wood binding

Natural wood binding consist in a fine strip of unstained wood

The process is not too much complicated, but is easy to do it in the wrong way. The first thing that you have to do is to put the finish, poly, nitro, whatever, in that fine strip. For this you have to mask all but de strip. With a brush you can apply your desired finish to the bare wood. This picture is from the result, without the top masked:

Now you have to mask only the binding, with vinyl tape:

Stain as usual:

Take off the masking tape and start finishing ...

Broken binding

I have learned a good lesson the hard way:


Clamp all your stuff when you are not working.

The neck fallen from my workbench and the hit with the hard concrete broke the paduack binding:



I've decide to take off the paduack binding, at fret 17, leaving the sicamore binding.



I think it's not too bad