Part 5 - How to Install Binding on an Electric Guitar body
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2012
- This is a Custom hand built Telecaster style guitar I'm building with a Stephen's Extended Cutaway neck. I'm documenting the complete build with a video construction diary. Select HD 720P and watch in full screen
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Some people find kitten and puppy videos relaxing. I found this one to be just as relaxing. Just wish it was longer!
I strongly agree.
Woodworking videos are the best
This solidifies my absolute terror of doing binding work....I salute you! You're a true craftsman.
Nice work and was totally digging the Kiss Alive! deep cuts (Watchin' You)
Literally everything I know about making an electric guitar (which admittedly isn’t much yet) I have learned from you and your videos. This is not an exaggeration. Literally everything. Can’t thank you enough for the time and care you put into sharing your knowledge in such clear and well edited videos.
Acetone melts ABS plastic so you are actually fusing it to the body when you brush it with acetone. You can certainly use glue if you prefer, many people do but there's no need. As for the heat setting, I just start on cool and bring the temperature up until it softens the ABS enough to be able to make the bend easily.
But did you use the molten ABS to glue the transitions of the binding or to stuff it in the small gaps between binding and body to make it less visible? More explanations of what exactly you intend to do and what you use would be very appreciated during the video.
That looks so fun to build...you are a lucky man...nice craftmanship!
Good job! Especially filling openings where binding/body gaps were. I learned something today.
It absolutely amazes me that anyone can afford a guitar at all. OutSTANDing craftsmanship, my good sir!!
Love your channel man! Thinking about doing a build similar to this one (First attempt at building a complete guitar) and it's so great having this resource! Been watching your videos and been picking up tips for years! Love em!
Thank you! I needed to see this. Ok, back to the workshop.
I'm in the process of stripping a guitar body and one of the things I want to do is add a binding. This is a really great and informative video, and I really appreciate all of the additional information contained in the comments. Thanks for all the posting!
Hi Thomas, check this video out too, it might be useful Binding An Arm Contour
Thank you very much! Im currently working on a project my sefl, and I found your video to be the most helpful binding video on here! your guitar is looking amazing btw
love your choice of background music🤟🏻
Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing. I’ve used this technique for many years with excellent results. I highly recommend that you wear gloves when using acetone and paint thinner too. It’s fairly easy to get absorption through the skin and it can take a serious toll on your liver if you do it for enough years. I learned that the hard way.
Nice job...Diggin' the KISS in the background...
It's great watching an artist at work
Thankyou mate !
*****
Seriously...I spent a vast chunk of last night watching you build that Strat neck. It was like bloody poetry. You make it look so easy.
I found your vids because I was tempted to get one of those cheap kits and try building my own,,,you know, cheap enough that if I mess it up, I'll manage to at least get a guitar worth the cost of the kit :)
I hope to be able to get a custom built one day. I use the Roland VG 99, so I'd love a guitar with a simple front...only the MIDI pickup and maybe one other. Maple neck with no additional fretboard.
With a rounded shaped 'sucked boiled sweet' earthy woody look like some Warwick and other basses have
Your videos are fantastic! I want to get into building my own guitars just as a hobby and wanted to see what the absolute necessary tools and equipment are for doing it.
Awesome video...and the KISS background music rocks!
o cara é uma fera ,ta FAZENDO sozinho,valeu.tem sido de grande inspiração.obrigado
Great video, especially Rock 'n' Roll all night in the back ground :o)
Good to hear Mike, I'm pleased it worked out
hi dave. enjoyed the strat build. watched it 5 times now. great to hear kiss in the background
Muchas gracias por compartir estos conocimientos. Te agradezco muchísimo por compartir tus conocimientos con el resto de las personas gracias muchas gracias. Abrazos desde Argentina.
Looks amazing!
Beautifull job!
You have a very good music taste my sire.
You can really pull on that kind of tape when getting your binding in. It will help minimize the gaps afterwards.
Super techniques, thanks for sharing!
Beautiful!
Great job mate, still to tackle this myself. I have done fake binding and it looks nice but this is the way to go!
Good job Sir.
Great work
Wow Awesome! Would love to hear some narration.
Nice job!!
Part 5 of 23 - Custom Telecaster with Extended Neck Cutaway
Paráda! Great indeed! For a long time I was looking for how to make this edging around guitars.
It's great to see that you, the expert, thanks for the great video and the Council.
I wonder how I could erase the name of the guitars on the neck and give it a different name, there's like a Gibson.
Hello David!
Understood, the method really cool! = D congratulations for the great job, I downloaded all his videos, lol ... are very instructive!
About 5 minutes into watching this video I was thinking that binding looks like shit! One and a half minutes of video (but god knows how long in actual man hours) of scraping, sanding, buffing, cleaning and whatever else kind of mastery of his craft he performed on it and then I was amazed at the outcome.
Fantastic man, a true luthier
Hi Victor, A good hand held router, a good straight edge and a few good rasps would get you started. Depending on how serious you get, a thicknesser (planer) , bandsaw & jointer are pretty handy to have too !!
I mean you can just keep spending money on tools but at the end of the day, a router is the most essential tool for building a guitar
Hi Fletcher. Thanks for the video. Is it possible you to give me the characteristics of the router bit used for routing the place for the binding? Thank you.
Hello, good job , can you tell me how you calculate the
thickness of your binddin, and the good drill and bearing? thank you because i don't know what to buy for my guitar
Hi, I bought the Binding channel router jig from Stewmac. I had to modify it to accept my laminate router but it was pretty simple to do. The thing is you can't have too extreme of an angle on the arm contour or the router base will bottom out (10-12mm max) so that's why you will notice my arm contour is very subtle. Thanks for watching !
Hey David do you have any ideas on how I could create a 4-piece Les Paul style binding without conventional luthier tools? I'm just wondering about thing such as thinning the plastic to the correct thickness and easy ways to do it. Thanks
Well that is fine work Mr Fletch. In terms of routing, you have an elaborate setup which is helpful for repeat jobs. For a one-off, could the router be held by hand, assuming the body is secure? Excellent work and thank you.
Acetone works well. If you are unsure, do a test on a piece of scrap wood using both methods. Go with what you are comfortable with. Glue is great as well.
Leaving it overnight helped and also sharpening my cabinet scraper - Looking ok now. Most gaps were much smaller. I have been working with a 0.6mm burr veneer so couldn't use a router to cut the channel as it just tore out, so all done by hand - hence some small gaps. Also my first guitar, so may have been better to do something a little easier - but life's too short :-)
Headstock is routed with a channel to accept the binding, fretboard is cut undersized and bound before being glued to the neck usually
Hi. Flécher. thank for you Vidéos very intristing please tell.me what glue do you use to stick the binding. thanks
This video is great! I would love to have seen a little text box at the bottom that gives a brief statement about what you're doing and what product is used. I can figure out most things and people can ask in the comments but the value of this video would double or triple if we got some more insight on the process. Now I must go watch the other 22 videos! :D
I agree, check out some of the later build video's where I am talking. I do cover binding again and explain in detail what I am doing. Thanks for watching :-)
***** oh boy! I've got a mexi tele I'm planning on stripping down. I'm thinking a dark navy top, white binding with a brownish red tint on the back. I appreciate all the detail shots, they help me see exactly how you're getting those results!
You are using a plunge stand for your router. I have scoured the interwebthingamyjig, but don't seem to be able to find one.
Any possibility that you could let me know what brand this is in order that I can source it in the UK?
Many thanks
Great Video, very inspiring! What would you call the jig that your router is fixed into to make it overhead? I would love something like that but I'm unsure what to search for or how to build it. Thanks
+Jack Thomas Hi Jack, Its an overhead routing jig for binding.
Hi, Fletcher! I have a Bolt on guitar that I wanted to have binding on the scale and on the headstock, can it be done? It worth?
man....that's some beautiful work....really!
now i'm scarred to ask how much a custom job like that goes for...
Awesome.
hey great video! is there a way to do it without that machine? thank you
Hi, great video. Where did you get your vertical router guide. That would be perfect for what I am doing. Thanks
From Stewmac
Hi David
Was wondering if i can use acetone on my les paul which i'm going to be using water base aniline for the finish and just wonderful whether the acetone would effect the wood/??.
Cheer m8
thanks and what did you use to glue it?
Hi @David Fletcher, what do you use to glue the binding?.... great video btw!!!
Hi Mike, It really should be set after a couple of hours. How big a gap are you filling and what consistency was it when you used it ?
bet it smells goooodd
Making guitars listening to kiss fuck yea man your living the life.
thanks for posting . .couple of questions . . .1) what is it that you are brushing on before applying the binding and 2) is that tape anything special ?
1) Acetone 2) You want a good masking tape that is not going to bleed around the edges.
This is great! I'm just a bit worried about using a heat gun around acetone . That stuff is EXTREMELY flammable and my heat gun gets hot!
Nobody has seemed to ask this yet. What kind of scraper is that ?? I have been trying to find something similar because my smaller razors are ruining the binding. !
Great work man :)
Can I ask what kinda binding do you use??
Thank you!!!
Great video, but, What kind of glue is this?
What grit sand paper did you use for sanding after you scrapped the binding?
do you use just straight acetone to adhere the binding to the guitar?
I have a Epiphone Les Paul II I want to put a binding on the top side. You say Bindings stiff like this or can you find easier ones that will bend easy around the bottom horn?
Great videos and extremely nice axe!
Have You made that binding router base by yourself or have You bought it somewhere?
That's a clever idea to make a binding for guitars with forearm contour.
Hi David - I tried using the plastic and acetone to fill some gaps - Left it for a couple of hours but it's still a bit soft. Do you leave this overnight before scraping? Ta m.
Is there a way to do this with hand tools? Also how do you paint the guitar after putting a binding
what was that stuff you used to melt down the excess? thanks
I know this video is old, but acetone glues binding to wood just like that? How long to you leave the tape on? I'm asking because I'm fixing a small binding chip on a neck, it's like an inch long piece that somehow broke off.
I would be gluing it in if its an inch long filler piece
Nice
Hi I just completed my first binding with acetone, it was really easy, except I need to repair a few spots, When I put some pieces of binding in the acetone to melt, they just disintegrated into the acetone, they did not become soft and sticky, they just dissolved into the acetone. is there something else you added to the acetone, or warmed it up? great video, thanks
Use less Acetone in the mixture.
Hi F super video where can I buy the 2mm router ? I`m in europe ?
hey david what do you use to glue the edges black guitar?
Is that specialty tape or will painters tape work?
Hey, is this close to the same process on a hollow-body? Someone took off the back of a 70 year old guitar I have, and I'd like to rebind it. They glued the back on (ugh...) but the gap left is similar to the route you made. Could I just do this is a similar way, or will the acetone disrupt the glue?
Thanks!
Hi, Can you put a binding on a guitar gibson les paul finished that no have it?
JAVIER HERNANDEZ technically yes, practically no, it's pretty big process including taking out all the wiring and refinishing the guitar
Hi Fletcher, Having trouble with binding paste, Too many air bubbles ever time i try to fill in a gape because the don't make the binding I need tall enough. Anyways.. do you have any trick on how I could fill in a deep gap between the bottom o the binding and the cut channel inside the horns? Would really appreciate it Thanks... Guy Thomas
Binding glue is only good for filling hairline gaps. It wont fill larger voids successfully as you have found out
great video very educational and inspiring as always!! may i ask did you use plastic binding? cause it seems rather flexible for plastic..
Yes ABS plastic
What wood did you use?
Should be fine, I've used it on mahogany & maple before. It will leave staining on the wood where it drips like in my video but its easily sanded away
Kiss playing in the background 🤘
Hi. I currently have a guitar body (telecaster). If we wanted to have you do this, would we be able to send it out and have it done? You do fantastic work! Currently am in Chicago
What routing bit is that?
what were u using to stick the binding to the guitar?
That binding router jig gets the router to hopping around and vibrating violently with acoustic guitars. I like the LMI version better. I am going to use 1 5/8" slotted strut angled feet, ball bearing trolleys, and make my own using the same hardware used on X-Ray machine supports in hospitals. It will be the second one I have made. The wheel dollies are the most expensive parts. Not sure why the Stewmac binding rig hops around so much on acoustics. It behaves well on solid slab bodies.
Hi, what type of binding is that?
Looks great. so you just use acetone? I'm starting work on a walnut tele that I want to bind, is there a any chance that the acetone would stain the wood as super glue can? I want an oil finish and it would show any staining
The Acetone does mark the wood up. Scraping and sanding the level the binding afterward will make quick work of removing those marks.
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Am I to guess that acetone actually binds the binding to the wood? As in no other adhesive? May I ask what your binding material is? The bindings I have aren’t bending at all. Using a heat source just makes the bent binding brittle so there is no room for error. I need room for error. Thx.
Hi Fletcher, what type of glue you use to fix the binding?
It's acetone.
How did you do to prepare the black liquid with the bind part?
Acetone
Hi, just finally finished my first guitar build (in fact, the first thing I've ever made from timber!) and inspired by and unashamedly copied and followed all your tips for building. Thank you! I'd love to send a pic of it, do you have somewhere I could do that?. By the way, have you thought about selling your own templates? Shipping them in from the States is as much as buying them in the first place. Cheers Glenn.
Sure Glenn, I'd love to see it. Send pics to enquiries @ fletcherhandcraftedguitars.com
Cheers
David
hello, goodnight! Congratulations for the work, this great.
What type of glue to glue you're using?
thank you!
Hello Rogger, There is no glue. I am just using acetone and ABS binding ( the acetone melts the binding i)
Hey Dave! can I bother you by asking what the necessary tools for building a guitar are? thanks.
how long did you let it sit before you took off the tape?