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I like Blues Creek's binding jig. It's easy to set-up and use, has a small foot print and is easily stored when not in use. For the price it's a great deal!

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Michael Lloyd

“I was born to ignorance, yes, and lesser poverties ...
I was born to privilege that I did not see ... I didn’t know it, but my way was paved” – John Gorka

I also use Blues Creek's binding jig and agree with what Michael said. Very easy to use and at a good price.

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Blain

http://www.ullrichguitar.com

"89.67% of all statistics are made up on the spot."

[QUOTE=Ricardo] But do you want to keep it 90 degrees to the side.  How does it handle a sloping side?
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Rich,

To keep the cut depth where you set it you need to keep the plane of the router bit and laminate trimmer guide bearing at 90 degrees to the tangent of the side as the router bit is not in the centre of the guide bearing as with an integral router/bearing bit.

The small donut deals with the slope/curvature of the top and back where it meets the sides. To follow the longitudinal curvature both the Williams-Fleischman jig and my modification needs the top/back surface set at 90 degrees to the line down through the router bit and you do this by adjusting the support frame appropriately for each part of the cut.

Hope this makes sense

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

I use the Stew Mac jig and it works great. It makes the other jigs seem hugely over engineered. It has a small foot print like the blues creek one. I used it to do the binding on my first guitar and they came out as close to perfect as my eyes could tell. To get results like that first go, in this case I gotta blame the tool.
Dom