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I've seen MANY folk using the lam. trimmers for bindings (also rotory tools)...BUT...

Does ANYONE use a router table, or a handheld standard sized router for doing bindings?

I'm getting ready to do my bindings and will be starting to build a jig, but, I really didn't want to get a lam trimmer just for binding. To me a good hand held router is the great multi-tasker tool, and should be able to handle any binding work (right???)

Let me know what you think, and if you are a router/table router user...what's the hot set-up???

Thanks,
JP

For guitar work, laminate trimmers are just more handy I think. I have abot 4 and most are set up for specific task and left alone. I do have afull size PC router that I use in a table and handheld for certain jobs, like routing the mortice and tenon for the dovetail neck joint and such. It all depends on the job at hand.
Now for your question, you can certainly use a full size router for most everything you do on a guitar but it won't be as convenient.
Most guitars don't have flat surfaces so I don't know of many that use a router table for binding, although I use my lam trimmer like a router to rout the purfling channels and then use my binding jig to rout the binding channel.

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Laminate trimmer here, with a shaft and bearings that index from the sides, also, check out crowduck's set up on the main page, i think it looks cool and should work really well!

If you don't want to spring for a lam trimmer (they're very useful around the shop- I keep one with a roundover bit in it all the time) you can certainly do the binding ledge with a router in a table, with the appropriate 'donut' and guide, etc.
If your public library has a copy of David Russell Young's book 'The Steel String Guitar', you can check out his instructions for cutting ledges with a router in a table.
Cheers
John

What is a donut?

Well, apart from a very tasty baked treat that is...   

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