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I need a good tutorial on how to put a cream binding on my neck.
and what tools I will need.

Glue it onto the sides of the fingerboard after slotting and radiussing, and before gluing it to the neck shaft.

Tools needed: whatever you taper your fingerboard with (say, a plane), some glue (medium or thick CA is what I tend to use), a chisel if you want to mitre the ends, a bit of masking tape, and a scraper and/or sandpaper and/or finger plane to trim it to size.

Process: taper, fit mitres, glue binding on (hold in place with tape), let dry, trim (scrape/plane/sand), glue down, level fingerboard, fret.

And you'll want one of those handy dandy fret tang nippers (StewMac has 'em) to snip the tangs off the fret ends, otherwise fretting becomes a major pain.

OR...
You might want to route in a rabbet to the tapered fingerboard and set the binding in that. It gives you a nice, thin line of exposed fingerboard wood along each side of the fingerboard and sort of a delineation line between the neck shaft and the binding.
See the following photo for an example of koa on an ebony fingerboard:

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Hank Mauel

[QUOTE=MickeySpringer]I need a good tutorial on how to put a cream binding on my neck.
and what tools I will need.

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I tie a traditional windsor knot........

Sorry - couldn't resist - welcome to the OLF!!

Hesh, you have that 70's look going on with the cream tie. Bet you got the matching cream colored socks and platform shoes to go with it too?

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Reguards,

Ken H