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I have a neck that I made for a guitar and for some reason my asthetic values musta been out to lunch. The guitar is a nice curly Koa back and sides and a nice redwood top. I used very curly maple to bind the body and gave it ablam purfling. Here's where my judgement flies out the window, The neck has an ebony fingerboard bound in just ebony and ebony headstock no binding at all. What was I thinkin', It looks like somebody at the factory put the wrong neck on the guitar. So I thought well I'll just make a new neck and then use this one on another guitar. Well since I made this thing I have changed my neck attachment design so I don't want to use this neck on another guitar. So now I'm down to re-binding this fingerboard after it has been attached and the neck has been carved with very few flat reference points.
Any ideas you may have are appreciated. I am leaning towards making a sled for my tablesaw to guide the thing thru the blade cutting the binding channel. I don't see any way to do it with a router.
Well anybody got any bright ideas?
Thanks in advance, John HowJohn How38379.5709606481

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John, I cut the binding off a completed neck just as you described. I used my table saw sled I made for cutting the taper into fretboards. It worked like a charm.

another possibility would to do a fine line inlay down the length of the fretboard binding, in Koa? I could see a line that weaves above and below the dots looking pretty cool.

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John,

If you have the time, I would love to see pictures of your guitar and neck. That way I could learn something by seeing how you fix the problem.

Jeff

John I built a few curly maple bound guitar bodies with rosewood back and sides. They also had an ebony bound fretboard. If the fretboard is ebony it will look like it's not even bound unless you look closely. With the guitars I built this way I bound the headstock with wood matching the headstock veneer, in this case rosewood. I thought they looked fine and the customers never mentioned anything.