Pit Bull Guitars EXA-4 Electric Bass Guitar Kit (Custom Special)

[ozzbike]

After seven days on deck...I arrive home and the big box has arrived.

I love the grain in the body....the fingerboard has such an awesome figure as well.

mmmmmm.......sanding time......

[wazkelly]

Sure looks purdy.

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[ozzbike]

Honestly I don't know what I look at when these things arrive?

Found this when I was sanding today.....apparently the factory went a little hard on this side.

mmmmm......never played with binding....maybe a chance here.

Then drowned in Ebony timbermate and hanging to dry. Sand tomorrow....I have some Golden Teak and Mahogany Prooftint stain from Feast Watson. I had an issue when I used alcohol based stain with binding in the past. The stain really found the cracking and stretching marks in the binding and did not come out.

I see here...that some others use a polish with steel wool before the stain as a way to keep the binding unmarked.

It will be interesting.

[Sonic Mountain]

Oh bugger about the binding. But then again.. it's fixable and a skill worth having a crack at. I have a bit of a mental idea to try and do aluminium binding at some point.

Looks like you scored a rosewood fretboard rather than the composite stuff?

[ozzbike]

Oh bugger about the binding. But then again.. it's fixable and a skill worth having a crack at. I have a bit of a mental idea to try and do aluminium binding at some point.

Looks like you scored a rosewood fretboard rather than the composite stuff?

Before I started sanding it all looked good.....really hard to tell how deep the binding is......it just disappeared.....they must have been at it hard.

I have a Stewmac binding router guide and binding router bit on the way.

I will have to troll the net for how you get the old binding off.....would you know what glue is used to secure it....and what is a good tape to hold it on whilst it dries....I only use the low tack painters tape for covering things.

The original listing showed EBONY......whatever it is....it is better looking than the engineered stuff.....reckon it will come up great with lemon oil and dr ducks.

[Sonic Mountain]

Oh well it probably is ebony. Very nice!

I'm sure a bit of heat would loosen up the binding glue, that's where I'd start with a hair dryer or something. I think the painters tape would probably work, you just need to use a lot of it from the pics I've seen online. Someone on here (might have been Zandit?) used too much tape and the glue solvents couldn't escape so I guess that's something to be aware of.

[wazkelly]

Binding is over rated and loves to show up all it's flaws if not adequately covered when applying stain.
I'd be tempted to sand the lot off.
Alternatively, if you really want to keep the binding gotta wonder how hard a repair job might be compared to full refit?

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[ozzbike]

Binding is over rated and loves to show up all it's flaws if not adequately covered when applying stain.
I'd be tempted to sand the lot off.
Alternatively, if you really want to keep the binding gotta wonder how hard a repair job might be compared to full refit?

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The repair is interesting. I would have to try and match the binding colour....size...shape.

[DarkMark]

Hi ozzbike.
It’s hard to tell without the guitar in hand, but could a repair be as simple as adhering binding with acetone over the damaged area (and a little past it) and then sanding to a level?

[vh2580]

Outside the box Ozz, but you could put a forearm chamfer from that point and then blend back into the existing binding back toward the horn. Wouldn't have to be aggressive. Seems to a feature of a lot of high end gear lately with the blended binding.