H's TL-1Q, first build.

[UpperCaseH]

Thanks Wokka, yeah I'm not worried about the bleed in places, I knew I'd end up needing to scrape a bit and the amount is my fault for not taking more care with the tape.

I was thinking of making a scraper out of a bit of dowel and a stanley knife blade. Cut a slot in the top of the dowel, wedge the blade in to the right depth, secure with a bolt and wing nut.

Here's a terrible MS Paint rendition:



My theory is that it'll be impossible to go too far with this, since any rotation of the dowel will just shorten the blade in relation to the binding.

Alternatively, I could just be really careful...

[wokkaboy]

great idea H to make a scraping jig. I've been meaning to make one. Look forward to seeing pics and how it works. Just have the blade sticking out same width as the binding and you should be okay !

[stan]

looking good H, scraper seems like a good idea too

[gavinturner]

Looking great H! A suggestion for next time - if you use 3M vinyl tape (6mm is best) you'll get very little bleed onto the masked binding. That's what I use anyway and I'm very happy with it.

cheers,
Gav.

[wazkelly]

Ultra fine wet & dry would also take it off without doing much damage to the rest of the surface.

[Andy40]

Yeah I probably agree Waz, I just wet sand from 600, 1200 and 2000 then steel wool.....scraping scares me!

That being said, I am interested in seeing the "scraping jig" in real life....

[UpperCaseH]

When you say wet sand for the binding, how are you keeping your sandpaper over just the binding? Or have I missed the point?

As for a scraping jig... last night while I was wondering if it would work or be worth doing, I made this thing out of a chop stick, and I think it's going to do exactly the the job. I ran it round the edges of some offcuts and the blade didn't slip or rotate or anything, so I might give it a try when I get the chance and see what happens.

[stan]

With the finer grades of paper you can sand the binding without too much risk to the rest of the finish if you overshoot a bit - it's still best to try and sand the binding only though.
Chopstick scraper looks cool, and if it works, then it's good.

[UpperCaseH]

Chopstick scraper looked like a good idea, but it was pretty hard to control. Ended up finding an old style box cutter with the spring button to adjust the blade to whatever depth, and after blunting it up a bit it worked great. Hard to get into every angle, so I used an old x-acto blade with my finger as a guide for the harder to reach parts. There's still a few little bits to clean up, I might try to wet/dry sand those in a few days.

[wokkaboy]

wow with the clean binding that red really pops nicely, well done H