Having finished staining I then started scraping the binding in preparation for doing the clear coat. This I must say has been the most difficult and tedious process.
Ran into some problems too.
First was a crack or hollow in the binding which had filled with stain. The more I scraped the more colour I could see.
Next was areas which appears that the binding is too wide. Like it had some of the plastic which had overflowed and hadn't been removed. It might be glue but really looks like plastic to me. I was thinking I'll need to cut out the extra bit of plastic.
And lastly, after spending ages going over the binding on the outside I then started on the f-holes. Only to find that they have even worse cracks in the binding.
At that point I stopped. Really not happy with how that went.
I'm now thinking I'll sand the binding and try and cover it completely with black stain. It certainly was covered quite well in places so I think it will work. Might even look better anyway.
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