I kicked myself a couple of times this week for pursuing a pickguardless guitar.
Basically the shipping costs makes it a no brainer to opt for more upgrades (aren't we all easy to persuade or make reasons to upgrade ). But in adding an extra pickup the shipment costs jumped up another 10$ totalling 25USD for 40usd on materials.... Anyways I'll figure out what to do.

Today I took the tape of the body and spend hours tidying up the binding. Though I did sand the binding before the stain and I used automotive tape, some of it still bled through into the binding. Most of it I was able to sand away, but there are three spots, minor spots that still have this *cracked* look.

If anyone has an idea how to remove them, that'd be lovely, if not, they are really small...can live with it.

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