Lyn #15 - Solid-body Nylon Acoustic

[wokkaboy]

hey Westie07, get solar panels installed for power, I got a system installed last month. The rise of power costs has been absurd in WA, sure it's the same everywhere in Australia

[robin]

Yeah Warren it's crazy expensive over here in Qld as well. I'm holding off the solar until I get some renos done, but I keep starting new guitars. Lol.

[robin]

The binding is now finished.

The white plastic did not react to acetone so I had to use super glue to glue the first layer of white binding to the guitar. I found that a thicker super glue works best for this application as it doesn't soak into the wood as much as the runny stuff. So I used a “gel” super glue to give me a longer working time to get the binding in place. Luckily the black binding did react to acetone so once the first white strip of binding was glued to the guitar I was able to use acetone on the black and bind all three layers together.

It turned out a bit messy but luckily I left the binding about .5mm higher than the top of the guitar just in case of a stuff up and to allow me a margin of error that I could sand back. The sides I didn’t worry about too much as it will be given a Walnut stain so that should hide a multitude of sins.

The Binding applied and taped to the guitar.


Before sanding. The messy result of using acetone on the black binding.




After sanding. With aggressive sanding I was able to get a much better result.





This week I hope to sand through the grades to either 400 or 600 grit and tidy up any “dings” before starting to apply the finish.

[Simon Barden]

Really nice work indeed, Robin.

[Andy40]

That is superb Robin. I hope that one day I have the kahunas to put this type of binding on

[robin]

@Simon
Thanks mate.

@Andy
'Tis easy Andy. If I can do it anyone can.

It would've be a lot harder to add purfling, as it is not usually as deep as binding and that would require a second rebate of a different depth. So I took the easy way out, and just made it 3 layers of binding. Darn, I'm letting my secrets out of the bag. lol.

Cheers guys
rob

[Dedman]

If I ever grow up I wanna be Robin

[Zandit75]

If I ever grow up I wanna be Robin

Spoiler alert!
Robin doesn't make it!!

[robin]

@Dedman
Believe me, you don't.

@Zandie
Darn, I wish you would have given me more notice. I could have made some better decisions.. lol..

[stan]

Great job, you must be learning heaps