Help me decide on a guitar finish
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Help me decide on a guitar finish
I am going to refinish my Tele and can’t decide on weather to go single binding or double.
It currently has no binding but I’ve always had a thing for double bound Tele, however given this is not a trad Tele
(Bigsby, TV Jones pickups etc) it may not look quite right.
My other idea was to make it more like a Gretsch Jet with a single binding and natural finished back and sides and solid colour top.
The red one is mine before I stripped it and the others are examples of possible options.
What do you think? Double or single binding?
It currently has no binding but I’ve always had a thing for double bound Tele, however given this is not a trad Tele
(Bigsby, TV Jones pickups etc) it may not look quite right.
My other idea was to make it more like a Gretsch Jet with a single binding and natural finished back and sides and solid colour top.
The red one is mine before I stripped it and the others are examples of possible options.
What do you think? Double or single binding?
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
Lols, when I saw who was the last person to post to this thread, I knew what the recommendation would be.Conway wrote:Lake Placid Blue with double binding.
I'll go for the Andy Summers look, vintage sunburst with binding and lots of wear. Or olympic white. Either way, a tele needs to look scruffy, as if it has been in a few bar fights.
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
I'm thinking sonic blue top, white single binding, with olympic white back and sides
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
Molly wrote:Natural back and sides. Single binding. Sparkly top.
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
Single binding if coloured top and natural back n sides
Double bound if solid colour all around
Double bound if solid colour all around
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
Yes, this is the correct answer.Single coil wrote:Single binding if coloured top and natural back n sides
Double bound if solid colour all around
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
Joe Strummer - Single Bound(?) > Three Colour Sunburst > Grey Primer > Black Automotive > Drag behind car for 5-6 blocks.
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
Is the body bound already? If not, a REAL biatch to do on an existing rounded edge body. It would be easier to buy an unfinished bound body and do your thing from there.
Man, those Bigsby Tele's above are niiiiice.
Man, those Bigsby Tele's above are niiiiice.
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
No binding currently, as per pic. I have Grant from here probably doing the binding for me as I wasn’t sure if I could do it myself. Not Likely to buy another body as finding one routed for TV Jones pickups and a Bigsby with binding off the shelf would be very hard I’d imagine.GrantB wrote:Is the body bound already? If not, a REAL biatch to do on an existing rounded edge body. It would be easier to buy an unfinished bound body and do your thing from there.
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Re: Help me decide on a guitar finish
If you go for the natural look on the back and sides, you'd want to make sure you body isn't a multi piece one, or have different pieces of wood that don't match well etc.
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