Putting binding on a tele

werdna · Post by **werdna** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:29 am

Is anyone set up to rout a tele body for binding on the top. Could I ask you please to do this for me, in return for beer/parts/hand shandies?

Also, does anyone have any binding, please? Cream or white.

Reg18 · Post by **Reg18** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:51 am

Are you doing it to a new unfinished body or an existing one? I had this done by Lostinverness (Grant) once on a Tele and it can be very tricky. It depends on how much round over the edge already has if it can be done.
Went from the red one to black one!

werdna · Post by **werdna** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:59 am

Finished, with typical amount of edge round.

Reg18 · Post by **Reg18** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:03 pm

werdna wrote:Finished, with typical amount of edge round.

I would say an experienced person would be able to do it but don’t think I’d be giving to my home handyman mate!
You got a pic of the front edge?
I’m sure someone else here would be able to advise better than me.

Molly · Post by **Molly** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:37 pm

Completely irrelevant but I once saw how Music Man do binding. When the body is still just a square slab they cut a channel and pour in the material that'll eventually be the binding. Once it sets they cut the body out with the usual CNC-type stuff and there it is, already bound. Cool way of doing it I guess but not one you could replicate on an existing body, so I'll just get me coat...

jeremyb · Post by **jeremyb** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:59 pm

Just get a roll of white electrical tape from the supermarket and run it around the edge, job done!

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:26 pm

Put a photo up of the tele you want butchered... How relicked is it?

Post by Bg » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:39 pm

Very happy to do it... bearing in mind we'll need these

https://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/T ... currency=O

And thats a fucktonne of beers to start with

Lostininverness · Post by **Lostininverness** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:24 pm

Bg wrote:Very happy to do it... bearing in mind we'll need these

https://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/T ... currency=O

And thats a fucktonne of beers to start with

you may find that it still doesn't work properly depending on how thick the binding is. Normal width is still not thick enough to manage the round over.

Lostininverness · Post by **Lostininverness** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:25 pm

Reg18 wrote:
... but don’t think I’d be giving to my home handyman mate!

isn't this what you did???

Post by Bg » Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:08 pm

Lostininverness wrote:
Bg wrote:Very happy to do it... bearing in mind we'll need these

https://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/T ... currency=O

And thats a fucktonne of beers to start with
you may find that it still doesn't work properly depending on how thick the binding is. Normal width is still not thick enough to manage the round over.

Yeah I was thinking that too

werdna · Post by **werdna** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:10 pm

You're right chaps. Lots of times I wish Adrian was around with that limitless supply of guitar bodies. I should just go out and get a Texas Tea Tele Ultra, but I am too Scottish.

Post by Bg » Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:12 pm

werdna wrote:You're right chaps. Lots of times I wish Adrian was around with that limitless supply of guitar bodies. I should just go out and get a Texas Tea Tele Ultra, but I am too Scottish.

He probably still has tele bodies.

he, at least, knows where they're buried.

ChAoZ · Post by **ChAoZ** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 4:45 pm

Bg wrote:Very happy to do it... bearing in mind we'll need these

https://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/T ... currency=O

And thats a fucktonne of beers to start with

Don't be so tight

very handy to have

Post by Bg » Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:07 pm

ChAoZ wrote:
Bg wrote:Very happy to do it... bearing in mind we'll need these

https://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/T ... currency=O

And thats a fucktonne of beers to start with

Don't be so tight very handy to have

Not when I do so few

I'd rather pay you to do one

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