I promise I'm not dyeing this one to death.
So I'm starting with this. Black korina with a UC flamed walnut top. Indian rosewood neck with a UC ziricote fretboard.
I had this crazy idea that it would look good with flamed maple binding. So i carefully routed the side channels.
I veneered the headstock with flamed maple then a nice redwood burl and a flamed walnut over the maple. I plan on routing through to the maple so might look odd for now. Hopefully I can pull off what's in my head.
Now we can't have binding just on the fretboard... so let's cut the channels for the headstock binding.
Since there is a floyd nut shelf I thought it best to do the headstock binding first. Since the headstock binding would run at an angle to the fretboard.
I re-routed the channel up near the nut where the headstock binding extended into the fretboard channels and glued in the binding and trimmed it all up. I think it's looking pretty good so far.
The contrast to the rosewood
The nut shelf was very high. Warmoth warned me it would be. So I lowered it a bit. I may need to lower it a bit more, we'll see once I install the SS6105's. The truss access hole is not cleaned up yet but you get the idea.
First time I've ever tried my hand at binding, I think it's going fairly well. Fingers crossed.
So I'm starting with this. Black korina with a UC flamed walnut top. Indian rosewood neck with a UC ziricote fretboard.
I had this crazy idea that it would look good with flamed maple binding. So i carefully routed the side channels.
I veneered the headstock with flamed maple then a nice redwood burl and a flamed walnut over the maple. I plan on routing through to the maple so might look odd for now. Hopefully I can pull off what's in my head.
Now we can't have binding just on the fretboard... so let's cut the channels for the headstock binding.
Since there is a floyd nut shelf I thought it best to do the headstock binding first. Since the headstock binding would run at an angle to the fretboard.
I re-routed the channel up near the nut where the headstock binding extended into the fretboard channels and glued in the binding and trimmed it all up. I think it's looking pretty good so far.
The contrast to the rosewood
The nut shelf was very high. Warmoth warned me it would be. So I lowered it a bit. I may need to lower it a bit more, we'll see once I install the SS6105's. The truss access hole is not cleaned up yet but you get the idea.
First time I've ever tried my hand at binding, I think it's going fairly well. Fingers crossed.