rope edging binding?

[Matthew Tucker]

I cut out from a magazine a picture of a cuban bassist playing a bass with a kind of "rope edging" trim. See pic.

Does anyone know how this is done?? Simply painted??

[Peck_Time]

If it's the same as the ukulele, then I think it's just a wooden pattern.

http://www.kamakahawaii.com/ukedetails.html

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[Matthew Tucker]

same principle, though i doubt it's done the same way. But I'm here to learn ...

[Darren Molnar]

That looks like guitar style edge binding, to me.

[Jake deVilliers]

+1 Darren. Matthew, the mandolin player in our band has a fiddle with rope binding. I'll ask him to take a photo.

I don't think that it would be advisable for a bass though. Too many tiny pieces on a vulnerable edge...........

[Darren Molnar]

Do basses done that way keep the overhang? My spider sense says maybe no? maybe flush, as a guitar?

[Matthew Tucker]

Well you can't see it in the shot I posted, but in better rez, the pic looks like the edge overhang is fully there to me.

So, how do you do it? Is it a strip of flexible stuff to inlay around the edge? Do you bend it?? lay it in piece by piece??

[1st Bass]

I spoke with a fellow who made hardangerfeles, and he explained that they bend two separate strips, one dark, and one light, and then slice the "next" piece off each, as needed, to insert them into the channel-- I can't tell from your picture if that is even similar, but...FWIW.

[Damon Rondeau]

It seems to me Fine Woodworking has run at least one article on the making of fine banding used in furniture decoration and design. Some of those patterns are awesomely detailed. Something like that, perhaps?

[Jake deVilliers]

The old ones were built piece by piece. This is the only one I found in a quick Google search that is presently being made. Being a factory instrument, I really doubt that its built up.

http://www.nationalguitars.com/customize2.html#

Maybe email them Matt?

[Jake deVilliers]

Found it! They have it at Luthier's Mercantile in two sizes.

http://www.lmii.com/CartTwo/thirdpro...r=Wood+Binding

It would go in a routed channel, then you'd need to put a strip of binding on the outside. You could still have an overhanging top plate.

[Matthew Tucker]

Here's a better pic, its from getty images, no idea who it is. Cachao someone or other probably ...



Looks wicked, i reckon.

[Matthew Tucker]

Whoa, found it!

Lemur sells it, harvested from specially trained animals subjected to hours of dragonetti loops ...