I'll bring this up to the minute right now:::
I started to bind the headstock last night. I had a small amount of Duco Cement and used what was left for the first layer and it's holding very well.
As you may know - I wasn't satisfied with the original way it came out, so I stripped it and here we go again.
I first pre-formed the binding for the bulbous area and the negative cutback on the underside to make sure that it wouldn't miss a full-faced contact with the wood.
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I left a little tail on the binding so I can flow it into the next two layers and also meet the wood prettier.
At this point I couldn't find my cabinet scrapers, so I improvised. I tried the back of an X-Acto blade and it works really well especially for the small arcs and tiny area.
However, a used box cutter knife blade was just right. I tried the cutting edge, but found the angled edge where the blade was stamp-cut was preformed as a pretty good scraper already!
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I cleaned up any burrs, being careful on the top so there wasn't any rounded area that I would create. That would show up in the next layer as a valley between the colors.
From this point on I'll be using acetone only to weld the two layers together.
Here's something I found out: this product from StewMac is ABS, not polystyrene. This means a good ABS, not PVC clear glue would be a good choice too.
I could smell the ABS smell, from experiences in irrigation systems and leech fields when I was scraping the material to the correct height. .
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Again, more toothpicks and reusing the same rubber bands.
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Dip a kid's paint brush into pure acetone and just touch the loaded brush to the top of the binding. This is a quick bond and there's no wiggle room to make any adjustments once you touch that first drop to the binding.
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The second layer went fine, but it took a lot of toothpick placement issues to be set up correctly to make it work best.
The next layer would be standing a few thousandths of an inch proud outside the diameter of the headstock, so a new plan was needed to hold the binding tight.
I whacked off some spacers and made a formed piece of pressed board to keep some pressure on the last layer of binding.
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Well - that's where it sits right now. I'll pull the rubber bands and spacers. etc., off in a few minutes and start more pixs when I shave the edges down again.
Later.
